OCTC Community Chorus Presents Spring 2024 Concert

April 29, 2024 7 p.m. @ First Christian Church

by Katie Powers

Owensboro, KY (04/22/2024) — The Owensboro Community & Technical College (OCTC) Community Chorus, under the direction of Dr. Connie Ford, professor of music, and with collaborative pianist, Anna Sparks, will perform a concert at First Christian Church on Monday, April 29, 2024 at 7:00 p.m. First Christian Church is located at 700 JR Miller Blvd. Owensboro, KY.

Featured composers of the 20th and 21st century programmed works, which cover a wide variety of styles, include Robert Fountain, Kinley Lange, Alice Parker and Robert Shaw, Elain Hagenberg, Stephen Paulus, William Appling, Paul Marsena, James Erb, Shawn Kirchner, and Mark Hayes.

Featured instrumentalists will be oboist Meggan Clark and cellist Ben Goodwin. Sopranos performing include the following: Robbin Baughn, Patty Brown, Denise Bushong, Janet Corum, Jeanette Ebelhar, Melinda Francis, Mary Jungmann, Rachel Kurz, Carroll Laswell, Leah-Marie McDivitt, Shannon Muffett, Jo Nelson, Allison Price, Alice Welsh, and Sarah Worth. Tenors performing include the following: R. D. Bramschreiber, Chris Freels, Rick Houston, Chris Gutierrez, Robert Meacham, Mike Tichenor, Chris Tolliver, and Philip Webster. Alto performers include the following: Connie Baldwin, Claudia Bartlett, Emeline Bartlett, Bonnie Brown, Angela Bruce, Linda Burgess, Beverly Chelgren, Leigh Crume, Susan Eineigel, Crystal Elkins, Janet Estes, Cindy Goodrid, Debbie Jordan, Ellie Kline, Vicki Meacham, Christie Stumpf, and Wendy Wells. Bass performers include the following: Mike Bruce, Kirby Chelgren, Billy Elkins, Sam Koon, Scott Salyer, Nandy Shemwell, Tony Sparks, David Taylor, Jim Wilhoyte, and Benjamin Wright.

The Owensboro Community and Technical College Community Chorus has presented fall and spring concerts since the spring of 1987 and is open to the OCTC campus community and interested community singers. For more information, please contact connie.ford@kctcs.edu.

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.

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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