About The Charlotte Chorale
The Charlotte Chorale is located in Charlotte County, Florida, with membership of over fifty all volunteer adult singers with a passion for performing choral music.
The Chorale performs a variety of choral music from the Grand Masters to Broadway, to Pop Music and more. Three concerts are performed each season.
Artistic Director - Dr. William Dederer
Dr. Dederer’s resume includes a 50+ year career in music. He served as a Professor of Music for 13 years at the State University of New York in Fredonia before becoming
Dean, and later Vice President for Academic Affairs, at The Boston Conservatory for 16 years, followed by serving as the Dean of the Conservatory of Music at Capital University in Columbus, OH.
He was awarded his Doctor of Musical Arts in Music Performance and Master of Music in Music Education degrees from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Music Education degree (Magna Cum Laude) from the State University of New York in Fredonia.
Dr. Dederer has directed choirs for more than 20 years in New York, Massachusetts, Ohio, and Arizona, and has performed as a choral musician under the direction of Robert Shaw, Lukas Foss, Julius Hereford, Harriet Simons, Alan Lannom, and William Seymour. In addition, Dr. Dederer has appeared in solo and ensemble performances on trumpet with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony, Chicago Ballet, Buffalo Philharmonic, Erie (PA) Philharmonic, Nashua (NH) Symphony, Granite State Ballet, D'Oyly Carte Company, Genesee (NY) Symphony, Toledo Concert Band, Mid-Hudson Concert Band, Verde Valley Sinfonietta, and numerous other organizations. He has adjudicated numerous solo and ensemble festivals in New York, Texas, and throughout New England.
He was named "National Outstanding Administrator of 2004" by the Organization of American Kodaly Educators, and is listed in Who's Who volumes: International Music, America, Entertainment, American Education, and Most Admired Men & Women of the Year 1995.
Accompanist - Frank Sanders
Accompanist Frank Sanders
Currently residing in Southwest Florida, Frank Sanders serves the music community as a performer and composer on international stages, with notable experiences in Italy, Mexico, Los Angeles and Miami.
As a student, he has studied classical saxophone with such figures as Arno Bornkamp, Vincent David, and Nikita Zimin, as well as completing his Bachelors in Music Performance at FGCU with Dr. Michael Weiss-Holmes.
Sanders enjoys a continuously growing performance career highlighting a great variety of style and instrumentalism, including classical, contemporary, jazz, Latin, and theatre music, especially involving multiple woodwind doubling on various flutes, clarinets, and saxophones.
He keeps his place as a representative in the Florida arts community, serving his 5th consecutive year as The Charlotte Chorale’s piano accompanist, and beginning his 1st
year as a full-time fellow with the Gulf Coast Symphony and, in April of 2025, will be one in a handful of saxophonists to represent the United States in the highly prestigious Andorra SaxFest International Solo Saxophone Competition in Andorra la Vella.
