| • USF Chamber Singers | • USF Faculty Brass | • Nathan Laube | • TBCC | • Handbell Choir | • About the Organ | • Directions |
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~* Concert Series *~
with the Robert L. Sipe Organ
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| September 9, 2007 4:00 PM |
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| The University of South Florida Chamber Singers |
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| Dr. Richard Zielinski, Conductor |
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The USF Chamber Singers serve as the premiere choral ensemble at the university. In 2004, they participated in the
Miedzyzdroje International Choral Competition and placed first in every competitive category.
In 2006 they appeared as a featured choir at the Southern Division ACDA Convention and released that year a CD, The Road Home. They have just returned from a concert tour to Austria and Hungary where they were the resident choir of the Classical Music Festival in Eisenstadt, Austria. |
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| November 4, 2007 4:00 PM |
| Music for Brass and Organ
with USF Faculty Brass Quintet |
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| This group is made up of USF faculty members who on their own have distinguished professional music careers. Wade Weast is Director of the School of Music; Jay Coble and Tom Brantley have produced several CD's; Andrew Karr, horn; and Jay Hunsberger, tuba player for the West Coast Symphony.
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| February 17, 2008 4:00 PM |
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| Nathan Laube Organist |
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Nathan Laube, 19 years old and a student at the Curtis Institute of Music, is a rising star among organists. His performance here last year was stunning. He is assistant organist at Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church, and assistant organist for the Wanamaker Store organ. In February 2007, he was awarded First Prize in the American Guild of Organists Young Organists Competition.
He has also won First Prize in the Albert Schweitzer Organ Competition, and in 2006, performed two recitals on the acclaimed organ in the Kimmel Center, home of the Philadelphia Orchestra.
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| March 30, 2008 4:00 PM |
| The Tampa Bay Children's Chorus |
| Dr. Averill Summer, Conductor |
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TBCC is a non-profit organization of over 160 singers in grades 3 through 12. Founded in 1989 by Dr. Averill Summer, the choir has sung in the Florida Orchestra's presentations of Orff's Carmina Burana and Mahler's Symphony No. 3, and has represented our community throughout this country and abroad. TBCC has been the artist-in-residence choir during the CME Workshops in St. Andrews, Scotland, in 2000, and performed in the International Children's Festival at Carnegie Hall in 2003. Next summer, they will perform, by invitation, in a festival at the cathedral in Florence and at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome during their tour of Italy. |
| May 4, 2008 4:00 PM |
| Handbell Choir First United Methodist Church Lakeland, Florida Lee Lallance, Conductor |
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| This bell ringing group is made up of 23 players which play two six-octave sets of English handbells. This group began in 1976, and has toured around the world. In 2007, the bell choir traveled to Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The director, Lee Lallance, is Minister of Music at First United Methodist Church, and well-known around the country as a choral conductor and organist. |
| About the Organ |
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St. Catherine's organ was built by the Robert L. Sipe Company of Dallas, Texas, and was dedicated on January 26, 2003. It is a two-manual, 19-rank organ with 32 stops. Mr. Sipe is one of the foremost designers and voicers of pipe organs in America and has created and installed organs in many notable locations, including Luther College, Hennepin Avenue Methodist Church in Minneapolis, and the Mormon Assembly Hall in Salt Lake City. |
Free-will offerings and your generous donations to the
St. Catherine's Concert Series support and continue these concerts.