INDIANA UNIVERSITY SOUTHEAST
MUSIC DEPARTMENT
4201 Grant Line Road
New Albany, IN 47150
(812) 941-2655
fax: (812) 941-2660

CONTACT: Ken Atkins
kewatkin@ius.edu

IU SOUTHEAST TO HOST
SOUTHERN INDIANA WOMEN’S CHORAL FESTIVAL

New Albany, IN – April 8 – The Music Department at Indiana University Southeast will host the first Southern Indiana Women’s Choral Festival on Monday, April 19 at 7:30p.m. in the Richard K. Stem Concert Hall on the IU Southeast campus, 4201 Grant Line Road in New Albany. All seats are $5. Tickets are available at the Ogle Center Ticket Office, at all Ticketmaster locations, by calling 1-800-745-3000, or online at ticketmaster.com. Free parking is available in the Dogwood lot only, located directly in front of the Ogle Center.

POSTER Women's Choral Festival.jpg Dr. Mariana Farah, Director of Choral Activities at IU Southeast, is coordinating the event which will include performances by the IU Southeast Concert Choir and Community Chorus, and the women of New Albany High School (Linda DeRungs, director), Floyd Central High School (Angela Hampton, director), Switzerland County High School (Kathy Williams, director), Jeffersonville High School (Leslie Rajchel, director), Christian Education Consortium (Kathie Davis, director), Lanesville High School (Aaron Geurnsey, director), and Eastern High School (Kate McCoskey, director).

During the first half of the program, the choir from each school will perform one selection. The choirs from all schools will combine for the second half.

The diverse program will include classical, popular, and Brazilian folk selections, including Cantate Domino by Hans Leo Hassler, A City Called Heaven by Josephine Poelinitz, Lift Thine Eyes by Felix Mendelssohn, Panis Angelicus by César Franck, Who Shall Sing by Andrea Klouse, When I Lay Me Down To Sleep and Heart We Will Forget Him by James Mulholland, I Dreamed A Dream from Les Miserable by Claude-Michel Schonberg, Come to the Music by Joseph Martin, Skye Boat Song by Judith Herrington and Sara Glick, Alleluia by Ernani Aguiar, Rosa Amarela by Daniel Rufino Alfonso, Jr., and Sambalelê by Eduardo Lakshevitz.

Instrumental accompaniment for the choirs will be provided by Dr. Janet Hamilton, IU Southeast Instructor of Organ, and Ryan Nottingham, trumpet, Katie von Kanel, piccolo, and Cody Chaplin and Neil Lucas, percussion.

For more information about this program, future concerts, or IU Southeast Music Department degree programs and scholarship opportunities, please call (812) 941-2655 or visit www.ius.edu/music.