The Campana Consort
The 2024-25 Season
All concerts Free and Open to the Public
Pitt-Greensburg Chorale, Chamber Singers, and the Campana Consort
Chorale Cafe
Wednesday, October 16, 2024 at 7PM EST Campana Chapel
Come join us for an evening of musical entertainment and complementary refreshments. We've got movie and musical music. We've got doo wop, soul, and a little Big Band Swing.
DOORS OPEN AT 6:30pm, and please do come then! We will have the full spread of refreshments and light coffee service, plus live music in the lobby pre-show. Don't miss it!
Program
- We Are Number One – Lazy Town
- Anything Goes – Cole Porter
- Sh Boom – The Chords
- Proud Mary – after Tina Turner
- If Ye Love Me – Thomas Tallis
- Almighty and Everlasting God – Orlando Gibbons
- Mama Who Bore Me – from Spring Awakening
- Sun Giant – Fleet Foxes
- Rise Up, My Love – John Leavitt
- Northern Lights – Ola Gjeilo
- Sing, Sing, Sing – Louis Prima, after Benny Goodman
- Catchy Song – from The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
- I See Stars – from Mean Girls
Nation: Jocelyn Hagen and Tim Takach with guests Pitt-Greensburg Chorale
Friday, November 8, 2024 at 7:30PM EST
Campana Chapel
We are thrilled to welcome to our campus composers Jocelyn Hagen and Tim Takach for a three-day residency at Pitt-Greensburg. They will work with our choir on Tim’s new composition for the Chorale, as well as our budding singers, conductors, and composers in class sessions.
First, join us Wednesday Night November 6 at 7:00PM EST for a special voice masterclass, with students of Chelsea Ritenour working with Ms. Hagen and Mr. Takach.
Then, come back Friday night for their performance as Nation, with Chorale also on the program.
Durufle Requiem
Pitt-Greensburg Chorale, Chamber Singers, with guests the Blair Concert Chorale
Saturday, March 22, 7:30PM EST – First Evangelical Lutheran Church, Altoona
Sunday, March 23, 4:30PM EST – Newlonsburg Presbyterian Church, Murrysville
Past Performances
- 2023-24
- We Grow Stronger
- Spectrum Concert
- 2022-2023
- ¡A brincar , a bailar , a amar ! - Come leap, dance, & love!
- One Day, A New Day
- 2021-2022
- 2020-2021
- 2019-2020
- First Noël - 11/20/19
- 2018-2019
- 2017-2018
About the Pitt-Greensburg Chorale and Chamber Singers
The Pitt-Greensburg Chorale and Chamber Singers are the University’s two choral ensembles. Our singers continue to find community, friendship, love of music, and hope as they sing together.
Last year, they explored folk traditions from around the word, with works such as Saunder Choi’s Leron Leron Sinta and Augustinas’ Tykus Tykus , partnering with Seton Hill University’s choir Una Voce for a terrific double choir festival. And, they featured contemporary works of composers Tim Takach and Jocelyn Hagen, and can’t wait to meet them in person when the come to campus in November 2024.
Recently , we celebrated music of Spanish language and heritage, including works of José Maurício Nunes Garcia and Juan de Anchieta . We sang of the tango and the vito through the music of Astor Piazzolla and Joni Jensen. We rounded our program with contemporary compositions of Faith Zimmer and Z. Randall Stroope, including his seminal Amor de mi Alma on the passionate text of Renaissance poet Garcilaso de la Vega - You are the Love of my Soul. We then partnered with the Westmoreland Symphony to serve as chorus for their annual Home for the Holidays celebration. And, for the first time in five years, we toured to New Jersey and New York, highlighted by performances in Central Park.
After COVID , we were able to reopen our doors and bring our family, friends, and community back to Campana Chapel for Semper Collaetemur : We Shall Ever Rejoice in April 2022, and also Sing Evermore! in December 2021. This was after our choirs continued to sing safely through the pandemic, and gave two livestreamed performances: Our Trees Bear Fruit and A Window Into Our Workshop : Choral singing in the age of COVID-19.
Chorale joined the Kassia Ensemble of Pittsburgh in Fall 2019 for their first concert together since 2015 for First Noël - music of Saint-Saëns, Bach, Handel, and more. In the Fall of 2018, they offered A Great Vision, music of great awe and inspiration, highlighted by Benjamin Britten's seminar work Hymn to St. Cecilia. The concert tied together works of great Romantic and Impressionist composers Rossini, Boulanger, and Debussy in one of Chorale's most ambitious programs. We were proud to sing She Who Would Bind You by St. Louis composer Dr. Tristan Frampton, who joined us onstage to conduct its premiere.
And in the Spring of 2019, Chorale was honored to join the Westmoreland Symphony, its Westmoreland Symphony Chamber Singers, and Seton Hill's Una Voce, for a one-night performance of Carl Orff's Carmina Burana, on the stage of the Palace Theatre in Greensburg!
The Chorale has shared music of the great masters Haydn and Mendelssohn, highlighting great choruses from their seminal oratorios The Seasons and Elijah. This focus on music from masterworks followed its performances of previous years. In 2016, its holiday concert featured the great choruses of Handel's Messiah; the year previous, it collaborated with the Kassia Ensemble for the Faure Requiem. Its Spring 2016 concert featured the world premiere of To Joy by composer Tyler Stampe, winner of the Busan Choral Festival Composition Competition, as well as selections of the 2016 Spring Musical Man of La Mancha.
They have worked with composer Peter Fischer and Pitt-Greensburg graduate Elliot Sheedy on the film, Crown of Gamma, written and directed by Sheedy, and with the new piece Shine for chorus, piano, and cello, composed by Fischer for Chorale for this film. Chorale debuted its contributions to the film score in its Fall 2014 concert, world premiering Fischer's music live with presentation of the film. In the Spring of 2013, they were honored to premiere I Would Live in Your Love, also by Fischer. They have partnered with St. Vincent Strings to perform Schubert's great romantic work Messe in G dur (Mass in G). Chorale and Chamber Singers also have featured works such as Heinrich Schütz’s Die Sieben Worte, in collaboration with the Bevington Viol Consort of Pittsburgh. In December of 2011, their performance highlighted the music of composer Eric Whitacre and many others in a musical and visual collage telling the story of the Raven and the Light from northwest Indian mythology. They have also presented works such as Mozart's Missa Brevis in Bb, Bach's Nimm, was dein ist, und gehe hin (Cantata 144), selections from Brahms' Liebeslierwaltzes, scenes from Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana in collaboration with Seton Hill University, as well as contemporary choral compositions of Gwyneth Walker, Herbert Howells, Gyorgy Orban, J. Aaron McDermid, Joaquim Serra, Joan Casas, Steve Heitzeg, Daniel Pinkham, Allen Friedman, and John Williams.