Greenville College Choir to Sing at Greenville Free Methodist Church on Sunday, April 3

Published: April 13, 2021

The Greenville College Choir (Greenville, Illinois) will present a choral music concert at 4:00 p.m. on Sunday, April 3 at Greenville Free Methodist Church (1367 East State Route 140, Greenville, IL). Founded in 1927 by Dr. Robert W. Woods, the Greenville Choir has attained a widespread reputation for performing sacred choral music of the highest quality and has recently returned from a Spring 2016 concert tour of Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky.

During the current 89^th Anniversary year, the Greenville College Choir will travel throughout the Midwestern US, including an 8-day spring concert tour of Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky with stops in Chicago, Indianapolis, and Louisville. The Choirs tour program includes music from Norway, Germany, Spain, England 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 34 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 a Bachelor of Music degree in piano from Augustana College (Rock Island, Illinois). He earned a Master of Music degree in choral music and a 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.

Greenville College is a four-year accredited Christian liberal arts school with more than 1,200 traditional undergraduate, graduate, and adult degree completion students. Founded in 1892 and affiliated with the Free Methodist Church, the college is located in Greenville, Illinois, 45 miles east of St. Louis, Missouri.

For further details about the concert call Greenville Free Methodist Church at (618) 664-2584 or visit http://greenvillefmc.org/. For more information about the Greenville College Choir or Greenville College call the Music Department Office at (618) 664-6560 or visit www.greenville.edu.