UAF music offers upcoming concerts

A choir of the north concert from 2014
UAF photo by JR Ancheta
The Choir of the North, seen during a performance in 2014, will have its spring concert on April 16.

The UAF Music Department will offer three concerts at Davis Concert Hall on April 14-16, including percussion, new music, world beat and the Choir of the North. 

  • At 7:30 p.m. on April 14, Sean Dowgray, UAF instructor of percussion, and Ryan Nestor, University of San Diego instructor of percussion, will explore musical time, texture and rhythm with percussion solos and duos. 
  • At 7:30 p.m. on April 15, three ensembles will perform. The UAF World Beat Ensemble will present their semester work, focusing on the hand drumming of Western Africa; the UAF New Music Ensemble will perform Joby Talbot’s “Similarities Between Diverse Things,” for piano, violin, cello and vibraphone. UAF’s resident percussion group, Ensemble 64.8, directed by Sean Dowgray, will perform with soprano Madeline Andiresen. They will present Christopher Cerrone’s “Goldbeater’s Skin” for percussion quartet and solo voice.
  • At 7:30 p.m. on April 16, the Choir of the North will perform its spring concert, including “Lux Aeterna” by Morten Lauridsen, “Anima Mea” by David Boew, “Flying Free” by Don Besig, and “Give Me Room” by Emerson Eads, a UAF alumni. The performance will also be live streamed at the UAF Music Department YouTube channel. 

Tickets are available at the door for each performance at $5 for students, seniors, and military, and $10 for general admission.