The NDSU Concert Choir and Madrigal Singers, under the direction of Jo Ann Miller and Michael Weber, respectively, are set to embark on a regional tour beginning Wednesday, March 15.
The NDSU Concert Choir has performed at state, regional, and national music conferences; collaborated with the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony Orchestra; and presented Handel’s “Messiah” annually for 22 years. In addition to their regional spring tours, they tour abroad every three years, most recently to England and Wales in May 2022.
Choir members are from many majors at NDSU and more than two-thirds are music majors. The Madrigal Singers, all members of the NDSU Concert Choir perform vocal chamber music from the Renaissance through the 21st century and present the annual Madrigal Dinners in full costume.
All tour concerts are free to the public.
The repertoire of this year’s tour includes music of Palestrina, Monteverdi, Schütz, Brahms, Holst, Dinerstein, Britten, Delius, Tormis, and Fissinger, as well as four premieres. The 2022 Fissinger Prize-winning compositions by Paul Winchester, Jennifer Lucy Cook, and Patrick Vu will be premiered and a work by Michael Weber in honor of Jo Ann Miller also will be premiered.
The spring tour itinerary:
Wednesday, March 15
1:20 p.m. concert at Park High School, 8040 80th St. S. Cottage Grove, Minnesota
6:30 p.m. concert at First Unitarian Universalist Church, Rochester, Minnesota
Thursday, March 16
8 a.m. concert at Kasson High School, 101 16th St. N.E., Kasson, Minnesota
11:45 a.m. concert at Eden Prairie High School, 17185 Valley View Rd, Eden Prairie, Minnesota
7:30 p.m. concert with The Minnesota Renaissance Choir at Zion Lutheran Church, 1601 S. 4th Ave., Anoka, Minnesota
Friday, March 17
10:45 a.m. concert at Duluth East High School, 301 N. 40th Ave. East, Duluth, Minnesota
7:30 p.m. concert in Bemidji – First Lutheran Church, 900 Bemidji Ave. N., Bemidji, Minnesota
Saturday, March 18
7:30 p.m. concert at Calvary Lutheran Church, 1405 S 9th St., Grand Forks, North Dakota
Sunday, March 19
2 p.m. home concert at Holy Spirit Catholic Church, 1420 7th St. N. Fargo
