Northern Lights

ABOUT THE CHOIR

KANTOREI ("singers") formed in 1997 under Richard Larson’s leadership and has expanded into an auditioned, 52-voice ensemble. Its members come from schools with strong choral music programs, such as Augustana, Brigham Young, Concordia, Luther, St. Olaf, University of Denver, Wartburg and University of Northern Colorado. Kantorei established itself as one of the nation’s premier choral ensembles after performing as an auditioned choir for the 2003 national American Choral Director’s Association conference at Carnegie Hall in New York City, and the Vatican in June 2007. More recently, Kantorei has been featured in several regional and national conferences, including the 2008 National Performing Arts Convention and 2010 Southwestern Regional ACDA convention, both held in Denver. In March 2011, Kantorei returned to the national ACDA conference, with performances at Roosevelt University and Symphony Hall in Chicago. Kantorei completed its second European tour in 2012, traveling to Austria, Hungary and the Czech Republic. The group is conducting a search for a permanent Artistic Director and Conductor to begin in mid-July 2014.

MEET OUR GROUP SOPRANO

ALTO

TENOR

BASS

Mary Christ Melissa Clouzet Theresa Derr Juliane Dowell Kim Dunninger Beryl Fanslow Wendi Sue Grover Heather Gunnerson Stacie Hanson Shannon Lemmon-Elrod Sara Michael ‡ Alicia Rigsby Brenda Rolling Pearl Rutherford Annie Sullins

Emily Alexander Jan Ankele Lizabeth Barnett Lyn Berry-Helmlinger ∆ Jordan Bickel Hillary Foster Jenny Marsden Melissa Menter Erin Meyerhoff Jennifer Moore Michelle Tombre Andrea Ware ‡ Lindsey Whitaker

Kai Berry-Helmlinger Michael Bizzaro Keith Ferguson Kevin Gunnerson Keith Harrison Justin Kerr Brad Larson ‡ Alex Menter ‡ John Redford Jonathan Von Stroh David Weaver Ryan Wright

Michael Boender Garth Criswell Tony Domenick Andy Halladay Stephen Hooper Brad Jackson ‡ Karl Johnson Michael Lewis John Ludwig ‡ Larry Meerdink John Schaak Mark Wagstrom Matt Weissenbuehler

ACCOMPANIST -

Alicia Rigsby

‡ board member ∆ executive director

ASST. CONDUCTOR -

Michael Pohlenz

THE 17TH SEASON

Eternity

Bethany Lutheran Church 7:30 p.m., March 21, 2014 Augustana Lutheran Church 7:30 p.m., March 22, 2014

*Kantorei is a 501(c)(3) organization and any donations to the group are deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law. Please consult your tax advisor for more information. *Please make donations, purchase CDs, purchase tickets and sign up for Kantorei’s mailing list in the lobby during intermission or af ter the concer t.

If we have misspelled your name, incorrectly listed your giving level, or omitted your name inadver tently from this list, please don’t hesitate to inform us and we will make the correction.

Additionally, if you have donated to Kantorei and have not received an of ficial thank you letter for your tax records, please let us know so that we can get one to you as soon as possible.

*We record our concer ts and frequently use live recordings for our CDs. Please keep extraneous noise to a minimum during the per formance.

Horizons

Augustana Lutheran Church 7:30 p.m., May 16, 2014 Bethany Lutheran Church 7:30 p.m., May 18, 2014

FOLLOW KANTOREI ON FACEBOOK, TWITTER, AND YOUTUBE! Facebook .com/kantorei | Twitter.com/kantoreidenver | Youtube.com/kantorei

PROGRAM

PROGRAM NOTES PART I Ariel Quintana

Hodie Christus Natus Est

(b. 1965)

Messe de Minuit pour Noël (Midnight Mass for Christmas)

Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1634?-1704)

Constance Branton, Organist

Kyrie I and Christe

David Weaver, Tenor Keith Ferguson, Tenor; Matt Weissenbuehler, Bass; Andy Halladay, Bass

Christopher Aspaas

‘Twas in the Moon of Wintertime

(b. 1973)

