UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA WOMEN'S CHORUS Kathy Saltzman Romey and Jingqi Zhu, conductors
CAMPUS SINGERS MOSAIC Shekela Wanyama, conductor
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PROGRAM
JOAN SZYMKO
Gamaya
Combined Choirs Yichen Liang, piano Emily Brewer, alto saxophone Jingqi Zhu, conductor From ignorance, lead me to truth. From darkness lead me to light. From death lead me to immortality. Om, peace, peace, peace. - From the Hindu mantra Asato Ma Sadgamaya
ANDREA RAMSEY
Lineage
University of Minnesota Women's Chorus Jingqi Zhu, drum Kathy Saltzman Romey, conductor My grandmothers were strong. They followed plows and bent to toil. They moved through fields sowing seed. My grandmothers were strong. – Text by Margaret Walker
B.E. BOYKIN
Music of Life
Combined Choirs Jingqi Zhu, piano Shekela Wanyama, conductor Music is in all growing things; And underneath the silky wings Of smallest insects there is stirred a pulse of air that must be heard. Music is in all growing things. - Text by George Parsons Lathrop
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA WOMEN'S CHORUS
Kathy Saltzman Romey, conductor Jingqi Zhu, assistant conductor Soprano 1 Bori Csillag Linsday Knutson Zoe Koth Caitlin Skovill
Soprano 2 Madison Bailey Madeline Daniel Sydney Kraemer Morgan Weberg
Alto Maci Bellefeuille Lauren Duncan Andrea Gjervold Shalom Onyeka Kristen Wickman
CAMPUS SINGERS MOSAIC
Shekela Wanyama, conductor Soprano 1 Payton Conover McKenzie Sweno Xinrui Wang
Soprano 2 Rose Burrell Jaidyn Julian Kay Lerohl
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. 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. Active as a guest conductor and clinician throughout the United States and Europe, Romey also serves as chorus master of the Oregon Bach Festival Chorus and Junges Stuttgarter Bach Ensemble. Shekela Wanyama is a DMA student in conducting at the University of Minnesota. Before her studies, Wanyama taught middle and high school choir for 10 years in Minneapolis and Seattle, and was assistant conductor of the Tucson Masterworks Chorale. She holds degrees from Temple University and the University of Minnesota. She is a proud student of Kathy Saltzman Romey, Matthew Mehaffey, and Elizabeth Schauer.
Jingqi Zhu is a DMA student in conducting at University of Minnesota, studying with Kathy Romey and Matthew Mehaffey. She was an associate instructor in choral conducting at Indiana University Jacobs School of music, co-directing and assisting choral ensembles and preparing opera choruses at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. As a pianist, she was the winner of IU Piano Concerto Competition and performed with IU Chamber Orchestra under the baton of Carl St. Clair. She holds a double degree in Master of Music at Indiana University Jacobs School of music, majoring in choral conducting and piano performance.
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