UMD Chamber Singers Spring Choral Showcase
In person: $25 ($10 student/youth) |
Stream: $10
Antonio Lotti — Selected works
Giovanni Gabrieli — Selected works
Dietrich Buxtehude — Selected works
Zanaida Robles — Selected works
The UMD Chamber Singers present a thought-provoking performance to bring healing amidst difficult times. Weather: Stand the Storm, a new composition by Rollo Dilworth, is a featured piece, along with works by Lotti, Gabrieli, Buxtehude, Robles, and more. With this program, UMD Choral Activities invites you to sit back and reflect on how our actions impact those around us.
About University of Maryland (UMD) Chamber Singers
The UMD Chamber Singers have achieved international renown with acclaimed performances of the most challenging repertoire ranging from the 16th through the 21st Centuries. The ensemble made its first European tour in 2007 with a prize-winning appearance at the International Musical Eisteddfod in Wales. In 2011, they won the Premier Prix for Mixed Choirs and the Prix Ronsard for the performance of Renaissance music at the 40th Florilège Vocal de Tours in France. They also appeared by invitation at the International Federation for Choral Music for acclaimed performances at the 10th World Symposium on Choral Music in Seoul, South Korea, in 2014.
The UMD Chamber Singers collaborate frequently with the National Symphony Orchestra and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in major works such as Bach's Mass in B minor, Handel's Messiah and Mozart’s Mass in C minor. Alongside their regular symphonic collaborations, the ensemble specializes in the most significant a cappella repertoire of the 20th and 21st Centuries, having presented masterpieces of Barber, Britten, Copland, Howells, Ives, MacMillan, Penderecki, Poulenc, Schoenberg, and Shaw.
The UMD Chamber Singers work regularly with internationally renowned conductors such as Christoph Eschenbach, Iván Fischer, Gianandrea Noseda, Matthew Halls, Laurence Cummings, James MacMillan, Nicholas McGegan, and Nathalie Stutzmann. The ensemble appears frequently by invitation of the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) and the National Collegiate Choral Organization (NCCO). In the fall of 2019, the UMD Chamber Singers hosted and were the featured artists for the NCCO biennial conference.
https://music.umd.edu/ensembles/choral-activities/umd-chamber-singersAbout University of Maryland (UMD) School of Music
The University of Maryland School of Music provides an exceptional professional musical education within the context of a college of arts and humanities and a major research university.
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