Marie Stultz is a nationally recognized
composer, music educator, and choral consultant, as well as the
author of the book on singing with children,
"Innocent Sounds~Building Choral Tone and Artistry in Your
Children's Choir~A Personal Journey." She is currently working
on a large choral literature project for Choral
Excellence based in Waitsfield, VT. "Choral Excellence
for Treble Voices" is a state-of-the art literature project
that will create dialogue and instruction worldwide. For the past
25 years she has been choral consultant at Spectrum Music in Lexington,
MA and editor of The Choral Room,
a new release newsletter for the choral
professional which she began in the summer of 1991. She is the
author of numerous articles for national music periodicals on
various subjects that spirit her cause of exposing the young singer
to great music and great music experiences. She is the composer,
editor, and arranger of the highly regarded Treble Chorus of New
England Choral Series published by MorningStar Music Publishers
and recorded on the CD "Innocent Sounds from Cascia Hall."
In June of 2002, she received the coveted Teacher Recognition
Award from the Presidential Scholars Program and the National
Department of Education, where her voice student, Briana Rossi,
won the prestigious National Arts Recognition Competition. Distinguished
baritone, Marcus DeLoach was her first competition winner in 1992.
Stultz holds both a BME in voice and music education and an MA degree in musicology from Southern Methodist University where her teachers included Dr. Lloyd Pfautsch and Dr. Carlton Young. As a composer, she has studied with John Heiss (New England Conservatory), Anthony Milner (Royal College of Music, UK) and Robert Sirota. She has served on the faculty of the Boston Conservatory of Music and conductor of the Merrimack College Concert Choir. She regularly conducts workshops for professionals engaged in singing with children. The most recent of these was workshops at state wide convention in Jackson, Mississippi and national appearances for the American Choral Directors' Association, Western Division, in Hawaii; Chorus America in Boston, Massachusetts, and the American Guild of Organists National Convention in Boston.
As a choral researcher, her desire to expose choral professionals to fine choral literature is a life-long commitment. She is in constant demand for reading sessions throughout New England is considered one of the leading authorities on choral literature of all periods and forces. Three articles on choral literature for treble voices have been published in the American Choral Directors Association national publication "The Choral Journal." Conducting numerous adult and children church choirs, a local adult choral society, a college choir and community children's chorus, her dedication and life-long pursuit into the discovery of fine choral literature and exposing that literature to her singers has been daunting.
I have known Marie Stultz and her splendid
work with the Treble chorus of New England for over fifteen years.
She has a passion for the choral art with children that approaches
missionary zeal! Her ebullience is infectious! Marie's contribution
to the profession has been exemplary, unswerving, and profound.
Her knowledge and research into choral literature for children
is substantial and I have been grateful to her on many occasions
for her tasteful, unique, and appropriate suggestions for repertoire.
-Jean Ashworth Bartle
Assuming the position of Artistic Director and Founder Emeritus of the Treble Chorus of New England (a children's choir trained in the classics), conductor Marie Stultz led this prominent children's choir to professional-caliber in the 28 years they were under her tutelage. The chorus, founded by Ms. Stultz in 1975, made its international debut in 1992 in both The Shrewsbury Festival where she was conductor of the combined children's choirs and in London's famed St. Martin-in-the-Field. During her tenure with the choir, the ensemble appeared with The Toronto Children's Chorus, The Dresden Philharmonic Kinderchor and Bambini di Praga to name a few. Under Ms. Stultz's direction, The Treble Chorus of New England recorded three CD's and made appearances with most of the major professional ensembles in New England including The Boston Cecilia, The Pittsburgh Symphony, The Boston Lyric Opera and The Boston Concert Opera. Soloists and small ensembles have made appearances with Boston University Opera, New England Conservatory Opera and Boston Conservatory Opera. Members of the choir made their film debuts in the 1992 Paramount Pictures' release "School Ties, to which Stultz was asked to contribute choral music. She led the choir on a successful tour of concerts in Dresden and Leipzig in the summer of 1996, making the Treble Chorus the first American children's choir to perform in the former Eastern Germany.
As part of its 25th anniversary, the Treble Chorus hosted the first New England Choir Festival for treble voices in 2000 with renowned composer and conductor Sir David Willcocks. The festival was repeated in 2002, again under the baton of Willcocks.
Alumni from the Treble Chorus program have distinguished themselves worldwide in all areas of expertise. She currently has trained and mentored performers that conduct in Berlin, make regular appearances on Saturday Night Live, continue to make TV and movie debuts, perform in major Broadway productions and regularly perform with some of the countries major opera companies. Last year, three of her students from her studio majored in music in leading American colleges. This summer, two of her voice students were selected to perform in opera programs in Rome and Chiari, Italy. Both, under the age of 20, had leading roles in both programs.
Stultz is included in The Boston Composers
Project and the International Who's Who in Music and Musicians'
Directory. She has received an ASCAP distinguished writer award
since 1996 and a number of grants from The Massachusetts Cultural
Council.