CONCERT CHOIR and CHAMBERS SINGERS

Sunday November 22, 2009
7:30 pm

Beckwith Recital Hall

Beckwith Recital Hall is located in the Cultural Arts building located on Randall Drive, UNCW Campus.

Free

Parking is free and convenient.

For more information, call the Department of Music at 910/962-3415.

PROGRAM

Motet III Jesu meine Freude BWV 227 (J.S. Bach)

Die mit Tränen säen from Israelsbrünnlein (Johann Hermann Schein)

To My Old Brown Earth (Pete Seeger)

Thanks be to God, from Elijah (Felix Mendelssohn)

Hallelujah, from Messiah (G. F. Handel)

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NCW CHOIRS have presented concerts throughout North and South Carolina, Virginia, Washington DC, Maryland, and New York. The group has presented three concerts in the United Kingdom and on 12 occasions in Germany and Austria (Leipzig, Munich, Wiesbaden, Salzburg, and Vienna). In February 2009, a small group from Concert Choir traveled to Vienna to participate in a workshop with the music director of the Arnold Schoenberg Chorus that includes a presentation of the Haydn Nelson Mass. In May, UNCW Chamber Singers made their ninth appearance at the famous Wieskirch in Steingaden, Germany. The UNCW Chamber Choir is a regularly invited participant for the St. Francis Festival Choir at Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York for the annual presentation of Missa Gaia/Earth Mass in early October of each year, and performs with the Paul Winter Consort.

CONCERT CHOIR and CHAMBERS SINGERS are academic classes at UNCW with the stated goal of preparing and presenting outstanding choral literature and have collaborated with other choral groups in the community and with the Wilmington Symphony and North Carolina Symphony Orchestras, performing the Bach Passions, Brahms German Requiem, Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms, and Haydn Creation as well as Debussy Trois Chansons, Schumann Zigeunerleben, and various choral works by Orlando di Lasso.

In February, a small group from Concert Choir traveled to Vienna to participate in a workshop with the music director of the Arnold Schoenberg Chorus that includes a presentation of the Haydn Nelson Mass.

DR. JOE HICKMAN is director of the UNCW Concert Choir and Chamber Singers, ensembles which have toured extensively both in the United States and in Western Europe. Dr. Hickman also writes choral reviews and articles for the Choral Journal and has a number of scholarly performing editions published with Masterworks Press of Olympia, Washington. Most recently, his collections of 4-part motets of Palestrina and 4-part consort songs by John Dowland were published in the Masterworks Press choral sight reading series. He is professor of music at UNCW and received his B.M. from West Virginia University and his M.M./D.M. from Indiana University.