Music Department Hosts Spring 2024 Honor Recital
On Tuesday, April 9 at 7 p.m., Concordia’s music department hosted its spring 2024 honor recital. The honor recital allows students who perform at a high level to showcase their vocal and instrumental talents in front of a live audience.
Placement in the honor recital program is based on students’ performance at auditions held by music department faculty members. The department holds auditions and recitals twice per year, or once each semester. This semester’s recital featured pieces from composers from across several centuries and many countries, and pieces performed vocally or on instruments including clarinet, trombone, piano and organ.
Student performers included (listed in program order):
“Rhapsody in E-flat Major, Op. 119, No.4” by Johannes Brahms
Joshua Jurchen, sophomore, Seward, Neb., piano
“Cold December Flies Away” by Charles Ore
Grace Miller, senior, Marysville, Kan., organ
“La réveil de la mariée,” “Chanson des cueilleuses de lentisques,” and “Tout gai!” from “Cinq melodies populaires grecques” by Maurice Ravel
Lydia Armbrecht, junior, Williamsburg, Iowa, mezzo-soprano
“Ouvre Tes Yeux Bleus” from “Poéme d’amour” by Jules Massenet
Dylan Parker, sophomore, Fairfax, Va., baritone
Dr. Elizabeth Grimpo, piano
“Entschwundene Tage, Op. 57, No. 36” by Edvard Grieg
Sadie Henson, junior, Herrin, Ill., piano
“Allegretto” from “Clarinet Sonata” by Camille Saint-Saëns
Isabella Schmid, junior, Rockford, Ill., clarinet
Dr. Elizabeth Grimpo, piano
“Elegy for ‘Mippy’ II” by Leonard Bernstein
Jackson Munter, junior, Ithaca, Neb., trombone
“Toccata on O Filii et Filiae” by Lynwood Farnam
Ethan Gillespie, junior, Random Lake, Wis., organ
“Intermezzo” from “Faschingsschwank” by Robert Schumann
Timothy Mars, junior, Kimball, Neb., piano
“Sull’aria” from “Le nozze de Figaro” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Kirsten Horne, junior, Seward, Neb., soprano
Gabrielle Krutsinger, senior, Imperial, Neb., soprano
Dr. Elizabeth Grimpo, piano
“Grand Choeur Dialogué” by Eugène Gigout
Thomas Schulteis, senior, Parker, Colo., organ
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