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Choral Ensembles The Choral Department features several performing ensembles. These ensembles are open to all members of the University community and in fact are primarily made up of non-music majors from all walks of life. Please fill out our Choral Interest Form to receive information about these Ensembles. The Choral Department and Opera at USC work closely together. For more information on Opera at USC, http://www.music.sc.edu/ea/opera/index.html The Concert Choir - Larry Wyatt, director
In 1987, they performed for the visit of Pope John Paul II, and in 1988 were invited to perform three concerts with the Jerusalem Symphony under Lawrence Foster, Sergiu Comissiona, and Krystof Penderecki. Under Maestro Pendericki, they performed his St. Luke Passion. In 1990, they traveled to Spain and performed Handel’s Messiah in a series of concerts. In the spring of 1992, the USC Concert Choir was one of seventeen university ensembles selected to perform on the Mozart Bicentennial “Masses in Concert” series in Alice Tully Hall of Lincoln Center. They followed that performance with a highly successful presentation of J.S. Bach’s St. John Passion for the Southern Division Convention of the American Choral Directors Association. In the summer of 1994, they served as choir-in-residence for the Classical Music Seminar in Eisenstadt, Austria. In 1998 the choir performed again on the Southern Division Convention of ACDA and during the summer they toured Germany and the Czech Republic. The highlight of that tour was a performance in the Thomaskirche at Leipzig, the church served by J.S. Bach during the latter part of his life. In March of 2000 selected members of the choir, along with the Left Bank Jazz Band, traveled to London and Paris to perform selections from the Sacred Concerts by Duke Ellington. On tour in December and January 2001-2002, the Concert Choir performed in Vienna, Salzburg and Munich. In 2004 they toured Italy and Bulgaria presenting J.A.C. Redford's oratorio The Martyrdom of Polycarp. The choir traveled to Beijing, Xian, and Shanghai in the summer of 2008 and performed with several other choirs in a prelude to the Summer Olympics. In the spring of 2009, the Concert Choir performed the world premiere of Songs of Love and War by Tayloe Harding, composer and dean of the School of Music.The University Chorus - Alicia Walker, director Listen to Songs from
The choirs have joined forces with the USC Concert Choir and USC Orchestra to perform outstanding choral-orchestral works including Britten's War Requiem, Verdi's Requiem, Beethoven's Mass in C and Poulenc's Gloria. In 2005 the University Chorus was honored to sing at the South Carolina Music Educators Conference in Charleston. In June 2006, singers enrolled in these ensembles toured in Austria and Hungary. Carolina Alive - Jenna McSwain, director Listen to Songs from
The USC Gospel Choir, under the direction of Dr. Carl Wells, is an open enrollment ensemble of the Choral Department. Membership is diverse and draws from all majors. Repertoire includes music that has it origin in African-American worship traditions, traditional and contemporary gospel music as well as spirituals. Performances regularly include concerts on campus and the surrounding communities. The Graduate Vocal Ensemble One of the hallmarks of the master's and doctoral degree programs in choral conducting at the University of South Carolina is the Graduate Vocal Ensemble. It is designed to provide a stable ensemble for graduate choral conducting majors to receive conducting experience and to complete their recital requirements. The ensemble generally performs two concerts/recitals per semester. The Graduate Vocal Ensemble is made up of graduate choral conducting majors, interested graduate voice majors, advanced undergraduate singers, and other interested persons by permission of the Director of Choral Studies. About the Director... Graduate students who have a scheduled conducting recital during the current semester direct this ensemble. Chamber Singers This chamber vocal ensemble explores the madrigal and secular song repertoire from the high Renaissance to the mid-Baroque. Formed in the spring semester of 1999, its size has ranged from 9 to 16 singers. The ensemble's first concert included pieces from Orlando di Lasso's Les Melanges des Chansons and Hans Leo Hassler's Neue Teutsche Gesang, and others by Giaches de Wert and Gesualdo. Other concerts have featured works from important collections published at the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries by Josquin des Prez, Heinrich Isaac, Claude Le Jeune, and Luzzasco Luzzaschi and English, Italian and French works scored for chorus of sopranos, altos and tenors. |
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