I Cantori
I Cantori is a select chamber choir for students with advanced vocal potential and
experience, and its members form the leadership core for Bel Canto (women’s chorus)
and Die Meistersinger (men’s chorus). Eligible students make a commitment to the ensemble
for the full academic year. Repertoire includes a broad stylistic range from diverse
musical eras.
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Performance Opportunities
Performance opportunities include off-campus tours as well as several on-campus concerts
each semester.
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Conductor's Philosophy
"If this is your first experience singing with a choir, I’m just as thrilled-if not
more-than if you came with years of training and experience. That’s how convinced
I am of the power of great music to uplift and transform singer and audience alike."
-Gennevieve Brown-Kibble
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-Gennevieve Brown-Kibble
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Auditions
Learn about the audition process
Auditions for I Cantori are held each fall for new students as well as former members.
Choir Audition Link
Click on this link to find everything you need to prepare for and schedule your audition.
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Registration
See what class to register for
Qualifying students register separately for I Cantori as well as Bel Canto or Die
Meistersinger for a total of two credit hours.
Freshmen and sophomores register for MUPF 118-I Cantori
and MUPF 119-Bel Canto or MUPF 158-Die Meistersinger
Juniors and seniors register for MUPF 318-I Cantori
and MUPF 319-Bel Canto or MUPF 358-Die Meistersinger
Freshmen and sophomores register for MUPF 118-I Cantori
and MUPF 119-Bel Canto or MUPF 158-Die Meistersinger
Juniors and seniors register for MUPF 318-I Cantori
and MUPF 319-Bel Canto or MUPF 358-Die Meistersinger
Recent Repertoire
- How Can I Keep from Singing? – Traditional, arranged by Ronald Staheli
- No Harm on My Knees (Come Here Jesus, If You Please) – Roland Carter
- I Need Thee Every Hour – Robert Lowry, arranged by John Ness Beck
- Charity and Love – Sarah T. Tullock
- The Glory of the Father – Egil Hovland
- Jesus, the Light of the World – George D. Elderkin, arranged by Evelyn Simpson
- Venite Exultemus Domino – Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
- Dona Nobis Pacem – Giovanni da Palestrina
- Let There Be Peace on Earth – Jill Jackson-Miller & Sy Miller, arranged by Charles Webb
- All Praise to Thee – Thomas Tallis
- Shalom – Traditional Hebrew
- The Lord Bless You and Keep You – John Rutter
- Ubi Caritas et Amor – Morten Lauridsen
- The Majesty and Glory of Your Name – Tom Fettke
- Wings of the Morning – John Rutter
- "Hallelujah" from The Cry of Jeremiah – Rosephanye Powell
- Day is Dying in the West – William F. Sherwin
- The Day is Done – Stephen Paulus
- Soon-Ah Will Be Done – Traditional, arranged by David Willcocks
- How Great Thou Art – Stuart Hine, arranged by Eric Nelson
- Shaker Songs – Traditional, arranged by Kevin Siegfried
- "Lay Me Low"
- "Love is Little"
- Glorious Treasure – Joseph Herl, arranged by Ethan McGrath
- Jesus Died on Calvary's Mountain – Edward Payson Hammond, arranged by Alice Parker
- When Jesus Wept – William BIllings
- Weeping Mary – Traditional, arranged by Brad Holmes
- As the Time Draws Nigh – Ethan McGrath
