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ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï Choral Festival Concert set Oct. 15; 500 prep singers to join three ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï choral groups

October 4, 2011
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ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï will host a Choral Invitational Festival Friday and Saturday Oct. 14-15, culminating in a performance by 11 high school choirs from throughout Idaho and the ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï choirs at 7 p.m. Oct. 15 in the Joseph C. and Cheryl H. Jensen Grand Concert Hall in the L.E. and Thelma E. Stephens Performing Arts Center. Participants from a previous Choral Invitational Festival.

The performance will include high school choirs from Bonneville, Caldwell, Century, Highland, Hillcrest, Idaho Falls, Madison, Minico, Moscow, Preston and Skyline, and ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï’s Chamber, Concert and Women’s choirs. More than 500 high school choir students are attending this event.

The festival's guest clinician is Will Kesling, director of choral activities at the University of Florida School of Music.

The high school students will work with Kesling and ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï music faculty Scott Anderson, festival director and director of the ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï choral program, and ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï vocal and choral professors Kathleen Lane, Diana Livingston Friedley and Geoffrey Friedley.

The festival pianist is Camille Blackburn.

 The Choral Invitational Concert on Oct. 15 will feature performances by the ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï Women’s Choir, ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï Chamber Choir, ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï Concert Choir and each high school choir, ending with a massed choir of all 500 high school students from around the state.

Admittance for the festival concert on Oct. 15 is free for ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï students and costs $4 for pre-college students, $6 for staff and faculty and $8 for general admission. Children younger than 6 will not be permitted to attend.

For more information, contact the ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï music department at 282-3636.

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