| |
| Stay Connected: |
|
| Mailing List |
< |
| If you would like to added to our regular postal mailing list just fill out this form. |
|
|
The Chapel Choir
Spring Break 2013 Tour
2013 Itinerary of Concerts
Sunday, March 10 |
First Presbyterian Church
Kalamazoo, Michigan
3:00 p.m. |
| Friday, March 15 |
Trinity Cathedral
Cleveland, Ohio
7:30 pm
|
| Saturday, March 16 |
Grace Church Haddonfield
Haddonfield, N.J.
7:00 p.m. |
| Sunday, March 17 |
Reformed Church of Poughkeepsie
Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
3:30 pm |
| Monday, March 18 |
First Reformed Church of Scotia
Scotia, N.Y.
7:30 p.m.
|
| Tuesday, March 19 |
St. Paul's Chapel
New York, N.Y.
1:00 p.m. |
| Wednesday, March 20 |
Trinity Reformed Church
Rochester, N.Y.
7:30 pm |
Monday, March 25 |
HOME CONCERT
St Francis de Sales Catholic Church
Holland, Michigan
7:30 p.m. |
HOPE COLLEGE CHAPEL CHOIR
The Hope Chapel Choir, founded in 1938, is Hope College’s premier choral ensemble. Made up of forty auditioned singers, Chapel Choir has toured extensively throughout the United States and Canada, and has traveled abroad
on eight occasions. The choir is featured along with other music ensembles in Christmas Vespers, a tradition that stretches back to 1941. Award winning broadcasts of Christmas Vespers by WGVU, Grand Rapids, MI, are shown on PBS stations around the country at Christmastime.
In May of 2009, the choir toured South Africa, singing in a variety of contexts including large urban churches, universities, small parishes in black townships, inner city missions, and AIDS clinics. The students who participated in this trip were moved deeply by their experiences and voted overwhelmingly in favor of making central to the choir’s mission an ongoing relationship with South Africa.
The members of this year’s choir come from a cross-section of academic disciplines. While many are music majors, others specialize in biology, business administration, computer science, religion, theatre, chemistry, English literature, and mathematics. Regardless of discipline, each member is highly dedicated to carrying on the fine tradition of choral artistry that has been the Chapel Choir’s for many years.
Director Brad Richmond
 Brad Richmond has been Director of Choral Activities at Hope College since 1998. He teaches conducting and voice, and also directs the Chapel Choir and College Chorus.
Prior to this, he served as Director of Choirs at Southeastern Louisiana University. His presentation of Bach’s B Minor Mass won the Gambit Classical Arts award for the best choral performance of 1998 in New Orleans and the surrounding region. During summers from 1995 to 2000 he served as a high school choral director at Interlochen Center for the Arts.
A Canada Council for the Arts Conducting Award winner, Dr. Richmond has toured with choirs throughout the United States, Canada, England, Austria, France, Italy, Hungry, Czech Republic and South Africa. His choral compositions are published by MorningStar Music Publishers and Mark Foster Music Company.
|
