SJU Men's Chorus participates in 2009 Minnesota Collegiate Choral Festival

09/01/2009

The Saint John's University Men's Chorus, directed by Axel Theimer, has been selected to perform at the 2009 Minnesota Collegiate Choral Festival at 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 14, on the Bethel University campus.    

The choir will sing individually and also in a massed choir under the direction of Craig Jessop, head of the music department at Utah State University in Logan, Utah, and former director of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. The combined choirs will premiere a commissioned choral work that was composed specifically for this festival by Minnesota native Eric William Barnum titled "look up…" The new composition will be featured as the grand finale of the festival concert.

The 2009 Minnesota Collegiate Choral Festival is sponsored by the F. Melius Christiansen (FMC) Endowment Fund Committee and the American Choral Directors Association of Minnesota. All proceeds for the concert will be donated to the organization’s FMC Endowment Fund which annually awards scholarships to Minnesota choral directors for professional development opportunities.

Other choirs participating in the festival include:
Minnesota State University-Mankato Concert Choir               
Northwestern College Concert Choir
University Singers, University of Minnesota Duluth
University of St. Thomas Chamber Singers

The collegiate festival concert will be presented at Benson Great Hall at 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 14, on the Bethel University campus located at 3900 Bethel Drive in St. Paul, Minn. All seats are reserved and will go on sale at the Benson Great Hall Box Office on Sept. 8. Tickets are priced at $25 each. Concert patrons who wish to purchase a special $75 ticket will also receive a complimentary CD recording of the entire festival concert. The additional $50 fee will be donated to the FMC Endowment Fund which annually awards scholarships totaling over $10,000 to Minnesota choral directors for participating in many professional development opportunities.   

To purchase tickets, please visit the Benson Great Hall box office at: 
www.bethel.edu/benson-great-hall or phone: 651-638-6333 or 866-424-4849   

For more details about the collegiate choral festival, please visit:
http://www.acda-mn.org/mnccf/index.html or www.fmcendowment.org