Brandenburg Appointed

    The Choral Society of the Hamptons has named David M. Brandenburg its executive director. He is a composer, co-founder of the Hamptons Shakespeare Festival, and music director of the Sag Harbor Community Band.

    Mr. Brandenburg will help produce the society’s June 29 performance of Handel’s oratorio “Israel in Egypt” Part II (Exodus) and Bach’s cantata 79, “Gott der Herr ist Sonn und Schild.”

    A collaboration with the Greenwich Village Singers and the South Fork Chamber Orchestra, the concert will take place in the Parish Hall of Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church in East Hampton. It will be followed by a benefit dinner at the Palm restaurant with Mark Mangini, the society’s music director and conductor, and soloists from the performance.

    Interested singers can arrange auditions by calling Mr. Brandenburg at 204-9402. More information is at the society’s Web site, choralsocietyofthehamptons.org.