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Mack Wilberg
Music Director
ack Wilberg was appointed music
director of the Mormon Tabernacle
Choir on March 28, 2008. Prior to this
appointment, he served as associate
music director of the Choir and
conductor of the Temple Square
Chorale. He was appointed to those
positions in May 1999.
As music director, Dr. Wilberg
oversees all musical and creative
aspects of the Choir, the Orchestra at
Temple Square, the Temple Square
Chorale and the Bells on Temple
Square, including selecting repertoire
for concerts, recordings and tours and
providing the creative direction for
the weekly Music and the Spoken
Word broadcast. He is also
involved with
selecting and training new Choir
members.
He is a former Professor of Music at
Brigham Young University and is active
as a composer, arranger, guest
conductor and clinician throughout the
United States and abroad. His
compositions and arrangements are
performed and recorded by choral
organizations throughout the world.
In addition to the many compositions
he has written for the Mormon
Tabernacle Choir, his works have most
recently been performed by such
artists as Renee Fleming, Frederica
von Stade, Bryn Terfel, the King's
Singers, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Audra
McDonald, and narrators
Walter Cronkite, Edward Herrmann,
Peter Graves, and Claire Bloom.
Dr. Wilberg received his bachelor's
degree from Brigham Young University
and his master's and doctoral degrees
from the University of Southern
California.
He and his wife, Rebecca, are parents
of four children.
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