Arts & Culture

UK Women's Choir Celebrates 20 Years of Music

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UK Women's Choir singing "Pie Jesu" at Ely Cathedral. A transcription of this video can be found here

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Oct. 29, 2014) — The University of Kentucky Women’s Choir will celebrate 20 years of music as they present their fall concert 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 1, in the Singletary Center for the Arts Recital Hall. UK’s award-winning female a cappella group, Paws and Listen, will begin a pre-show performance at 7 p.m.

The fall concert is a special event in commemoration of the past 20 years of Women’s Choir at the university. The show will feature alumnae from the group, as well as from Paws and Listen.

The program includes a special four-song section by select Paws and Listen alumnae, who will be led by former coach Raye Hurley.

Approximately 50 women from past years of the choir will join the concert. Some long distance members who couldn’t make the journey have sent along special notes to be read at the performance.

“I am super excited for this concert because it is the first time we are doing something like this,” said Lori R. Hetzel, conductor of the UK Women’s Choir and associate director of UK School of Music. “I am thrilled to see all the people who have graduated.”

UK Women's Choir is made up of more than 100 women of all ages and academic disciplines. The choir has been internationally recognized, traveling to England, Ireland and Wales for their third international tour in the summer of 2012. More recently, Hetzel and the choir served as a demonstration choir at the 2013 American Choral Directors Association National Conference in Dallas, Texas.

Tickets for the 20th Anniversary Concert are $10 for adults and $5 for students, seniors and UK Women’s Choir alumnae. They can be purchased through the Singletary Center ticket office at 859-257-4929, online at www.scfatickets.com, or in person at the box office.

The UK School of Music at the UK College of Fine Arts has garnered national recognition 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

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