Saint Martin’s Chorale joins two choirs, orchestra for ‘100
Voices Concert’
February 23, 2012
Lacey,
Washington — Saint Martin’s University students will lend their
vocal talent to the sixth annual “100 Voices Concert,” hosted by
South Puget Sound Community College on Saturday, March 3. The
event starts at 7:30 p.m. on the main stage of the Kenneth J.
Minnaert Center for the Arts on the SPSCC campus, 2011 Mottman
Road SW, Olympia, Washington.
For the concert, the Saint Martin’s University Chorale,
directed by Associate Professor of Music Darrell Born — together
with the South Puget Sound Community College Choirs, directed by
Molly McNamara, and the Opera Pacifica Chorus and the Olympia
Chamber Orchestra, both directed by Claudia Simpson-Jones — will
perform an English translation of Brahms’ “A German Requiem.”
The evening is part of the Olympia Chamber’s season, so the
orchestra will present other pieces. Additionally, Surabhi
Mundada, the winner of the Olympia Music Teachers’ Association
concerto competition, will perform a movement from Giovanni
Paisiello’s “Concerto in F Major” with the orchestra.
Admission is $20 for adults, $15 for seniors and students,
and $5 for children under 12 years old and students and staff of
Saint Martin’s University and South Puget Sound Community
College, with identification. Tickets are available at
OlyTix.org or by calling 360-753-8586.
For disability accommodations for this event, contact SPSCC’s
Office of Student Life at
studentlife@spscc.ctc.edu or 360-596-5306.
Saint Martin’s University is an independent four-year,
coeducational university located on a 380-acre wooded campus in
Lacey, Washington. Established in 1895 by the Catholic Order of
Saint Benedict, the University is one of 14 Benedictine colleges
and universities in the United States and Canada, and the only
one west of the Rocky Mountains. Saint Martin’s University
prepares students for successful lives through its 21 majors and
six graduate programs spanning the liberal arts, business,
education and engineering. Saint Martin’s welcomes 1,250
students from many ethnic and religious backgrounds to its main
campus, and 650 more to its extension campuses located at Joint
Base Lewis-McChord, Everett College, Centralia College and
Tacoma Community College. Visit the Saint Martin’s University
website at www.stmartin.edu.
For additional information:
Sarah Holdener
Director of community relations and event management
Office of Marketing and Communications
Saint Martin’s University
360-412-6140
sholdener@stmartin.edu