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| Bingham Vick has directed the Furman Singers for the past 38 years. |
GREENVILLE, S.C.—The Furman University Singers, one of America’s premier collegiate choral ensembles, will travel to Europe this summer for their 18th biennial concert tour abroad.
Under the direction of Dr. Bingham Vick, Jr., the Singers will perform concerts in Switzerland, Austria and Hungary. The group will depart the U.S. on July 24 and return Aug. 3.
Prior to their departure, the Singers will perform Sunday, July 20 at the 11:15 a.m. service at Atlanta’s Peachtree Road United Methodist Church. Later that day, the group will perform a 7 p.m. concert at Shallowford Presbyterian Church in Atlanta.
During their concerts, the Singers will perform works by European composers Mozart, Haydn, Brahms and Bruckner, as well as pieces by American composers Ralph Manuel, Morten Lauridsen and Kirke Mechem. The group will also perform American folk songs and spirituals by Ronald Staheli, John Ratledge, Paul Basler, Moses Hogan and Brazeal Dennard.
The group’s concert venues in Europe include the Jesuitenkirche in Lucerne, Switzerland, Salzburger Dom in Salzburg, Austria and Mátyás Church in Budapest, Hungary.
Adam Pajan, a 2008 Furman graduate from Simpsonville, will be the organist/accompanist for the tour.
Founded in 1946 by DuPre Rhame, the Furman Singers are celebrating their 62nd anniversary year. They have been under the direction of Dr. Vick since 1970. In 1996, the group was featured as part of the nationally televised “Pops Goes the Fourth” performance with the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, and, in 2006, toured with the Boston Pops Orchestra as part of its Holiday Pops tour.
Vick is in his 38th year as director of the Furman Singers. A member of the Furman music faculty since 1970, he teaches voice, conducting and choral methods. He is also artistic director and conductor of the Greenville Chorale.
A noted conductor, clinician, and teacher, Vick received South Carolina’s highest civilian honor, the Order of the Palmetto, in recognition of his outstanding leadership and contributions to the arts in the state in 2000. In the spring of 2004, Vick was honored by the South Carolina’s Arts Commission with the Elizabeth O’Neal Verner Governor’s Award for individual leadership and accomplishment in the arts in the state.
For more information, contact Dr. Vick at 864-294-2161 or bing.vick@furman.edu.
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6-24-08
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