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UNIVERSITY SINGERS Gunnar Jorstad | Sociology | Minnetonka, MN Love & Hate Justin Kiatvongcharoen | Music Technology | Hong Kong I Hate and I Love Dominick Argento Bryce Miller | Music Composition | Medford (b. 1927) Benjamin Penwell | Music Composition | Eugene I. I hate and I love Thomas Pitts | Mathematics | Ontario II. Let us live, my Clodia, and let us love John Shields | MM Music Theory | Portland Burl Tonga | Environmental Studies | Homer, AK IV. My woman says she will be no one’s V. Was it a lioness from the mountains of Libya? VI. You promise me, my dearest life ABOUT VII. Wretched Catullus, put an end to this madness VIII. I hate and I love UNIVERSITY OF OREGON CHORAL PROGRAM The University of Oregon choral program provides a dynamic and enriching Adam Dunson and Colin Hurowitz, percussion environment for choral musicians of all ability levels. Consistently promoting choral excellence while fostering a sense of community, each season hundreds of singers - both music majors and non-majors alike - form four choirs to study and perform a diverse body of outstanding choral repertoire. REPERTOIRE SINGERS Chamber Choir is the most select ensemble in the University of Oregon’s Justice choral program. Comprised of undergraduate and graduate students, the Chamber Choir specializes in a cappella music from the sixteenth The Last Words of David Randall Thompson through 21st centuries. The UO Chamber Choir participated in two (1899-1984) recent international festivals, winning First Prize in the 2013 Fleischmann International Trophy Competition at the Cork International Choral Festival in Cork, Ireland and taking top honors in two categories at the 2011 Tallinn Exsultate justi Ludovico Viadana International Choral Festival in Tallinn, Estonia. In addition, they have (1560-1627) performed through juried audition at state and division conferences for Rejoice in the Lord, O ye just: the American Choral Directors Association and the National Association Praise is fitting for the upright. for Music Education. In the summer of 2014 the Chamber Choir became a resident ensemble at the Oregon Bach Festival, performing under the Give praise to God upon the harp, direction of Helmuth Rilling and Matthew Halls. The UO Chamber Choir Play upon the ten-stringed psaltery. is one of 10 choirs worldwide invited to compete in the 14th International Chamber Choir Competition in Marktoberdorf Germany in May 2015. Sing to him a new song, Sing skillfully with a strong voice. Concert Choir is a non-auditioned mixed choral ensemble that explores multicultural and world music. Concert Choir welcomes new members every term. Chester William Billings Repertoire Singers serves as a recital and laboratory chorus for the (1746-1800) graduate students in conducting. They perform choral works from all styles and periods in concert once or twice each term. PERSONNEL PROGRAM