Feb. 24, 2023

Concert Choir, Madrigal Singers spring tour scheduled

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The NDSU Concert Choir and Madrigal Singers are scheduled to begin their regrional spring tour.

The NDSU Concert Choir and Madrigal Singers, under the direction of Jo Ann Miller and Michael Weber, respectively, is set to embark on a regional tour beginning Wednesday, March 15. 

The NDSU Concert Choir has performed at state, regional and national music conferences; collaborated with the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony Orchestra; and presented Handel’s “Messiah” annually for 22 years. In addition to their regional spring tours, they tour abroad every three years, most recently to England and Wales in May 2022. Choir members are from many majors at NDSU and more than two-thirds are music majors. The Madrigal Singers, all members of the NDSU Concert Choir perform vocal chamber music from the Renaissance through the 21st century and present the annual Madrigal Dinners in full costume.

All tour concerts are free to the public. 

The repertoire of this year’s tour includes music of Palestrina, Monteverdi, Schütz, Brahms, Holst, Dinerstein, Britten, Delius, Tormis and Fissinger, as well as four premieres. The 2022 Fissinger Prize winning compositions by Paul Winchester, Jennifer Lucy Cook and Patrick Vu will be premiered and a work by Michael Weber in honor of Jo Ann Miller also will be premiered. 

The spring tour itinerary is:

Wednesday, March 15

1:20 p.m. concert at Park High School 

8040 80th St. S. Cottage Grove, Minnesota

 

6:30 p.m. concert at First Unitarian Universalist Church

Rochester, Minnesota

Thursday, March 16 

8 a.m. concert at Kasson High School 

101 16th St. N.E., Kasson, Minnesota

 

11:45 a.m. concert at Eden Prairie High School 

17185 Valley View Rd, Eden Prairie, Minnesota

 

7:30 p.m. concert with The Minnesota Renaissance Choir at Zion Lutheran Church

1601 S. 4th Ave., Anoka, Minnesota

Friday, March 17

10:45 a.m. concert at Duluth East High School 

301 N. 40th Ave. East, Duluth, Minnesota

 

7:30 p.m. concert in Bemidji – First Lutheran Church 

900 Bemidji Ave. N., Bemidji, Minnesota

Saturday, March 18  

7:30 p.m. concert at Calvary Lutheran Church

1405 S 9th St., Grand Forks, North Dakota

Sunday, March 19 

2 p.m. home concert – Holy Spirit Catholic Church

1420 7th St. N. Fargo

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