Name: Chamber Choir and Concert Choir
Start: 2025-10-19T15:00:00-04:00
Location: Sursa Hall

The program is themed around nature and finding hope, peace, and joy. The concert will feature several selections of South African music as a nod to the November concert from guest artists Soweto Gospel Choir.
Chamber Choir
Featuring composers Jake Runestad and Zanaida Stewart Robles. Chamber Choir will also perform a student composition called “The Glade” by Theodore Hicks, who is completing his doctoral studies this semester!
Concert Choir
Music by Ola Gjielo, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (honoring the 500th anniversary of his birth), Felix Mendelssohn, Jake Runestad, Melissa Dunphy, and Thabo Matshego.
Palestrina’s “Sicut cervus” and Mendelssohn’s “Wie der Hirsch schreit” form a coupling as settings of the same Psalm text (Ps 42, Like as the hart desireth the waterbrook…) in different languages and composed across a time span of roughly 250 years.
The Melissa Dunphy piece “I Took a Walk with Joy” featuring poetry by alum Mark A. Boyle.
Connecting to the campus visit of the Soweto Gospel Choir in November, Concert Choir will present Matshego’s “Ukholo lwami,” an arrangement of two traditional South African gospel songs.
Tickets available through the College of Fine Arts Box Office located at Sursa Hall, online, or by phone at 765-285-8749.
Purchase Options:
ONLINE
Phone: 765-285-8749
In person: Monday through Friday from Noon to 5 p.m., or starting 1 hour before the performance
Parking is available in the McKinley Parking Garage (entrance on Ashland Avenue) located immediately south of Sursa Hall. Parking in this garage is free on weekends and after 7 p.m. on weekdays.