Kyrie II (Mass) Gloria (Mass) Philip Lawson

Noël Nouvelet

(b. 1957)

Quoniam Tu Solus Sanctus (Mass) Shannon Lemmon-Elrod, Soprano; Sara Michael, Soprano

Sanctus (Mass) Alice Parker & Robert Shaw

Bring a Torch, Jeannette, Isabella

Northern Lights is a program of wonder, awe and festivity. The opening

INTERIM DIRECTOR

piece, Hodie Christus Natus Est, is a bright fanfare. The traditional text and antiphonal singing, arranged with mixed meter and unexpected harmonic shifts, illustrates a juxtaposition between old and new that is a recurring theme in this program. The first half of the concert is woven with excerpts from the Baroque French composer Marc-Antoine Charpentier ’s Messe de Minuit pour Noël, “Midnight Mass for Christmas.” This Mass, one of 11 he composed, combines Christmas folk songs with the traditional Mass setting. In Charpentier ’s time, many would have viewed this pairing as profane but, au contraire, he was instilling an old French custom of singing folk-like Christmas carols while celebrating Christmas midnight Mass. He borrowed 10 old French carols for the Messe de Minuit, to which he put the liturgically prescribed text of the Ordinary. Inspired by Charpentier ’s compositional technique, our program intertwines arrangements of today’s traditional carols from around the world with the Mass itself – some are old choral standards, while others are new and innovative.

SARAH HARRISON is serving as the Interim Director of Kantorei for the 2013-2014 season. In addition to Kantorei, she is in her eighth year teaching choir and AP Music Theory at Cherry Creek High School in Greenwood Village. Under her direction, choirs have appeared at several regional and state conventions. Prior to Cherry Creek HS, Ms. Harrison opened and spent five years at Silver Creek Middle/Senior High School in Longmont, CO. In addition to teaching, she sings with various ensembles throughout the community and is an orchestral and jazz string bassist. Ms. Harrison has been a guest conductor and adjudicator in Colorado, Idaho and Nebraska. Ms. Harrison has recently served as Colorado’s ACDA High School Mixed Repertoire and Standards Chair. She also served as Choir Director and Organist at Westview Presbyterian Church in Longmont and taught orchestra in Minnesota before moving to CCHS.

(b. 1925) & (1916-1999)

Benedictus (Mass) Melissa Menter, Alto; Kevin Gunnerson, Tenor; Tony Domenick, Bass

John Gardner

Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day

(1917-2011)

Lizabeth Barnett and John Ludwig, Percussion

Agnus Dei (Mass) Kai Berry-Helmlinger, Tenor; Brad Larson, Tenor; Matt Weissenbuehler, Bass

Robert MacGimsey

Sweet Little Jesus Boy Wendi Sue Grover, Soprano

(1898-1979) arr. Sjolund/Gassman

INTERMISSION PART II Jeffery L. Ames

Gloria Fanfare

(b. 1969)

Gregory J. Hutter

Winter Song

(b. 1971)

Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind

Kevin Gunnerson, Percussion

George Shearing (1919-2011)

Eriks Ešenvalds

Northern Lights

(b. 1977)

Justin Kerr, Tenor

Oba Ti De

Jeffrey L. Ames Andrea Ware, Alto; Larry Meerdink, Bass; Emily Alexander, Jan Ankele, Juliane Dowell, Kevin Gunnerson, Andy Halladay and John Schaak, Percussion

(b. 1969)

THE CONDUCTORS

The second half is centered around two pieces: Winter Song and Northern Lights, which explore the more serious side of winter and Christmas.

