CMAC Directors, Past and Present.
Burke Morton
(2020-Present)
Burke Morton graduated from the University of Chicago with a degree in Music, where he found his passion—conducting. While a student, he studied voice and conducting with The University of Chicago Glee Club’s founding director, Bruce Tammen. Upon graduation, he created a community choir in Hyde Park, and secured a job as music director at United Church of Hyde Park. He returns to the Quads twenty-five years later with ensemble leadership skills that he developed as conductor of the Virginia Glee Club, several church jobs, and the occasional post as music director for regional musical productions.
Will Myers
(2019-2020)
Will Myers is a conductor and baritone. In recent years, he has appeared with the Grant Park Chorus, Constellation Men’s Ensemble, and Schola Antiqua of Chicago. In in 2019, he conducted as the Resident Emerging Artist with the Strangers Ensemble and served as the assistant conductor of Rockefeller Chapel Choir from 2017 until 2020. Will was a four-year member of the Glee Club until he graduated in 2018, serving as music chair and on the executive board.
Bruce Tammen
(2005-2019)
Bruce Tammen, founding director of Chicago Chorale and CMAC: The University of Chicago Glee Club, holds degrees from Luther College, Northwestern University, and the University of Chicago. He has taught voice and directed choirs at Luther College, the University of Chicago, and the University of Virginia, and is the 2012 recipient of the Weston Noble Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Vocal Music. Tammen studied extensively in France with Dalton Baldwin and Gerard Souzay, and several years with Max Van Egmond at Oberlin’s Baroque Performance Institute, and participated in master classes in Sweden and Norway. He has sung with the Smithsonian Chamber Players, Chicago's Contemporary Chamber Players, the Oregon Bach Festival, and Les Heures Musicales in Biot, France. He performed several seasons under Helmuth Rilling at the Oregon Bach Festival, and with the Robert Shaw Choral Institute, in Souillac, France. Tammen is baritone soloist on the Telarc/Shaw compact discs Appear and Inspire and Liebeslieder Waltzes. Choirs under his direction have toured extensively in France, Spain, Finland, and the Baltic countries of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia.