Dr. Candace Wicke
Director

OUR dIRECTOR: 

Candace Wicke is President, Executive Director and Principal Conductor for the Continuo Arts Foundation. She is a graduate of the University of Miami and Evangel University, majoring in vocal and instrumental performance, music education and conducting.

She made her Carnegie Hall conducting debut in 2002, premiering the Symphony of Psalms by Imant Raminsh. As a champion of new music, Dr. Wicke has premiered new works in many of her Carnegie Hall appearances including the World Premiere of Stephen Edwards’ Requiem for my Mother, Revelation and the New York Premiere of the Ave Maria Mass. In 2008 at the prestigious Festival Internazionale di Musica Sacre Series in Roma, Italy, Dr. Wicke conducted the Continuo Arts Symphonic Chorus, Orchestra and the City of Prague Philharmonic in the European premier and world-wide television broadcast of the Edwards Requiem for my Mother. In 2009 she conducted the World Premiere of A Carol Fantasy by Stephen Edwards in Carnegie Hall on the new “Christmas Time in the City” concert series.

The 2010 season opened with Wicke returning to Carnegie Hall for the Lee Kjelson Memorial “Sounds of Music Series” on April 14th and includes the second annual “Christmas Time in the City” concert presentation. on March 30, 2011 she conducted the first Festival Internazionale Di Arte Per Giovanni Musicisti in Rome, Italy. In addition, on May 28, 2011 she will conduct a concert 2,000 years in the making, “Live from St. Peters Square,” featuring the world premiere of the Revelation Trilogy. It is the first professional concert ever to be presented in St. Peter’s Square, City Vaticano. This historic event will be live-streamed and broadcast around the world.

Ensembles under her baton have received national and international acclaim, performing for the Global International Women’s Summit, Musica Mundi International, Legatus International, and the Miami Civic Associations Young Artist Debut. A popular clinician and judge, she has appeared as conductor in Notre Dame Cathedral, Sacre Coeur, Massabielle and the Théatre Fontaine in France. Dr. Wicke’s international experience also includes conducting the United States representative Wind Ensemble at the Taipei Presidential Inauguration, the Continuo Arts Symphonic Chorus at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, and the City of Prague Philharmonic in Prague.