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 WVC Artistic Director Allan Friedman also serves as Assistant Conductor of the Duke Chapel Choir and
directs the Duke Vespers Ensemble and the Duke Divinity School Choir.
During the summer months, he conducts the Duke Summer Choir, which
sings at the Sunday morning services in Duke Chapel. Originally from
Duluth, Minnesota, Allan earned his BA in music at Duke where he
studied conducting with Rodney Wynkoop. In the fall of 1997, he studied
at the University of Natal, Durban in South Africa where he learned
choral music from Joseph Shabalala, leader of Ladysmith Black Mombazo,
renowned for their work on Paul Simon's album Graceland. In 2001, he
graduated with a Masters Degree in Musicology from the University of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he wrote his thesis on South African
choral competitions. While at UNC, he also conducted the Collegium
Musicum, the Harambe Choir, and was assistant conductor of the Carolina
Choir. In the spring of 2005 Allan earned his Doctorate of Musical Arts
from Boston University where he studied conducting with Ann Howard
Jones and David Hoose. During his time at BU he conducted the BU
Women's Chorus and the BU Repertory Chorus, and wrote his dissertation
on Russian Jewish Choral Music from St. Petersburg circa 1905-1925.
While in Boston, he also found time to be the music director of both
First Parish Unitarian/Universalist Church in Canton, Massachusetts and
of the Harbour Choral Arts Society in Hanover, Massachusetts, as well
as assisted The Zamir Chorale of Boston as the Mary Wolfman Epstein
Conducting Fellow. In addition to conducting, Dr. Friedman has studied
composition with Marjorie Merryman at Boston University and Steven
Jaffe at Duke University and has had several performances of his choral
compositions, most notably his Holocaust Cantata "With Perfect Faith."
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