The Bradley University Chorale will present its annual Spring Concert on Sunday, April 3, at 3 p.m. in the Dingeldine Music Center, located at 1417 W. Barker. Admission is $5 for adults and free for students.
The concert, presented by the 45-member choir, will feature a specially commissioned work, “Sea Poems,” by American composer William Averitt as well as music by Mozart, Giovanni Bassani, Kirke Mechem, Eriks Esenvalds, Sydney Guillaume, A.R. Rahman, Billy Joel, and others.
The Bradley Chorale has performed across the United States and Europe, winning national and international recognition. The ensemble has performed often for state and regional music educator conventions. In 2013, the Chorale toured in southern Spain and will tour Denmark in May of this year.
Dr. John Jost, director of the Bradley Chorale and professor of music at Bradley, earned his undergraduate and advanced degrees at Stanford University and taught in California, New York, and Haiti before arriving at Bradley in 1989. He has served as principal violist of the Peoria Symphony and continues to direct a music camp for Haitian youth each summer in Haiti. He is also co-founder and artistic director of the Peoria Bach Festival. He has won awards for teaching, achievement, and service from Bradley, the American Choral Directors Association, and the Haitian Ministry of Culture.
For more information, contact John Jost at 309.677.2600, or by email at jrj@bradley.edu
