UK Choristers, Dunbar Choir Join Voices

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Nov. 12, 2015) — The University of Kentucky's own Choristers will join forces and voices with local high school ensemble, the Paul Laurence Dunbar High School Concert Choir, for an evening of song. The concert, which will include a variety of music styles ranging from work by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to selections from a Caribbean Mass, will begin 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 13, at Singletary Center for the Arts Recital Hall. The concert is free and open to the public.

The Choristers, conducted by Beth Wilson, is the oldest performing organization on the UK campus. Filled with underclassmen and representing a wide variety of majors, the group frequently performs on and off of 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. The Choristers have also been featured with the Lexington Philharmonic Orchestra in the orchestra's “Unplugged and Untied” Concert Series.

The Paul Laurence Dunbar Concert Choir, conducted by Tiffany Marsh, is the school's advanced performing ensemble and has achieved much success at district choral contests obtaining distinguished ratings. The group is made up of more than 50 singers who perform in concerts throughout the year with various other ensembles at the school.

For more information on the UK Choristers or other UK Choirs, contact Joseph Wrightson, administrative assistant to UK Choirs, at wrightson.joseph@gmail.com.

UK Choristers are part of the UK School of Music at the 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.

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