Meet the Composer Festival
Each year, Heartland Youth Choir offers singers the opportunity to work directly with the composers of some of the literature which they perform. This weekend event allows both HYC and non-HYC singers a chance to work with the composer in a workshop environment and culminates with a performance on Sunday afternoon. Previous composers hosted through this program include Mark Sirett, Stephen Hatfield, Jim Papoulis and Ken Berg.
Meet the Composer 2011
We are thrilled to have Z. Randall Stroope come to the Midwest to work with central Iowa singers as part of Heartland Youth Choir’s fifth annual Meet the Composer Festival! Z. Randall Stroope’s compositions are among the favorites of singers and educators and have a profound and lasting effect on performers.
FESTIVAL PERFORMANCES
Festival Choir Concert
Saturday, March 5, 2011 | 4:30 PM Performance
First Baptist Church, Johnston, Iowa
The Festival Choir is comprised of 61 singers from Central Iowa in grades 4-8. The Festival Choir has prepared three works by Stroope and will rehearse and perform them with the composer and members of the Heartland Youth Choir. The concert will also feature the Drake University Women’s Chorale and ensembles of the Heartland Youth Choir.
Tickets are $10/adults and $5/students and will be available at the door.
High School Choirs Concert
Sunday, March 6, 2011 | 7:30 PM Performance
Plymouth Congregational Church, Des Moines, Iowa
Mixed high school choirs from Grinnell, Winterset and Dallas Center-Grimes will join the Heartland Youth Choir for afternoon clinics with the composer. The day culminates with a concert at 7:30 PM.
Tickets are $10/adults and $5/students and will be available at the door.
ABOUT Z. RANDALL STROOPEZ. Randall Stroope is one of the most active choral conductors and composers working today, with recent conducting engagements at the American School in Singapore, Canterbury Cathedral (England), Salzburg Dom (Austria), Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (Washington, D.C.), Vancouver Symphony (British Columbia), and three performances at the Vatican in the past two years. He also is Artistic Director for summer international choral festivals in Berlin, Germany and Rome, Italy. Stroope has toured 15 countries with ensembles under his direction, as well, including China and South Africa. In the United States, Dr. Stroope has conducted 35 all-state choirs and gives clinics for professional choirs, universities, and state music organizations across the country.
At Oklahoma State University, Dr. Stroope is the Director of Choral and Vocal Studies where he conducts the Concert Chorale and Chamber Choir, oversees recruitment activities, and coordinates the undergraduate and graduate conducting program. Prior to teaching at OSU, Dr. Stroope was the Director of Choral Studies at Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey.
Dr. Stroope has 95 published works with Alliance, Walton, Colla Voce, and MorningStar and Heritage Music Press. His compositions sell over 200,000 copies a year, and are performed regularly by esteemed ensembles throughout the world, including professional ensembles in the United States, France, Holland, Hong Kong, Spain, Japan, Australia, the Czech Republic, and Canada. Dr. Stroope has personally conducted/recorded 13 professional compact discs, and recordings of his music are heard frequently on radio and television broadcasts, including National Public Radio.
Please contact us at heartlandyouthch@qwestofficet.net or 515-221-3922 for more information.