Winter Song is a new composition utilizing a World War I poem by Wilfred Owen (1893-1918). The opening lines of the song, “The browns, the olives, and the yellows died, And were swept up to heaven; where they glowed…” reflect the colors of the uniforms on fallen soldiers upon the frozen ground of the Christmastide battlefield. The music is reflective and emotional, yet calming and peaceful. The same aesthetic appears in Northern Lights, a new piece by Eriks Ešenvalds, a Latvian-born and internationally awarded young composer. On the surface, the music and its effects depict the breathtaking beauty of the aurora borealis, as witnessed

by Arctic explorers Charles Francis Hall and Fridtjof Nansen. However, the Latvian text contains an old symbolic poem: The northern lights symbolize the war that is coming. The music is at first peaceful and ethereal, perhaps expressing the calm before (and after) the more agitated and impassioned middle section, where many moving lines interweave – just as the northern lights and fighting would. Winter Song and Northern Lights provide stark contrast to the other three pieces in the set, which are much lighter and festive. The final song, Oba Ti De, is the joyful proclamation of “Here Comes the King,” and is filled with excitement as it celebrates the arrival of the Christ-child.

Please consider turning in your program at the end of the concert to be re-used and recycled.

Ms. Harrison obtained her Bachelor of Music Education degree, with instrumental and vocal certification, from St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN, and her Master of Music in conducting and music education from Colorado State University. She will conduct Kantorei for the entirety of the 2013-2014 concert season, while the group completes a search for a permanent Artistic Director and Conductor who will begin in July 2014.

ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR MICHAEL POHLENZ is Director of Music at Wellshire Presbyterian Church with previous experience as Guest Conductor of the Bethany College Messiah Festival in Lindsborg, KS, and as founding Music Director and Conductor, now Emeritus, of the Wichita Chamber Chorale, an auditioned adult community choir in Wichita, KS. Significant performance achievements of the Chorale included the 1989 National ACDA Convention and the 1996 Joan of Arc Festival in Orléans, France. Dr. Pohlenz has taught choral music and voice at the college level, and vocal and instrumental music at the high school level. He holds choral degrees from Friends University in Wichita, Southern Methodist University in Dallas, and The University of Oklahoma in Norman, with additional doctoral study at The University of Southern California. In his continuing study of choral music, he sang in three Robert Shaw Choral Workshops at Carnegie Hall and studied conducting with Helmuth Rilling at the Oregon Bach Festival. He is currently a performing member of The University of Northern Colorado’s Summerfest Choir.

ACCOMPANIST ALICIA RIGSBY came to Colorado in 1997 after completing her Master of Music degree in piano performance and music theory at Indiana University, Bloomington. Ms. Rigsby was one of the original members of Kantorei, both as a singer and accompanist, but has taken time with her family since 2004. Ms. Rigsby has performed with the Estes Trio, the Aspen Music Festival and the Boulder Chamber Orchestra. She has been teaching music at the Children’s Music Academy, based in Littleton, for 15 years. She is passionate about music as an art form, a teaching tool and an expressionistic medium, and enjoys having all of those musical opportunities in her life. In her free time, she likes to hike, camp, ski and cycle with her husband and two daughters.

PROGRAM

PROGRAM NOTES PART I Ariel Quintana

Hodie Christus Natus Est

(b. 1965)

Messe de Minuit pour Noël (Midnight Mass for Christmas)

Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1634?-1704)

Constance Branton, Organist

Kyrie I and Christe

David Weaver, Tenor Keith Ferguson, Tenor; Matt Weissenbuehler, Bass; Andy Halladay, Bass

Christopher Aspaas

‘Twas in the Moon of Wintertime

(b. 1973)

Kyrie II (Mass) Gloria (Mass) Philip Lawson

Noël Nouvelet

(b. 1957)

Quoniam Tu Solus Sanctus (Mass) Shannon Lemmon-Elrod, Soprano; Sara Michael, Soprano

Sanctus (Mass) Alice Parker & Robert Shaw

Bring a Torch, Jeannette, Isabella

Northern Lights is a program of wonder, awe and festivity. The opening

INTERIM DIRECTOR

piece, Hodie Christus Natus Est, is a bright fanfare. The traditional text and antiphonal singing, arranged with mixed meter and unexpected harmonic shifts, illustrates a juxtaposition between old and new that is a recurring theme in this program. The first half of the concert is woven with excerpts from the Baroque French composer Marc-Antoine Charpentier ’s Messe de Minuit pour Noël, “Midnight Mass for Christmas.” This Mass, one of 11 he composed, combines Christmas folk songs with the traditional Mass setting. In Charpentier ’s time, many would have viewed this pairing as profane but, au contraire, he was instilling an old French custom of singing folk-like Christmas carols while celebrating Christmas midnight Mass. He borrowed 10 old French carols for the Messe de Minuit, to which he put the liturgically prescribed text of the Ordinary. Inspired by Charpentier ’s compositional technique, our program intertwines arrangements of today’s traditional carols from around the world with the Mass itself – some are old choral standards, while others are new and innovative.

