UW Chamber Singers & University Chorale: The Loudest Whisper

• Geoffrey Boers, conductor
• Giselle Wyers, conductor
• David Puderbaugh, conductor

The Chamber Singers (Geoffrey Boers, director) and University Chorale (Giselle Wyers, director) present a program of choral folk settings from across the globe, including traditional American shape note and American spirituals, and works from Portugal, Norway, Mexico, and Hungary. With guest conductor David Puderbaugh, Assistant Director of Choral Activities at University of Iowa.

About UW Chamber Singers

http://music.washington.edu/ensembles/chamber-singers

About UW University Chorale

The Uni­ver­sity of Wash­ing­ton Chorale is an audi­tioned advanced under­grad­u­ate ensem­ble of music and non-music majors from the Seat­tle cam­pus. UW Chorale appears annually as a guest ensem­ble with the Seat­tle Sym­phony, and has sung in joint con­certs with Revalia Male Cham­ber Choir in Esto­nia, and for the Princess of Swe­den. UW Chorale appeared at the Lat­vian Song Fes­ti­val in Riga, dur­ing the sum­mer of 2013 and the Estonian Festival of Song and Dance in 2019, as one of the only Amer­i­can choirs.

About UW School of Music

http://music.washington.edu/

About Geoffrey Boers, conductor

https://music.washington.edu/people/geoffrey-boers

About Giselle Wyers, conductor

https://www.gisellewyers.com/

About David Puderbaugh, conductor

David Puderbaugh is Assistant Director of Choral Activities at the University of Iowa, where he conducts University Choir, teaches graduate choral literature and undergraduate choral conducting, advises DMA theses, and assists in administration of the choral program. He is also Associate Director of the School of Music, overseeing the graduate program. A native Iowan, Dr. Puderbaugh holds a Bachelor of Music Education degree from Drake University (Des Moines, Iowa), a Master of Music degree in Choral Conducting from the University of Missouri-Columbia, and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Choral Conducting and Pedagogy from the University of Iowa. His teachers include Timothy Stalter, David Rayl, and Aimee Beckmann-Collier. Dr. Puderbaugh also is Music Director of Chamber Singers of Iowa City, an ensemble that focuses on major choral works, having recently performed Beethoven's Mass in C major, Handel's Messiah, Haydn's The Seasons, Orff's Carmina Burana, and Rachmaninov's All-Night Vigil. He made his Carnegie Hall debut with CSIC, conducting Haydn's Missa Cellensis.