Oct. 30, 2023

Tower Choir to present concert Nov. 5, University Chorale to perform Nov. 7

By Georgia McGonigle, communication assistant

Two Northwest Missouri State University choral ensembles will present fall concert programs in November.

Both concerts are free and open to the public at the Ron Houston Center for the Performing Arts in the Mary Linn Auditorium.

The Tower Choir (Photo by Todd Weddle/Northwest Missouri State University)

The University Chorale rehearses in the Olive DeLuce Fine Arts Building. (Photo by Lauren Adams/Northwest Missouri State University)

The Tower Choir will perform at 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 5. It is an audition-based choral ensemble that is consistently invited to state conferences, including the Missouri Music Educators Association in 2010, 2013, 2015 and 2020 and the Nebraska Music Educators Association in 2011, 2014 and 2017, as well as by the National Collegiate Choral Organization in 2011. The ensemble performs concerts for high schools, colleges, universities, churches, institutions and organizations throughout the region.

Additionally, the University Chorale will perform at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 7. Open to all students on campus as well as community members, the University Chorale presents one concert each semester, and its repertoire ranges from classical to gospel, and contemporary to Broadway. There is no audition requirement for membership in the University Chorale.

Both choirs are directed by Dr. Adam Zrust, an assistant professor of music at Northwest.

“There’s a wide variety of repertoire,” Zrust said. “It’s really excellent music performed at a very high level.”

For more information about either of these upcoming concerts, contact Zrust at azrust@nwmissouri.edu.