Norah Duncan, IV

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Norah Duncan, IV (b.   ) is a celebrated choral director, organist, liturgical musician, and consultant. He is currently Professor and Chair of the Department of Music at Wayne State University and the Area Coordinator for Organ Performance. Additionally, he directs the WSU Concert Chorale and coordinates many of the choral concerts presented by the Department of Music. As an organist, he has performed extensively in both the United States and Europe. As a liturgical musician, he has been music director for the Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament for over 26 years and was the director of music for the historic visit of Pope John Paul II to Detroit in 1987. He has established the Gregorian Institute of Detroit for the study of Gregorian chant and has presented papers on liturgical music at international congresses, clinics and workshops across the world. He is also a member of the Education Board of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. As a choral director, Norah has presented major concerts under the Cathedral Cultural Series with the Archdiocesan Chorus and has collaborated in concerts with the Wayne State University choral ensembles, the Brazeal Dennard Chorale ensembles and the Detroit Symphony Civic Orchestra. In both 2004 and 2005, he directed the Michigan Youth Choral Ensemble in Carnegie Hall in New York City. Duncan is the recipient of the Award for Excellence for Musical Direction from the American College Theater Festival, Washington, DC, the Sr. Thea Bowman Award of the Archdiocese of Detroit, the Spirit of Detroit Award, the Mother Teresa Duchemin Award for exemplary community service, and recently was the first recipient of the "Changing Lives Through Music" Award presented to him by Anne Parsons, President of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.

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