Chamber Singers Bio
The Chamber Singers is the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s vocal chamber ensemble. A small choir of 14-18 voices, it is intended to provide the highest level of choral chamber-specific performance experience for graduate and undergraduate singers at the Glenn Korff School of Music and throughout the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. The ensemble is open to music-majors and non-majors alike. The choir explores a broad range of repertoire specializing in literature for unaccompanied and contemporary small vocal chamber ensembles; including works from early music eras as well as contemporary literature, and new music composed expressly for them. Typically, the ensembles has explored seminal music from Chant to 1650 during the fall term, and music by emerging and living choral composers during the spring term. The Chamber Singers have been privileged to perform for and work with many guest conductors and composers including Ola Gjeilo, André Thomas, Mack Wilberg, Doreen Rao, William Hatcher, Eph Ehly, and in performance collaboration with The American Boychoir. They specialize in performing concerts in beautiful and unique spaces including the Sheldon Museum of Art Great Hall, St. Mark’s on the Campus, the International Quilt Center, and the State Capitol Rotunda. The Singers have also enjoyed collaborations with the Philharmonia Chamber Orchestra, UNL chamber instrumental ensembles, and the Chiara String Quartet (our resident faculty quartet). Many of their members have served as the core vocal ensemble for UNL’s ‘Bach’s Lunch’ held in the nearby campus student chapel on select Fridays at noon.
All-Collegiate Choir Bio
All-Collegiate Choir is comprised of University of Nebraska-Lincoln students as well as singers from the Lincoln area. It rehearses 150 minutes a week (one day a week on Thursday evenings from 7:00 to 9:30) on Nebraska’s City Campus in Westbrook Music Building Room 130. No audition is required, and non-majors are welcome and encouraged to join. This group performs large-scale works with orchestral, organ, and piano accompaniment, including many popular choral favorites. It also is frequently asked to sing in combination with other choirs on campus and in the community. In past years, All-Collegiate Choir has sung such works as Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, Haydn’s Harmoniemesse, Mozart’s Requiem and Solemn Vespers, the Bruckner Te Deum, the Poulenc Gloria, Verdi’s Requiem, Karl Jenkin’s The Armed Man, Pinkham’s Christmas Cantata, and several cantatas of Bach, King David of Honegger, Carmina Burana of Carl Orff, Mass settings by Rossini, Dvorák and Kodály, and contemporary works by Britten and Libby Larsen, as well as Mahler’s gigantic Symphony No. 2.
