Iowa State Singers: MUSIC 161
MTWRF 12:10 – 1:00 pm.
The Iowa State Singers is a 72-member mixed choral ensemble comprised of students who come from numerous areas of study at Iowa State. This select ensemble performs the finest literature from Renaissance to contemporary, including newly commissioned works. In addition to performing various local concerts, the Singers tour annually and present an authentic Madrigal Dinner every January. Every spring they perform a masterwork with all ISU choirs, most recently Orff's Carmina Burana, Handel's Messiah, Brahms' German Requiem, and other such works.
The Iowa State Singers have been honored in recent years with invitations to perform at several highly distinguished music conferences, including the 2004, 2005, 2009, 2010, 2015, 2018, and 2019 ACDA conferences in Sioux Falls, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Oklahoma City, Salt Lake City, Chicago, and Kansas City, and the 2008 and 2011 NCCO National Conferences in Cincinnati and Fort Collins. Thousands of choral conductors from the United States and abroad have responded enthusiastically to the choir's offerings. The members of the Iowa State Singers have been thrilled with these opportunities and gratefully acknowledge their former members, whose commitment to artistry helped to develop one of the very beautiful traditions at Iowa State University.
Admission to the Iowa State Singers is by audition, and is open to students enrolled at Iowa State University regardless of major or year in school. For audition information, go to: http://www.music.iastate.edu/ensembles/choirview.php
The Singers have also traveled internationally, singing to critical acclaim in the Baltic States and Scandinavia (2003), China (2006), Korea (2011) where they shared a concert with the world-renowned Incheon City Chorale, Western Europe (2015), and Norway (2019). In 2013 the Singers were honored as the national winners of The American Prize, College/University Chorus Division.
Iowa State Singers Repetoire
2022-2023
Justorum animae …Charles Stanford
Ich bin die Auferstehung ….. Heinrich Schütz
O Oriens …. Cecilia McDowall
Haec Dies ……William Byrd
Agnus Dei …Ernesto Herrera
McKay …arr. Carol Barnett
When Music Sounds …. René Clausen
We Can Mend the Sky …Jake Runestad
Not One Sparrow is Forgotten … William Hawley
Wonderful Peace …. Gustaf Nordquist
Abide with Me … arr. Moses Hogan
Beulah Land ….. arr. Stacey Gibbs
Magnificat …. Randall Stroope
I Saw Three Ships …. arr. Mack Wilberg
Ose Shalom … arr. Arie Levanon
O Magnum Mysterium ..…. Kevin Memley
The Blessed Son of God …Ralph Vaughan Williams
Lully, Lulla, Lullay ….. Philip Stopford
Ein deutsches Requiem … Johannes Brahms
2021-2022
Naming the Rain .… Eriks Esenvalds
Ecce vicit Leo ........ Peter Philips
O Nata Lux ...... René Clausen
Gloria Kajoniensis ….. Levente Gyöngyösi
The Day is Done ...... Stephen Paulus
Gloria ...... Ily Matthew Maniano
Illuminare …. Elaine Hagenberg
Rockin’ Jerusalem … Stacey Gibbs
Gaudete …. arr. Steven Sametz
Ich bin das Brot des Lebens….. Wolfram Buchenberg
Winter, from Cello Songs ……. Jake Runestad
2019-2020
Kyrie, from Missa Rigensis ……. Ugis Praulins
Kiida, mu hing, Issandat (Psalm 104) …. Cyrillus Kreek
Sanctus-Benedictus, from Mass for Double Choir…. Frank Martin
I will not leave you comfortless ….. William Byrd
Sainte-Chapelle ….….. Eric Whitacre
Laudate Dominum …… Levente Gyöngyösi
Spirits ... Ryan Murphy
Set Me as a Seal …...… René Clausen
A Silence Haunts Me ……….. Jake Runestad
Sehnsucht, op. 112 ….. Johannes Brahms
Liebst du um Schönheit …... Clara Schumann / McCullough
Rote Abendwolken, op. 103 ……… Johannes Brahms
When We Love …… Elaine Hagenberg
Leron, Leron Sinta …. arr. Saunder Choi
My Soul Has Been Anchored ... arr. Stacey Gibbs
S’Vivon … arr. Betty Bertaux
All Poor Men and Humble … arr. Robert Wetzler
Softly..…. Will Todd
I Saw Three Ships ……… arr. Mack Wilberg
Whence is that Goodly Fragrance Flowing? …… arr. Mack Wilberg
Gloria in Excelsis Deo …. Mack Wilberg
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