- Look Down Fair Moon – Ethan McGrath
- The Last Invocation – Ethan McGrath
- At the Last – Ethan McGrath
- A Procession Winding Around Me – Jeffrey Van
- By the Bivouac's Fitful Flame – Jeffrey Van
- Beat! Beat! Drums! – Jeffrey Van
- Look Down Fair Moon – Jeffrey Van
- Reconciliation – Jeffrey Van
- All the Pretty Little Horses – Traditional, arranged by Luigi Zaninelli
- Hard Times Come Again No More – Stephen Foster, arranged by Donald Moore
- Verleih' uns Frieden – Felix Mendelssohn
- "Agnus Dei" from Missa Brevis – Peter Williams
- Oh, That Bleeding Lamb – Undine Smith Moore
- Agnus Dei - Javier Busto
- Missa Brevis No. 1 in F – Joseph Haydn
- "Rejoice in God, O Ye Tongues" from Rejoice in the Lamb – Benjamin Britten
- Sing Praise to God – J. Bruce Ashton
- The Old Church – Stephen Paulus
- Nunc Dimittis – Ethan McGrath
- Children of the Heavenly Father – Caroline Sandell Berg
- "Evening Prayer" from Hansel and Gretel – Engelbert Humperdinck
- I Hear a Voice A-Prayin' – Houston Bright
- Down to the River to Pray – Sheldon Curry
- Let My Prayer Come Up Into Thy Presence – Henry Purcell
- Precious Lord, Take My Hand – Thomas A. Dorsey
- Dear Lord and Father – Charles H. Parry
- Lord, Make Us More Holy – Alma Blackmon
- In Christ There is No East nor West – Alexander R. Reinagle
- What Joy It Is to Worship Here – Peter Knudsen
- Come, Christians, Join to Sing – arr. David Evans
- Geistliches Lied, Op. 30 – Johannes Brahms
- Lord, Thou Hast Been Our Refuge – Ralph Vaughan Williams
- With A Voice of Singing – Kenneth Jennings
- If Ye Love Me – Philip Wilby
- Be Thou My Vision – Irish Folk Tune, arranged by John Rutter
- O Gladsome Light – James Bingham
- Day is Dying in the West – William F. Sherwin
- Shirei Shabbat – Theodore Morrison
- Five Hebrew Love Songs – Eric Whitacre
- The Road Home – Stephen Paulus
- Arise, Beloved! – Rosephanye Powell
- "A Red, Red Rose" from Four Robert Burns Ballads – James Mulholland
- Choral Selections from "West Side Story" – Leonard Bernstein, arranged by William Stickles
- Come, Peace of God – Eugene Butler
- Let There Be Peace on Earth – Jill Jackson-Miller & Sy Miller, arranged by Robert Edgerton
- Lily of the Valley – African-American Spiritual, arranged by Moses Hogan
- Wade in the Water – African-American Spiritual, arranged by Moses Hogan
- Soon One Day – Michael Sandvik
- We Shall Overcome – Charles Albert Tindley, arranged by William Farley Smith
- "Ubi Caritas" from Quatre Motets – Maurice Duruflé
- "Beati Quorum Via" from Three Motets –Charles Villiers Stanford
- Jubilate Deo – László Halmos
- Pater Noster – Javier Busto
- "Domine Deus" from Gloria – Antonio Vivaldi
- Exsultate Justi – Lodovico Viadana
- Ding Dong! Merrily on High – 16th-century French carol, arranged by David Willcocks
- Of the Father's Heart Begotten – Piae Cantiones, 1562, arranged by David Willcocks
- Open Thou Mine Eyes – John Rutter
- Come, O Thou Traveler Unknown – Dmitri Bortniansky & Charles Wesley, arranged by Bruce Ashton
- The Heart's Offering – Antony Baldwin
- There is a Balm in Gilead – René Clausen
- This is My Father's World – Franklin Sheppard & Maltbie Babcock, arranged by Roy Ringwald
- We Shall Walk Through the Valley in Peace – A. L. Hatter, arranged by Moses Hogan
- Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring – Johann Sebastian Bach
- Joy, Like a Pearl – Ethan McGrath
- "I Dream a World"
- "Every Valley Shall Be Exalted"
