Duke University Chorale comes to Amelia Island

The Duke University Chorale will perform in concert at the Amelia Plantation Chapel at 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, March 12, as part of its Music-in-the-Chapel Series. Admission is $10.

The 50-member Chorale is the primary choral group of the Department of Music at Duke. It performs numerous concerts throughout the year, both on and off campus, and tours annually during Duke's Spring Break. The Chapel is privileged to be included in Duke's 2008 Spring Tour. The Chorale will also give concerts in Miami, West Palm Beach, Jacksonville, Savannah, Charleston, and Gastonia, North Carolina.

The Chorale's repertoire encompasses music ranging from Brahms, Clausen, Lassus and Victoria to the piece "Horizons," which was commissioned for the Cambridge King's Singers for their 1995 South African tour. Music by various Renaissance composers is in their repertoire, as are such spirituals as "Were You There", "Elijah Rock," music by Duke composers, and the familiar "Danny Boy."

The Chorale has been conducted by Rodney Wynkoop since 1984. He received his doctorate in choral conducting from Yale, where he also did his undergraduate work. In addition to leading the Chorale, he also directs the Duke Chapel Choir, and locally in Durham, conducts the 150-voice Choral Society of Durham, among many other leadership accomplishments elsewhere in North Carolina and the south.