Dr. Rene Clausen has been a professor and the conductor of the Concordia Choir for 34 years. Dr. Michael Culloton is in his 8th year as a faculty at the college. As the end of Clausen’s final year approaches, the two music faculty share some of their experiences with eachContinue Reading
The need for social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic has made it impossible for music ensembles to practice together or hold performances, but even though Concordia’s Symphonic Band can no longer perform in the same space, they are still finding a way to make music together. Symphonic Band has beenContinue Reading
“Fire/I feel inside/you take me higher/so satisfied/oh I admire/how you reach for the sky,” croons Concordia junior Marin Wilts on the first track of “The Monologue,” a new album released with fellow junior Max Mona. Together, the two form the group Golden Age. “We had an accounting class together andContinue Reading
While students at Concordia speculated the future of classes, athletics and housing as the threat of COVID-19 became increasingly more real, the Concordia Choir faced uncertainties about finishing René Clausen’s final choir tour. The Concordia Choir tour in the southwest United States went as planned for most of the two-week span, bringing the choir to states like the Carolinas, Florida and Alabama. TheirContinue Reading
Concordia College is proud to announce the appointment of Dr. Michael Culloton ’98, Associate Professor of Music, as the new Director of Choral Activities at Concordia. Culloton will hold the Paul J. and Eleanor Christiansen Endowed Chair of Choral Music, direct The Concordia Choir, and serve as the Artistic DirectorContinue Reading
World-renowned vocal jazz group New York Voices will be coming to Concordia on Friday, February 7 to perform and serve as clinicians for Concordia’s 4th Vocal Jazz Festival. New York Voices is made up of members Kim Nazarian, Peter Eldridge, Lauren Kinhan, and Darmon Meader. The critically acclaimed vocal groupContinue Reading
A bell will chime three times on Friday evening in Memorial Auditorium to mark the start of this year’s Concordia Christmas Concerts. Friday, December 6 at 7:30 PM marks the first performance of this year’s Christmas Concerts. This year’s theme is “My Spirit Sings.” Concordia’s choirs and orchestra will comeContinue Reading
At the annual PRISM concert, the audience is surrounded by music–literally. Seated in the center of Memorial Auditorium, various instrumental ensembles will perform on multiple stages around the audience. Concordia’s bands and ensembles will be performing in the PRISM concert on Sunday, November 10, 2019, at 5 p.m. in MemorialContinue Reading
Every spring, the Concordia Orchestra gives senior music students from every area of the department the opportunity to audition to perform as a soloist in their annual Senior Honors Concert. This year, the soloists will be Lexi Brouillard on flute, Jack Fiskum on bassoon and Isaiah Burkel as a tenorContinue Reading
Most percussion instrumentalists have only four primary ways of communicating with audiences: dynamic level, rhythmic intrigue, tempo, and articulative ability. But, this doesn’t hinder performers’ abilities to allow for much diversity in performances, the creative programming or a concert. This was made very clear to me in the performance thatContinue Reading