Wartburg Choir touring Yuma, Tucson, and Phoenix
The Wartburg Choir will tour Arizona from April 25 - April 27, 2019 with stops in Yuma, Paradise Valley and Tucson. View more and purchase tickets here.
Thursday, April 25, 7 p.m.
Featuring the Cibola High School Advanced Choir
Cibola High School Auditorium
4100 West 20th St.
Yuma, Ariz.
Friday, April 26, 7:30 p.m.
Featuring The Helios Ensemble
Catalina United Methodist Church
2700 East Speedway Blvd.
Tucson, Ariz.
Saturday, April 27, 7 p.m.
Camelback Bible Church
3900 East Stanford Drive
Paradise Valley, Ariz
Founded in 1937, the internationally acclaimed Wartburg Choir performs sacred music from all historical periods and styles and often collaborates with contemporary composers, including Morten Lauridsen, Ēriks Ešenvalds, Jake Runestad, Abbie Betinis, Ola Gjeilo, René Clausen, Stacey V. Gibbs, and Shawn Kirchner. Choir members are chosen by audition and represent most academic disciplines on campus. The choir makes annual concert tours throughout the United States and travels abroad every three years during the college’s one-month May Term. For more than 80 years the choir has toured domestically and internationally, visiting 38 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, 23 European countries, Scandinavia, South Africa, and three Canadian provinces. The Wartburg Choir represents one of the five vibrant choral ensembles offered through the music department.