UK Choristers Help Raise Funds for Tates Creek Choirs

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Oct. 12, 2016) — The University of Kentucky Choristers will join choirs from Tates Creek High School, directed by UK alumnus Nick Johnson, in concert this week. Also featured will be Blue Note, UK's only mixed a cappella group. The concert will begin 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 13, at the sanctuary of Tates Creek Presbyterian Church, located at 3900 Rapid Run Dr. The event is free and open to the public, with free-will offerings being accepted to benefit Tates Creek High School Choirs.

The UK Choristers, conducted by Beth Wilson, is the oldest performing organization on campus. Filled with enthusiastic underclassmen and representing a wide variety of majors, the group frequently performs on and off campus. The 60-voice mixed choir specializes in choral repertoire of all periods and styles, both a cappella and accompanied, and also performs a major work each year with the UK Symphony Orchestra. UK Choristers have also been featured with the Lexington Philharmonic Orchestra in the orchestra's “Unplugged and Untied” Concert Series.

For more information about the Choristers, contact William White, administrative assistant for UK Choirs, at william.white@uky.edu.

UK Choristers are part of the UK School of Music at UK College of Fine Arts. The school has garnered a national reputation for high-caliber education in opera, choral and instrumental music performance, as well as music education, composition, and theory and music history.

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MEDIA CONTACT: Whitney Hale, 859-257-8716; whitney.hale@uky.edu