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Concert to feature two choirs, band on Oct. 5

BLUFFTON, Ohio—Bluffton University will hold a concert featuring its Camerata Singers, University Chorale and Concert Band at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 5, in Yoder Recital Hall.

The performance, part of Homecoming weekend activities at Bluffton, is free and open to the public. A free-will offering will be taken for music scholarships during intermission.

Dr. Mark J. Suderman, professor of music, conducts Camerata Singers, a select, 28-voice chamber choir, and the University Chorale, a 66-member mixed ensemble. Pianist Ana Yoder Coulter will accompany both choirs. Camerata Singers will present a program of mainly British and American music, while the chorale’s numbers are folk songs from Brazil, Canada, Ireland and Spain, as well as the U.S.

Dr. Roy Couch, assistant professor of music, conducts the Concert Band, which includes nearly 40 student members. The band will perform works by current wind band composers such as John Mackey, Andrew Boysen Jr. and Donald Grantham.