NATCHITOCHES – The NSU Chamber Choir will be presenting a Graduate Conducting Recital on Thursday, February 20th at 7 p.m. at the Minor Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Natchitoches. Admission is free and open to the public.
Graduate student in Music Education Nathan Gay of Bossier City will be conducting the NSU Chamber Choir as a requirement for the Master of Music degree. The choir will be performing works by Forrest, Rheinberger, Hensel, Whitacre, Chesnokov and Esenvalds.
The Northwestern Chamber Choir, founded in 1987, is the flagship choral ensemble at Northwestern State. The Northwestern Chamber Choir is made up of 32 undergraduate and graduate singers encompassing various majors throughout the university. The choir often collaborates with composers and conductors for projects and regularly tours across the region. The Northwestern Chamber Choir was the featured choir at the 2017 Louisiana Music Educators Association conference. In 2021, they placed in the top four of the Leonardo da Vinci Choral Competition in Florence, Italy. The Chamber Choir has also placed second in the Laurea Mundi Budapest in Budapest, Hungary, and Second and Best Interpretation in the AVE VERUM ICC in Baden, Austria. Last February, the Chamber Choir was selected to perform at the American Choral Directors Association Southern Regional Conference in Louisville, Kentucky – the only choir chosen to represent the State of Louisiana.
