Artistic Director
Mr. Kidd is the founding conductor of World Voices Youth Choir. As an educator and conductor, he has been awarded grants from the state Massachusetts Cultural Council, local cultural councils and the Bayrd Foundation. Mr. Kidd has taken part in many of the world’s most prestigious music festivals including: BBC Proms, Casals (Puerto Rico), Tanglewood, Ravinia, Edinburgh, All-Beethoven Easter Festival (Poland), Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, and Boston Early Music Festival. He studied conducting with Simon Carrington, William Dehning and Robert Halseth. His mentors include Daniel Pinkham, Craig Smith, Martin Isepp, Nico Castel, and Terry Decima. As a choral educator, Mr. Kidd has been very active in a wide range of activities in Massachusetts. He led the choral department at UMASS Lowell for five years. While there, the ensembles doubled in size. He has collaborated with Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops on a Sony DVD recording of Handel’s Messiah Rocks! by Jason Howland. He has premiered choral works by Jim Papoulis, Stephen Feigenbaum, and Joseph Martin. Recently, he held the position of the Director of Choirs at the highly decorated Oliver Ames High School in Easton and also taught at Middleboro High School. Program Director Sequoria Dickerson has been to over 30 countries studying, working, and praying with her feet. She is the current Interim Director of Prophetic Resistance Boston, a nondenominational, nonpartisan, faith-based nonprofit that uses the development of leadership skills to empower citizens to organize their communities and find solutions to the problems they face. She previously served as a micro-finance consultant and nonprofit advisor in Cameroon, Central West Africa and spent several years organizing to change policies that perpetuate the school to prison pipeline and mass-incarceration in New Orleans, LA. Sequoria has also consulted with nonprofits on strategic planning and fundraising strategies. She received her B.A. from Dillard University and is a fellow of the Melton Foundation, the Institute for International Public Policy, and the U.S. State Department’s prestigious Boren Scholars Program. |