The SIU Choral Union and SIU Concert Choir, accompanied by chamber orchestra, will perform the Requiem in D minor by Gabriel Fauré and various arrangements of folk songs of the British Isles, as collected by Cecil Sharp.
Tuesday, April 30, 2024 7:00 – 9:00 pm at Shryock Auditorium, Carbondale, IL
The Choral Union and Concert Choir will join with the SIU Opera and orchestra to present Gian Carlo Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors, as well as Mark Hayes’s International Carol Suites, including Carols of Eastern Europe, Carols of Western Europe, and Carols of the British Isles.
Tuesday, December 5th, 2023 7:00: Fall Concert at Shryock Auditorium.
Admission is free
SIU Carbondale Choral Union & Concert Choir, Fall 2023 Concert, under the direction of Susan Davenport. Tags: choral music concert Carbondale Illinois 62901
… Something Borrowed, Something Red, White and Blue
The SIU Choral Union and Concert Choir will be joined by the SIU Wind Ensemble for a program of Brahms’s Begräbnisgesang, Aaron Copland’s Old American Songs, and Grace Before Sleep, a newly-commissioned work written by composer Dana Wilson for choir but arranged for the Wind Ensemble by Susan La Barr.
Thursday, April 27, 2023 7:00 – 9:00 pm at Shryock Auditorium, Carbondale, IL
This concert will once again bring the SIU Choral Union and SIU Concert Choir together with a full orchestra! The program will consist of Vivaldi’s Gloria (R589) and selections from Handel’s Messiah, and we’ll once again be joined by the Southern Illinois Symphony Orchestra.
Tuesday, November 15, 2022 7:00 – 9:00 pm at Shryock Auditorium, Carbondale, IL
The SIU Choral Union and the SIU Concert Choir will perform works by by composer Will Todd, a contemporary English composer of choral and jazz works, including:
The choirs will be accompanied by both jazz ensemble and piano.
April 12, 2022 7:30 – 9pm : Spring Concert at Shryock Auditorium. Social distancing guidelines observed for performers and audience.
SIU Carbondale Choral Union & Concert Choir, Spring 2022 Concert, under the direction of Susan Davenport. Tags: choral music concert Carbondale Illinois 62901
Accompanied by organist Anita Hutton on the grand Marianne Webb organ, the SIU Choral Union and Concert Choirs will perform:
Nov. 9, 2021 7:30 – 9pm : Fall Concert at Shryock Auditorium. Social distancing guidelines observed for performers and audience.
SIU Carbondale Choral Union & Concert Choir, Fall 2021 Concert, under the direction of Susan Davenport. Tags: choral music concert Carbondale Illinois 62901
The Southern Illinois Symphony Orchestra will join the SIU Choral Union and Concert Choirs for this concert.
April 21, 2020 7:30 – 9pm : Spring Concert, 2020 at Shryock Auditorium, SIU Carbondale
This concert, a week before Thanksgiving, is bound to put you in the holiday spirit, with music by several of the finest Baroque composers:
The Choral Union will be joined by the SIU Concert Choir for this performance, under the direction of Dr. Susan Davenport, Director of Choral Activities and Professor of Music at SIU-C.
November 21, 2019 7:30 – 9pm : Fall/Winter Concert- SIU Choral Union and SIU Concert Choir at Shryock Auditorium, Carbondale, IL
Giuseppe Verdi’s Requiem is unmistakably the work of an accomplished opera composer. Trumpets sound a call to judgement in the Tuba mirum, the Rex tremendae evokes unworthiness before the King of Tremendous Majesty, a soprano interrupts to cry out for mercy and a tenor radiates hope for all who do so.
This performance of Verdi’s dramatic work will bring the Choral Union together the choirs and orchestras of SIU Carbondale and Southeast Missouri State University, all under the direction of Dr. Susan Davenport, Director of Choral Activities and Professor of Music at SIU-C.
April 25, 2019 7:30 – 9:30pm : Spring Concert, SIU Choral Union and SIU Concert Choir at Shryock Auditorium, Carbondale, IL
The sung mass has a long tradition in the Christian church, and has been interpreted in every musical era and style. This semester’s program features one of the best-known classical masses, Mozart’s Mass in C Major, K. 317, historically called the Coronation Mass, as well as two more contemporary mass selections, the Sanctus from Leonard Bernstein’s Mass, and the Agnus Dei from Karl Jenkins’ The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace.
The Southern Illinois Symphony Orchestra will join the soloists and choirs, under the baton of Dr. Susan Davenport, Director of Choral Activities and Professor of Music at SIU Carbondale.
November 29, 2017 7:30 – 9pm : Fall Concert- SIU Choral Union and SIU Concert Choir, with the Southern Illinois Symphony Orchestra at Shryock Auditorium, Carbondale, IL