UT Concert Hall brings you excellent performances that were given at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, spotlighting faculty, guest artist, and graduate student recitals, as well as student ensemble performances. Join local host and producer, Melony Dodson, for this hour-long program, as she transports you to Cox Auditorium and/or the Sandra G. Powell Recital Hall to hear these world class performances. Thursday night at 8pm and Sunday evenings at 7pm.

UT Concert Hall, March 12 and 15, 2026

Spring Concert 2025
Concert Choir and Chamber Singers

Tuesday, March 25, 2025 at 7:30 p.m.

James R. Cox Auditorium
Alumni Memorial Building

University of Tennessee Concert Choir

Professor Andrea Markowitz Gantte, conductor
Connor Cowart, graduate assistant
Carol Z. Shane, collaborative pianist

PROGRAM

"Jesus bliebet meine Freude" from Cantata BWV 147
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Andrew Brittain, graduate conductor

"Lift Up Your Heads, O Ye Gates” from Messiah
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)

The Ground
Ola Gjeilo (b. 1978)

James Fellenbaum, UTSO conductor

Lunar Lullaby
Jacob Narverud (b. 1986)

Sarah Kitts, graduate conductor

Light of a Clear Blue Morning
arr. Craig Hella Johnson (b. 1962)

Ada Charlotte Dalton, soloist
Kaitlyn Smith, graduate conductor

Hela Rotan
Ken Steven (b. 1993)

University of Tennessee Chamber Singers

Dr. Angela L. Batey, conductor
Connor Cowart, graduate assistant
Andrea Markowitz Gantte, collaborative pianist
Tami Newsom, collaborative pianist

PROGRAM

Music for Across The Pond

Alleluia
Elaine Hagenberg (b. 1979)

The Beatitudes
Philip Stopford (b. 1977)

Amanda Fintak, graduate conductor

Domine Deus
David Caldarella (b. 2002)

If Music Be the Food of Love
David Dickau (b. 1953)

The Water is Wide
Jesse Beulke (b. 1994)

Tune from Somerset County, England

Dashing Away with The Smoothing Iron
Sir John Rutter (b. 1945)

Tune from Somerset County, England

Sure on This Shining Night
Morten Lauridsen (b. 1943)

By and By
Carol Barnett (b. 1949)