Local children’s choirs to perform selection of sacred and secular music in May 4 spring concert

Concert: CSA Children’s Choirs Spring Concert

Date and time:Sunday, May 4, 2008 at 4 p.m.

Location: Sauder Concert Hall, Goshen College Music Center

Cost: Tickets are $7 adults, $5 seniors/students, available at the door only. GC students are admitted free with valid ID.

GOSHEN, Ind. – Two Community School of the Arts (CSA) Children’s Choirs will perform their spring concert in the Goshen College Music Center’s Sauder Concert Hall on Sunday, May at 4 p.m. Performing are Rejoice!, for grades 3-5 and directed by Rosemary Rupp, and Shout for Joy!, for grades 6-8 and directed by Diane Schrock Hertzler. The choirs will perform individually and together.

The choirs will be joined by Vivace Strings, a CSA ensemble directed by CSA Suzuki Strings Director Rosalyn Troiano. Vivace Strings is made up of CSA violin, cello, guitar and piano students, and will also feature guest vocalists Lisa Guedea Carreño and Seferina DeLeon.

Rupp, director of Rejoice!, teaches at West Goshen and Prairie View schools. She earned a master’s degree in education from Indiana University South Bend and a bachelor of arts from Goshen College. She is also active as a church musician, leading children’s choirs for many years. She is a former director of Shout for Joy!, leading the choir from 1977 to 1982. Rupp began her association with the Community School of the Arts in 2006 as the director of the Rejoice! Children’s Choir.

Hertzler has given leadership to Shout for Joy! Children’s Choir for the past 10 years. Hertzler received degrees in music education from Bluffton College and Indiana University South Bend. She teaches music part time at Ox Bow Elementary (Concord Schools) and has previously taught music in most grade levels from elementary through college. She is active as a church and community musician, and teaches privately in her home. Hertzler values the dedication to musical artistry that she observes in musicians of all ages, from pre-schoolers through senior citizens.

Troiano is the Suzuki String Director of the Goshen College Community School of the Arts, where she teaches private violin and viola students, Suzuki group classes, and directs the Home School Orchestra. Troiano received the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in 2000 from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester (N.Y.), where she was teaching assistant to viola professor George Taylor. She also studied Suzuki pedagogy with Anastasia Jempelis and Christophe Bussuat. In April 2006, Troiano was awarded the Shinichi Suzuki-American Suzuki Foundation Teacher Training Scholarship to study Suzuki pedagogy with Goshen College alumnus and author Ed Sprunger at the American Suzuki Institute in Stevens Point, Wis.

Tickets are $7 adults, $5 seniors/students, available at the door only. GC students are admitted free with valid ID.

Editors: For more information about this release, to arrange an interview or request a photo, contact Goshen College News Bureau Director Jodi H. Beyeler at (574) 535-7572 or jodihb@goshen.edu.

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