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Choral Arts Concert
Tuesday,
February 7, 2023
7:30 p.m.
James R. Cox Auditorium,
Alumni Memorial Building
Sevier County High School
Concert Choir
Nathan Rhea, conductor
Denise Morris, accompanist
‘Till the Stars Fall from the Sky
Sally K. Albrecht
arr. Jay Althouse
Lacrymosa from Requiem
W.A. Mozart
arr. Russell Robinson
Translation from Latin:
O how tearful that day, on which the guilty shall rise
from the embers to be judged. Spare them then, O God.
Merciful Lord Jesus, grant them rest.
Appalachian Psalm
arr. Jon Page
William Blount High School
Singers
Chris Clift, conductor
Non nobis Domine
Rosephanye Powell
Translation from Latin:
Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us,
but to thy name give the glory.
Esto les digo
Kinley Lange
Lucy George, soloist
Translation from Spanish:
This I say to you, if two of you are put in accord here
in the earth to ask anything in prayer my
Father which is in heaven, will give it to you.
Because where two or three are gathered in my name,
there am I, in the midst of them.
Will the Circle Be Unbroken
J. David Moore
Amaya Blake, Sydney McCarter, Will Ackerman; trio
UT Singers
Landon Paul, director
Light Switch
Charlie Puth
arr. Andrea M. Gantte
Brooks Brown, soloist
Deja Vu
Olivia Rodrigo
arr. Gantte
Teyah Young, soloist
Levitating
Dua Lipa
arr. Gantte
Gabby Pence, soloist
Farragut High School
Advanced Mixed Choir
Mitchell Moore, conductor
Mike Stallings, accompanist
Gloria from Mass in G
Franz Schubert
ed. Parker/Shaw
Margaret Walter and Skylar Switzer, soloists
Translation from Latin:
Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to all those of good will.
We praise thee, we bless thee, we worship thee, we glorify thee.
We give thanks according to thy great glory.
Lord God, Heavenly King, God the Father almighty.
Lord Jesus Christ, only-begotten Son.
Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father.
Thou who takest away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us.
Thou who takest away the sins of the world, receive our prayer.
You who sittest at the right hand of the Father, have mercy on us.
For Thou alone are holy, Thou alone art the Lord,
Thou alone art the most high, Jesus Christ.
With the Holy Spirit in the glory of God the Father. Amen.
Good Night, Dear Heart
Dan Forrest
Measure Me, Sky!
Elaine Hagenberg
Cocke County High School
Big Red Fire Choir
Amanda Short, conductor
Brandon Coffer, accompanist
Gloria in excelsis from Gloria
Antonio Vivaldi
Translation:
Glory to God in the highest.
Like a River in My Soul
Tim Osiek
Let Everything That Hath Breath
Jeffrey Ames
University of Tennessee
Chamber Singers
Dr. Angela L. Batey, conductor
Carolyn Gahan, graduate assistant
Tami Newsom, accompanist
Young Conductor's Performance
Featuring students of the
Choral Conducting Program
Immortal, Invisible
arr. Eric Thiman
Sarah Kitts, student conductor
The Lord is My Shepherd
Howard Goodall
Waverly Watkins, graduate conductor
Ubi caritas
Maurice Durufle
Wyley Wilkin, graduate conductor
Translation from Latin:
Where there is charity and love, God is there.
The love of Christ has gathered us together.
Let us rejoice and be glad in it.
Let us revere and love the living God.
And from a sincere heart let us love one another.
Saints Bound for Heaven
arr. Shaw/Parker
Carolyn Gahan, graduate conductor
Sevier County High School Concert Choir
Layla Barnes, Dakota Denton, Brylee Goolsby, Danielle Guarin, Marielle Guarin, Alijah Hope, Emily Kendrick, Macee Miller, Hanna Moss, Peyton Moss, Gabriela Murillo, Brooklynn Schwartz, Kendra Walker, Colton Woodin, Dinah Zavona
Nathan Rhea is in his fourteenth year as the Director of Choral Activities at Sevier County High School and is in his eighteenth year of teaching overall. Mr. Rhea received a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Music Education K-12 from Carson-Newman College, a Masters’ Degree in Curriculum and Instruction from Lincoln Memorial University, an Ed.S. in Instructional Leadership from Lincoln Memorial University and is currently working on his doctorate through East Tennessee State University. Mr. Rhea also serves as the Choir Director at Kodak United Methodist Church and has been involved in music his entire life.
