Trinity University in Concert - Winchester

Wednesday, June 12, 2024 | 5:30pm

Winchester Cathedral (9 The Cl, Winchester, England SO23 9LS)

Come join us for a magical afternoon of music of Choral Evensong at Winchester Cathedral!

Trinity University is set to deliver a performance that will leave you in awe. Don't miss out on this incredible opportunity to witness the harmonious blend of voices in person.

Mark your calendars and get ready for an afternoon filled with beautiful melodies and unforgettable moments. See you there!

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Trinity University Chamber Singers

The Trinity University Chamber Singers have performed for the National Collegiate Choral Organization, the Texas Music Educators Association Convention, and the College Music Society National Conference. The enjoy touring nationally, throughout the region, and abroad. In 2018 they served as ensemble-in-residence for the 2018 Eisenstadt Classical Music Festival in Austria where they performed Haydn’s Die Schöpfung and Beethoven’s Mass in C Major. This past Fall of 2021 they collaborated with the Sinfonia Spirituoso chamber orchestra based in California on a program of French Baroque music featuring Michel Richard Delalande’s De profundis. They made their Carnegie Hall debut in June of 2022 at the featured ensemble in Mozart’s Requiem. This summer 2024 they will travel to the United Kingdom and France for a 12-day tour to perform at prominent venues throughout the region and several collaborations including a featured performance of Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem at L'église de la Madeleine in Paris and a live radio broadcast Evensong from Winchester Cathedral.

As advocates for new music, the Chamber Singers have introduced many new works to the repertoire including joint premieres with New York Polyphony and Cantus. The Chamber Singers have been frequent collaborators with the San Antonio Symphony including Mozart’s Mass in C Minor, Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloe, and Tristia by Berlioz. Other notable projects include a Spanish Baroque program with the Walden Chamber Players of Boston, Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas with period instruments, Tomás Luis de Victoria’s 12-voice Missa “Laetatus sum” in Washington, DC, and the nationally touring Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddess multimedia concert. In 2022, the Trinity University Chamber Singers were awarded 3rd place for The American Prize in the College/University Choir division and had the honor to perform for the 2023 TMEA Convention.

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Dr. Gary Seighman is Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities at Trinity University. He is the recipient of the 2023 Most Innovative Programming Award from the Texas Choral Directors Association. Under his direction, Trinity’s choirs have garnered regional and national accolades with invited conference performances, tours throughout the United States and abroad, innovative collaborations, and third place for the 2022 American Prize. A charismatic and passionate artist, Seighman is highly sought after as a clinician, guest conductor, and speaker. In June 2022 he served as guest faculty artist with Manhattan Concert Productions for whom he conducted Mozart’s Requiem at Carnegie Hall. He returned to Carnegie Hall in February 2023 to conduct the Treble Choir for the High School Honors Performance Series. He has traveled to East Asia five times since 2015 where he conducted for the Peking University Summer Opera Program, led graduate masterclasses in Taiwan, and guest conducted throughout China. In 2019 he was artist-in-residence at University College-Dublin. A year earlier he was chorusmaster for the Classical Music Festival in Eisenstadt and Vienna. The current 2023-2024 season includes speaking engagements in Denver and Minneapolis, leading multiple TMEA region choirs around the state, conducting the International High School/Youth Choir at Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto, and a tour to France and the U.K. with the Trinity Chamber Singers. He will return to Carnegie Hall in 2025 to conduct the National High School Honors Mixed Choir.