Welcome to Choral Studies at Augsburg University!
Our program serves music majors and non-majors alike. We are committed to:
- Supporting your joy in the practice and performance of vocal harmony.
- Expanding your technical control over your own vocal instrument.
- Strengthening your comprehension and use of the theoretical and aural tools of independent musicianship.
- Exploring a diversity of vocal-harmony traditions as unique records of human and community experience.
- Pursuing choral singing as peace-practice: within our campus community, together with partners in the Twin Cities metro area, and as citizens of the world.
There is a place for you in one of our curricular ensembles, and we will help you find it.
Our partnerships with a host of world-class professionals support exceptional performance experiences in vocal-harmony traditions from throughout the centuries and across the continents.
Augsburg Vocal Collective
MUE 311-A Augsburg Choir, Sec I: Vocal Collective, T/Th 3:40–5:10 p.m.
The course is open by audition to students with firm grounding in vocal technique, applied scale theory, and sight singing of diatonic melodies and intervals. Anyone aspiring to pass the audition is encouraged to contact the interim director of choirs, Brian De Young, for tutoring. Students enrolled in this ensemble will also perform the international repertoire at the center of the Augsburg Global Harmony Choir curriculum. (See below.)
Augsburg Global Harmony Choir
MUE 311-B Augsburg Choir, Sec II: Global Harmony Choir, M/W/F 3:30–5:00 p.m.
Available to all students who can carry a tune, this choir assumes no music-reading ability for entry or for the attainment of successful performance in its survey of folk, classical, and popular styles. This choir receives direct instruction from culture-bearers sharing their vocal harmony traditions from many continents. Our artist-instructors, teaching via the oral method, have taught us in regional styles from Appalachia, Bosnia, Corsica, Cuba, the Republic of Georgia, Iran, Madagascar, Nigeria, Quebec, Siberia, South Africa, Sweden, Ukraine, and the traditional Black gospel churches of the United States.
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The unique curricular programming for choirs at Augsburg is made possible by the John N. Schwartz Endowment for Choral Leadership.