DRAKE UNIVERSITY CHOIR
Sat May 28 / 6 PM | St John Church, Tallinn |
Drake University Choir and Chamber Choir, conductor Aimee Beckmann-Collier |
Chamber Choir Voces Musicales, conductor Valter Soosalu |
Free entry |
The Drake Choir is Drake University’s select touring ensemble and is one of four choruses that provide singing opportunities for more than 250 students at Drake. The choir tours throughout the United States annually and internationally every four years. The ensemble has sung in major venues in Austria, Germany, Italy, the Czech Republic, Ireland, and Wales, as well as in Carnegie Hall and Avery Fisher Hall in New York City. The Drake Choir has also been featured on the conference program of the American Choral Directors Association.
Drake’s Chamber Choir is a select ensemble of singers drawn from the Drake Choir. The Chamber Choir’s most recent international tour took place in January 2014, when the ensemble performed in England, singing at St. Paul’s Cathedral and St. Martin-in-the-Fields in London; at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge and in the cathedrals of Ely and Coventry. The Chamber Choir has also performed for conferences of the American Choral Directors Association.