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Our Leadership
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Artistic
Director/Conductor Bill Diekhoff has directed the Foothills Chorale
since 1996. Diekhoff teaches Applied Voice at Erskine College. He recently
retired from
Clemson University, where
he
taught Applied Voice for eight years. At Clemson, Diekhoff also conducted
the B-Sharps, a break-out group from the men's glee club which performs
a variety of lighter music. On the national level, for eleven years he
served
the American Choral Directors Association as National Chair for the Community
Choirs Repertoire and Standards Committee. Diekhoff earned bachelor's and
master's degrees from Indiana State University in Terre Haute. Before coming
to South Carolina, he taught thirty-four years in public school music in
Indiana and Wisconsin. For ten years he conducted the Milwaukee Choristers,
Milwaukee's oldest community choir. On July 8, 2000, Diekhoff received
the
Morris Hayes Choral Award from the Wisconsin Choral Directors Association
for "Outstanding contributions to choral music in Wisconsin." |
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Accompanist/Assistant
Conductor Lane Moore has performed
with the Foothills Chorale since its inception. During a teaching career
that spans twenty-eight years, he has taught choral and instrumental
music in grades 4-12 and produced many award-winning bands and choruses. Currently,
he is director of choral activities at Dorman High School in Spartanburg
and secondary choral music supervisor for Spartanburg School District Six.
Cecelia's Day, an eight-member, semi-professional choral ensemble that Moore
organized in 1997, has performed in Russia, Canada, and the United States,
and has recorded two albums. He also serves as Music Director at John Knox
Presbyterian Church in Greenville, where he directs the chancel and handbell
choirs. Moore earned an Associate's of Arts degree in Piano Performance
from Anderson College and a Bachelor's Degree in Music Composition and Theory from the University
of Georgia. He is currently Vice-President of the South Carolina Chapter of the
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