CWU Music welcomes Chor Anno

Chor Anno, a semi-professional choir with members from all over the NW, will be in residence as CWU Guest Artists from May 12-13. They will be hosting roundtables and workshops for CWU Music Education students and joining the CWU Chamber Choir in a joint concert open to the public.

The members of Chor Anno are largely choral educators, professional singers, and composers, many of whom are alumni of CWU. The group was founded in 2009 by J. Howard Meharg who still acts as Associate Conductor to Dr. Nicole Lamartine. Chor Anno meets once in the fall for a rehearsal weekend and performs one concert weekend per year. CWU Alumni who sing in Chor Anno include: Kim Claassen, Billy Buhl, Daniel Schreiner, Philip Denton

3pm CONCERT, Hertz Concert Hall Chor Anno with the CWU Chamber Choir Nicole Lamartine and J. Howard Meharg, conductors Brian Hoskins and Isaac Montgomery, piano

Chor Anno repertoire includes:
Haydn: Insanae et vanae curae (w/ CWU student string quartet)
Spencer: At the Round Earth’s Imagined Corners
Forrest, Always Something Sings
Narverud, Ad Astra (TTBB)
Grundahl, Caritas abundat (SSAA)
Aitken, Peace Flows Into Me

Combined repertoire:
Rosephanye Powell, Non nobis Domine
Arr. Shawn Kirchner, Bright Morning Stars
Unterseher, Little Song of Life

CWU Chamber Choir:
Whitacre, Leonardo Dreams of His Flying Machine
Chatman, Mountains
Komitas, Yel, yel
Arr. Hogan, My Soul’s Been Anchored in the Lord
Arr. Hogan, The Battle of Jericho