Larry Vote

Biography

Larry Edward Vote is Professor Emerit of Music and former Provost of St. Mary’s College of Maryland. An accomplished vocal soloist and conductor, he has performed throughout the United States and Europe. Vote may be heard in music of Bach, Handel and Telemann on two compact discs published by Crystal Records as well as the premier of William Thomas McKinley’s “Dallas 1963” with the Slovak Radio Orchestra on MMC Recordings. Other recordings include his conducting of new brass music on “Hearing the Call” and as baritone in Blacher’s “Romeo and Juliet.” He has performed or conducted premiers of the music of David Froom, Thomas McKinley and Gian Carlo Menotti among others. With Interact he has performed and directed productions for the National Gallery of Art, the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Landsburg Theater, Arena Stage, and in a tour of the United Kingdom. The 1993 production of “The Pirates of Penzance,” for which he was music director and conductor, won the award for Best Musical in the 1994 Helen Hayes Awards. He was nominated for Outstanding Musical Director for the production of “H.M.S. Pinafore” in 1996 and again in 2000 for “Pirates of Penzance.” He is also holder of the Norton Dodge Award for Creative and Scholarly Achievement presented by St. Mary’s College of Maryland. Vote is resident guest conductor of the River Concert Series and co-artistic director of the Alba/USA International Music Festival. A life-long church musician, Vote currently serves as director of music at St. Francis Episcopal Church in Great Falls, Virginia. With the choir he has performed the opera “Amahl and the Night Visitors” and “Requiem” by Fauré on the St. Luke’s Concert Series.