Nordic Choir Concert

WHAT: Nordic Choir from Luther College concert

WHERE: St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church

47535 Highway 74 (at Haystack) in Palm Desert

WHEN: Monday, January 25 at 7:00 pm

TICKETS: $20 online and at the door; $10 students at the door

INFO: www.dfom.org 760-346-2697 x 109

The Luther College Nordic Choir, one of the top a cappella college choirs in the nation, will perform on Monday, January 25, at 7:00 pm at St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church in Palm Desert, and is presented by The Desert Friends of Music of St. Margaret’s Church and The Vocal Music Department of Palm Desert High School. The concert performance by the 72-member Nordic Choir is open to the public. Tickets are $20 for adults online or at the door and $10 for students at the door.

Director Dr. Allen Hightower and the Nordic Choir have prepared an outstanding program featuring “Serenity” by Ola Gjeilo, “Wake, Awake” by F. Melius Christiansen, and “Only in Sleep” by Erik Esenvald, as well as hymn arrangements, spirituals, and the traditional Nordic Choir closing piece, “O Lord God” by Pavel Chesnokov. It will be an evening of imaginative, energetic music, performed by one of the finest liberal arts college choirs in the Midwest.

We hope you can join us!

The Palm Desert concert is part of the Nordic Choir’s 2016 West Coast Tour. The choir tours annually and has performed around the world, appearing in Norway, England, Germany, Russia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, the Baltic countries, Mexico and the Caribbean. Nordic Choir has also appeared throughout the United States, performing in well-known churches and concert halls such as Lincoln Center in New York, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., Orchestra Hall, Chicago, Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis, Walt Disney Concert Hall and Crystal Cathedral, Los Angeles, and the Mormon Tabernacle, Salt Lake City. Allen Hightower, director of choral activities and professor of music at Luther is the conductor of the Nordic Choir, preceded by the 57-year tenure of Weston Noble.

Luther is home to one of the largest collegiate music programs in the world. Nordic Choir is Luther’s flagship choir in a choral program that comprises three upper-class mixed touring choirs, two first-year choirs, and a women’s choir. Luther also boasts six choirs, three bands, three orchestras, two jazz bands and numerous chamber ensembles, totaling nearly 1,000 student musicians. Luther’s students perform in large ensembles, faculty-coached chamber groups, private lessons and master classes. More than 300 music majors study music theory-ear training, history, education, composition, church music and performance.