Choir
What greater self-expression than raising voices to the rafters in a community of song? With five of the country’s leading choral directors as faculty, the choral program fills two missions: leading performances and training the next generation of conductors. In repertoire of Schütz to Stravinsky, Porter to Sondheim, and Gregorian Chant to Gospel, UIUC offers more than glorious singing. Its top-notch faculty provides the first-rate instruction and scholarship that produces choral leaders. Choral students also benefit from the excellent studio training offered by the UIUC voice faculty, courses in instrumental conducting, enormous library resources and archives, and solid training in music theory and musicology. We had the nation’s first doctoral program in choral music, and consider our choral director graduates so important that we invited one of them, David Brunner (DMA ’89), as graduation speaker in 2002. Come add your voice and develop your singing, musicianship, conducting, and esprit; then go on from here to lead others in professional, community, or church choirs, black and swing choruses, contemporary music, public schools, or your own university choir.

Audition for a Choral Ensemble:

• The choral department requires yearly auditions by ALL students singing in School of Music choral ensembles. The schedule for those auditions is listed below.
• A sign up sheet is located at Room 4-411 (level 4) in the Krannert Center. Please sign up for an audition time.

Based on the audition, students will be placed in one of the following groups: UI Chorale, UI Women's Glee Club, UI Varsity Men's Glee Club, UI Singers and UI Oratorio Society. For a full description of choral ensembles, see: U of I Choral Ensembles.

Students wishing to participate in Black Chorus will take a placement audition administered at the first rehearsal by Dr. Davis.

Non-music majors wishing to participate in University Chorus may take an audition administered by graduate choral teaching assistants. Students are asked to prepare their voice part from the Haydn's Theresienmesse excerpt. At the audition, students will be asked to demonstrate sight-singing ability and vocalize to determine appropriate voice placement.

Audition Dates - All auditions will take place in Dr. Stoltzfus' Office: Room 4-411 (level 4) Krannert Center

• Sunday, August 23 from 2-5pm
• Monday, August 24 from 10am-1pm and 2pm-5pm
• Tuesday, August 25 from 10am-1pm and 2pm-5pm
• Wednesday, August 26 from 10am-1pm and 2pm-5pm
• Thursday, August 27 from 3-5pm and 7-9pm

Audition Excerpts

• For all choral auditions: Haydn's Theresienmesse
• Alternate piece for non-major tenors auditioning for Varsity Men's Glee Club: The Lord Is My Shepherd
• Alternate piece for non-major basses auditioning for Varsity Men's Glee Club: Carmina Jeventutis