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The Choral Consortium of San Diego is establishing the
city's inaugural "SAN DIEGO SINGS! FESTIVAL 2015" to
be held at Balboa Park's Spreckels Organ Pavilion on March 21, 2015
Additional collaborators: ~ Brad Nelson was born at Mercy Hospital in San Diego, only a few short blocks from Balboa Park! As a San Diego native, he fell in love with choral singing as a singer in the Grossmont High School Red Robe Choir. After living back East and in the Midwest for more than a decade, he returned in 1984 to direct the largest church music program in San Diego at College Avenue Baptist Church, the church where he was raised. That first year, he led the first all-city Easter Sunrise Service in Balboa Park's Starlight Bowl before five thousand people. Later, he led that event again when it relocated to the Spreckels Organ Pavilion. His choir toured Eastern Europe in 1990 immediately after the fall of the Iron Curtain and the disintegration of Communism. As a result of the enthusiasm generated by that tour, he then conducted major Christmas concerts with choir and full symphony orchestra in packed performances at Copley Symphony Hall from 1991 to 1994. Since then, Brad has been a full-time composer. His choral music is performed frequently throughout America. Internationally, his music has been performed in Westminster Abbey, St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, St. Mark's Cathedral in Venice, Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, the Lisbon Cathedral, and the Catedral de la Almudena in Madrid. His music has also been heard in cathedrals, churches, and schools in Canada, Scandanavia, the Baltic States, Russia, Oman, South Africa, New Zealand, India, Korea, and Japan. During Christmas 2013, his music was premiered in Ely Cathedral in Cambridge, England. Additionally, four English radio broadcasts have been devoted to his choral music on Remembrance Day, Christmas, and Easter. These programs were broadcast internationally from the city of Taunton, Somerset in southwest England. Brad has held positions as a professor and church musician in New York, Indiana, and California. After studying composition at the University of Redlands (CA), he received Master and Doctoral degrees in composition and conducting from the Eastman School of Music (NY). ~ Since moving back to San Diego in 1984, Brad and his wife and family frequently visit Balboa Park where they picnic, attend organ concerts, visit the international cottages at the House of Pacific Relations, and stroll through the Christmas Nativity scenes at the Organ Pavilion in December. Brad grew up visiting all of these attractions as a child.... and don't forget the San Diego Zoo.... and the musicals under the stars at Wegeforth Bowl and Starlight Bowl! Soon, he will take his new grandson to visit the Puppet Theater, ride the Carousel and Miniature Train, and visit the San Diego Model Railroad Club Museum (where his father was a founding member!). When Brad was five-years-old, he ran around under the train layouts from one control station to the next, jabbering over the intercom system!
Brad's father, Morris Eugene Nelson (pictured
far left below),
For additional info on Brad's San Diego background
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