Music Director and Conductor
Brantford Symphony Orchestra (2008 – present)
Music Director
McMaster University Choir, Hamilton, Ontario (1989-2005)
Artistic Direction and Conducting of 90 – 100 voice university choir
Artistic Director
Bach Elgar Choir, Hamilton, Ontario. (1998-2000)
Artistic Direction and Conducting of large community symphonic chorus
Orchestras Conducted
Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra, Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra,
Orchestra London, National Academy Orchestra, Symphony Hamilton
Orchestral Conducting Coaches
Paul Vermel, Peter Jaffe, Victoria Bond, Donald Portnoy, Samuel Jones, Kate Tamarkin, Gustav Meier, Victor Feldbrill, Manuel Alvarez
Major Works Conducted in Performance (selected list):
Chorus and/or Soloists and Orchestra/Ensemble
Adam / arr. Sarabura: Cantique de Noel
Beethoven: Symphony #9
Bossi: Organ Concerto op.100
Brahms: Violin Concerto
Charpentier: Messe de Minuit
Dvorak: Cello Concerto
Handel: Messiah
Handel: The Coronation Anthems
Haydn: Trumpet Concerto
Howard Cable: Carols of the Americas
Imant Raminsh: Magnificat
J.S. Bach: Cantata #140 (Wachet auf)
J.S. Bach: Cantata #82 (Ich habe genug)
J.S. Bach: Concerto for Two Violins
Lambert: The Rio Grande
M.C. Baker: Concerto for Harp and Orchestra
Mozart: Concerto #10 for Two Pianos
Mozart: Concerto for Flute and Harp
Mozart: Coronation Mass
Mozart: Requiem
Mozart: Vesperae de Dominica K.321
Pinkham: Christmas Cantata
Rheiberger: Organ Concerto #1 in F Major
Royer: “Echoes” A Concerto for Clarinet & Orchestra (World Premier)
Rutter / arr. Sarabura: What Sweeter Music
Rutter: Requiem (reduced orchestra version)
Saint-Saens: Carnival of the Animals
Salieri: Coronation Te Deum
Schubert: Mass #6 in E flat
Vaughan Williams / arr. Sarabura: Lord, thou hast been our refuge
Vaughan Williams: 5 Mystical Songs
Vivaldi: Chamber Concerto for Guitar and Strings
Orchestra
Barber: Adagio for Strings
Beethoven: Egmont Overture
Beethoven: Symphony #5
Berlioz: Roman Carnival Overture
Brahms: Symphony #2, Op.73
Dvorak: New World Symphony
Elgar: Serenade for Strings
Grieg: “Holberg” Suite for Strings
Handel: Concerto Grossi
Haydn: Symphony #53 “Imperial”
J. Strauss: Blue Danube Waltz
J. Strauss: Kaiser Waltz
Kulesha: Celebration Overture
Verdi: Overture to “La Forza del Destino”
Lehar: Eva Waltz
Mozart: Cassation in G, K.63
Mozart: Symphony #15, K.124
Mozart: Symphony #29, K.201
Mozart: Symphony #35 “Haffner”
Mozart: Symphony #40, K.550
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
Offenbach: Intermezzo and Barcarole
Offenbach: Overture – Orpheus in the Underworld
Ridout: Fall Fair
Rossini: Overture “La Scala di Seta”
Rossini: Overture “William Tell”
Schubert: Overture in B flat, D.470
Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture
Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings
Vivaldi: Concerto Grossi
Hundreds of shorter titles for orchestra solo or with soloists for “Pops” or “Light Classics” concerts.
Chorus and Organ/Piano
Multi-movement works
Durufle: Requiem
Mendelssohn: Aus tiefer not schrei’ ich
Mathias: Shakespeare Songs
R. Thompson: Frostiana
Elgar: From the Bavarian Highlands
Kenins: Cantata of Chorales
Britten: Ceremony of Carols
“A Capella” Choir
Multi-movement works
Palestrina: Hodie Christus – motet and mass
Palestrina: Missa Papae Marcelli
Mendelssohn: Sechs Spruche op. 79
Rheinberger: Cantus Missae op. 109
Rheinberger: Waldblumen op.124
Howells: Requiem
Rachmaninoff: Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom
Single-movement choral works, accompanied and “a capella”:
Over 100 titles. Motets, Anthems, character pieces, etc., from chant to newly composed.
(All choral works in original languages)