Music

Applications for honor band and honor choir day at Concordia needed by Monday, Sept. 10.  Concordia University will host its honor band and honor choir day on October 29, 2010. High school students are invited to apply for admission to this exciting event. [MORE]

Students interested in an auditioned choir or instrumental ensemble are encouraged to read through the information now available online. [MORE]

Concordia's Male Chorus will join several other groups of male vocalists to present the fifteenth annual “Brothers in Song . . . Singing On!” concert at Christ Lutheran Church, Lincoln, on Sunday, April 25, at 7 p.m. The concert is free and open to the public. [MORE]

Music is in the air this spring as several Concordia ensembles present end-of-the-school year concerts. All the concerts are free and the public is invited. [MORE]

Top students from the music department of Concordia perform at the Spring Honor Recital on Thursday, April 8, in the recital hall of the Music Center. [MORE]

Concordia's premier vocal ensemble, the University A Cappella Choir, will began its annual spring tour on Friday, March 12. The 70-member choir has scheduled performances at schools and churches in Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee and Illinois before returning home to Seward for its final tour performance on March 28. All concerts are free and open to the public. [MORE]

The University Symphonic Band of Concordia will perform for a home audience on Sunday, March 7, at 3 p.m. at St. John Lutheran Church in Seward. The concert is free, and everyone is welcome. [MORE]

Renowned concert organist and composer Aaron David Miller will perform at Concordia at 7 p.m. on Saturday, March 6, in the Music Center recital hall. Tickets, available at the door, are $15 for adults and $10 for students and senior citizens. [MORE]

Concordia's music department celebrated composer Robert Schumann's 200th birthday with a "Music of Schumann" recital on Thursday, Feb. 18, in the Music Center's recital hall. [MORE]

Four Concordia organ students performed in the annual student recital of the Lincoln Chapter of the American Guild of Organists on Monday, Feb. 1. Seniors Aaron Kortze, Rockford, Ill., and Ann Henny, Clinton, Mo., junior Sara Schultz, Wamego, Kan., and sophomore Connie Kettner, Jacob, Ill., played the 65-rank Reuter organ at Lincoln’s First Presbyterian Church. Joining them on the program were students from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and from Nebraska Wesleyan University. Concordia will host the annual event in alternate years.

The Concordia Music department celebrated the Christmas season with several concerts for the public December 11-15. [MORE]

The sound of bells from the Concordia Handbell Choirs filled the air of the recital hall in the Music Building on Sunday, Dec. 13. Selections included traditional carols such as "Away in a Manger" and "Ding Dong Merrily on High" and contemporary arrangements of "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen," "Catalonian Carol" and "Silent Night." [MORE]

"On Jordan's Bank the Baptist's Cry," an Advent hymn adaptation by Concordia Assistant Professor of Music Pete Prochnow, was heard on the Dec. 6 broadcasts of "The Lutheran Hour." The radio shows reach over a million listeners each Sunday. [MORE]

Christmas at Concordia helped put audiences in a holiday mood with three concerts on Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 5 and 6 at St. John Lutheran Church in Seward. [MORE]

The Concordia Vocal Jazz Choir and the University Symphonic Band of Concordia both made repeat appearances at the annual Nebraska Music Educators Conference in Lincoln. The performances were part of a three-day schedule of presentations, clinics and activities meant to instruct and motivate Nebraska teachers and students of music. [MORE]

Ten music students at Concordia were selected to perform in the first semester honor recital. The performances took place on Thursday, Nov. 12, in the recital hall of the Music Center. [MORE]