Central College’s music program welcomes the public to three concerts in February.
Festival Choir, A Cappella Choir and Chamber Singers will perform at 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 9, in Douwstra Auditorium on Hoekstra Family Stage. The performance will conclude 10-12th Grade Singfest, an all-day workshop hosted by Central’s music program. Mark Babcock, a 1991 Central graduate, M. Joan Kuyper Farver Endowed Chair in Music and professor of music, will direct the performance. Joining Babcock will be a guest director, Liza Calisesi Maidens, a 2010 Central alumna and director of choral activities at the University of Illinois-Chicago.
ALMA will perform a concert at 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 10, in Cox-Snow Music Center. The concert will be directed by Gabriel Espinosa, a 1979 Central graduate and associate professor of music. There is no charge for the concert.
Festival Honor Band and Symphonic Wind Ensemble will perform at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 23, on Hoekstra Family Stage in Douwstra Auditorium. The performance will conclude 9-12th Grade Bandfest, an all-day workshop hosted by Central’s music program. Brad Lampe, lecturer of music, will direct the performance.