SARAH HARRISON is serving as the Interim Director of Kantorei for the 2013-2014 season. In addition to Kantorei, she is in her eighth year teaching choir and AP Music Theory at Cherry Creek High School in Greenwood Village. Under her direction, choirs have appeared at several regional and state conventions. Prior to Cherry Creek HS, Ms. Harrison opened and spent five years at Silver Creek Middle/Senior High School in Longmont, CO. In addition to teaching, she sings with various ensembles throughout the community and is an orchestral and jazz string bassist. Ms. Harrison has been a guest conductor and adjudicator in Colorado, Idaho and Nebraska. Ms. Harrison has recently served as Colorado’s ACDA High School Mixed Repertoire and Standards Chair. She also served as Choir Director and Organist at Westview Presbyterian Church in Longmont and taught orchestra in Minnesota before moving to CCHS.

(b. 1925) & (1916-1999)

Benedictus (Mass) Melissa Menter, Alto; Kevin Gunnerson, Tenor; Tony Domenick, Bass

John Gardner

Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day

(1917-2011)

Lizabeth Barnett and John Ludwig, Percussion

Agnus Dei (Mass) Kai Berry-Helmlinger, Tenor; Brad Larson, Tenor; Matt Weissenbuehler, Bass

Robert MacGimsey

Sweet Little Jesus Boy Wendi Sue Grover, Soprano

(1898-1979) arr. Sjolund/Gassman

INTERMISSION PART II Jeffery L. Ames

Gloria Fanfare

(b. 1969)

Gregory J. Hutter

Winter Song

(b. 1971)

Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind

Kevin Gunnerson, Percussion

George Shearing (1919-2011)

Eriks Ešenvalds

Northern Lights

(b. 1977)

Justin Kerr, Tenor

Oba Ti De

Jeffrey L. Ames Andrea Ware, Alto; Larry Meerdink, Bass; Emily Alexander, Jan Ankele, Juliane Dowell, Kevin Gunnerson, Andy Halladay and John Schaak, Percussion

(b. 1969)

THE CONDUCTORS

The second half is centered around two pieces: Winter Song and Northern Lights, which explore the more serious side of winter and Christmas.

Winter Song is a new composition utilizing a World War I poem by Wilfred Owen (1893-1918). The opening lines of the song, “The browns, the olives, and the yellows died, And were swept up to heaven; where they glowed…” reflect the colors of the uniforms on fallen soldiers upon the frozen ground of the Christmastide battlefield. The music is reflective and emotional, yet calming and peaceful. The same aesthetic appears in Northern Lights, a new piece by Eriks Ešenvalds, a Latvian-born and internationally awarded young composer. On the surface, the music and its effects depict the breathtaking beauty of the aurora borealis, as witnessed

by Arctic explorers Charles Francis Hall and Fridtjof Nansen. However, the Latvian text contains an old symbolic poem: The northern lights symbolize the war that is coming. The music is at first peaceful and ethereal, perhaps expressing the calm before (and after) the more agitated and impassioned middle section, where many moving lines interweave – just as the northern lights and fighting would. Winter Song and Northern Lights provide stark contrast to the other three pieces in the set, which are much lighter and festive. The final song, Oba Ti De, is the joyful proclamation of “Here Comes the King,” and is filled with excitement as it celebrates the arrival of the Christ-child.

Please consider turning in your program at the end of the concert to be re-used and recycled.

