SMITH COLLEGE ALUMNAE CHORUSwithMOŠKI ZBOR SLOVENSKE TURNEJE
SCACSIMFONIČNI ORKESTER DOMŽALE – KAMNIK ŽENSKI ZBOR SMITH
COLLEGE ALUMNAE CHORUS (ZDA)MOŠKI ZBOR SLOVENSKE TURNEJE
SCACSIMFONIČNI ORKESTER DOMŽALE – KAMNIK Dirigent / Conductor:
JONATHAN HIRSHDEBORAH GARRETT, sopran / sopranoALISON LA POINTE,
mezzosopran / mezzosopranoALJAŽ ŽGAVC, tenor / tenorROK BAVČAR,
bariton / baritoneGREGOR KLANČIČ, orgle / organ Haydn: Nelson
MassDuruflé: Requiem Smith College Alumni Chorus The mission of the
Smith College Alumnae Chorus (SCAC) is to foster connections between
alumnae and friends of the college’s many choral programs. SCAC
provides opportunities to advance music education, music appreciation,
cultural exchange, and charity by performing concerts domestically and
abroad. The ensemble debuted in 2010 at campus celebrations for the
125th anniversary of the Glee Club, and in 2011, they toured Sicily,
performing the Mozart Requiem with local musicians. In 2013, the group
performed Beethoven’s Mass in C and Choral Fantasy in Tallinn,
Estonia, and St. Petersburg, Russia. While in Tallinn, they were
awarded the Ambassador's Award for Cultural Diplomacy by the U.S.
Embassy in Estonia. In 2014, SCAC gave a concert in celebration of the
noted choral composer Alice Parker (Smith College class of 1947), in
which Parker conducted the group's performance of her work. Most
recently in 2016, the SCAC traveled to Cuba for its third
international tour with performances of Pergolesi’s “Stabat
Mater” and Vivaldi’s “Gloria” in Havana and Matanzas. Like the
previous tours, this performance was also a collaboration with local
musicians. Founded in 1871, Smith College is a prestigious women's
college located in Northampton, Massachusetts. Smith has a long
history of musical excellence; in the 1950s, the Smith College Chamber
Singers were the first women's ensemble to travel abroad from the
United States. The Chamber Singers also have the distinction of having
been the first women's choral ensemble to perform at Canterbury
Cathedral, St. Paul's Cathedral, and Chartres Cathedral. Many members
of the SCAC studied music while at Smith or took part in ensembles
like the Chamber Singers and the Glee Club. They come from throughout
the United States and from more than a dozen foreign countries. The
ensemble includes everyone from recent graduates in their early 20s to
older alumae. Jonathan Hirsh, conductor A native of Brooklyn, New
York, conductor Jonathan Hirsh has garnered the respect and praise of
audiences, colleagues, and critics throughout the United States and
abroad. As senior lecturer and director of choral and orchestral
activities at Smith College, Hirsh conducts the Orchestra, Glee Club
and Chamber Singers. Celebrating the orchestra’s 100th anniversary,
the Smith College Choirs joined and the University of Michigan Glee
Club presented a sold-out performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony
in Carnegie Hall. He has traveled with the orchestra to Cuba, Sicily
and to Trinidad and Tobago for a collaboration with the National Youth
Orchestra. Hirsh graduated from Amherst College in 1986 and received
his MM and DMA in conducting from the University of Michigan. He has
taught at the Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C., Amherst
College, the University of Michigan, the University of California at
Santa Cruz and Tufts University. A frequent guest conductor, clinician
and adjudicator, Hirsh's repertoire and activities include choral
works, oratorio, opera and symphonic works. Under Hirsh's baton, the
Smith Orchestra made its Carnegie Hall debut in 2005 performing
Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the Smith choral ensembles and the
University of Michigan Men's Glee Club.
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