UNA CHAMBER CHOIR AND VOCAL JAZZ ENSEMBLE
UNA Chamber Choir - An elite group of singers, this ensemble appears on and off campus at events such as the Renaissance Faire in Florence, on tour with the UNA Collegiate Singers, in collaboration with other groups such as the UAH Concert Choir and Huntsville Youth Orchestra, and as part of the Alabama ACDA Collegiate Choirs Festival. In the spring of 2009, they had the privilege of representing the University of North Alabama on the Department of Music & Theatre’s first international tour to Italy. Since then, the group toured to Costa Rica in the spring of 2011 and Ireland in spring 2013 as part of UNA’s Study Abroad program; they completed a second tour to Italy in the spring of 2015. They have been featured performers at the AMEA conference in 2006 and 2013.
UNA Vocal Jazz Ensemble - A small group chosen from among the members of the UNA Collegiate Singers, this ensemble explores the uniquely American idiom of jazz as well as pop and world music, often arranged by its members. They have been featured at the W.C. Handy Music Festival in Florence, at the Panoply Festival of the Arts in Huntsville, on tour with the Collegiate Singers, and regularly at special UNA events.
Originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Ian Loeppky has been 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, Choral Canada, Phi Mu Alpha, and Pi Kappa Lambda. He is currently the editor for the Reprise (the semi-annual publication of the Alabama chapter of ACDA) and on the editorial board for Anacrusis, the journal of Choral Canada. 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
undergraduate and graduate choral conducting, choral techniques, world music, and graduate choral literature. In addition, he is founder and artistic director of Florence Camerata and is in demand as a clinician and adjudicator throughout the region and internationally. His works are published by Kelman Music Press, Santa Barbara Music Publishing, and UNC Jazz Press.
Concert Program
Friday, 7:00 PM Alabama Ballroom A
A Jubilant
Song..........................................................Norman Dello Joio ......................................................(Schirmer 9580) I Am The Great Sun......................................................Jussi Chydenius ....................................................(Oxford X368828) Batter My Heart, Three-Personed God..........................Richard Nance ................................................(Colla Voce 36-2209) Ubi
caritas....................................................................Maurice Duruflé...........................................(Éditions Durand 13901) The
Coolin.....................................................................Samuel Barber..........................................................(Schirmer 8910) Son de la loma...............................................Miguel Matamoros, arr. Jonathan Quick...................................(Cypress 1067) I’ll Be Seeing
You...................................Irving Kahal and Sammy Fain, arr. Phil Mattson....... .....(Hal Leonard 08603316) A Poison
Tree...............................................................Lauren Sippola............................................................ .(Sulasol 1225)
Chandelier.................................................................Sia, tr. Nick Murphy...........................................................(Manuscript) Wade In the
Water........................................Traditional Spiritual, arr. Allen Koepke....................... .......(Santa Barbara 227)
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