Ms. Harrison obtained her Bachelor of Music Education degree, with instrumental and vocal certification, from St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN, and her Master of Music in conducting and music education from Colorado State University. She will conduct Kantorei for the entirety of the 2013-2014 concert season, while the group completes a search for a permanent Artistic Director and Conductor who will begin in July 2014.

ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR MICHAEL POHLENZ is Director of Music at Wellshire Presbyterian Church with previous experience as Guest Conductor of the Bethany College Messiah Festival in Lindsborg, KS, and as founding Music Director and Conductor, now Emeritus, of the Wichita Chamber Chorale, an auditioned adult community choir in Wichita, KS. Significant performance achievements of the Chorale included the 1989 National ACDA Convention and the 1996 Joan of Arc Festival in Orléans, France. Dr. Pohlenz has taught choral music and voice at the college level, and vocal and instrumental music at the high school level. He holds choral degrees from Friends University in Wichita, Southern Methodist University in Dallas, and The University of Oklahoma in Norman, with additional doctoral study at The University of Southern California. In his continuing study of choral music, he sang in three Robert Shaw Choral Workshops at Carnegie Hall and studied conducting with Helmuth Rilling at the Oregon Bach Festival. He is currently a performing member of The University of Northern Colorado’s Summerfest Choir.

ACCOMPANIST ALICIA RIGSBY came to Colorado in 1997 after completing her Master of Music degree in piano performance and music theory at Indiana University, Bloomington. Ms. Rigsby was one of the original members of Kantorei, both as a singer and accompanist, but has taken time with her family since 2004. Ms. Rigsby has performed with the Estes Trio, the Aspen Music Festival and the Boulder Chamber Orchestra. She has been teaching music at the Children’s Music Academy, based in Littleton, for 15 years. She is passionate about music as an art form, a teaching tool and an expressionistic medium, and enjoys having all of those musical opportunities in her life. In her free time, she likes to hike, camp, ski and cycle with her husband and two daughters.

PROGRAM

PROGRAM NOTES PART I Ariel Quintana

Hodie Christus Natus Est

(b. 1965)

Messe de Minuit pour Noël (Midnight Mass for Christmas)

Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1634?-1704)

Constance Branton, Organist

Kyrie I and Christe

David Weaver, Tenor Keith Ferguson, Tenor; Matt Weissenbuehler, Bass; Andy Halladay, Bass

Christopher Aspaas

‘Twas in the Moon of Wintertime

(b. 1973)

Kyrie II (Mass) Gloria (Mass) Philip Lawson

Noël Nouvelet

(b. 1957)

Quoniam Tu Solus Sanctus (Mass) Shannon Lemmon-Elrod, Soprano; Sara Michael, Soprano

Sanctus (Mass) Alice Parker & Robert Shaw

Bring a Torch, Jeannette, Isabella

Northern Lights is a program of wonder, awe and festivity. The opening

INTERIM DIRECTOR

piece, Hodie Christus Natus Est, is a bright fanfare. The traditional text and antiphonal singing, arranged with mixed meter and unexpected harmonic shifts, illustrates a juxtaposition between old and new that is a recurring theme in this program. The first half of the concert is woven with excerpts from the Baroque French composer Marc-Antoine Charpentier ’s Messe de Minuit pour Noël, “Midnight Mass for Christmas.” This Mass, one of 11 he composed, combines Christmas folk songs with the traditional Mass setting. In Charpentier ’s time, many would have viewed this pairing as profane but, au contraire, he was instilling an old French custom of singing folk-like Christmas carols while celebrating Christmas midnight Mass. He borrowed 10 old French carols for the Messe de Minuit, to which he put the liturgically prescribed text of the Ordinary. Inspired by Charpentier ’s compositional technique, our program intertwines arrangements of today’s traditional carols from around the world with the Mass itself – some are old choral standards, while others are new and innovative.

