OCTC Chorus Presents Holiday Concert

Monday, December 4 @ 7 p.m.

Owensboro, KY (11/27/2023) — The Owensboro Community and Technical College Chorus (OCTC), under the direction of Dr. Connie Ford, Professor of Music, and accompanied by pianist Anna Sparks, will perform a Christmas concert at First Christian Church on Monday, Dec. 4 at 7:00 p.m. Featured composers of the 20th and 21st century programmed works, which cover a wide variety of styles, include Ralph Johnson, Robert Cohen, Kyle Pederson, Connor Koppin, Elain Hagenberg, Stephen Paulus, John Rutter, Morton Lauridsen, Carl Schalk, Norman Luboff, and Shawn Kirchner. Featured instrumentalists will be Kirsten Ahnell on clarinet, Lacy Jean on violin, Robert Meacham on string bass, and Clayton Manire on wind chimes. The forty-voice chorus has presented fall and spring concerts since the spring of 1987.

Scheduled performers include the following: Claudia Bartlett, Emeline Bartlett, Robbin Baughn, Bonnie Brown, Linda Burgess, Denise Bushong, Leigh Crume, Billy Elkins, Crystal Elkins, Beverly Chelgren, Kirby Chelgren, Janet Corum, Jeanette Ebelhar, Janet Estes, John Featherston, Melinda Francis, Maurice Hanley, Ellie Kline, Sam Koon, Rachel Kurz, Carroll Laswell, Leah McDivitt, Bob Meacham, Vicki Meacham, Nancy Muffett, Shannon Muffett, Allison Price, Scott Salyer, Christie Stumpf, Sr. Sharon Sullivan, Mike Tichenor, Chris Tolliver, Tom Troost, Tony Sparks, Philip Webster, Wendy Wells, Cailyn Westerfield, Jim Wilhoyte, Sarah Worth, and Mary Youngmann.

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Owensboro Community & Technical College is one of the sixteen community and technical colleges that make up the Kentucky Community & Technical College System. OCTC serves the KY counties of Daviess, Hancock, Ohio and McLean. OCTC has three campuses in Daviess County and a Center and Annex in Hancock County. OCTC strives to serve the communities in the service area by providing associate degree education for transfer, state of the art technical education for students focusing on entering the workforce, customized business and industry solutions through the Workforce Solutions division, and adult education and business and industry testing through the SkillTrain unit.

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The Kentucky Community and Technical College System is the Commonwealth's largest postsecondary institution with 16 colleges and more than 70 campuses. We also are Kentucky's largest provider of workforce training and online education. Through partnerships with business and industry, we align our programs to meet the needs of local employers. We help students fulfill their dreams of creating a better life through programs that lead directly to jobs or help them transfer to one of our four-year partners.

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