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Skyline Singers
Join us for a performance of Wyoming and Montana-themed music by our professional chamber choir in residence Skyline Singers, on Saturday, Oct. 25 at 7 p.m. in Kinnison Hall in the Whitney Center for the Arts at Sheridan College.
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The concert will feature choral arrangements of official state songs, western-themed works, and even a “Cowboy Waltz” from the 1920s. As an added bonus, the concert will also feature both sacred and secular choral works by contemporary Wyoming and Montana composers, including multiple world premiere performances.
The concert will include performances of three sacred Latin motets by Composer Paul Jernberg, who came to Wyoming in 2022 to become Music Director and Composer-in-Residence at Wyoming Catholic College in Lander. He is also the director of the Magnificat Institute of Sacred Music and is deeply dedicated to composing sacred works for the Catholic liturgy. His motets combine elements of ancient chant with contemporary harmonies to help represent the beauty, genius, and importance of the great tradition of sacred music.
Lynn L. Petersen is a Montana composer, pianist, organist, and Professor of Music Emerita at Carroll College in Helena. The concert will feature her substantial “Gloria” setting, emphasizing rhythmic joy and also meditation on peace. This work was originally commissioned for the Carroll College Choir in 2014. The concert will also feature multiple choral works by Anne M. Guzzo, who teaches courses in composition and music theory at the University of Wyoming in Laramie. Her “The Coyote – A Prairie Lullaby” is a short opera chorus excerpt, while “Circle of Light” is a more substantial work for women’s voices. Written in 2019, the work was commissioned by the Equipoise Fund in celebration of the 150th anniversary of women’s voting rights in Wyoming. Finally, “I Have Loved the Stars” is a work evocative of wide-open Wyoming spaces and stargazing.
In an effort to highlight the newest choral music, Skyline Singers is proud to present four world premiere pieces on this concert. These include “Three Soduku” by Skyline Singers music director Robert Psurny, and “Yūgen” by Athena Carson, a composer and violinist from Bozeman, Montana who is currently a doctoral student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. “Story Structure” is a programmatic work by Bozeman composer, choral director, cellist, and ethnomusicologist Maren Haynes Marchesini, which unfolds a story to a dramatic text by newly appointed State of Montana Poet Laureate, Allen Morris Jones. The final world premiere performance on the concert will be “Prayer for Peace” which Skyline Singers have commissioned from Eric Richards, noted composer, jazz educator, and Director of Bands and Jazz Studies at Sheridan College.
This concert is made possible by funding from Sheridan College, individual donors, and by a grant from the Wyoming Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts.
