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wellsThe Wells College Choral Ensembles will present their annual Fall Concert on Saturday, October 30 at 5:15 p.m. in Barler Recital Hall on the Wells campus in Aurora. This event is part of the college’s annual Family and Friends Weekend. The three singing groups – Women’s Ensemble, Men’s Ensemble, and the mixed voice Concert Choir – will present a wide variety of choral works from the sixteenth century to the present. Admission to the concert is free, and the public is cordially invited to attend this festive event.

The Wells choral ensembles have performed widely throughout the Northeastern U.S., and in Europe, winning prizes in international competition, singing by invitation for national professional music organizations such as MENC and ACDA, and appearing on public television and radio in this country and abroad. These activities have won a reputation of choral excellence for the singers from Wells.

This year's Fall Concert will feature the Concert Choir of mixed voices singing sacred and secular works from composers such as Adam Gumpelzhaimer, Thomas Ford, Hans Leo Hassler, G.P. da Palestrina, Thomas Weelkes, and J.S.Bach. Nineteenth Century works by Felix Mendelssohn, Gabriel Faure, William Kent and Charles Wesley, Jr. Also on the program will be arrangements of American folksongs. The Women’s and Men’s Ensembles will each present works from their own repertoires. Pianist Russell Posegate, lecturer in music at Wells, will accompany the ensembles.

Crawford R. Thoburn, the founder and conductor of the Wells Choral Ensembles is Professor of Music, and Chair of the Division of the Arts at the college. In addition to his work as a conductor and teacher, more than one hundred of his choral compositions, arrangements, and editions have been published, and choirs across the U.S. and throughout the world sing his music. Professional, church, and college groups record his works, which have been broadcast on National Public Radio and Public Radio International.

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