Performances
The 2011-2012 Concert Season
The Valley Chamber Chorale considers the St. Croix Valley and its beauty part of our magic, as is our collaboration with composers, dancers, instrumentalists, actors and soloists. Every season our audiences look forward to innovative performances, savoring choral favorites, and experiencing enticing new works not yet published or recorded.
This season will be all of that and more. We will continue to foster unique and innovative performances, giving our audiences the joy of exquisite choral performance performed live.
A ST. CROIX VALLEY CELEBRATION
Saturday, October 8, 2011 – 8:00 p.m.
Trinity Lutheran Church, Stillwater
Three of the St. Croix Valley’s finest performing organizations – Valley Chamber Chorale, Music St. Croix, and St. Croix Jazz Orchestra – join forces for an eclectic evening of music. From the classics to jazz, this will be a concert with something for every taste.
This concert is our gift to you ~ FREE. NO TICKETS REQUIRED.
SING GLORIA
Friday, December 9, 2011 – 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, December 10 – 4:00 and 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, December 11 – 3:00 p.m.
Washington County Historic Courthouse
This year’s concert will surely set the stage for your holidays. We are pleased to feature a guest brass quintet.
BEETHOVEN FESTIVAL
Saturday, February 25, 2012 – 8:00 p.m.
Trinity Lutheran Church, Stillwater
Mass in C Major
The Choral Fantasia
32 Variations in C Minor
The Valley Chamber Chorale has always prided itself on those we collaborate with – make music with. Our Beethoven Festival on February 25 offers us a rare opportunity to collaborate with one of America’s great young musicians – a musician who is enlarging and redefining the role of the classical musician – Greg Anderson – a Stillwater native, a graduate of Stillwater High School and the Juilliard School of Music, who has gone on to a world career. Greg’s mission – to make classical piano music a relevant and powerful force in society.
The VCC considers this a once in a lifetime event – and we truly want to share it with the St. Croix Valley. If you have young people who play the piano – bring them to see and hear this success story.
Soloists:
Tracey Engelman – Soprano
Hyounsoo Sohn – Mezzo-Soprano
Brad Bradshaw – Tenor
Robert Smith – Bass
This project received funding from the St. Croix Valley Foundation and the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin.
SPIRITUAL SONGS
Friday, April 20, 2012 – 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, April 22 – 4:00 p.m.
Trinity Lutheran Church, Stillwater
Songs that speak from the heart
What speaks/sings to you? Sting’s “Love Is the Seventh Wave” – or maybe an African American Spiritual such as “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” – or maybe even an exquisitely sung rendition of a Monteverdi motet. All this and more will be offered as the Valley Chamber Chorale, the Woodbury High School Concert Choir and guest soloist Aleks Knezevich – a talented young artist who passed through the Woodbury Concert Choir and the Valley Chamber Chorale along his way to the Guthrie Theater in the starring role of “HMS Pinafore” and Broadway auditions – join together for two performances of “Spiritual Songs”.
The Woodbury High School Concert Choir is a mixed choir for grades 10, 11 and 12 directed by Daryl Timmer, assistant director of the Valley Chamber Chorale. Membership is based upon independence, musical training, demonstrated ability to sing in tune and work ethic. As choir members work together to combine their musical talents, they perform the finest music of many styles. Literature studied and performed includes classical, spirituals, folk and pop choral music. Their mission: Always set the bar high, for the feeling of reaching a small goal quickly fades and gives way to the thought of what you might have accomplished.
Many thanks to our Season Sponsors and other Chorale Supporters!
