Highland Park Presbyterian Church Chancel Choir
Saturday 10:30 A.m. Winspear Opera House (Gold track)
Friday 2:00 p.m. Meyerson Symphony Center (Blue Track)
Since its founding in 1926, the Highland Park Presbyterian Church has placed a strong emphasis on the importance of music in worship. The church’s principle ensemble, the Chancel Choir, serves its faith community in more than 100 worship services each year by contributing congregational hymns, responses, and anthems; singing for weddings and funerals; and leading annual Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, and Holy Week services. Additionally, the Chancel Choir performs four concerts of oratorios with the Highland Park Orchestra each season. Recent tour performances include Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass and Mozart’s Requiem at the Vienna Konzerthaus and Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem at Carnegie Hall. Comprised of singers from all walks of life and various levels of musical experience, the Chancel Choir is a non-auditioned ensemble that has a weekly 150-minute rehearsal.
George Gregory Hobbs has been the director of music at Highland Park Presbyterian Church since 2005. He conducts the church’s Chancel Choir, the Highland Park Chorale, and the Highland Park Orchestra; administrates a large church music ministry; and serves as artistic director of the Highlander Concert Series. His educational background includes degrees from Florida State University and Northwestern University, where his dissertation focused on the choral-orchestral compositions of Anton Bruckner. Hobbs has served on the faculty of Florida International University, and led church music programs in Florida, Georgia, and Illinois. Psalm 150 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Craig Phillips
And I Saw A New Heaven . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Edgar Bainton
Novello Collect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sean MacLean
Wondrous Love . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Michael Sitton, Arr.
O Praise the Lord of Heaven . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jonathan Willcocks
Saturday 10:30 A.m. Winspear Opera House (Gold track)
Friday 2:00 p.m. Meyerson Symphony Center (Blue Track)
Cantamus Women’s Choir was created in 2000, and is one of four major choral ensembles at Iowa State University. They come from many fields of study across campus and all share an enthusiasm for new and challenging repertoire, along with a love for adventurous programming. Recent commissions include works by Pietro Ferrario, Ko Matsushita, Levente Gyongyosi, Abbie Betinis, Eric Barnum, and Nathaniel Adams. Cantamus annually presents a four-concert season, which includes a tour and a choral-orchestral masterworks concert. Cantamus performed at the 2004 and 2010 ACDA North Central Division Conferences and the 2004 National MENC/NAfME Convention.
Kathleen Rodde, a member of the music faculty at Iowa State University since 2000, conducts two women’s choirs, Cantamus and the 100-voice Lyrica, in addition to Count Me In, a women’s jazz ensemble. She also teaches classes in choral methods and piano skills, and assists with the Iowa State Singers. Alpha Lambda Delta and Phi Eta Sigma Honor Societies have recognized Rodde for her positive influence on students at Iowa State. Rodde has appeared as a conductor, accompanist, and presenter at ACDA division and national conferences and MENC/NAfME conferences. She has served as the ACDA North Central Division R&S Chair for Women’s Choirs. Choirs under her direction performed at the 2000, 2004, and 2010 ACDA North Central Division Conferences, and at the 2004 National MENC Convention. Recent guest conducting engagements include all-state choirs in Minnesota and Wisconsin. From 1990 to 2000, Rodde served as a member of the University of North Dakota music faculty.
Alleluia, Cantate Domino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ko Matsushita
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Hear My Prayer, Oh Lord . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tobin Stokes
<[email protected]> Makedonska Humoreska . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Todor Skalovski
J'entends le moulin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Arr. Donald Patriquin
unpublished To Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Eric Barnum
<ewbmusic.com> Gloria Kajoniensis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Levente Gyongyosi
Keep On Singing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Simon Wawer
Mount San Antonio College Chamber Singers
Saturday 10:30 A.m. Winspear Opera House (Gold track)
Friday 2:00 p.m. Meyerson Symphony Center (Blue Track)
The Mt. San Antonio College Chamber Singers have been active during their nineteen years of existence, winning numerous awards and receiving special performance invitations, including; seven ACDA national and division conferences, numerous California state conventions, four European tours with performances in Germany, the Czech Republic, Austria, the British Isles, Bulgaria, and Italy, headliners at the Canadian Rocky Mountain Music Festival in Banff and the Australian National Choral Association Convention in Port Macquarie, along with numerous tours throughout the United States.
At the 2007 International Musical Eisteddfod Competition in Wales, the Chamber Singers received more awards than any choir in the history of the competition; including first place awards in the Youth Choir, Folksong Choir, and Mixed Choir categories and then won the Pavarotti Trophy and the title of Choir of the World. Their tour of Europe in 2003 included winning the “Grand Prix Choir Competition” in Varna, Bulgaria. Bruce Rogers’s choirs have won numerous awards and first place honors at competitions throughout the United States, Europe, and China. He has presented lectures, adjudicated, and conducted all-state and collegiate honor choirs in twenty-one states, Canada, Austria, Hungary, Australia, and the Netherlands. Rogers has conducted the New York Chamber Orchestra and Festival Chorus at Carnegie Hall on five occasions, and was invited to conduct the Two-Year College Honor Choir at the 2007 ACDA National Conference in Miami, Florida.
Mt. San Antonio College presented Rogers with its “Faculty Member of the Year” award and the Upland Community Foundation honored him as a recipient of their 2010 “Spotlight Award" for Outstanding Educator. He has also signed with Gentry Music to publish the Bruce Rogers Choral Series.
Regina Coeli . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Tomas Luis de Victoria
CPDL O Magnum Mysterium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Ola Gjeilo Walton Music
“Luxuriosa res” from Parables of Solomon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Zdenek Lukas
Tykus, Tykus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Vaclovas Augustinas
Long Road . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Eriks Esenvalds
Balleilakka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A. R. Rahman/arr. Ethan Sperry
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