Karen Chester-Amengor, Director
Thank you to our past Director, Dr. Edwina Stanley, for her 8 years of service to the choir. |
Holly DeWitt, Piano Accompanist
Thank you to our past Accompanist, Marilyn Davenport, for her 7 years of service to the choir. |
In Memoriam Dr. S. Carroll Buchanan, Founder
5/11/1927—12/19/2010
Founder and Director of the
Gulf Coast Community Choir 2000-2010
Dr. S. Carroll Buchanan received his musical training at the Juilliard School of Music, Columbia University, and New York University where he earned his PhD. He also studied with noted choral directors Hall Johnson and Edward Boatner, sang tenor with the Baltimore Singers and for four years performed with the Charioteers Quartet. He has sung on recordings with a number of outstanding performers. Dr. Buchanan's credits also include TV and radio. A retired educator, his students have appeared on NBC's “Bell Telephone Hour” and recorded the album “Streets I've Walked” with Harry Belafonte. In 2000 he retired the Carr-Hill Singers, his New York choir of 40 years, but revived them in October, 2009 and combined them with the Manasota Choir to do a series of concerts in Barcelona, Spain under the name The Carroll Buchanan Chorale. He is a composer, arranger, and lecturer of music history, with a specialty in the music of African Americans. Some of his arrangements will be heard in the Gulf Coast Community Choir concerts. Dr. Buchanan was a resident of Sarasota, Florida.
In Memoriam Carol Poteat-Buchanan, Business Manager
Founder and Director of the
Gulf Coast Community Choir 2000-2010
Dr. S. Carroll Buchanan received his musical training at the Juilliard School of Music, Columbia University, and New York University where he earned his PhD. He also studied with noted choral directors Hall Johnson and Edward Boatner, sang tenor with the Baltimore Singers and for four years performed with the Charioteers Quartet. He has sung on recordings with a number of outstanding performers. Dr. Buchanan's credits also include TV and radio. A retired educator, his students have appeared on NBC's “Bell Telephone Hour” and recorded the album “Streets I've Walked” with Harry Belafonte. In 2000 he retired the Carr-Hill Singers, his New York choir of 40 years, but revived them in October, 2009 and combined them with the Manasota Choir to do a series of concerts in Barcelona, Spain under the name The Carroll Buchanan Chorale. He is a composer, arranger, and lecturer of music history, with a specialty in the music of African Americans. Some of his arrangements will be heard in the Gulf Coast Community Choir concerts. Dr. Buchanan was a resident of Sarasota, Florida.
In Memoriam Carol Poteat-Buchanan, Business Manager
3/29/1929-6/15/2018
Vice President and Business Manager
Gulf Coast Community Choir 2000-2010
Carol Poteat-Buchanan served as Vice President and Business Manager for the Gulf Coast Community Choir for 18 years, helping it to
continue after Dr. Buchanan’s passing. She was the “voice” for the choir and worked tirelessly to keep the group organized.
Originally from New York, Carol spent almost 30 years as an educator, first as a junior high teacher, rising to high school principal and
then an administrator for New York City schools. She and husband Dr. S. Carroll Buchanan, a musicologist, moved to Sarasota in 1992.
They were together for 23 years before marrying and had a 30-year-relationship. Dr. Buchanan predeceased her in 2010.