William Blount High School Singers
Kenneth Ackerman, William Ackerman, Amaya Blake, Meaghan Dunne, Lucy George, Samuel Greene, Ethyn Hilliard, Ashton Hutchins, Rachel Jablonski, Brayden Justice, Weston Locke, Jackson Lotter, Sydney McCarter, Aiden Megahan, Lierin O’Neal, Savannah Porter, Dakota Shallcross, Sierra Shallcross, Elora Smith, Chloe Spurling, Abigail Tucker, Jacob Turner, Kadie Wolfenbarger
Chris Clift is in his twenty-third year of teaching choral music and is currently in his fifth year as Director of Choral Activities at William Blount High School. He is a proud graduate of the UT Choral Area where he earned both his Bachelor of Music Education and Master of Music (Choral Conducting) degrees. One of Mr. Clift’s favorite aspects of teaching is watching his students grow as people and as musicians.
Farragut High School Advanced Mixed Choir
Jasmyne Baker, Claire Barncord, Eleanor Beck, Emily Beichler, Brianna Booth, Katelyn Bruce, Kenedy Byars, Ava Coleman, Mason Cross, Ada Charlotte Dalton, Ellis Dalton, Evelyn Dorney, Spencer Graves, Brinlee Grow, Lindsey Hawkey, Melanie Hayman, Deborah Hill, Adam Hoyman, Bryson Keasling, Virginia Klenske, Hailey Lowry, Katelyn Lowry, Noah Mabe, Lea Matz, Macy McCown, Lydia McFall, Sheala Miller, Ella Morton, Joseph Nieman, Emmalee Overton, Case Pappas, Jacee Poole Margaret Raines, Audrey Redmon, Amelia Rettere, Ella Robinson, Angelina Scaduto, Kailey Scheafnocker, Jude Smith, Olivia Squires, Skylar Switzer, Tia Switzer, Abigail Vaugh, Margaret Walter, Beighlee Watt, Emma Wever, Ava Wetherby, Georgia Wilson, Sarag Wing, Mahlon Woods
Originally from Tifton, Georgia, Mitchell Moore graduated with Bachelor of Music Education in 2015 from Georgia College and State University (Milledgeville, GA) where he studied with Dr. Jennifer Flory. After graduation, he served as Director of Choral Activities for three years at Howard High School (Macon, GA). In 2020, he graduated with a Master of Music in Choral Conducting from the University of Tennessee (Knoxville, TN), where he studied with Dr. Angela Batey and directed the UT Women’s Chorale and VOLume men’s a cappella ensemble. He is proud to be serving his third year as the Director of Choral Activities at Farragut High School.
Cocke County High School Big Red Fire Choir
Summer Buckner, Gracie Burford, Emmie Caulder, Jackson Clark, Sean Colin, Connor Collett, Madison Cutshaw, Madison Dalton, Isaiah Davidson, Cincere Flynt, Katelynn Ford, Marklee Gregg, Brennon Haithcock, Leah Hannah, Aaron Holt, Luke Jarnigan, Luke Jones, Samara Kassab, Emma Grace Knight, Hannah Linderman, McKenzie Livingston, Valeria Martinez, Maliyah Massengill, Ethan McCracken, Rachel Moore, Jasmine Norton, Nicholas Parker, Kayla Peach, Luis Perez, Alexia Perry, Autumn Phillips, Shakyra Reed, Megan Riley, Lilianna Sane, Jayden Shearer, Alyssa Shelton, Johnathon Shiflett, Tamia Simpson, Kendryck Sprouse, Piper Stahlin, Chloe Stinnett, Hannah Suggs, Daeson Talley, Nevaeh Turner, Cherish Walker, Isaiah Walton, Kira Waughop, David Webb, Bella Wilds, Brooklyn Wiseman, Ean Witt, Ariel Woody, Terri Ziser
Amanda Lovell Short is currently in her tenth year of teaching. She is a native of Newport and is overjoyed to be teaching her passion of music and singing at her alma mater. As an educator at CCHS, she also doubles as the Music Appreciation instructor. She holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in music education from the University of Tennessee. She has served as the Tennessee Music Educators Association State Choir Chair for the SSAA & SATB All-State Tennessee Choirs for the past seven years. Professionally, she is a member of the Sigma Alpha Iota Music Fraternity and the American Choral Directors Association. In June 2022, her choir members performed in New York City at Carnegie Hall under the direction of Dr. Sonja Sepulveda. She has an award-winning husband, Michael and they have two beautiful sons Branson, age 6 and Cayson, age 4.
