Ensembles: Choral

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University Chorale

One of eight choral ensembles at Michigan State University, the 55-member University Chorale is the university's premiere choral ensemble, comprised of the best graduate and upper-level undergraduate singers in the College of Music. The choir recently performed with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and at the national meeting of the College Music Society. The Chorale has been honored by four invited performances for conventions of the American Choral Directors Association, including appearances at the ACDA National Conventions of 1983 and 1989. The Chorale was invited to appear in concert January 27, 1992 for the Mozart Bicentennial Masses-In-Concert Series at Lincoln Center. They have appeared in concert at Chicago's Orchestra Hall and for the CBS Radio Network's Cavalcade of Christmas Music. In July, 1995, the Chorale appeared in the Eisteddfod (Wales) International Choral Festival.

In addition to touring and campus concerts, the Chorale performs regularly with the University Symphony Orchestra and the MSU Chamber Orchestra, and has its own masterworks series with professional orchestras. A versatile choral ensemble, during the 1996-2000 academic years the Chorale performed Carmina Burana by Carl Orff, Poulenc's Gloria, Handel's Messiah, the Mass in B Minor by J.S. Bach, Verdi's Requiem, Brahms' Requiem and Schicksalslied, Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, Haydn's Missa St. Joannis de Deo, Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms, Berlioz's Requiem, and Mahler's Symphony No. 2, as well as concerts of shorter works. In the 2000-2001 academic year, the University Chorale sang three performances of Messiah and four performances of the Mass in B Minor with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.

Dr. David Rayl, conductor
David Howard, assistant conductor
Judy Kabodian, accompanist

Rehearsals:
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday

3:00 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.
125 Music Building (Hart Recital Hall)