The Concord Chorale is pleased to announce that they have selected Kristofer Johnson as the Interim Music Director for the 2010-2011 concert season.  Kristofer Johnson is director of vocal and choral music at Proctor Academy in Andover, NH. He teaches studio voice and conducts the Chamber Choir, the Alice Fowler Singers, and the lyric theater productions. Under his baton, the Proctor choirs have been heard on performance tours of Great Britain, southeastern Europe, and the United States. In 2011 they will tour China and Hong Kong.

Kris is an active recitalist, tenor soloist, and vocal clinician. In the Granite State, he has conducted the All-New England Choral Festival, performed as soloist with Manchester Choral Society and Plymouth State choirs, and hosted the National Association of Teachers of Singing regional workshop. Kris is the former assistant music director of the New Hampshire Master Chorale.

A life-long educator, Kris has taught at the Blair School of Music (Vanderbilt University), Plymouth State University, Oberlin Conservatory, Vocal Academy for High School Students and Canterbury School. Students from his programs have been accepted into the nation’s leading conservatories and schools of music. As a conductor and teacher, Kris has fostered a special interest in the fundamentals of vocal technique in the choral rehearsal.

Kris holds the Bachelor of Music degree in Vocal Performance from Oberlin College Conservatory of Music and the Master of Music in Choral Conducting from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. Principle conducting teachers are Don V. Moses, Hugh Floyd, Ed Maclary, and Fred Stoltzfus. Voice teachers are Jonathan Retzlaff, Ronald Hedlund, and Gerald Crawford.

Kris lives in Andover with his wife (and high school sweetheart) Janine and their two Chinook dogs. He is an avid hiker, backpacker, and cook.

Mark Frazier, accompanist, has served as Director of Music Ministry in churches in North Carolina, Iowa Ohio Virginia, and New Hampshire. In Ohio, he had the rare privilege of being called upon to accompany Metropolitan Opera Singer Kathleen Battle in a program for the public schools of Scioto County. While in Washington, he was included as one of the five "government approved" private contract organists for Weddings and funerals at the Fort Myer Army Base in Arlington, VA. He has served as aural programmer and synthesist for diverse area theatrical groups and for the Washington Vocal Consortium, all of the greater metropolitan DC area.

As a composer Mr. Frazier has won the- American Guild of English Handbell Ringers Area II composition contest, the national Anthem Composition Contest sponsored by the Fairfax Methodist Church in Fairfax, VA, and received honorable mention in the National Federation of Music Club's Young Composers' Contest's Devora Nadworney Award. In 1999, his anthem "The Great Commission" was written for the dedication of the new Sanctuary of Brownson Memorial Presbyterian Church of Southern Pines, North Carolina. While a resident in North Carolina, Mr. Frazier was an adjunct Faculty member of the University of North Carolina at Pembroke where he taught Music Appreciation.

Mr. Frazier is currently Minister of Music at South Congregational Church in Concord, and this spring has been an adjunct Organ Instructor at Plymouth State University. He is past Dean of the Cape Fear Chapter of the American Guild of Organists, and he is currently editor of "The Cypher", the newsletter of the New Hampshire Chapter of the American Guild of Organists.