Chamber Singers
Jacob Altrock, Deven Asbell, Nora Beckett, Hannah Cipriana, Alec Daugherty, Jacob Engle, Carolyn Gahan, Ben Gouffon, Arnashia Gray, Kyra Green, Jackson Guthrie, Hunter Hawthorne, Emma Howard, Jantson Hundley, Sarah Kitts, Alexa Ligons, Mikayla Maldonado, Kallen Miller, Sherleen Mwaura, Anna Owens, Amara Pappas, Jasmin Power, Seth Reynolds, Solomon Sharp, Evelyn Spencer, Matt Stanley, Luke Tresner, Waverly Watkins, Rhiane West, Wyley Wilkin, Logan Williams, Blaise Wolfe, Teyah Young, Ameila Zahn
UT Singers
Hadi Bhidya, Brooks Brown, Jacob Engle, Jasmine Hernandez, Ella Lewis, Mikayla Maldonado, Bonnie Ortiz, Gabby Pence, Jack Rosamond, Georgia Smith, Luke Tresner, Teyah Young
Dr. Angela Batey
is recognized as a prominent conductor, clinician, adjudicator and teacher whose wide variety of experience encompasses professional, university, high school, community and church choruses. Dr. Batey is Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Director of Graduate Studies in the School of Music, Director of Choral Activities, and James Cox Professor of Music. She conducts the Chamber Singers and teaches conducting courses at the graduate levels. Dr. Batey is also Director of Music at Farragut Presbyterian Church.
She is a Past-President of the Tennessee American Choral Directors Association and is currently serving on the Executive Board of Southern Division ACDA. Batey has been Associate Conductor of Schola Cantorum of Florida, a professional chorus and Associate Music Director of the Florida Ambassadors of Music, and Festival Director of the International Cathedral Music Festival.
Dr. Batey has appeared as a clinician for the American Choral Directors Association, South Carolina Music Educators Association, Florida Vocal Association, East Tennessee Vocal Association, West Virginia Vocal Association, Georgia Vocal Association, and is a frequent adjudicator, clinician and guest conductor of choral festivals, honors choirs and educational workshops. Her concern for excellence in education is the focal point of her teaching career.
Dr. Batey holds two degrees from Birmingham-Southern College in Music Education and Musical Theatre, a master's degree from The Florida State University in Music Education and the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Choral Conducting from the University of South Carolina. In addition, she has studied Conducting with Hugh Thomas, Joseph Flummerfelt, Robert Shaw, Colleen Kirk, Clayton Krehbiel, Andre Thomas, Don V Moses and Larry Wyatt.
Dr. Khyle Wooten, a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is the Associate Director of Choral Activities and Assistant Professor of Music Education. He leads a unique life in music as an educator, conductor, researcher, and composer. He previously maintained posts with National Heritage Academies, Clayton County Public Schools, and the Walter D. Palmer School District where he has led middle and high school choral ensembles.
Wooten is the conductor and co-founder of the Sankofa Concert Series in Atlanta, Georgia, a vocal artist collective dedicated to the preservation and performance of works by composers of African descent. He has served as a music director in the Florida Conference of the United Methodist Church and several regions of The Fellowship of Affirming Ministries.
Dr. Wooten is an inaugural fellow with the Cleveland Institute of Music’s Future of Music Faculty Fellowship. At present, he commits to leading ongoing research on the lives and choral music of Black women composers. More, as composer, he has completed commissions for vocal works by the Cincinnati Song Initiative and the Kairos Concert Opera. His recent works include a TTBB arrangement of Samuel Coleridge Taylor’s Life and Death.
Wooten holds the bachelor of science degree in music education from Lincoln University, the master of music degree in choral conducting from Georgia State University, and the doctor of philosophy degree in music education, with an emphasis in choral conducting, from Florida State University.
Professor Andrew Skoog made his New York debut at Carnegie Hall as tenor soloist in Handel's Messiah conducted by John Rutter, internationally acclaimed composer and conductor. He returned to Carnegie Hall in 2005 as tenor soloist in Orff’s Carmina Burana, with Andrew Litton and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Since that time, Skoog has sung with orchestras all over the world, including the American Symphony Orchestra in Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. Skoog made his international debut in 2006 singing Carmina Burana in Bergen, Norway. Critics hail him as ideal in Carmina Burana because of his "full, lyric delivery in the demanding, high tessitura," which he has performed all over the world, in excess of forty engagements. Additionally sought after for Handel’s Messiah, Skoog has performed this work throughout the United States.
