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Jacobs Community Engagement Initiative Indiana University

Choir Collaboration

Community: Huntingburg

Launched: 1 masterclass, rehearsal and performance

Engaged: 30 high school students, 200 audience members

Involved: 50 IU students, 1 JSoM faculty

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Summary

Led by much-loved director Chris Albanese, fifty members of the Singing Hoosiers ensemble traveled to Huntingburg, Indiana to rehearse and perform with the Southridge High School Choir. The Singing Hoosier students provided insight about musical opportunities available in college, sharing their favorite performance experiences and discussing other performing ensembles at Indiana University. The two choirs then worked together in a professionally paced rehearsal to create a joint performance for the public. The Huntingburg community showed tremendous support, filling the high school auditorium with an audience of approximately 200 for the collaborative show.
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“Our students loved it. They really loved interacting with the other IU students. I think getting to talk with them and understand that they aren’t that different in age and ability was huge. The other thing that was largely impactful was seeing that a lot of them weren’t music majors. Many of our student’s eyes were opened to the opportunities that many colleges offer for students that aren’t in the music school.
The performance was of course fantastic!”
–Erich Kendall, Director of Southridge High School Choir
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IU Students Involved:

Alexa Bruetman                  Lexi Schneider               Andrea Garcia                Jenni Miller

Julianne Fowler                   Kieran Brown                 Sarah Harping                Kaitlyn Phillips

Felicity Kratky                     Emma Bowen                 Marielle Hug                    Samantha Amidon

Paige Penry                          Addie Cook                      Kyra Kornfeld                 Kaycee Beck

Claire Finke                           April Varner                    Carly Bias                        Becca Bloom

Marlee Goodman                Kristina Dolan                Rhianna Mauro              Sydney Morrow

Madelyn Merrell                 Julia Ponella                    Lilian Rona                       Carly van Dongen

Emily Smith                         Mark Birmingham         Gage Griffin                      Drew Steinmetz

Ian Dutler                              Michael Impicciche      Jake Swinford                  Nick Falter

Sean Puent                          Jacob Tribby                   Cameron Brown              Luke Blackburn

Jordan Burger                     Brett Callahan                Kyle Kempin                     Nolan Robinson

Tommy McEvilly                 Patrick Wailes                Zoe Murphy                      Eric Ashby

Tyler Randazzo                   Cedric Dario                   Arman Sagalang              Ben Knoernschild

Chris Sciortino                    Samantha Copeland   Annie Bruggenschmidt

Others Involved:

Chris Albanese                    Erich Kendall                  Daniel Nix

More about the Choir Collaboration Project:

  • Twitter, 02/07/20 Mayor Denny Spinner – “Awesome performance…”
  • News Break, 01/31/20, Singing Hoosiers set to perform.
  • The Herald, 01/31/20, Singing Hoosiers at Southridge High School.
  • Singing Hoosiers Ensemble Website.

 

 

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