WIU School of Music Presents Choral Conducting Internship Experience and Student Conductors’ Concert.

April 25, 2025

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MACOMB, IL - The Western Illinois University School of Music will present a Choral Conducting Internship Experience and Student Conductors' Concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 27 in the College of Fine Arts and Communication (COFAC) Recital Hall.

The annual WIU Choral Conducting Internship Experience and Student Conductors' Concert provides an opportunity for a select number of undergraduate students to rehearse and conduct a piece of repertoire with a WIU Choir. Students must be current junior or senior music majors enrolled in either University Singers or Concert Choir in order to audition.

Interested students audition at the beginning of each spring semester, which entails selecting a piece of repertoire, creating a lesson plan and leading a ten-minute rehearsal with the University Singers. Students are assessed on their lesson planning, score analysis, conducting, rehearsal technique and professionalism.

This year, those students awarded an internship were given a minimum of ten rehearsals, ten minutes each, to teach their selected octavo with Concert Choir. Feedback was given weekly to student conductors by Assistant Director of the School of Music and Concert Choir Director Jason Hawkins and Director of Choral Studies and University Singers Director Brian J. Winnie.

This concert also features first-year graduate student conductors Kazin Cole, Tyler Demaree and Sague Molina, each conducting two of the four choirs featured on this concert. Second-year graduate choral conducting student, Kaylin Vos, will be conducting her graduate recital program entitled "Let All the World Sing" with University Singers. In addition, this concert will feature Treble Choir, being conducted by faculty conductor Kristie Halverson.

This preview performance is free and open to the public and will be live-streamed on the School of Music's YouTube channel.

For more information and the complete program, call the COFAC Recital Hall office at (309) 298-1843 or visit Recital Hall - WIU.

Posted By: University Communications (U-Communications@wiu.edu)
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