Karen Kennedy, conductor

MUSA 252/452/652 (1 credit)
(1 credit; community members may participate without enrolling for credit)
M-W 2:00-3:15PM
CA 3069

FIRST MEETING: Monday, January 28, 2008, 2:15-3:15 pm, Room 3069

The Chamber Singers is a 12-16 voice auditioned ensemble of Towson University students including music performance majors, music education majors and non-music majors. Since the ensemble's founding in 1993, the Chamber Singers have performed diverse music ranging from Brahms to Britten, Schütz to Swingle, and Victoria to Weill.

The Chamber Singers have earned recognition from nationally respected choral musicians. In 1997 the Chamber Singers won praise from renowned composer Libby Larsen for their premiere performance of Laural Kolker's The Armenian Mother at the Baltimore Choral Arts Society Master Class in Composition. In 1998 they were invited to perform for Plymouth Music Series conductor Phillip Brunelle at a choral master class at Loyola College. Their 1998 CD Our Song in the Night includes music of Libby Larsen, Duke Ellington and Harold Arlen. 

The ensemble performs frequently on and off campus. Local engagements have include concerts at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen, St. John's Episcopal Church (Glyndon, MD), Christ Church (New Brunswick, NJ), Ss. Philip and James Church, Charlestown Chapel, Taylor Chapel and Oak Crest Village, and Oriole Park at Camden Yards. They have appeared on campus at the annual MOSAIC concerts, and recently collaborated with the award-winning Towson University Early Music Ensemble in performance of Heinrich Schütz's Historia der Geburt Jesu Christi.