Cassie Chevre, Jonathan Wells, Hannah Prigge and Peter Dunbar will perform with the Chapel Choir from Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota, in concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 18, at Cambridge Lutheran Church, 621 Old N. Main St., Cambridge. A freewill offering will be accepted.
Chevre, a senior, is the daughter of Larry and Kathryn Beckmann, North Branch; Wells, a senior, is the son of Frank and Julie Wells; Prigge, a junior, is the daughter of Karen Prigge; and Dunbar, a junior, is the son Jon and Deanna Dunbar; all of Cambridge.
A blend of more than 90 voices creates the sound of the Concordia Chapel Choir. Originally created to enrich the music of Concordia’s morning chapel services, the ensemble now performs in concert and tours annually.
The choir of men and women in their sophomore, junior or senior years, is an integral part of the much-loved annual Concordia Christmas Concerts.
The Concordia Chapel Choir and its conductor Michael Culloton ’98 will be touring in Minnesota with a program that includes music by Johann Pachelbel, Eric Whitacre, and Eriks Esensvalds alongside folk songs and spirituals arranged by Robert Shaw, Alice Parker, and Moses Hogan.
Traveling with the choir will be faculty members John Roberts on piano and baritone Jonathan Lasch. They will be featured along with the choir on Ralph Vaughan Williams’ treasured “Five Mystical Songs.”
Along with his teaching responsibilities at Concordia, Culloton is also the conductor of the Fargo-Moorhead Choral Artists and the Trinity Lutheran Church Cathedral Choir.
Concordia College is a four-year liberal arts college of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America offering more than 60 majors, including 15 honors majors and 12 preprofessional programs.