A total of 450 singers from 26 Kentucky and Ohio high schools will present the 55th Annual Morehead State University Choral Festival concert Tuesday, Nov. 11, at 7 p.m. in Baird Music Hall.
The students are divided into an SSAA Choir under the direction of Dr. Therees Hibbard and an SATB Choir under the direction of Rodney Eichenberger. Admission for the concert is $5 for adults and $3 for 12 and under.
The SSAA will begin the program with Ad Amore by Lee Kesselman, I’ll give My Love an Apple by Eleanor Daley, The Snow by Edward Elgar, Mid-Winter by Bob Chilcott, and Music Down in My Soul arranged by Moses Hogan. The SATB Choir will close the program with Your Voices Tune by Handel, Good Night, Dear Heart by Dan Forrest, Laudate Dominum by Dan Davison, No Time arranged by Susan Brumfield, Ninbun Bialik by A.W. Binder, and I Wanna Be Ready arranged by Rosephanye Powell.
The festival features a solo competition. Winners of the competition will sing their selections in the middle of the program.
Hibbard is an associate director of choral activities and associate professor of choral music at the University of Nebraska Lincoln Glen Korff School of Music. Her work as a movement specialist in the training of choral singers and conductors has created unique opportunities for her to work with choirs, and collaborate with conductors from around the world. Her research on enhancing choral performance through movement training has led to the development of a comprehensive choral education philosophy of “Body Singing.”
Eichenberger, has conducted more than 80 high school All State Choirs and guest conducted or lectured in more than 100 U.S., Australian and New Zealand Universities. He has lead conducting workshops in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, France, Norway, Sweden, Scotland, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Italy, and Korea, and conducted high school honor choirs in Tokyo, London, Berlin, and Singapore. His instructional DVDs on conducting are widely used in collegiate conducting classes.
Additional information is available by calling Dr. Greg Detweiler at 606-783-2480.