Other performances include Rachmaninoff’s The Bells, Mendelssohn’s Die Erste Walpurgisnacht and Elijah, Berlioz’ Requiem, Britten’s Saint Nicolas and Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, Brahms’ Liebeslieder Waltzes, Mozart’s Requiem and Coronation Mass, Ramirez’s Misa Criolla, Dvorak’s Stabat Mater and Mass in D, Franck’s Die Sieben Worte Jesu am Kreuz, Rossini's Stabat Mater and Petite Messe Solonnelle, Beethoven's Christus am Ölberge and Mass in C Major, Bach's St. Matthew Passion (Evangelist), Verdi's Requiem, Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, and Bruckner's Te Deum. Mr. Skoog’s passionate, artistic performances of Benjamin Britten works have attracted attention, with praise for his performances.
Twice a Metropolitan Opera regional finalist, Skoog made his professional operatic debut as Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly. His operatic credits include Sam Polk in Susannah, Alfred in Die Fledermaus, Camille in The Merry Widow, Tamino in Die Zauberflöte, Pong in Turandot, Satyavan in Savitri, The Prince in The Love for Three Oranges, The Teapot in L’Enfant et Les Sortileges, as well as roles in Carmen, The Pirates of Penzance, Rita, and Werther. An alumnus of the Des Moines Metro Opera Apprentice Program, Skoog was a finalist in the Dallas Opera Career Development Grant Auditions, and coached in master classes with John Wustman and the late Jerry Hadley.
Skoog is a Sandra G. Powell Excellence Professor at the University of Tennessee. In 2011, he was the recipient of the School of Music Distinguished Faculty Award in Teaching awarded by the student body of the UT School of Music. Before his appointment at Tennessee, Skoog was the Director of Choral Activities at Tyler Junior College in Tyler, Texas. During his tenure there, his choirs performed in Carnegie Hall, Westminster Hall in London, England and for the MTNA National Conference in Dallas, Texas.
Carolyn Gahan is a first-year Graduate Teaching Assistant pursuing her master’s degree in Choral Conducting. She recently graduated summa cum laude from the University of Tennessee with a degree in vocal music education. Ms. Gahan studied voice with Professor Andrew Wentzel, and was involved in various ensembles at the university and the Knoxville community. She served on the executive board for The University of Tennessee’s CNAfME (College National Association for Music Educators) chapter throughout her undergraduate education. Additionally, she gained experience student teaching in Knox County and Lenoir City Schools. She is an active musician at a church in the Knoxville Community. Ms. Gahan is a member of the National Music Educators Association and the American Choral Directors Association.
Waverly Watkins is a first-year student pursuing a master’s degree in Choral Conducting. She is the recipient of the prestigious Edward H. Hamilton graduate choral scholarship. She graduated from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 2022 with her bachelors of music in music education. Ms. Watkins studied voice with Professor Cecily Nall and has been involved in multiple UT ensembles throughout her university studies. She served as an officer in the College National Association for Music Educators and was the Music Education Specialist chair for the Alpha Kappa chapter of Alpha Delta Pi. Ms. Watkins student taught in Blount County Schools at Prospect and Rockford Elementary, as well as Heritage Middle and High School where she rehearsed and conducted multiple ensembles throughout the semester. In addition to her involvement with the University of Tennessee, Ms. Watkins is a choral scholar at St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral in Knoxville.
Wyley Wilkin is a second-year Graduate Teaching Assistant pursuing a master’s degree in Choral Conducting. He is a recent transplant from Northern California where he earned a bachelor’s degree in music from California State University, Sacramento. As an undergraduate, he was awarded 2nd place in his division at the NJATS 2006 Competition for Young Singers and first place at the Festival of New American Music Composers Competition that same year. Mr. Wilkin has been a voice, piano, and music composition instructor, as well as music director at a variety of churches in the Greater Sacramento Area for over fifteen years. For two years he served as a board member for the Sacramento Valley Choral Coalition and planned and hosted the valley’s first ever sacred choral festival, Sac Sings Sacred. He has composed music for professional vocal and instrumental groups and film, including the Emmy award-winning documentary, The Pink Room. Mr. Wilkin is a proud member of the American Choral Directors Association.
Vocal Studies at the University of Tennessee
Whether your passion is for art songs, operatic arias or sacred music, it will be kindled during your tenure under the guidance of the voice faculty at the University of Tennessee School of Music. Drawing from a wide-ranging breadth of teaching and professional performing experience, the voice faculty will encourage and guide your growth in whichever direction you choose.
| Kevin Class | Cecily Nall |
| David Crawford | Kimberly Roberts |
| Eileen Downey | Andrew Skoog |
| James Marvel | Renée Tatum |
Studies in Vocal Music Education at the University of Tennessee
https://music.utk.edu/education/
The University of Tennessee has a long and honored tradition in the field of Music Education at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. The Music Education program focuses on preparing prospective music educators for teaching music in grades K-12. The program is based on the National Standards for Arts Education in Music and the requirements for licensure established by the Tennessee Department of Education. The curriculum in vocal music education consists of courses in the latest techniques, strategies and methodologies for successful teaching. The music education faculty is diverse in its expertise and is current in the profession, often making local, national and international appearances and publishing in their respective areas.
| Loneka Battiste | David Royse |
| Fuller Lyon | Michael Stewart |
Khyle Wooten
All our lives, we have been shaped by voices. From the first cry of a newborn to the mournful singing at a graveside, our world is filled with the sound of the human voice.
