Drake Choir

The Drake Choir is Drake University's select touring ensemble. The choir performs throughout the Midwest annually and internationally every four years. The ensemble toured Austria and the Czech Republic in May 2004. The Drake Choir, which presents four on-campus concerts each year, has performed Mahler's Second Symphony and, along with the other three Drake choral ensembles, sang the Beethoven Ninth Symphony with the Des Moines Symphony in May 2004. In June 1998 the Drake Choir made its Carnegie Hall debut, singing two performances in that prestigious hall, and returned there in June 2002. The choir was selected by audition to perform at the American Choral Directors Association North Central Division Conference in March 2002. The Drake Choir released its seventh CD in August 2005.

> Click HERE to view the 2004 European Tour Diary <

Listen to sound clips of the Drake Choir: (click 'mp3' or piece name)

Drake Choir: Randall Thompson, Have Ye Not Known?/Ye Shall Have a Song
Drake Choir: Anton Bruckner, Os justi meditabitur sapientiam
Drake Choir: Se Enkhbayar, Naiman Sharag
Drake Choir: Kirke Mechem, Everyone Sang
Drake Choir: Bob Chilcott, In the Heart of the World
Drake Choir: Carl Staplin, Clap Your Hands, All Ye People
Drake Choir: folksong arr. James Erb, Shenandoah
Drake Choir: David Maslanka, Little Dance for Barbara Mason from A Litany for Courage and Seasons