Brian KittredgeInternationally honored student singers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham will perform 10 shows in Alabama and Tennessee on a brief tour March 11-13.
The Concert Choir, part of the College of Arts and Sciences Department of Music, has concerts planned for Thompson High School in Alabaster, Indian Springs High School and Jefferson State Community College in Birmingham on Wednesday, March 11, plus a 7 p.m. performance in Madison’s Good Shepherd United Methodist Church.
Thursday, March 12, the choir will perform at Florence and Grissom high schools, and in Madison’s Messiah Lutheran Church on Thursday, March 12.
Friday, March 13, they are set to perform at Decatur High School and at Stewarts Creek High School in Smyrna, Tennessee, followed by a performance in Nashville’s Cathedral of the Incarnation at 7:30 p.m., says UAB Choir Director Brian Kittredge, DMA.
The Concert Choir is UAB’s select choral ensemble. Most recently, the choir competed in the 2014 Interkultur Eighth World Choir Games in Riga, Latvia, winning a gold and two silver medals in three categories: Youth Mixed, Musica Sacra with Accompaniment and Spiritual. The choir’s first CD project, “Unceasing Love,” is available at digital outlets including iTunes and Amazon and via the department’s online store.
The choir has built a strong reputation of excellence and has performed at past conferences of the American Choral Directors Association and in international choral competitions, including the Fleischman International Trophy Competition in Cork, Ireland, and the 34th annual Florilège Vocal de Tours in Tours, France. The choir also participated in the 2013 world premiere performance of Glenn McClure’s “Voices of Freedom,” a work commemorating the anniversaries of the civil rights movement and the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, and K. Lee Scott’s “Gloria” for Morning Star Publications in 2012. The choir tours annually and has performed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Knoxville, Tennessee; Greenville, South Carolina; and Virginia Beach, Virginia.