VOCAL ENSEMBLES


The University Chorus
The DePauw University Chorus offers opportunities for both beginning and advanced students. These 60-70 mixed voices perform music incorporating a diversity of choral music, voices, and sounds, including at least one of the great choral masterworks each year. In 2005, the choir welcomed Musical America's 2004 "Conductor of the Year" and 1958 DePauw graduate Joseph Flummerfelt for a three-week residency. The following year, the choir performed Tallis's extraordinary 40-part motet Spem in Alium, and Mozart's Great Mass in C Minor with the DePauw Symphony Orchestra. In 2007-08 they will present Bernstein's great masterpiece Chichester Psalms, in the version for choir, organ, percussion and harp.

The Chamber Singers

The DePauw University Chamber Singers is a select group of 20 to 25 singers which performs small scale choral works and chamber music, very often without accompaniment. Their performances feature music ranging from the early renaissance to the 21st century, and the repertoire is designed to challenge and develop the skills of the advanced singer and musician. The Chamber Singers can be heard many times each semester, both on campus and in festivals and collaborations in the surrounding area, and in select years embarks on touring projects across the USA and abroad. The 2006-07 season featured a performance of Handel’s Dixit Dominus with the DePauw Sinfonia and an appearance at the Woodruff Center in Atlanta. In the fall of 2007, the group will be collaborating with faculty cellist Eric Edberg to perform improvisatory works for choir and cello. January 2008 will see the choir appearing for the very first time in major cities across China, performing a program entitled ‘A Farewell to Arms.’

For more information, contact:
Gabriel Crouch
Instructor of Music and Director of Choral Ensembles
(765) 658-4391
gabrielcrouch@depauw.edu



DePauw Opera
The DePauw Opera has a rich heritage of performance and training.  Full productions are performed in February, having been rehearsed daily in January as a DePauw Winter Term course. Auditions for the full productions take place in October, and are open to all students.  The all-undergraduate productions are double-cast for the four performances and are technically supported with experienced professional stage direction, choreography, professionally-executed sets, period costumes, and accompanied by the DePauw University Orchestra.

Opera Workshop scenes (prepared and performed in the fall) and Musical Theatre Workshop scenes (prepared and performed in the spring) are carefully selected for the student voices and address fundamental stage techniques.   


Past Productions


For more information, contact:
Keith Tonne
DePauw Opera Director/Producer
(765) 658-4383
keithtonne@depauw.edu