SARAH HARRISON is serving as the Interim Director of Kantorei for the 2013-2014 season. In addition to Kantorei, she is in her eighth year teaching choir and AP Music Theory at Cherry Creek High School in Greenwood Village. Under her direction, choirs have appeared at several regional and state conventions. Prior to Cherry Creek HS, Ms. Harrison opened and spent five years at Silver Creek Middle/Senior High School in Longmont, CO. In addition to teaching, she sings with various ensembles throughout the community and is an orchestral and jazz string bassist. Ms. Harrison has been a guest conductor and adjudicator in Colorado, Idaho and Nebraska. Ms. Harrison has recently served as Colorado’s ACDA High School Mixed Repertoire and Standards Chair. She also served as Choir Director and Organist at Westview Presbyterian Church in Longmont and taught orchestra in Minnesota before moving to CCHS.

(b. 1925) & (1916-1999)

Benedictus (Mass) Melissa Menter, Alto; Kevin Gunnerson, Tenor; Tony Domenick, Bass

John Gardner

Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day

(1917-2011)

Lizabeth Barnett and John Ludwig, Percussion

Agnus Dei (Mass) Kai Berry-Helmlinger, Tenor; Brad Larson, Tenor; Matt Weissenbuehler, Bass

Robert MacGimsey

Sweet Little Jesus Boy Wendi Sue Grover, Soprano

(1898-1979) arr. Sjolund/Gassman

INTERMISSION PART II Jeffery L. Ames

Gloria Fanfare

(b. 1969)

Gregory J. Hutter

Winter Song

(b. 1971)

Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind

Kevin Gunnerson, Percussion

George Shearing (1919-2011)

Eriks Ešenvalds

Northern Lights

(b. 1977)

Justin Kerr, Tenor

Oba Ti De

Jeffrey L. Ames Andrea Ware, Alto; Larry Meerdink, Bass; Emily Alexander, Jan Ankele, Juliane Dowell, Kevin Gunnerson, Andy Halladay and John Schaak, Percussion

(b. 1969)

THE CONDUCTORS

The second half is centered around two pieces: Winter Song and Northern Lights, which explore the more serious side of winter and Christmas.

Winter Song is a new composition utilizing a World War I poem by Wilfred Owen (1893-1918). The opening lines of the song, “The browns, the olives, and the yellows died, And were swept up to heaven; where they glowed…” reflect the colors of the uniforms on fallen soldiers upon the frozen ground of the Christmastide battlefield. The music is reflective and emotional, yet calming and peaceful. The same aesthetic appears in Northern Lights, a new piece by Eriks Ešenvalds, a Latvian-born and internationally awarded young composer. On the surface, the music and its effects depict the breathtaking beauty of the aurora borealis, as witnessed

by Arctic explorers Charles Francis Hall and Fridtjof Nansen. However, the Latvian text contains an old symbolic poem: The northern lights symbolize the war that is coming. The music is at first peaceful and ethereal, perhaps expressing the calm before (and after) the more agitated and impassioned middle section, where many moving lines interweave – just as the northern lights and fighting would. Winter Song and Northern Lights provide stark contrast to the other three pieces in the set, which are much lighter and festive. The final song, Oba Ti De, is the joyful proclamation of “Here Comes the King,” and is filled with excitement as it celebrates the arrival of the Christ-child.

Please consider turning in your program at the end of the concert to be re-used and recycled.

Ms. Harrison obtained her Bachelor of Music Education degree, with instrumental and vocal certification, from St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN, and her Master of Music in conducting and music education from Colorado State University. She will conduct Kantorei for the entirety of the 2013-2014 concert season, while the group completes a search for a permanent Artistic Director and Conductor who will begin in July 2014.

ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR MICHAEL POHLENZ is Director of Music at Wellshire Presbyterian Church with previous experience as Guest Conductor of the Bethany College Messiah Festival in Lindsborg, KS, and as founding Music Director and Conductor, now Emeritus, of the Wichita Chamber Chorale, an auditioned adult community choir in Wichita, KS. Significant performance achievements of the Chorale included the 1989 National ACDA Convention and the 1996 Joan of Arc Festival in Orléans, France. Dr. Pohlenz has taught choral music and voice at the college level, and vocal and instrumental music at the high school level. He holds choral degrees from Friends University in Wichita, Southern Methodist University in Dallas, and The University of Oklahoma in Norman, with additional doctoral study at The University of Southern California. In his continuing study of choral music, he sang in three Robert Shaw Choral Workshops at Carnegie Hall and studied conducting with Helmuth Rilling at the Oregon Bach Festival. He is currently a performing member of The University of Northern Colorado’s Summerfest Choir.

