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Festival will include multiple performances as well as clinics with Thea Kano, conductor of the New York City Master Chorale
The College is sponsoring and hosting the first annual LVAIC (Lehigh Valley Association of Independent Colleges) Inter-Collegiate Choral Festival Saturday, Feb. 9, from 1:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. at the Williams Center for the Arts.
Participating in the festival are the College’s Concert Choir and Chamber Singers under the direction of Jennifer Kelly, assistant professor of music, along with choirs from Moravian College, Muhlenberg College, and DeSales University. This event is free and open to the public.
“The purpose of the choral festival is for the college choirs of the Lehigh Valley to meet and sing for one another, sharing music and common goals,” Kelly explains. “This choral festival is not a competition. I hope that the students leave with an enhanced sense of community through choral music.”
There to mentor each choir will be Thea Kano, conductor of the New York City Master Chorale and the Capital Hill Youth Choir, as well as assistant conductor of the Washington Chorus and the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C.
Each choir will perform a small program, followed by a clinic with Kano. To conclude the afternoon, the choirs will then all sing together.
“We hope to begin a strong tradition with this first annual LVAIC inter-collegiate choral festival and enhance a sense of community through the love of music,” says Kelly.