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WOMANVOICE: PATH TO EACH OTHER University Women's Chorus Campus Singers Mosaic Mikalia Bradberry, mezzo-soprano Mary J. Trotter, piano Kathy Saltzman Romey & Christopher G. McGinley, conductors

Friday, February 28, 2020 | 8:00 pm UNIVERSITY LUTHERAN CHURCH OF HOPE

COMBINED CHOIRS

JOCELYN HAGEN AND TIMOTHY C. TAKACH | b. 1980 and b. 1978

A Path to Each Other

• WELCOME–EXTENDING HOSPITALITY •

UNIVERSITY WOMEN’S CHORUS

HILDEGARD VON BINGEN, ARR. UMN WOMEN'S CHORUS | 1098-1179

O frondens virga

GWYNETH WALKER | b. 1947

I will be earth

ANDREA RAMSEY | b. 1977

truth

THREE DREAM PORTRAITS

MARGARET BONDS | 1913-1972

Three Dream Portraits

I. Minstrel Man II. Dream Variation III. I, Too Mikalia Bradberry, mezzo-soprano Mary J. Trotter, piano

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CAMPUS SINGERS MOSAIC

KARIN REHNQVIST | 1957

Do Not Fear the Darkness

MEREDITH MONK | 1942

Plague

ORLANDO DI LASSO | 1532-1594

Cor meum

KURT BESTOR | 1958

Prayer of the Children

THE NEGRO SPEAKS OF RIVERS

MARGARET BONDS | 1913-1972

The Negro Speaks of Rivers

Mikalia Bradberry, mezzo-soprano Mary J. Trotter, piano

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UNIVERSITY WOMEN'S CHORUS

YSAYE BARNWELL | b. 1946

We Are...

JOSHUA SHANK | b. 1980

Saro

ABBIE BETINIS | b. 1980

Resilience from the Justice Song Book

MOIRA SMILEY

Our Time / Shout

• FINAL WORDS — SHARING HOSPITALITY •

COMBINED CHOIRS

JOCELYN HAGEN AND TIMOTHY C. TAKACH | b. 1980 and b. 1978

A Path to Each Other

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BIOGRAPHIES

Kathy Saltzman Romey is Director of Choral Activities at the University of Minnesota and Artistic Director of the 200-voice symphonic chorus, The Minnesota Chorale, which serves as principal chorus for the Minnesota Orchestra. She has prepared or conducted programs with the Westminster Symphonic Choir, Netherlands Radio Choir, Carnegie Hall Festival Chorus, Grant Park Music Festival, and Berkshire Choral Festival. Romey is also choral advisor and chorus master for the Oregon Bach Festival and the Junges Stuttgarter Bach Ensemble.

Christopher G. McGinley is a secondyear choral conducting student at the University of Minnesota. He holds faculty positions at Augsburg University (music education) and the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire (conducting and music education). He holds degrees in artist conducting and music education from the University of Oregon and University of Delaware, and pursued further studies in conducting at the Frost School of Music.

Mezzo-soprano Mikalia Bradberry is a second year master’s student at the University of Minnesota pursuing her degree in vocal performance. Ms. Bradberry was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma to Niagara Falls natives and received her bachelor’s degree in vocal performance from Abilene Christian University. This spring, Bradberry will perform as Madame de Croissey in Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites with the University of Minnesota as well as the title role of Lucretia in Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia with Arbeit Opera Theatre. She is a former student of Dr. Julie Pruett and is currently under the tutelage of Adriana Zabala.

Known for her lyrical and expressive sound, pianist Mary J. Trotter has been referred to as a 'poet at the piano.' Equally at home with operatic and concert repertoire, she is in high demand as a collaborative and vocal coach. Originally from Snohomish, WA, Mary earned her B.A. in Piano Performance and Pedagogy from Whitworth University and her M.M. in Vocal Accompanying from Peabody Conservatory. She is currently in her final year of doctoral work at the University of Minnesota.

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WOMEN'S CHORUS

Soprano 1 Emily Adamson Emma Gunderson Allison Lochen Elizabeth Mejicano Ananya Muralidharan June Roettger Caitlin Scovil Shelby Smith Madeleine Ware Sarah Weibel

Soprano 2 Louisa Botten Kate Brinkert Wen Bu Alana Christen Bori Csillag Tessa Edge Madeline Fidler Emma Goecks Annika Hanson Zoe Koth AimĂŠe Kujak Brita Larsen Katie Marusich Morgan Weberg

CAMPUS SINGERS MOSAIC

Soprano Natalie Browne Alexis Hilton Ellen Kilgore Brenna Kyllo Luna Lai Lauren Long Alexis McCarvel Bay Murphy Courtney Olson Zih-Cing Pan Claire Swan Mckenzie Sweno Lauren Sylvester Ming-Fen Wang Xinrui Wang Christiana Wilke Sydney Zais

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Alto Maeve Anger Maple Ivy Conn Jenna Cook Maggie Engstrom Hannah Francis Mackenzie Hemming Sydney Holmes Tatia Jewell-Schwartz Pingying Kong Sawyer Mirus Connie Schroeder Chloe Siewert Jennifer Tincher Katherine Tortorella Alexa Laanen Yunjing Wang

Alto Mara Bowman Hadley Braaten Andrea Gjervold Emily Guo Sarah Hasker Chloe Kutulas Becca Martin Keira Scanlan Natasha Stark Kristen Wickman Si Xin Yeap

Bach

St.John Passion

Saturday, April 4 • 7:30 pm Ted Mann Concert Hall tickets: z.umn.edu/stjohn The University Chamber Singers continue their year-long exploration of human suffering and renewal in a presentation of J. S. Bach’s dramatic St. John Passion with the Bach Society of Minnesota Orchestra, graduate student soloists, Philip Zawisza as Jesus, and guest artist Dann Coakwell as Evangelist.

PHOTO: Giosue Russo, istockphoto.com

Kathy Saltzman Romey, conductor

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SPECIAL THANKS TO...

Zach Busch Jennifer Scholte Max Frank University Lutheran Church of Hope

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