UW Collegiate Chorale Performance Scheduled April 22

The University of Wyoming Department of Music’s Collegiate Chorale will present “To Sit and Dream” at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 22, in the Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts concert hall.

Tickets are $14 for the public, $10 for senior citizens and $8 for students. To purchase tickets, visit the Performing Arts box office, call (307) 766-6666 or go online at www.tix.com/ticket-sales/uwyo/6984. UW faculty and staff members, and military personnel can purchase tickets at a discounted rate. To receive the discount, visit the Performing Arts box office between noon-6 p.m. Monday-Friday or call (307) 766-6666.

The UW Collegiate Chorale program opens with a contemporary choral octavo based on lines from the poem “To You” by Langston Hughes. The concert also will feature “Te Deum” by Franz Josef Haydn; “Suite Nordestina” by Ronaldo Miranda; and “Illuminare” by Elaine Hagenberg.

Conducted by Brian Murray, a UW Department of Music assistant professor, the UW Collegiate Chorale is composed of 40 of the finest choral singers on the UW campus, with membership by audition only. The musicians are dedicated to performing compositions from the 15th century through the present, including commission works written especially for them.

The chorale has appeared on numerous state, regional and national convention programs of the American Choral Directors Association, the Music Educators National Conference and the Music Teachers National Conference. The group has toured extensively throughout the nation and the world.

The UW Collegiate Chorale regularly collaborates with the UW Symphony Orchestra and also regional orchestras in performances of choral/orchestral masterworks.

For more information, call Kathy Kirkaldie, UW Fine Arts coordinator, at (307) 766-2160 or email kirisk@uwyo.edu.