Series: Rising Stars
Date: Friday & Saturday, October 31 & November 1, 2008
Time: Friday - 8 p.m., Saturday 2 p.m. & 8 p.m.
Venue: University Theatre

Ticket Prices: free, donations will be accepted for the Bryce Jordan Scholarship Fund for the Arts

Kathryn Evans directs the UT Dallas Chamber Singers and students from Intermediate Voice in a family friendly choral concert featuring songs from popular Broadway shows.  The concert will focus on large choral numbers from shows such as Les Miserables, Jekyll and Hyde, Spelling Bee, Beauty and the Beast, Sweeney Todd, Rent and Spring Awakening.  Come listen to a tale as old as time, dream a dream and hear the people sing!   

The UT Dallas Chamber Singers was formed in 1994 as a performing ensemble of 20-24 singers. The repertoire for the ensemble is selected from a broad range of chamber vocal literature, including both sacred and secular music spanning the Renaissance to the contemporary periods of music history and modern jazz arrangements. The ensemble performs regularly on campus, including performances at the Renaissance Faire, the Annual Holiday Sing during the Fall Semester, and in concert as a Jazz Singers Ensemble in the Spring Semester. The UTD Chamber Singers collaborates with many other ensembles on campus, including the Jazz Ensemble, Guitar Ensemble and Dance Ensemble. They also perform on the Winter and Spring Arts Festivals every semester. In the Spring, the Chamber Singers join the UTD Chorale for a choral concert of large works with orchestra.

Past concerts have included "Something Wicked This Way Comes", "Over the Rainbow: A Tribute to Harold Arlen", “A Tribute to the Manhattan Transfer,” “All Mozart Concert,” “Swing Thing,” “Birds, Beasts and Bugs,” “A Victorian Christmas” and “A Celebration of Monteverdi.”

Students must audition and be accepted in order to enroll in Chamber Singers. Auditions are arranged in the Spring for new students and before every long semester during the registration periods.

Kathryn Evans joined the faculty of the University of Texas at Dallas in 1994.  Currently, she serves as the Associate Dean for the Arts in the School of Arts and Humanities, teaches vocal and choral music, and directs the UTD Chamber Singers. She is an accomplished recitalist and chamber musician, performing in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area and in Europe. Before coming to UTD, she was the Director of the Bach Society Chamber Orchestra and Chorus in La Jolla, California and the Musical Director of the Orpheus Ensemble. She founded and directed the Washington Pro Musica and the Early Music Ensemble of San Diego.   She has directed European concert tours of Switzerland, Germany, France and Italy. Ms. Evans holds Master of Arts degrees in Music and in Mathematics from the University of California at San Diego. Ms. Evans has completed tours of music for voice and guitar with fellow faculty member Dr. Enric Madriguera in Austria, Switzerland, the Czech Republic and Mexico.  Ms. Evans released the CD "Voz y Guitarra" with Dr. Madriguera in October of 2003 and is the Executive Director of the Annual Texas Guitar Competition.  She appeared as the Mother Abbess in the “Sound of Music”in 2005 and directed the UTD Chamber Singers in “Something Wicked this Way Comes’ and “Over the Rainbow:  A Tribute to Harold Arlen” in 2007/08.  Ms. Evans has recently formed the Dallas Pro Musica, a vocal quintet dedicated to the performance of Medieval and Renaissance music.