Chamber Singers, Women's Ensemble, Rhapsody to present April 11 concert

The York College Chamber Singers and the newly formed Women’s Ensemble will celebrate spring with choral selections from the Renaissance to jazz arrangements at 7 p.m., April 11, in DeMeester Recital Hall, Evelyn and Earle Wolf Hall. “Chamber Voices,” which will also feature the student-led vocal group Rhapsody, is open to the public.

The program will also include folk melodies from Scotland, Canada, Romania, songs of nature from Russia and the British Isles, and an arrangement of a Beach Boys tune by senior music industry/recording technology major Leah Komarinski of Jeannette, Pa.  Other seniors will also be featured as soloists and conductors.

The Chamber Singers are the College's premier vocal ensemble, performing on campus and throughout the region as ambassadors for the institution. The ensemble, which will perform at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C in the spring of 2010, sings literature from all periods and styles, specializing in a capella works from Renaissance madrigals to vocal jazz.

The Chamber Singers and Women's Ensemble will be directed by Assistant Professor of Music Grace Muzzo, who directs the choral program and teaches courses in music education and conducting at York.  Muzzo earned degrees from Gordon College and Westminster Choir College, and she holds the D.M.A. in conducting from the University of Georgia. She has worked as a music educator at the elementary, secondary and collegiate level, has conducted choirs at Lycoming College, Bloomsburg University and the University of Georgia, and has taught courses in music education, vocal techniques, conducting and music history.