University of St. Thomas Chamber Singers

Dr. Angela Broeker and the University of St. Thomas Chamber Singers are featured in the January 2008, edition of the Choral Journal, the national publication of the Amercian Choral Directors Association.

Article: The University of St. Thomas (UST) Chamber Singers is a select, mixed ensemble of students representing a number of major fields. Choir members sing a broad variety of styles and genres, including secular and sacred music from all historical eras as well as choral works representing folk idioms from around the world. Every spring, the Chamber Singers combine with the UST Concert Choir to perform a major choral/orchestral work with professional orchestra. Recent pieces include Mozart's Mass in C minor, Brahm's Ein Deutsches Requiem, Handel's Messiah, Haydn's Missa in Illo Tempore, and Requiem by Giuseppe Verdi. The choir tours locally, regionally, and internationally, having traveled to Spain in 2000, Central Europe in 2003, and Italy in 2006. The UST Chamber Singers and Concert Choir were selected to sing at the 2004 ACDA-MN convention and the 2001 and 2007 Minnesota MEA Conference.

Angela Broeker is director of choral activities at the University of St. Thomas, where she conducts the Women's Choir and Chamber Singers and teaches undergraduate courses in choral conducting and choral methodology. She is active in the school's graduate programs in music education, teaches two choral conducting and two choral literature courses for students pursuing a master's degree in music education with a choral concentration.

Broeker is a national clinician specializing in treble choirs. She presents for national, regional, and state conventions of MENC, ACDA, OAKE, and the AOSA. Broeker serves as guest conductor for numerous honors choirs including all-state treble or children's choirs in Indiana, Maryland, Oklahoma, Wyoming, Minnesota, South Dakota, Alabama, Wisconsin, North Dakota, Hawaii, Ohio, and North Carolina. In 1999, 2003, and 2008, she conducted the National OAKE Children's Honors Choruses, and in 1996 and 2002, she conducted ACDA division honors choirs for the North Central and Central divisions.

Broeker received her BME and MM degrees from Indiana University and her DMA from the University of Oklahoma. Her research interests include seventeenth-century vocal music suitable for treble choirs and authentic, respectful performance of music from diverse cultures. She served as guest editor of the April 2006 Choral Journal and has written articles for the July 2000 Music Educators Journal, the April 2006 Choral Journal, the MENC Spotlight on Teaching Chorus, the winter 2007 Orff Echo, and many local and regional music publications.

Permission to reprint this article was granted by Choral Journal.