Detroit Concert Choir in Concert: Zagreb

Honored as CHOIR OF THE WORLD, the Detroit Concert Choir is in its 37th season and widely celebrated for exceptional programming and distinctive performances.

Under the direction of Dr. Michael A. Miller, the Detroit Concert Choir brings a captivating program of sacred music and spirituals to audiences across Europe. Expect to be swept away on a musical journey spanning centuries of cultural and musical traditions - from Tomas Luis de Victoria to Alice Parker, Stacey Gibbs, and Ola Gjeilo - this is a program you don't want to miss!

Walk-up's welcome, reservations not required, and it will only cost your time!

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Počašćen kao ZBOR SVIJETA, Koncertni zbor Detroita je u svojoj 37. sezoni i naširoko je slavljen zbog iznimnih programa i osebujnih izvedbi.

Pod vodstvom dr. Michaela A. Millera, Koncertni zbor Detroita publici diljem Europe donosi zadivljujući program sakralne i duhovne glazbe. Očekujte da ćete biti odneseni na glazbeno putovanje koje obuhvaća stoljeća kulturne i glazbene tradicije - od Tomasa Luisa de Victoria do Alice Parker, Stacey Gibbs i Ola Gjeilo - ovo je program koji ne želite propustiti!

Dolazak je dobrodošao, rezervacije nisu potrebne i koštat će samo vaše vrijeme!

1. Alleluia, Elaine Hagenberg

2. Jesu Dulcis Memoria, Tomas Luis de Victoria

3. Exultate Juști, Ludovico Viadana

4. Ubi Caritas, Ola Gjeilo

5. Illumination, Michael McGlynn

6. O Magnum Mysterium, Ivo Atognini

7. All That Hath Life and Breath Praise Ye the Lord! René Clausen

8. Ain-a That Good News, William L Dawson

9. Jesus Christ the Apple Tree, Elizabeth Poston

10. Hush, Somebody’s Callin’ My Name, Brazeal Dennard

11. Ain’t Got Time to Die, Hall Johnson

12. Way Over in Beulah Lan’, Stacey Gibbs

13. Soon-ah Will Be Done, William L. Dawson

14. Hark, I Hear the Harps Eternal, Alice Parker

The choir is in its 37th season and has been under the artistic direction of Dr. Michael A. Mitchell since June 2019. The 75-voice vocal ensemble is an auditioned group that is dedicated to promoting choral music of high artistic merit and cultural enrichment for our community. The Detroit Concert Choir rehearses August through May in alternating locations, including high school choir rooms in Grosse Pointe and Birmingham. Auditions are typically held in August. Approximately 10-12 concerts take place each season, including an annual 4-concert series and several collaborative and community performances. Concert venues include historic churches and contemporary auditoriums throughout Detroit and the surrounding areas.

The Detroit Concert Choir was founded in 1987 by Gordon Nelson (1931-2015), whose passion for choral excellence and desire to enhance the lives of others through music became the foundation for a group that blossomed into a local, national, and international pacesetter of choral music.

Throughout their three-decade history, the Choir has performed hundreds of concerts in their communities, presenting exciting performances to local audiences. Comprised of musicians of varying ages, backgrounds, and walks of life, singers gather from over 35 communities and perform classical works for chorus and orchestra in some of the Detroit area’s most beautiful and historic churches and performing arts centers.

In addition to the choir’s own concert series, the ensemble collaborates with fellow performing artists. Within the last few years, they have joined in performances with the renowned Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Sarah Brightman, the Michigan Sinfonietta, the Oakland Symphony, and the Oakland University Symphony Chorus, as well as Polish folk choirs and dancers and highland dance students.

DCC has proudly represented the United States with its rich musical heritage in front of audiences from around the world. The choir is the recipient of eighteen national and international honors in esteemed music conventions and international competitions and won the prestigious “Choir of the World” title at the Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod in Wales. DCC also received the nationally acclaimed Margaret Hillis Award for Choral Excellence based on artistic excellence, strong organizational structure, and a commitment to outreach, educational, and culturally diverse activities. Highlights also include singing pops and classical programs with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and performances at National, Regional, and State American Choral Directors Association Conventions attended by top conductors and educators throughout the United States.

Michael A. Mitchell is Professor of Music at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan, where he serves as Director of Choral Activities while conducting the Oakland Chorale, the University Chorus, and the Symphony Chorus. In addition, Mitchell supervises the graduate program in choral conducting and teaches choral literature and conducting as well as a popular summer course on the history of rock music.

In 2019, Dr. Mitchell was appointed the third Artistic Director of the Detroit Concert Choir, a group that has won Choir of the World at the Llangollen International Eisteddfod. Since 2005, Dr. Mitchell has been associated with the Academic Choir Ivan Goran Kovacic in Zagreb, Croatia, as Resident Guest Conductor. He has lectured at Zagreb University, the University of Novi Sad in Serbia, and was the first American to lecture at the Slovak University of Music and Art in Bratislava, Slovakia.

For nine concert seasons he served as Artistic Director and Conductor of the Detroit-based Cantata Academy Chorale, leading that group on three acclaimed European concert tours and multiple performances with the Detroit Chamber Winds and Strings. He has led multiple choirs on state, regional, national, and international concert tours, and in performance at several American Choral Directors Association and Texas Music Educators Association conferences.

Dr. Mitchell has conducted masses and full concerts at many of Europe’s leading choral music venues, including St. Mark’s Basilica and Chiesa San Salvador in Venice, St. Nicholas Church in Prague, Peterskirche in Vienna, St. Matthias Church and St. Stephen’s Basilica in Budapest, the Real Círculo de la Amistad in Córdoba, Iglesia de San Martín in Segovia, the Church of the Holy Redeemer in Bratislava, the Church of St. Jacob in Ljubljana, and St. Catherine’s Church in Zagreb.

In the popular music world, Dr. Mitchell has prepared and conducted choruses for the Rolling Stones and Sarah Brightman. Because of his reputation as a dynamic, energetic conductor and teacher, Dr. Mitchell has conducted honor choirs and led choral festivals across the United States and has been invited to perform over 250 guest clinics with individual choirs over the course of his career. As a composer, Dr. Mitchell’s music has been performed throughout the United States, including at several conferences of the American Choral Directors Association.

Before coming to Michigan, he taught at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and was a choral director and music supervisor in the public schools in Texas. Dr. Mitchell studied conducting, music education, and voice at the University of Texas at Austin and received his doctorate in conducting from the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory, where he served as assistant to the legendary conductor Eph Ehly. His other teachers include André Thomas, Jerry McCoy, Patrick Gardner, Mary Breden, Morris Beachy, and John Silantien. As a doctoral student he was the winner of the UMKC Chancellor’s Award for Academic Merit and was a finalist in the American Choral Directors Association national conducting competition. Dr. Mitchell is a member of the American Choral Directors Association as a Past President for the state of Michigan. He is also a member of New Music USA, The College Music Society, the Michigan School Vocal Music Association, and Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia.

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