Hear UK Chorale Prepare for Carnegie Hall
UK Chorale performs "O nata lux" by Morten Lauridsen on their 2013 European tour.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Feb. 19, 2016) — The Bluegrass is invited to join the University of Kentucky Chorale for an afternoon of choral music this Sunday. The UK Chorale will perform 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 21, at the First United Methodist Church in downtown Lexington. The concert is free and open to the public.
The UK Chorale, directed by Jefferson Johnson, UK School of Music director of Choral Activities, and assistant directed by Elizabeth L. Wilson, will be performing music they are preparing for their trip to New York City, where they will headline a concert at Carnegie Hall. The program will include works from a wide range of time periods and styles, including well known works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Sebastian Bach and Johannes Brahms, and several contemporary pieces.
The premier mixed choral ensemble at the university, UK Chorale consists mostly of upperclassmen and graduate students. While the majority of singers are music majors, there are a number of other academic disciplines represented within the ensemble. The 40-voice group prides itself in performing a wide variety of choral literature from Renaissance to 21st century. Recently, the UK Chorale has performed Mozart’s "Requiem" with the UK Symphony Orchestra and the live score to Stanley Kubrick’s iconic film, "2001: A Space Odyssey." The UK Chorale was the first non-professional chorus in the world to perform the challenging Kubrick film score in its entirety.
UK Chorale has received several regional and national awards and recognition. Most recently, the ensemble received an invitation to perform at the American Choral Directors Association Convention with the Chattanooga Symphony in March 2015. The group has toured Italy (St. Marks Cathedral); Switzerland; France (Cathedral of Notre Dame, Chartres Cathedral, American Cathedral in Paris and La Madeleine Church); Washington, D.C. (Kennedy Center); the Bahamas (private performance in the Presidential Palace); and New York City (Carnegie Hall in 2001).
For more information on this concert or the UK Chorale, contact Joseph Wrightson,
administrative assistant for UK Choirs, at joseph.wrightson@g.uky.edu.
The UK School of Music at UK College of Fine Arts 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.