Malcolm Merriweather, the Conservatory’s Director of Choruses and Coordinator of Voice Studies, and Voice faculty member Laquita Mitchell performed in Paul Moravec’s lauded oratorio Sanctuary Road (Naxos, 2020), based on the writings of abolitionist William Still, which has been nominated for a Grammy. Moravec, a Pulitzer-prize winning composer, used Still’s writings as the basis for the work’s libretto. We congratulate Merriweather and Mitchell both for their stunning performances in this groundbreaking oratorio and nominations for this vaunted honor. They were recently interviewed about their participation in the project by Brooklyn College New’s Audrey Peterson. Read full article here.
