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Click here to read a compilation of Matt's program notes, affectionately referred to as "Matt's Musings".
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Our Mission
Founded in 1986, Quintessence: Choral Artists of the Southwest gives voice to centuries of fine choral music through vocal ensemble training and performance, for public understanding and appreciation.
Matthew Greer serves as Quintessence’s Artistic Director. Since 2003, Greer has served as Director of Music and Worship Arts at St. John's United Methodist Church in Albuquerque, where he directs several choirs and oversees a comprehensive music program. At St. John's, he founded the highly successful "Music at St. John's" concert series, and "Thursday Evening Musicales," an annual series of benefit concerts for Albuquerque Healthcare for the Homeless. In recent years, he has conducted performances of Mozart’s Requiem, Handel's Messiah, and Karl Jenkins' The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace. In addition, Greer has lectured on and conducted the music of Brahms, Bach, and Copland. A native of Kansas City, Missouri, Greer holds degrees in Music and Theology from Trinity University and Boston University.
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