The Carleton College Choir will join Northfield’s community chorus, I Cantanti, in a performance of music from the Renaissance to the present, on Saturday, Feb. 26 beginning at 8 p.m. The two groups will perform individually as well as a combined choral ensemble in the College’s Concert Hall. This event is free and open to the public.
Carleton’s choir is directed by professor of music, Lawrence Burnett. Burnett has degrees in vocal music education, choral conducting, choral pedagogy, and vocal performance, and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in choral conducting from the University of Texas in Austin. Burnett has performed extensively as a soloist in various settings, as well as teaching for more than three decades in public schools and colleges. He is also engaged in the research of musicians and composers who have preserved the styles and traditions of African American spirituals.
I Cantanti is a mixed amateur community ensemble from the Northfield area, comprising of 36 members that perform all genres of choral music. The group is directed by Wayne Kivell, a graduate of Luther College and the musicology program at the University of Minnesota, where he specialized in Renaissance and Early Music. A longtime educator at Northfield High School, Kivell is a recipient of the F. Melius Christiansen Award for lifetime conducting experience and distinguished service to choral music in Minnesota by the American Choral Directors Association of Minnesota.
For more information or disability accommodations, contact lburnett@carleton.edu. The Concert Hall is located on the Carleton College campus at First and Winona Streets in Northfield.