ACCOMPANIST ALICIA RIGSBY came to Colorado in 1997 after completing her Master of Music degree in piano performance and music theory at Indiana University, Bloomington. Ms. Rigsby was one of the original members of Kantorei, both as a singer and accompanist, but has taken time with her family since 2004. Ms. Rigsby has performed with the Estes Trio, the Aspen Music Festival and the Boulder Chamber Orchestra. She has been teaching music at the Children’s Music Academy, based in Littleton, for 15 years. She is passionate about music as an art form, a teaching tool and an expressionistic medium, and enjoys having all of those musical opportunities in her life. In her free time, she likes to hike, camp, ski and cycle with her husband and two daughters.

ABOUT THE CHOIR

KANTOREI ("singers") formed in 1997 under Richard Larson’s leadership and has expanded into an auditioned, 52-voice ensemble. Its members come from schools with strong choral music programs, such as Augustana, Brigham Young, Concordia, Luther, St. Olaf, University of Denver, Wartburg and University of Northern Colorado. Kantorei established itself as one of the nation’s premier choral ensembles after performing as an auditioned choir for the 2003 national American Choral Director’s Association conference at Carnegie Hall in New York City, and the Vatican in June 2007. More recently, Kantorei has been featured in several regional and national conferences, including the 2008 National Performing Arts Convention and 2010 Southwestern Regional ACDA convention, both held in Denver. In March 2011, Kantorei returned to the national ACDA conference, with performances at Roosevelt University and Symphony Hall in Chicago. Kantorei completed its second European tour in 2012, traveling to Austria, Hungary and the Czech Republic. The group is conducting a search for a permanent Artistic Director and Conductor to begin in mid-July 2014.

MEET OUR GROUP SOPRANO

ALTO

TENOR

BASS

Mary Christ Melissa Clouzet Theresa Derr Juliane Dowell Kim Dunninger Beryl Fanslow Wendi Sue Grover Heather Gunnerson Stacie Hanson Shannon Lemmon-Elrod Sara Michael ‡ Alicia Rigsby Brenda Rolling Pearl Rutherford Annie Sullins

Emily Alexander Jan Ankele Lizabeth Barnett Lyn Berry-Helmlinger ∆ Jordan Bickel Hillary Foster Jenny Marsden Melissa Menter Erin Meyerhoff Jennifer Moore Michelle Tombre Andrea Ware ‡ Lindsey Whitaker

Kai Berry-Helmlinger Michael Bizzaro Keith Ferguson Kevin Gunnerson Keith Harrison Justin Kerr Brad Larson ‡ Alex Menter ‡ John Redford Jonathan Von Stroh David Weaver Ryan Wright

Michael Boender Garth Criswell Tony Domenick Andy Halladay Stephen Hooper Brad Jackson ‡ Karl Johnson Michael Lewis John Ludwig ‡ Larry Meerdink John Schaak Mark Wagstrom Matt Weissenbuehler

ACCOMPANIST -

Alicia Rigsby

‡ board member ∆ executive director

ASST. CONDUCTOR -

Michael Pohlenz

THE 17TH SEASON

Eternity

Bethany Lutheran Church 7:30 p.m., March 21, 2014 Augustana Lutheran Church 7:30 p.m., March 22, 2014

*Kantorei is a 501(c)(3) organization and any donations to the group are deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law. Please consult your tax advisor for more information. *Please make donations, purchase CDs, purchase tickets and sign up for Kantorei’s mailing list in the lobby during intermission or af ter the concer t.

If we have misspelled your name, incorrectly listed your giving level, or omitted your name inadver tently from this list, please don’t hesitate to inform us and we will make the correction.

Additionally, if you have donated to Kantorei and have not received an of ficial thank you letter for your tax records, please let us know so that we can get one to you as soon as possible.

