Greenville College Choir to perform at Gobin Nov. 16

Greenville College Choir

The Greenville College Choir will perform a 4 p.m. concert on Sunday, Nov. 16 at Gobin Memorial United Methodist Church.

Founded in 1927 by Dr. Robert W. Woods, the Greenville College Choir has attained a widespread reputation for performing sacred choral music of the highest quality.

During its 88th year, the Greenville College Choir will be singing in Indiana and Illinois and taking an extended tour to Ireland in May through June 2015. The choir's tour program includes music from England, Ireland, and America. In the past several years the Greenville College Choir has been invited to perform with the Kingsbury Ensemble (one of the Midwest's premier professional early music ensembles) as well as at the Illinois Music Educators Conference and the American Choral Directors Association's Central Division Convention.

The choir regularly joins with the Greenville Choral Union for concerts of larger choral-orchestral works such as Bach's "Magnificat," Mozart's "Requiem" and the annual Christmas performance of Handel's "Messiah."

The Greenville Choir consists of 44 undergraduate students from various fields of liberal arts study, including the college's five music degree programs. As the flagship choral ensemble of Greenville College, the choir presents as many as 20 off-campus performances each year as part of its annual tour. Students' dedication to the program is consistently made evident by the professional quality of their performances.

Conductor Jeffrey S. Wilson received his Bachelor of Music degree in piano from Augustana College (Rock Island, Ill.). He earned the Master of Music degree in choral music and the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in choral conducting and literature from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Wilson has served as conductor of the Choir since 1996.

Greenville College is a four-year accredited Christian liberal arts school with more than 1,200 traditional undergraduate, graduate, and adult degree completion students. Founded in 1892 and affiliated with the Free Methodist Church, the college is located in Greenville, Ill., 45 miles east of St. Louis.

For further details about the concert call Gobin Memorial United Methodist Church at 658-6010 or visit www.gobinumc.org.

For more information about the Greenville College Choir or Greenville College call the Music Department Office at (618) 664-6560 or visit www.greenville.edu.