APSU Chamber Singers - Sunday, March 6, 2011 at 4:30 p.m.

First Presbyterian Church Concert Series presents the Austin Peay Chamber Singers in concert in the FPC Sanctuary.
The concert is free and open to the public.

The 32-voice APSU Chamber Singers is the premier choral ensemble of the university. Repertoire ranges from Renaissance motets to classical masterworks and highly challenging contemporary literature. In addition to the Holiday Dinner and spring concerts, the Chamber Singers regularly represent the music department on concert tours, at university functions, and serve as a lab choir for graduate conducting students. The Chamber Singers are recognized as one of the most distinguished choral groups in the southeast, and have been selected to perform for regional and national conventions of the American Choral Directors Association and the Music Educators National Conference.

Dr. Korre D. Foster, originally from the Chicago area, began his education at Millikin University where he received a Bachelor of Arts in French education and a Bachelor of Music in vocal music education. After singing with Dr. Brad Holmes in the Millikin University Choir, he began to study at the University of Arizona. He earned the Master of Music degree in choral conducting under the tutelage of Dr. Bruce Chamberlain. As a recipient of the Harriet Hale Woolley Scholarship from the Fondation des États-Unis, Mr. Foster moved to Paris, France where he conducted the choirs of Le Palais Royal and L'Académie de Musique along side orchestral conductor Jean-Philippe Sarcos. While in Paris, he also sang with VOICES Choeur International and studied voice with Glenn Chambers, professor of voice at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et Dance de Paris.

At the University of Miami in Florida, Mr. Foster worked with Dr. Jo-Michael Scheibe, Dr. Donald Oglesby, and Dr. Joshua Habermann and conducted the Frost Chorale, Maelstrom Men's Choir, Collegium Musicum, and the Opera Choruses.  As a doctoral student, Korre performed with the Texas Tech Choir at St. John's College Cambridge and participated in the Bachwoche with Helmuth Rilling in Stuttgart, Germany. At Austin Peay State University, he leads the Chamber Singers, Governor Singers, and University Choir in addition to teaching choral literature, choral techniques, choral conducting and supervising graduate students. Dr. Foster has presented his research "Marc-Antoine Charpentier's Messe pour Monsieur Mauroy" at the Fourteenth Biennial International Conference on Baroque Music in Belfast, Northern Ireland as well as at the Southwestern ACDA Conference held in Denver, Colorado. He has also presented "Rhetoric in the French Baroque" at the 53rd National Conference of the College Music Society held in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

For a pdf of the concert poster, please click here.

For more information about this and other concerts at First Presbyterian Church, contact Daphne Garey at music@fpcnashville.org.