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MSU Concert Choir and Chamber Singers to Present Free Concert in Morehead

Morehead State University

Morehead State University’s Concert Choir and Chamber Singers will present a free concert Tuesday, April 19, at 7:30 pm at First Baptist Church, 123 East Main Street, Morehead.

The event is open to the public.

The 46-voice Concert Choir and 20-voice Chamber Singers are conducted by Dr. Greg Detweiler. The choirs will include the Monday evening performance at Christ Church as part of its spring concert tour.

The choirs’ program is titled, Where Love Abounds.  Concert Choir will open the program with four sacred piece:  Petite et accipietis by Johann Michael Haydn, Beati quorum via by C.V. Stanford, To the Mothers in Brazil: Salve Regina arranged by Gunnar Eriksson, and Entreat me not to leave you by Dan Forrest.   They will close the evening with two songs of soldiers’ love and a spiritual. Included in this set is the Lithuanian piece, Tykus tykus, the Scottish Loch Lomond, and the spiritual Wade in the Water.

The Chamber Singers’ portion of the program includes a wide variety of sacred and secular music which they will perform this summer in Rome in international competition and at the Vatican.  Sacred works include Palestina’s Super flumina Babylonis, Heinrich Schütz’s Sicut Moses serpentum, C.V. Stanford’s Justorum animae, David Dickau’s O Nata Lux, and Ray Liebau’s arrangement of He’s Got the Whole World.  They will also perform Leggiadre Ninfe by Luca Marenzio, In love with the beautiful eyes by David White, and El Guayaboso by Guido López-Gavilán.

Concert Choir and Chamber Singers represent the university on regional, national and international tours. Recent trips have included tours to Hungary/Austria, Costa Rica, and Ireland.  During the 2014 Ireland tour, the choirs competed in the Mayo International Choral Festival where Concert Choir won first place in the sacred division and Chamber Singers won the festival’s grand prize.   In 2012, the MSU Chamber Singers also won its division with the gold diploma at the World Choir Games in Cincinnati.

Dr. Detweiler is director of choral studies at MSU.  He conducts the Concert Choir and Chamber Singers and teaches conducting, voice and vocal pedagogy.  He holds the Doctor of Music Arts degree from the University of Illinois and has studied Dalcroze Eurhythmics at the Manhattan School of Music. His choirs have toured Costa Rica, Canada, Ireland, Germany, Austria, Hungary, and the Czech Republic, and have appeared at state and regional conventions of the American Choral Directors Association and the Music Educators National Conference.  He was the 2002 Kentucky Music Educators Association Teacher of the Year in College-University Education.

Additional information is available by calling Dr. Detweiler at 606-783-2480.

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