- Lovest Thou Me? – Bruce Ashton
- I'm Gonna Sing 'til the Spirit Moves in My Heart – Moses Hogan
- "Lonely Town" from On the Town – Leonard Bernstein, arranged by Ethan McGrath
- Sicut Cervus – Giovanni da Palestrina
- Psalm – Heinrich Schütz
- Like as the Hart Desireth the Waterbrooks – Herbert Howells
- "Lift Thine Eyes" from Elijah – Felix Mendelssohn
- O Lord God – Pavel Tchesnokov
- Savior, Like a Shepherd Lead Us – Dorothy A. Thrupp, arranged by Fred Bock
- My God is a Rock – Spiritual, arranged by Alice Parker & Robert Shaw
- Deep River – Spiritual, arranged by Anders Paulsson
- The Beatitudes – Vladimir Martynov
- The Lord is My Shepherd – Thomas Matthews
- The Word Was God – Rosephanye Powell
- The Invitation – Ethan McGrath
- Call to Prayer and Response – David Orvek
- More Holiness Give Me – P. P. Bliss, arranged by Ronald Staheli
- The Glory of the Father – Egil Hovland
- Praise to the Lord, the Almighty – Hugo Distler
- Not One Sparrow is Forgotten – Traditional, arranged by William Hawley
- Beau Soir – Claude Debussy
- "Dirait-On" from Les Chansons des Roses – Morten Lauridsen
- Rest – Ralph Vaughan Williams
- Three Blake Songs – Matthew Harris
- "The Lamb"
- "Tiger"
- He's Gone Away – Traditional, arranged by Robert Shaw & Alice Parker
- The Girl I Left Behind Me – Traditional, arranged by Patti Brennan
- Under the Greenwood Tree – David Willcocks
- Five Nursery Rhymes – Ralph Hunter
- Nun danket alle Gott – Johann Pachelbel
- Holy God, We Praise Thy Name – Ignaz Franz, arranged by John Ferguson
- Seek the Lord – René Clausen
- For the Beauty of the Earth – Philip Stopford
- A Prayer of St. Patrick – John Rutter
- Pilgrim’s Hymn – Stephen Paulus
- Come, Come Ye Saints – The Sacred Harp, 1844
- For All the Saints – Engelberg / Charles V. Stanford
- Ain’t Got Time to Die – Hall Johnson
- Soon-Ah Will Be Done/I Wanna Die Easy – Traditional, arranged by Craig Hella Johnson
- Salmo 150 – Ernani Aguiar
- Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing – Robert Robinson, arranged by James Mulholland
- Creator of the Stars of Night – Sarum Plainsong
- Plenty Good Room – Kirby Shaw
- I Will Arise – Southern Harmony, arranged by Alice Parker and Robert Shaw
- Steal Away – Spiritual, arranged by Isaac Johnson
- The Sound of Music – Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein
- "Dixit Dominus"
- "Rex Admirabilis"
- "Alleluia"
- Choral Selections from "The Sound of Music" – Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein, arranged by Clay Warnick
- Fa una canzona – Orazio Vecchi
- "It's a Grand Night for Singing" from State Fair – Richard Rodgers
- Three Shakespeare Songs – Ralph Vaughan Williams
- "Over Hill, Over Dale"
- "The Cloud-Capp'd Towers"
- O Mistress Mine – Ethan McGrath
- Io son la Primavera – William Hawley
- "Varied Thrushes" from Due North – Stephen Chatman
- Yellow Bird – Norman Luboff, arranged by Dan Davison
- How Can I Keep from Singing – Robert W. Lowry, arranged by Ronald Staheli
- Sing Me to Heaven – Daniel E. Gawthrop
- Aura Lee – W. W. Fosdick / Barbershop Harmony Society
- Hard Times Come Again No More – Stephen Foster, arranged by Donald Moore
- "Vinea mea electa" from Four Lenten Motets – Francis Poulenc
- Five Mystical Songs – Ralph Vaughan Williams
- Arise, Beloved – Rosephanye Powell
- Over the Land is April – Ethan McGrath
- Laudate Dominum – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- "The Old Church" from Prairie Songs – Stephen Paulus
