Faculty at Home: Jeffrey Buettner

Please join Jeffrey Buettner for a talk entitled “Choral Commission During Conflict: singing awareness and support with Dmytro Malyi’s ‘Salve Regina’ (2022).”   Please register for this virtual event right here.    In May of 2022, Jeffrey Buettner commissioned Ukrainian composer Dmytro Malyi for a work to be performed in 2022-2023 season of the Middlebury College Community Chorus. In this talk, Jeff discusses the process of this commission, the present circumstances of this composer and other musicians in Ukraine, and elements of the text and music. The presentation will feature recordings from recent rehearsals in preparation for the premiere of the work on Sunday, December 4 in the Mahaney Arts Center. The commission is made possible by the Jane Stevens Alloo Music Library Family Fund. Learn more about the piece and the upcoming free performance at go.middlebury.edu/collegecommunitychorus.

Jeffrey Buettner is the Christian A. Johnson Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities at Middlebury College, where he conducts the College Choir and teaches conducting, vocal ensemble performance, and the seminar Singing Communities. In 2010, he was as a Fulbright Scholar to Kharkiv State University of Arts, Ukraine, where he conducted the university choir and taught conducting and American choral traditions. His research includes Romani music of Ukraine and he presently advocates for Ukrainian choral and Romani music and culture. Jeff received his doctorate in musical arts from Michigan State University, master’s degree in music from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and bachelor’s degree in music from St. Olaf College.