UNA COLLEGIATE SINGERS, CHAMBER CHOIR & VOCAL JAZZ ENSEMBLE


A select group of 65 singers, the UNA Collegiate Singers is the premier choral ensemble on campus, which represents the University on tour every year. Recent tours haven taken the choir to Mobile, New Orleans, Cincinnati, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Texas, and Orlando. Every year, they represent the University in the state-wide Birmingham Collegiate Choral Festival to great acclaim. They most recently performed Vivaldi’s timeless Gloria with the Shoals Symphony at UNA. A small group chosen from the Collegiate Singers, the Vocal Jazz Ensemble explores the uniquely American idiom of jazz as well as pop and world music. Most often, the VJE sings acappella or with a little percussion (either real or "vocalized"!). They perform in concerts on and off campus, touring in the spring with Collegiate Singers. The Vocal Jazz Ensemble has been featured often at the W. C. Handy Festival in Florence and the Panoply Festival of the Arts in Huntsville. The Chamber Choir is an elite group of singers chosen from the best of the Collegiate Singers, and perform in a wide variety of concerts and events from madrigal dinners to chamber works. The choir performs on and off campus as well as on tour with the Collegiate Singers. In the spring of 2009, they had the privilege of representing the University of North Alabama in Italy on the Department of Music and Theatre’s first international tour, and toured to Costa Rica in the spring of 2011. Most recently, they shared in a concert with the UAH Concert Choir and Huntsville Youth Orchestra in the U.S. premiere of Tarik O’Regan’s Martyr. They will tour to Ireland as part of the UNA Study Abroad program in the spring of 2013.


Originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Ian Loeppky has been an Associate Professor and Director of Choral Activities at the University of North Alabama since the fall of 2003. His studies began at the University of Manitoba, continued at the University of Minnesota with Kathy Romey, and finished at the College- Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati with Earl Rivers and Stephen Coker. He has also studied with Helmuth Rilling, Dale Warland, Frieder Bernius, Martin Isepp, Charles


Bruffy, and Bobby McFerrin. He is a member of the American Choral Directors Association, the Music Educators National Convention, the National Collegiate Choral Organization, the Alabama Vocal Association, the International Federation for Choral Music, Phi Mu Alpha, and Pi Kappa Lambda. He is currently the editor for the Alabama Reprise (the semi-annual publication of the Alabama chapter of ACDA.) Loeppky has worked as a singer, scholar, conductor, clinician, adjudicator, and arranger in Canada, the United States, and Portugal. He directs all three choral ensembles at UNA and teaches under- graduate and graduate conducting, choral techniques, world music, and graduate choral literature. In addition, he directs the choir at Trinity Episcopal Church in Florence, is founder and artistic director of Florence Camerata, and is in demand as a clinician and adjudicator throughout the region and internationally. He is a frequent contributor to the Choral Journal and the Alabama Reprise, and this spring appeared as a guest conductor with the Madison Honor Choir Girls Chorus, the Mississippi GirlChoir, and the Huntsville Master Chorale. Most recently, he had the privilege of sharing the podium with Dr. Elroy Friesen in concert with their Alma Mater choir, the University of Manitoba Singers.


Thursday, Jan. 10, 7:30 P.M. I. Karen Cantrell, piano


Ola Gjeilo Ubi caritas (Walton 1386) [3:00] (b. 1978)


II.


CHAMBER CHOIR Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)


Gustav Holst (1874-1934)


Traditional


Arr. Andrew Mills (b. 1990) 15th c. French Melody


Arr. Ian Loeppky (b. 1970)


III. VOCAL JAZZ ENSEMBLE Oscar Galián


(b. 1960)


Mia Makaroff (b. 1970)


IV.


(1839-1901) Jimmy Rankin


“Lobet den Herrn” from Singet dem Herrn (BWV 225) (CPDL #04737) [4:00] Johnna Stafford, bassoon; Miika Weimann, ’cello; Karen Cantrell, organ


Nunc dimittis (Novello 290459) [3:45] Grace Ashley, soprano; Marc Anderson, tenor


All Blessings Flow (St. James Music Press) [3:00]


Adam Lay Ybounden (Santa Barbara Music Publishing 1090) [2:00] Drew Mills, percussion


Salseo (earthsongs S-71) [2:30] Suzanne Reese and Ashley White, sopranos Butterfly (Sulasol S-971) [4:00]


COLLEGIATE SINGERS Josef Rheinberger “Bleib bei uns” from Abendlied, Op. 69, No. 3


Arr. James Q. Mulholland (b. 1935) A.R. Rahman


Arr. Ethan Sperry (b. 1970) 34 (CPDL 00380) [3:30] Fare thee well, love (Colla Voce 10-96310) [4:30] Balleilakka (earthsongs S-339) [5:00] Marc Anderson, tenor; Karen Cantrell, piano


Ethan Lolley, tenor; Jenny Merry, soprano; Tanner King, tenor Bryan Gregory, Rebekah Holm, Robert Livingston, Iain Moyer, percussion


Concert Program


COLLEGIATE SINGERS Domenick Argento “Gloria” from The Masque of Angels (Boosey & Hawkes 5932) [3:30] (b. 1927)


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