For many here, choral music is a special part of our lives. We spend hours perfecting this art. It is often somewhat of a sacrifice to do so. As musicians, though, we understand the concept of sacrifice in other terms - hours spent in class rehearsal, in the practice rooms and in the library, the discipline of score study - these things communicate to us. We know how this translates into the graceful beauty of a fine performance.
For conductors, there is another source of grace through sacrifice that we see every day, in every rehearsal. It is found in our singers. Whatever their age or ability, they fill our lives with grace over and over again; the child who learns to match pitch, the middle schooler who finds a place to belong and to sing, the high school student who discovers the joy of artistic expression, the college student who matures into a fine teacher, scholar, and performer, the community or church choir members who come faithfully, week after week, year after year, to spend an evening singing with us. The sacrifice of these people, their willingness to place their musical endeavors in our hands, should fill us with grace as we interact with them, teach them, hold them accountable, and make music with them.
The pleasures of blending voices together, of responding to a leader’s direction, teaches important lessons about community and hard work. To learn even a simple song or to sing a polyphonic madrigal requires that we give up a bit of ourselves to the composer and to others in the choir. We share breath, voice, and text in a way different from any other human experience. The high harmonies of Appalachian folk songs, the guttural loveliness of Tuvan throat singers, the call and response of the cantor, these also show what it is like to sing in relation to others, to have bare human voices responding to each other in time.
The purpose of singing is not to set words to music. It is to take up where the words leave off, delving deeper into the human experience and our need to express it. Words are not enough, once the circumstances of life become overwhelming. Whether a heartbroken teenager listening to the top 40, or a grown-up living through an unimaginable torment, people are ill-equipped to express themselves through language alone. Singing allows more of our thoughts to be seen by others. It allows us to order our chaotic thoughts. These are the times when we "see through a glass darkly," and singing sheds light.
In an age of recorded and reproduced and over-amplified sound, nothing marks our humanity like those moments when we hear (and perhaps join in) to this most basic and sacred of things—the human voice riding on nothing but breath, offering up the mystery of song.
All-East/All-State Preparatory Clinic
August 27, 2022
Natalie L. Haslam Music Center
Fall Concert
September 27, 2022 at 7:30 p.m.
James R. Cox Auditorium,
Alumni Memorial Building
UT Singers Homecoming Concert
October 21, 2022 at 7:30 p.m.
Sandra G. Powell Recital Hall,
Natalie L. Haslam Music Center
Women's Chorale Showcase Concert
November 06, 2022 at 3:00 p.m.
Farragut Presbyterian Church
Chamber Singers Outreach Concert
Messiah, Part the First
November 20, 2022 at 3:00 p.m.
Farragut Presbyterian Church
Winter Concert
November 29, 2022 at 7:30 p.m.
James R. Cox Auditorium,
Alumni Memorial Building
Choral Arts Concert
February 07, 2023 at 7:30 p.m.
James R. Cox Auditorium,
Alumni Memorial Building
Spring Concert
Chamber Singers & Concert Choir
March 21, 2023 at 7:30 p.m.
James R. Cox Auditorium,
Alumni Memorial Building
Spring Concert
Men's and Women's Chorales &
Contemporary a cappella ensembles
March 28, 2023 at 7:30 p.m.
James R. Cox Auditorium,
Alumni Memorial Building
A Cappella Ensembles Concert
April 30, 2023 at 6:00 p.m.
Farragut Presbyterian Church
Please note that all concert programs are subject to change.
We hope you enjoyed this performance by the UT Choirs. Private support from music enthusiasts who attend more than 200 free UT concerts every year enables us to improve educational opportunities and develop our student artists’ skills to their full potential.
If you would like to join the many others who help the UT School of Music, you may make a gift to the UT Choral Program Fund by sending a check payable to the UT Foundation with UT Choral Fund in the memo line. Please send checks to: UT School of Music, 117 Natalie L. Haslam Music Center, 1741 Volunteer Blvd., Knoxville, TN 37996.
To learn more about how you can support the School of Music, contact
Chris Cox, Director of Development, 865-974-2365 or ccox@utfi.org.