*We record our concer ts and frequently use live recordings for our CDs. Please keep extraneous noise to a minimum during the per formance.

Horizons

Augustana Lutheran Church 7:30 p.m., May 16, 2014 Bethany Lutheran Church 7:30 p.m., May 18, 2014

FOLLOW KANTOREI ON FACEBOOK, TWITTER, AND YOUTUBE! Facebook .com/kantorei | Twitter.com/kantoreidenver | Youtube.com/kantorei

ABOUT THE CHOIR

KANTOREI ("singers") formed in 1997 under Richard Larson’s leadership and has expanded into an auditioned, 52-voice ensemble. Its members come from schools with strong choral music programs, such as Augustana, Brigham Young, Concordia, Luther, St. Olaf, University of Denver, Wartburg and University of Northern Colorado. Kantorei established itself as one of the nation’s premier choral ensembles after performing as an auditioned choir for the 2003 national American Choral Director’s Association conference at Carnegie Hall in New York City, and the Vatican in June 2007. More recently, Kantorei has been featured in several regional and national conferences, including the 2008 National Performing Arts Convention and 2010 Southwestern Regional ACDA convention, both held in Denver. In March 2011, Kantorei returned to the national ACDA conference, with performances at Roosevelt University and Symphony Hall in Chicago. Kantorei completed its second European tour in 2012, traveling to Austria, Hungary and the Czech Republic. The group is conducting a search for a permanent Artistic Director and Conductor to begin in mid-July 2014.

MEET OUR GROUP SOPRANO

ALTO

TENOR

BASS

Mary Christ Melissa Clouzet Theresa Derr Juliane Dowell Kim Dunninger Beryl Fanslow Wendi Sue Grover Heather Gunnerson Stacie Hanson Shannon Lemmon-Elrod Sara Michael ‡ Alicia Rigsby Brenda Rolling Pearl Rutherford Annie Sullins

Emily Alexander Jan Ankele Lizabeth Barnett Lyn Berry-Helmlinger ∆ Jordan Bickel Hillary Foster Jenny Marsden Melissa Menter Erin Meyerhoff Jennifer Moore Michelle Tombre Andrea Ware ‡ Lindsey Whitaker

Kai Berry-Helmlinger Michael Bizzaro Keith Ferguson Kevin Gunnerson Keith Harrison Justin Kerr Brad Larson ‡ Alex Menter ‡ John Redford Jonathan Von Stroh David Weaver Ryan Wright

Michael Boender Garth Criswell Tony Domenick Andy Halladay Stephen Hooper Brad Jackson ‡ Karl Johnson Michael Lewis John Ludwig ‡ Larry Meerdink John Schaak Mark Wagstrom Matt Weissenbuehler

ACCOMPANIST -

Alicia Rigsby

‡ board member ∆ executive director

ASST. CONDUCTOR -

Michael Pohlenz

THE 17TH SEASON

Eternity

Bethany Lutheran Church 7:30 p.m., March 21, 2014 Augustana Lutheran Church 7:30 p.m., March 22, 2014

*Kantorei is a 501(c)(3) organization and any donations to the group are deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law. Please consult your tax advisor for more information. *Please make donations, purchase CDs, purchase tickets and sign up for Kantorei’s mailing list in the lobby during intermission or af ter the concer t.

If we have misspelled your name, incorrectly listed your giving level, or omitted your name inadver tently from this list, please don’t hesitate to inform us and we will make the correction.

Additionally, if you have donated to Kantorei and have not received an of ficial thank you letter for your tax records, please let us know so that we can get one to you as soon as possible.

*We record our concer ts and frequently use live recordings for our CDs. Please keep extraneous noise to a minimum during the per formance.

Horizons

Augustana Lutheran Church 7:30 p.m., May 16, 2014 Bethany Lutheran Church 7:30 p.m., May 18, 2014

FOLLOW KANTOREI ON FACEBOOK, TWITTER, AND YOUTUBE! Facebook .com/kantorei | Twitter.com/kantoreidenver | Youtube.com/kantorei