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60-member Oriana Singers to present concert April 19

Oriana Singers is a treble choir composed of 60 women representing a wide variety of majors at University Park.  Credit: Jana Bontrager / Penn StateCreative Commons

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Penn State's Oriana Singers will present their annual spring concert at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 19, in Esber Recital Hall. The performance will include works by Renaissance composers Hans Hassler and Richard Dering, and a set of American folk songs. The choir is conducted by Jayne Glocke, assisted by graduate choral conducting student Melody Gifford. They are joined by Svetlana Rodionova, piano. "Discantus," a chamber choir comprised of Oriana Singers members, will also perform. The chamber choir is conducted by Willa Taylor Undergraduate Choral Intern R.J. Beck. Tickets are available at the door. 

This performance is available via livestreamed video at Penn State School of Music.

Oriana Singers is a treble choir composed of 60 women representing a wide variety of majors at University Park. Repertoire includes music written for treble voices from the 16th to the 21st century: madrigals, motets, part-songs, folk songs, musical theater and music by female composers. The choir has performed by audition at conferences of the American Choral Directors Association and the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association.

Since 2005, Oriana Singers has performed major choral works including Symphony No.2 in C Minor (“Resurrection”) by Gustav Mahler, "Ein deutsches Requiem" by Johannes Brahms, Symphony No. 9 in D Minor by Ludwig van Beethoven and Giuseppe Verdi's "Requiem." Most recently, they participated in a performance of the Poulenc "Gloria" with the Penn State Philharmonic, Glee Club and Concert Choir. They have also appeared in Penn State Opera Theatre's opera gala performances and the production of "Hansel and Gretel." In addition to its two campus concerts per year, the choir also regularly appears on the School of Music's annual Mosaic concert. Enrollment is by audition with the conductor.

Discantus, a female chamber choir of eight to 14 voices, is composed of members of the Oriana Singers. The repertoire includes Renaissance madrigals arranged for treble voices as well as folk songs, spirituals and popular songs. Enrollment is by audition with the conductor and current membership.

 

Last Updated April 14, 2015