Concordia music department hosts Spring 2024 honor recital

On Tuesday, April 9 at 7 p.m., Concordia’s music department hosted its spring 2024 honor recital. The honor recital allows students who perform at a high level to showcase their vocal and instrumental talents in front of a live audience.
Placement in the honor recital program is based on students’ performance at auditions held by music department faculty members. The department holds auditions and recitals twice per year, or once each semester. This semester’s recital featured pieces from composers from across several centuries and many countries, and pieces performed vocally or on instruments including clarinet, trombone, piano and organ.
Student performers included (listed in program order):
“Rhapsody in E-flat Major, Op. 119, No.4” by Johannes Brahms—Joshua Jurchen, sophomore, Seward, piano
“Cold December Flies Away” by Charles Ore—Grace Miller, senior, Marysville, Kansas, organ
“La reveil de la mariee,” “Chanson des cueilleuses de lentisques,” and “Tout gai!” from “Cinq melodies populaires grecques” by Maurice Ravel—Lydia Armbrecht, junior, Williamsburg, Iowa, mezzo-soprano
“Ouvre Tes Yeux Bleus” from “Poeme d’amour” by Jules Massenet—Dylan Parker, sophomore, Fairfax, Virginia, baritone; Dr. Elizabeth Grimpo, piano
“Entschwundene Tage, Op. 57, No. 36” by Edvard Grieg—Sadie Henson, junior, Herrin, Illinois, piano
“Allegretto” from “Clarinet Sonata” by Camille Saint-Saens—Isabella Schmid, junior, Rockford, Illinois, clarinet; Dr. Elizabeth Grimpo, piano
“Elegy for ‘Mippy’ II” by Leonard Bernstein—Jackson Munter, junior, Ithaca, trombone
“Toccata on O Filii et Filiae” by Lynwood Farnam—Ethan Gillespie, junior, Random Lake, Wisconsin, organ
“Intermezzo” from “Faschingsschwank” by Robert Schumann—Timothy Mars, junior, Kimball, piano
“Sull’aria” from “Le nozze de Figaro” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart—Kirsten Horne, junior, Seward, soprano; Gabrielle Krutsinger, senior, Imperial, soprano; Dr. Elizabeth Grimpo, piano
“Grand Choeur Dialogue” by Eugene Gigout—Thomas Schulteis, senior, Parker, Colorado, organ
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Concordia University, Nebraska, founded in 1894, is a fully accredited, coeducational university of The Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod located in Seward, Nebraska, which currently serves more than 1,700 students. Concordia offers more than 100 undergraduate, graduate and professional programs in an excellent academic and Christ-centered community that equips men and women for lives of learning, service and leadership in the church and world. For more information, visit cune.edu.