The Augsburg/Mirandola Chamber Collective
For singers with a firm base in music literacy, this course brings students into weekly side-by-side study, rehearsal, and performance collaboration with the professional chamber artists of The Mirandola Ensemble. Students enrolled in this ensemble will also perform the international repertoire at the center of the Augsburg/Twin Cities Global Harmony Project. (See below.)
Augsburg/Twin Cities Global Harmony Project
Available to all students for course credit, this choir assumes no music-reading ability. The core of the curriculum is shared with our community cohort, open to anyone in the greater Metro area within driving distance of a weekly, joint rehearsal. 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. Public-school instructors will receive Continuing Education credits for participation in this choir.
If you or your students would like more information about the above opportunities, please contact Dr. Kristina Boerger, Augsburg’s John N. Schwartz Professor of Choral Leadership at boerger@augsburg.edu.
Augsburg University is a pace-setter in innovative, inclusive, and globalized music studies, offering internationally recognized faculty, a state-of-the-art recording studio, and nationally acclaimed curricula on the leading edge.