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Arthur Sjögren, 80
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Maestro Arthur R. Sjögren died from Parkinson’s Disease in Danbury, CT on January 30, 2022. Art received a B.M.E. from North Park College, a M.M. from Westminster Choir College, and was a doctoral candidate at the Peabody Conservatory, Indiana University, and the Vienna Academy, Austria, where he studied conducting with Eric Erickson of the Royal College of Music, Stockholm and Swedish Radio Choir. He also studied conducting with Julius Herford, Robert Shaw, Fiora Contino, Volker Hemfpling, Marcel Courand, and Michael Schech. Art began his professional career as a singer in New York City in 1964. For three seasons, Art was a Vocal Arts Fellow at the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Tanglewood Music Center where he studied with Phyllis Curtin and was soloist with Eric Linsdorf in the American premiere of Schoenberg’s opera “Die Glückliche Hand.“ At the Clevelend Orchestra’s Blossom Festival, he studied with Richard Miller and sang under choral conductor Robert Shaw who selected Art to be soloist with the Cleveland Orchestra in Handel’s Messiah and Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms.
In 1975, Art founded the acclaimed Pro Arte Singers using professional singers from the NY metropolitan area and was its Artistic Director until 2017.