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Collaborations

Each year all four choral ensembles collaborate with an orchestra of faculty and students to perform a major work. Choral/orchestral works performed recently include:

2005 - Vaughan Williams, "Dona nobis Pacem"
2004 - Haydn, "Schopfungsmesse"
2003 - Carl Orff, "Carmina Burana"
2002 - W.A. Mozart "Requiem"
2001- Beethoven, "Mass in C"
2000 - Haydn, "The Creation"
1999- Mozart, "Solemn Vespers"
1998- Brahms, "Ein Deutsches Requiem"
1997- Bruckner, "Te Deum, "and Haydn, "Te Deum"
1996- Mozart, "Mass in C Minor


In addition, each ensemble does a work with chamber orchestra each year. Examples from the past five years include:

Mozart - " Regina Coeli"
Handel - "The King Shall Rejoice"
Vivaldi - "Domine ad adjuvandum me festina"
Bach - "Cantata 192"
Monteverdi - "Beatus vir"
Handel - "Dixit Dominus"
Haydn - "Missa Sancti Joannis de Deo"
Faure - "Requiem"
Leo - "Magnificat"
Mozart - "Veni Sancte Spiritus"
Vaughan Williams - "Serenade to Music"
Handel - "Messiah"

The Director of Choral Studies is Aimee Beckmann-Collier