The Mount Holyoke Chamber Singers
Tamara Knell, Conductor
Formed in the fall of 1967, the Mount Holyoke Chamber Singers have become known to a wide and varied audience through their concert performances and informal programs both on and off campus. On campus, they have sung for the trustees, for Alumnae Council representatives, in Abbey Chapel, and at Father's Weekend and Commencement concerts. Off campus, they have sung for alumnae clubs and in joint concerts with Amherst and the State University of New York. Last spring the Chamber Singers performed at a Boston Pops Concert at Symphony Hall in Boston. They have appeared on television and have premiered two American choral works. The Chamber Singers and the Mount Holyoke Glee Club have presented concerts with Lehigh, Yale and MIT.
Heading the list of activities for this year are a concert in Town Hall in New York City on May 1st, and a European tour scheduled for June-July 1969. The first such tour by any choral group in Mount Holyoke's history, it will enable the Chamber Singers to bring their high level of choral singing to European competition and performance. They will take part in the Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod in Wales, and the International Koorfestival 1969 at the Hague; they will sing in concert halls, churches and meeting places of alumnae and friends of Mount Holyoke in England, Wales, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Italy. In informal visits, the Chamber Singers will exchange techniques and experiences in choral music with European composers, conductors and choruses.
Tamara Knell, founder of the Chamber Singers and director of choral music at Mount Holyoke College, hold[s] BS and MS degrees from the Julliard [sic] School of Music, where she was a scholarship student of Eduard Steuermann in piano and Abraham Kaplan in conducting. She taught both piano and conducting at Juilliard, and performed as pianist and conductor on radio and television, in competitions, and in premiers of American choral and orchestral works.
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Karen Ahlquist '70 Linda Baker '69 Martha Battle '69 Ann Brown '71 Jill Clark '69 Margaret Cox '69 Jane Cummins '69 Mary Beth Evans '69 Sandra Gostanian '69 Judith Graves '70 Louise Hayes '70 Christina Huemer '69 Susan Huston '69 Martha King '70 Bonnie McClintock '70 Marjorie Melnick '72 Melanie Oldfather '71 Jean Olson '70 Kathryn Plowitz '71 Kathleen Rooney '71 Brenda Steinmetz '70 Judith Whipple '69 Joyce Wilson '71 |
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