UK Choirs Welcome Over 400 High Schoolers to Bluegrass Choral Music Festival
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Oct. 13, 2016) — The University of Kentucky Choral Music Department will host the 24th annual Bluegrass Choral Music Festival Oct. 14 and 15, at the Singletary Center for the Arts. This event has grown to become one of the largest high school choral festivals in the southeastern United States featuring more than 400 singers from across the state of Kentucky.
Participating students in the Bluegrass Choral Music Festival will combine to form three large choirs: an SATB (soprano, alto, tenor, bass) mixed choir, the all female SSA (soprano I, soprano II, alto) choir, and a mixed Honor Choir. The SSA choir will be directed by Lori Hetzel, associate director of Choral Activities at UK, and the Honor Choir will be directed by Jefferson Johnson, director of Choral Activities. Special guest conductor and UK doctoral candidate Beth Wilson, director of the UK Choristers, will conduct the SATB Choir.
On Friday, the high school students will attend a special performance by the acoUstiKats and Paws and Listen, UK's popular male and female a cappella groups. The entire festival will culminate the following day with a free public concert featuring all three student choruses at 4:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 15, in the Singletary Center Concert Hall.
For more information on 24th Bluegrass Choral Music Festival 2014, contact William White, administrative assistiant for UK Choirs, at william.white@uky.edu.
UK Choirs 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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