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Annual Concerto/Aria Competition Scheduled
Released January 22, 2008
(Aberdeen, S.D.) The NSU Annual Concerto/Aria Competition will be held on Jan. 31, 2008 at 7:30 p.m. in the Berggren Recital Hall in the NSU Johnson Fine Arts Center. This year, five vocalists and 11 instrumentalists will compete for the opportunity to perform with the Aberdeen University/Civic Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Robert Vodnoy for the Orchestra’s April 6, spring concert. Judges for this year’s competition will include Dr. Sarah Kahl and Dr. Abra Bush of Concordia College in Moorhead, Minn.
In order for a student to be eligible to compete, he/she must be enrolled as full-time student at NSU in the spring 2008 semester and be enrolled in applied lessons on their primary performing instrument or voice. Competitors may not be the winner of a previous AUCS concerto competition. Instrumentalists must perform a concerto movement, or a concert piece for instrument and orchestra. Vocalists must perform an aria from an opera or oratorio, or piece for voice and orchestra.
The concert is free and open to the public. For more information,
please contact Dr. Robert Vodnoy, Director of Orchestra Activities/Assistant
Professor of Strings at NSU, who coordinates this event.
About Northern State University
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