Collegiate Chorale
Dr.Hank Dahlman, conductor
The Collegiate Choral is the primary touring choral ensemble at WSU. The ensemble is composed of students from the freshman to graduate levels, with members selected from a variety of majors through a highly competitive audition. The Collegiate Choral performs vocal chamber music selected from diverse historical, compositional, and cultural traditions, and is featured annually in the WSU Madrigal Dinners, a Dayton tradition for over 16 years. Since the group’s inception in 1993, the Choral, formerly known as the Chamber Singers, has performed numerous concerts both on and off campus. Touring annually, they have sung at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., throughout Germany and Austria, and for major conferences of the American Choral Directors Association and the Ohio Music Education Association.
The Collegiate Choral has performed with and for such artists as The King’s Singers, Anonymous 4, and Leon Bates. The Chorale was also a guest ensemble with the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus, Neal Gittleman, conductor, for a 1997 performance of Ravel’s Daphinus and Chloe.
To learn more about the Collegiate Chorale and their work with the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus, go to the Dayton Philharmonic web site.
