Kenyon College Chamber Singers to present their Spring Tour 2005 concert

GAMBIER, Ohio (March 28, 2005) The Kenyon College Chamber Singers, recently returned from their spring tour, will present the tour concert for local audiences at 8:00 p.m. on Saturday, April 2, in the College's Rosse Hall Auditorium. The group is conducted by Professor of Music Benjamin Locke, who is completing his twenty-first year as head of the choral program at Kenyon.

The choir will sing pieces from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, including Ave Maria by Jean Mouton and Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied (Psalm 149, Sing unto the Lord a new song) by Johann Sebastian Bach, as well as a twentieth-century setting of Adonai ro'i (Psalm 23, The Lord is my shepherd). Locke has an ongoing interest in the folk songs of various traditions and the concert will include a liturgical Irish folksong, a Cornish folksong, a Navajo Indian song and a Zulu folksong. The Zulu work will feature a women's trio comprising seniors Alaina Therese Baker and Grace Culbertson and sophomore, Lauren D. Katz; and a men's quartet comprising juniors Adam Taylor Hribar and William S. Moller and first-year students Sean Michael Hoffman and Stewart Urist. Featured soloists are seniors Gilberto Jesus Esqueda and Courtney Erin Snow; juniors Andrea E. Daly and Bethany S. Shopland; and sophomores Lauren E. Hauser and Stephanie Miller.

Sponsored by Kenyon's Department of Music, the concert is open to the public at no charge.