Bagaduce Chorale conductor and singers

Our Music Director, and the Chorale's greatest fan



Bronwyn Kortge is a graduate of American University in Washington, D.C., where she earned a bachelor of music in vocal performance and conducting. For ten years she has directed the vocal ensembles at Mount Desert Island High School. For the past eight years she has been the director of the Bagaduce Chorale. She is sought-after as a vocal coach and voice class clinician. She also programs the curriculum and teaches many of the seminars at the Bagaduce Chorale's annual Chorale Camp in Blue Hill. Every July 3rd she directs the Blue Hill Pops Singers for the Bagaduce Music Lending Library.

As a soloist, she performed "Carmina Burana" in 2002, and Haydn "Little Organ Mass" and Durufle "Requiem" in 2009 with the Mount Desert Summer Chorale. Ms. Kortge has performed extensively in oratorio, operetta and musical theatre for organizations in Hancock and Penobscot Counties, including Laurie in "Oklahoma", Maria in "The Sound of Music", Mabel in "The Pirates in Penzance", Yum-Yum in "The Mikado", and Josephine in "H.M.S. Pinafore".