- Be Thou My Vision – John Rutter
- Jesus Christ, the Apple Tree – Elizabeth Poston
- Jesus Died on Calvary's Mountain – Alice Parker
- O Vos Omnes – Blake R. Henson
- The Lamb – John Tavener
- Agnus Dei – Javier Busto
- Wondrous Love – Steven Sametz
- Shaker Songs – Traditional, arranged by Kevin Siegfried
- "Peace"
- "Love is Little"
- "Lay Me Low"
- "Heavenly Display"
- "Benediction"
- Hark, I Hear the Harps Eternal – Alice Parker
- A Song of Heaven and Homeland – Ira Sankey, arranged by Melvin West
- Jubilate Deo– Guy Woolfenden
- Blessed Be the Name of the Lord – Dale Grotenhuis
- All That Hath Life and Breath, Praise Ye the Lord! – René Clausen
- O God, Beyond All Praising – Gustav Holst, arranged by Richard Proulx
- Prayer is the Movement of Trust – J. Bruce Ashton
- Holy Spirit, Gracious Guest – Grayston Ives
- I Believe This is Jesus – Undine Moore
- In the Bleak Midwinter – Gustav Holst
- Zither Carol – arranged by Malcolm Sargent
- Cantique de Jean Racine – Gabriel Fauré
- Richte, Mich Gott – Felix Mendelssohn
- O Taste and See – Ralph Vaughan Williams
- The Majesty and Glory of Your Name – Tom Fettke
- O Come, O Come Emmanuel/Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child – Traditional, arranged by David Cherwien
- My Song in the Night – Traditional, arranged by Paul Christiansen
- There's a Light A-Comin' – David Lantz III
- He's Gone Away – Traditional, arranged by Alice Parker Robert Shaw
- Chindia – Alexandru Paşcanu
- This is My Song (Finlandia) -–Jean Sibelius
- Duerme Negrito – Robert DeCormier
- Russian Picnic – Harvey Enders
- The Blue Bird, Op. 119, No. 3 – Charles Villiers Stanford
- Waters Ripple and Flow – Deems Taylor
- All My Trials – Traditional, arranged by Norman Luboff
- Two Scottish Love Songs – Ethan McGrath
- The Earth Adorned – Waldemar Åhlén
- Kpanlongo – Derek Bermel
- Ehre sei Gott in der Höhe – Felix Mendelssohn
- Lord, Thou Hast Been Our Refuge – Ralph Vaughan Williams
- Nunc Dimittis – Ethan McGrath
- Wedding Cantata – Daniel Pinkham
- Hold On! – Eugene Thamon Simpson
- Fare Thee Well, Love – Jimmy Rankin/arr. Mulholland
- Lay a Garland – Robert Pearsall
- We Shall Overcome – Charles Albert Tindley, arranged by Farley Smith
- Sing We Merrily Unto God Our Strength – Sidney Campbell
- How Great Thou Art – Stuart Hine, arranged by S. Gordon Jessop
- Verleih' uns Frieden – Felix Mendelssohn
- Ubi Caritas – Maurice Duruflé
- As the Apple Tree – Ethan McGrath
- My Lord, What a Mornin' – Harry T. Burleigh
- Jesu, Jesu, Fill Us With Your Love – Ghanaian Folk Song
- The Road Home – Stephen Paulus
- Three Madrigals – Emma Lou Diemer
- Abendständchen – Johann Sebastian Bach
- Quand j'ai oui le tambourin – Claude Debussy
- Zigeunerleben – Robert Schumann
- "Les Misérables" Medley – Michel Schönberg, Alain Boubil, Herbert Kretzmer, arranged by Ed Lojeski
- Ubi Caritas – Morten Lauridsen
- We Gather Together – Stephen Paulus
- Beati Quorum Via – Charles Viliers Stanford
- Like As the Hart Desireth the Waterbrooks – Herbert Howells
- In Thee is Gladness – Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi, setting by Daniel Kallman
- Climbin' Up the Mountain – Moses Hogan
- Deep River – Anders Paulsson
- Let My Prayer Come Up Into Thy Presence – Henry Purcell and Sir Frederick Bridge
- Evening Prayer – Engelbert Humperdinck and Phil Mattson
- Come, Peace of God – Eugene Butler
