DIRECTOR STEVEN SEGRAVES
Steve
SeGraves became the Chorus Director in the fall of 1990. He
holds a Bachelors degree in Music Education from Wayne State University
and a Masters degree in Music Composition from Oakland University.
He has been an Assistant Director of the 3-time world champion WSU
Men’s Glee Club and the University’s Chamber Singers, the
Meadowbrook Estate Show Choir of Oakland University, and the Langsford
Singers of Detroit. He currently directs the 40+-voice Langsford Men’s
Chorus in part to honor his mentor, the late Dr. Harry M. Langsford.
He has studied jazz voice with April Arabian-Tini, composition with
Stanley Hollingsworth, conducting with Brazeal Dennard, jazz piano
with Matt Michaels, and jazz theory with Phil Mattson. Steve sings
in and directs PRime, a professional vocal jazz ensemble that “gigs” regularly
in the Detroit area and all over Michigan. In the past several years
they have also toured Russia and in Western Europe where they sang
in the renowned Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland and the North
Sea Jazz Festival in the Netherlands. PRime has recorded two CDs and
has sung by invitation in Chicago, Nashville, Disney World and at the
Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans. Steve also directs the adult choir
at Covenant Baptist Church in West Bloomfield .
He is a published arranger, and he has been commissioned several times to compose or arrange songs for area choirs, including one of his latest arrange ments which was sung in May 2005. While on tour in Washington D.C. In May, 2005, the Farmington Chorus along with the United States Army Chorus premiered his arrangement of “The Star Spangled Banner”, Steve was married to Amy Anderzak, on September 23, 2007. Steve has two children, Emily and Benji.
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