Greenville College Choir to Perform in St. Louis March 14-15
Published: April 13, 2021
The Greenville College Choir will perform in three exciting venues in St. Louis, Missouri during the weekend of March 14-15.
Saturday, March 14, 2015 4:45 p.m. Mass
Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis
4431 Lindell Boulevard, St. Louis, Missouri 63108
Phone: 314.373.8200
Sunday, March 15, 2015 10:00 a.m. Worship Service
Christ Church Cathedral
1210 Locust Street,St. Louis, Missouri 63103
Phone: 314.231.3454
Sunday, March 15, 2015 at 4:00 p.m.
Second Presbyterian Church
4501 Westminster Place, St. Louis, Missouri 63108
Phone: 314.367.0367
Founded in 1927 by Dr. Robert W. Woods, the Greenville College Choir has attained a widespread reputation for performing sacred choral music of the highest quality. During the current 88th Anniversary year, the Greenville College Choir will be singing in Indiana and Illinois, and taking an extended tour to Ireland in May-June 2015. The Choirs tour program includes music from England, Ireland, and America. In the past several years the Greenville College Choir has been invited to perform with the Kingsbury Ensemble (one of the Midwests premier professional early music ensembles), as well as at the Illinois Music Educators Conference and the American Choral Directors Associations Central Division Convention. The Choir regularly joins with the Greenville Choral Union for concerts of larger choral-orchestral works such as Bachs Magnificat, Mozarts Requiem, and the annual Christmas performance of Handels Messiah.
The Greenville Choir consists of 40 undergraduate students from various fields of liberal arts study, including the Colleges five music degree programs. As the flagship choral ensemble of Greenville College, the Choir presents as many as twenty off-campus performances each year as part of its annual tour. Students dedication to the program is consistently made evident by the professional quality of their performances.
Conductor Jeffrey S. Wilson received his Bachelor of Music degree in piano from Augustana College (Rock Island, Illinois). He earned the Master of Music degree in choral music and the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in choral conducting and literature from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Wilson has served as conductor of the Choir since 1996.
For further details about the Choirs performances in St. Louis call the Greenville College Department of Music office at 618.664.6560 or visit www.greenville.edu.