- I Lay My Sins on Jesus – Allen W. Foster
- Now the Day is Over – Joseph Barnby
- The Day Thou Gavest, Lord, Has Ended – Clement Scholefield
- Love Divine, All Loves Excelling – John Rutter
- The Lord is My Shepherd – John Rutter
- Praise the Lord – Ralph Johnson
- Wondrous Love – Steven Sametz
- I Lay My Sins on Jesus – Allen Foster
- All Praise to Thee – Thomas, Tallis
- Now the Day is Over – Joseph Barnby
- Selections from "West Side Story" – Leonard Bernstein, arranged by William Stickles
- Due North – Stephen Chatman
- "Porgy & Bess" Medley – George & Ira Gershwin, arranged by Clay Warnick
- Let No Sad Thought Oppress Thee – Johannes Brahms
- Create in Me, O God – Johannes Brahms
- Exsultate Justi – Lodovico Viadana
- I Sat Down Under His Shadow – Edward Bairstow
- Singet dem Herrn – Johann Pachelbel
- Hear My Prayer, O Lord – Henry Purcell
- The Lord Bless You and Keep You – John Rutter
- O Lord God – Pavel Tchesnokov
- The Lord's Prayer – Antony Arensky
- Plorate Filii Israel – Giacomo Carissimi
- Lux Aurumque – Eric Whitacre
- Wondrous Love – Steven Sametz
- Come, O Thou Traveler Unknown – Bruce Ashton
- My Shepherd Will Supply My Need – Virgil Thompson
- I Love the Lord – Ronald Staheli
- The King of Love My Shepherd Is – Mack Wilberg
- O God Beyond All Praising – Richard Proulx
- I'm Gonna Sing 'Til the Spirit Moves in My Heart – Moses Hogan
- Steal Away – Traditional, arranged by Isaac Johnson
- Give Me Jesus – Traditional, arranged by Larry Fleming
- Shirei Shabbat – Theodore Morrison
- Ubi Caritas – René Clausen
- Sing Me to Heaven – Daniel Gawthrop
- If Ye Love Me – Philip Wilby
- Let Thy Holy Presence – Tchesnokov/Hopson
- Hark, I Hear the Harps Eternal – Shaw-Parker
- Cry Out and Shout – Knut Nystedt
- Goin' Up to Glory – André Thomas
- Abide With Me: 'Tis Eventide – Crawford Gates
- Stay With Us – Egil Hovland
- When in Our Music God is Glorified – C.V. Stanford
- Savior, Like a Shepherd Lead Us – Fred Bock
- Jesus, Lead the Way – Richard Proulx
- Breathe on Me, Breath of God – Jonathan Willcocks
- How Can I Keep From Singing? – Ronald Staheli
- Sometimes a Light Surprises – Gustav Holst, arranged by Mark Hill
- Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing – James Mulholland
- Set Me As A Seal – René Clausen
- Look What Dey Doin' to Jesus – Richard Jackson
- All That Hath Life and Breath Praise Ye the Lord! – René Clausen
- Jesus Died On Calvary's Mountain – Alice Parker
- Shenandoah – James Erb
- Sure On This Shining Night – Samuel Barber
- "Somewhere" from West Side Story – Leonard Bernstein, arranged by Robert Edgerton
- Wedding Cantata – Daniel Pinkham
- Ziguenerlieder – Johannes Brahms
- What Sweeter Music – John Rutter
- Bogoroditse Devo – Sergei Rachmaninov
- Pater Noster – Javier Busto
- How Excellent is Thy Name – Eugene Butler
- With a Voice of Singing – Kenneth Jennings
- Seek the Lord – René Clausen
- Beautiful Savior – Melius Christiansen
- The Heart's Offering – Anthony Baldwin
- We Shall Walk Through the Valley in Peace – Moses Hogan
- For Ye Shall Go Out With Joy – Randall Thompson
- The Paper Reeds By the Brooks – Randall Thompson
- Praise to the Lord, the Almighty – Hugo Distler
- O Taste and See – Ralph Vaughan Williams
- Kyrie Eleison – Felix Mendelssohn
- The Water is Wide – Luigi Zaninelli & Lara Hoggard
- Love is Life – Jackson Hill
- The Earth Adorned – Waldemar Åhlén, arranged by Kenneth Jennings
- Io Son la Primavera – William Hawley