Spring Choral Showcase: UMD Chamber Singers
Spring Choral Showcase: UMD Chamber Singers
About the Event
Jason Max Ferdinand, music director
The UMD Chamber Singers are one of the nation’s most honored and respected collegiate ensembles with a choral repertoire that spans over 500 years of music history. The ensemble will perform a program of music sure to appeal to both mind and heart.
Program
Johann Sebastian Bach: Nun Danket alle Gott, BWV 192
Orlando Gibbons: Drop, drop slow tears
Ivo Antognini: Canticum Novum
Vittoria Aleotti: lo v'amo vita mia
Maddalena Casulana: Morir non puo
Benjamin Britten: Choral Dances from Gloriana
Ralpha Vaughan Williams: Three Elizabethan Part Songs
Traditional, arr. Robert Sund: La Cucaracha
Jason Max Ferdinand: Journey
arr. Stacey V. Gibbs: The Hymn!
James Quitman Mulholland: Today (We Speak of Love)
About UMD Choral Activities
Led by choral conducting alumnus Jason Max Ferdinand D.M.A. ’15, UMD's choral program is internationally regarded and offers students a wide array of choral experiences with music encompassing all styles and eras. In addition to on campus performances, the UMD Concert Choir participates in collaborations with both the National Symphony Orchestra and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra at premier venues including the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Carnegie Hall and Meyerhoff Symphony Hall.
