Department of Music, 308-865-8609
The Fine Arts Recital Hall at the University of Nebraska at Kearney will soon be ringing with sounds of George Frederick Handel and Michael Haydn, among others, when The Choraleers, Men’s Chorus and Women’s Chorus musical groups perform.
The Choraleers performance will take place on Monday, March 5, at 7:30 p.m., while the Men’s Chorus and Women’s Chorus groups perform on Wednesday, March 7,at 4:30 p.m. Both performances are in the Fine Arts Recital Hall.
The Choraleers will perform Handel’s “Samson,” an oratorio composed around the same time the composer wrote the famous “Messiah.”
The performance will feature various members of UNK’s vocal faculty, voice students and Senja Stephens, a UNK graduate and vocal music teacher in Arapahoe. In addition, Dr. Jim Payne and Dr. Anne Foradori, both of the Department of Music and Performing Arts, will perform a duet on trumpet and voice, respectively.
The Women’s Chorus concert will feature a performance of Michael Haydn’s “Vesperae Pro Festo Sancti Innocentium,” while the Men’s Chorus will perform Roy Ringwald’s “God’s Trombones.”
The Ringwald piece is based on a poem by African-American poet James Weldon Johnson, titled “God’s Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse.” The Men’s Chorus performance of the piece will feature narration by Stan Dart, Department of Sociology, Geography and Earth Sciences, and his wife Carol Dart.
Dr. David Bauer said the performance of “God’s Trombones” will be especially memorable for attendees.
“The performance will be impressive,” Dr. Bauer said. “Especially with the combination of choir, piano and narrators.”
All performances are free and open to the public.
Students performing in each choral group are listed below by hometown.
In-State Choraleers Members
Axtell
Heather Colling
Cambridge
Kirby Johnson
Columbus
Alexander Ritter
Dalton
Blake Thompson
Danbury
Ashley Walkington
Elkhorn
Tyler Kaufmann
Jordan Litherland
Fairbury
Derek Moore
Gibbon
Danielle Shackleton
Grand Island
Russtanna Faimon
Mark Rauert
Alicia Spelts
Rutheah Williams
Patrick York
Phillip Zuehlke
Hastings
Brittany Davidson
Hebron
Adison Kenning
Holdrege
Russell Crawford
Amber Kosmicki
Brooke Scripter
Kearney
Nathan Badgley
Caitlyn Chramosta
Jessica Hansen
Leif Hansen
Ashley Hellerich
Tray Henricksen
James Jelkin
Samantha Jenny
Jenna Johannsen
Mandy Kalkwarf
Joseph Knispel
Mary Lillyman
Mallory Mawby
Brent Roemmich
Kassie Sabah
Sarah Wolf
Stephen Wolf
Madison
Kristie Bonner
Stacey Bonner
McCook
Shawn Pfanstiel
Minden
Jamison Christensen
North Bend
Joseph Krula
North Platte
Michael Conley
Omaha
Luke Backhaus
Jennifer Torczon
Ashley Vandeventer
Ord
Benjamin Dennis
Chelsa Petska
Oshkosh
Douglas Haas
Riverdale
Bryan Messbarger
Scottsbluff
Clifford Holman
Seward
Katherine Bauer
Wayne
Emily Brady
John Jensen
Rachel Jensen
York
Allison Fazel
Out-of-State Choraleers Members
Gulf Breeze, FL
Anthony Ward
Cedar Rapids, IA
Corey Marz
Japan
Mai Shibahara
In-State Women’s Chorus Members (Caelestic Cantores)
Archer
Jody Neel
Atkinson
Kelli Garwood
Axtell
Heather Colling
Clay Center
Katelyn Scoville
Gibbon
Cari Smyth
Gothenburg
Elizabeth Bevard
Grand Island
Kayla Falldorf
Hartington
Sheila Pinkelman
Harvard
Bridget Martin
Hershey
Christa Huebner
Holdrege
Kaylee Jones
Kearney
Elizabeth Doxtator-Morenberg
Rachel Holl
Janell Kamm
Celeste Pearse
Roni Wymore
Kimball
Lisa Childs
Lincoln
Alicia Hunt
Aimee Lozier
Loomis
Kimberly Anderson
Madison
Kristie Bonner
Mason City
Kenna Johnson
Maxwell
Sarah Emhovick
McCook
Megan Province
Milford
Kendra Larsen
North Bend
Amanda Klinzing
Omaha
Kelci Fulton
Pickrell
Laura Goracke
St. Libory
Holly Bader
Sidney
Katilla Moench
Stuart
Kari Mitchell
Out-of-State Women’s Chorus Members
Woodland Park, CO
Shawna Beeler
Almena, KS
Danielle Wuest
Norton, KS
Rachael Lentz
Japan
Ayae Mori
Hiromi Okaniwa
Miyuki Oshima
Yu Takei
Saudi Arabia
Noor Al-Huda Ghamedi
In-State Men’s Chorus (Statesmen) Members
Ainsworth
Benjamin Ellingson
Alma
Sam Doubet
Arapahoe
Joshua Beck
Beatrice
Mark Nelson
Bellevue
Adam Hotchkiss
Cozad
Dillion Riley
Fairbury
Derek Moore
Gering
Luke Stobel
Grand Island
David Swanson
Patrick York
Holdrege
Zach Nelson
Kearney
Jason Wood
Minden
Jamison Christensen
Nebraska City
David Hotsenpillar
North Platte
Robbie Heinzen
Ord
Caleb Hastings
Phillips
David Ziola
Ponca
Chris Von Minden
St. Paul
Brett Peters
Stuart
Cory Mitchell
Out-of-State Men’s Chorus Members
Japan
Kiyotaka Arai
