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On Monday, Feb. 23, the Goshen College Chamber Choir will sing at 9:45 a.m. at Iowa Mennonite School, Kalona, Iowa. The program is free and open to the public. In addition the choir will perform at other venues in Illinois, Iowa, South Dakota, Minnesota and Wisconsin, before concluding with a home concert in Goshen.
Led by Goshen College Professor of Music Debra Brubaker, the choir's worship service program features pieces composed from around the world and at Goshen College.
While the choir is on tour, persons can follow the trip through an online blog several student singers will keep, complete with photos, which will be available at ww.goshen.edu/blog/choirtour09.
The Goshen College Chamber Choir includes the following members: Dirk Miller, Wellman, Iowa; Nathan Swartzendruber, Kalona, Iowa.
Brubaker oversees the choral and opera theater programs, serves as department co-chair and teaches church music and music education courses. She holds a doctorate of musical arts from the University of Kansas, a master's degree of music from the University of Northern Colorado and a bachelor's degree from Goshen College. Brubaker has taught as assistant professor of music at Bluffton (Ohio) University, and in public schools in Indiana and Colorado. In addition to touring many parts of the United States and Canada, Brubaker's choirs are in demand regionally, having performed with the Toledo Symphony, Fort Wayne Philharmonic Orchestra and South Bend Symphony. She and her choirs have worked and performed with such noted conductors as Vance George, Alice Parker, Donald Neuen and Gregg Smith.
Goshen College's Music Department features four choral ensembles, an orchestra, jazz band, an opera scenes program and a growing chamber music program.
