Catskill Choral Society Welcomes
Hamilton Professor As Conductor
ONEONTA – G. Roberts Kolb, Hamilton College director of choral activities, is the new music director and choral conductor for the Catskill Choral Society. An open house to welcome him is planned 6-7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 12, at the First United Methodist Church.
He succeeds R. Colin Armstrong, Hartwick College’s choral director, who ended his tenure with the choral society with last month’s all-Bach concert. He accepted an academic position in Texas.
Kolb is also conductor of the Hamilton College Masterworks Chorale, of Tapestry, the All-Centuries Singers, and is past conductor of the Syracuse Vocal Ensemble and the Cayuga Vocal Ensemble.
He is a contributing author to “Up Front: Becoming the Complete Choral Conductor,” and “Six Centuries of Choral Music.”
He formerly held the Christian A. Johnson Excellence in Teaching Chair and the Marjorie and Robert W. McEwen Chair at Hamilton.
He earned a master’s at California State University at Fullerton and a D.M.A. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
