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The Concordia Choir featured in the 2005 Concordia Christmas Concert The Concordia Choir is a 68-member mixed choir of students at Concordia College , in Moorhead, Minnesota , United States. In addition to performing on campus regularly, the Concordia Choir has and continues to perform at locations around the world.
Memorial Auditorium is also home to the offices of Concordia's athletic department. Memorial Auditorium's first sporting event, played on December 2, 1952, was a 69-59 Cobbers victory over North Dakota State University, attended by 5,500 fans. It has hosted concerts by many recording artists over the decades.
René Clausen signing programs after the Final Concert of a Choral Clinic at the University of Nebraska-Kearney on Monday, October 26th, 2015.. René Clausen (born 1953) is an American composer, former conductor emeritus of The Concordia Choir, and former professor of music at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota.
The college has since expanded to include a music department of 45 faculty that offers five Bachelor of Music degrees and two Bachelor of Arts degrees. [ 47 ] The Concordia Choir is a 78-member mixed choir that travels internationally and has performed at major performance venues, including Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center . [ 48 ]
Paul J. Christiansen's development of The Concordia Choir has left a lasting impact, not only on Concordia College, Moorhead, but on modern American choral music.Some of his most distinguished students have been his son Erik Christiansen (Choral conductor at Stillwater Area High School), Gregory Aune (conductor of The Gustavus Choir), Maurice Skones (Director of The Choir of the West and ...
More than 150 performances are given each year including: Music-on-Parade for Scholarship, the Hoch Chamber Music Series, the Chamber Music Festival, and faculty concerts. Despite the college closing, Concordia Conservatory continued as an independent organization, [15] though moving to nearby Stamford, Connecticut. [16]
She studied vocal performance at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota with conductor Paul J. Christiansen, graduating in 1959. [1] Zimmerman taught music and directed choirs at Churchill Area High School in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania before becoming the choral director at Santa Barbara (California) High School, where she taught from 1969 to 1995.
Jake Christiansen Stadium is a sports complex on the campus of Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota. It is primarily used for college football and other athletic events. [1] It was named to honor long-time coach Jake Christiansen who built a successful football program at the school. The stadium has a seating capacity of 7,000. [2]