Paul Caldwell

Paul Caldwell is artistic director of the Youth Choral Theater of Chicago, a training and performance company involving nearly 300 young people which features music from diverse cultures, contemporary repertoire and multi-media, interdisciplinary performances. The ensemble garnered national recognition in 2006 when it was awarded the Chorus America/ASCAP prize for Adventurous Programming. It has also been cited for Chicago's "best concert of the year" by The Pioneer Press. The chorus has appeared twice at the Kennedy Center in collaborative performances with the Joffrey Ballet. Caldwell composes and arranges music collaboratively with Sean Ivory. Their work has been recorded by the world's finest choirs, telecast nationwide on PBS and A&E and performed at Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, the Sydney Opera House, and throughout Europe, Asia, and Africa.. Caldwell has served as artist in residence for the Children in Harmony Choral Festival at Walt Disney World and the Crescent City Choral Festival in New Orleans and has twice been composer in residence for the Choral Music Experience training course for conductors at Elon University. Caldwell is a member of Chorus America's Board of Directors and chairs the organization's Programs and Education Committee. He serves on the Advisory Board of the New Orleans Children's Chorus. His work on behalf of the choral field was honored at the National Performing Arts Convention in 2008 where he received Chorus America's Michael J. Korn Founders Award for Philanthropic Contribution to the Arts.