Celebration Choir
Looking for a great mix of repertoires in a choir? Searching for a way to deepen your faith while singing praise to God and serving others in the greater South Bend area? The Celebration Choir is comprised of approximately 35 undergraduates from Notre Dame and St. Mary’s College. In the fall semester we provide liturgical music for Mass in Stepan Center following our seven home football games. We also take our music outside campus boundaries to sing at such locations as the Juvenile Justice Center, prayer services at homeless shelters, and Boys and Girls Club of America. Late in the fall semester we’ll present a Christmas Benefit Concert for a worthy charity.
In the spring semester, in addition to present many “service” oriented concerts throughout the South Bend area and liturgies on the Notre Dame campus, we will have a tour weekend with the Notre Dame Handbell Choir and will present a spring concert in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart.
Music of the Celebration Choir is wide-ranging, from classical hymns and traditional liturgical music to gospel/spirituals and contemporary Catholic repertoire. A variety of instrumentalists are incorporated into the choral harmonies of the group, including strings, flute, guitar, the Irish bodhran, organ, piano, and the African djembe.
Rehearsals
Wednesdays, 7:15-8:45pm, 329 Coleman Morse Center
Auditions
Please check back for the 2008-2009 audtion schedule. Please e-mail karen.kirner@nd.edu to reserve a time.
About Our Director
Karen Schneider Kirner has been on the music staff at Campus Ministry since 1997 as Director of the Notre Dame Handbell Choir, Celebration Choir, Assistant Director of the Notre Dame Folk Choir, and Assistant Organist at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart. She holds degrees in music from Ball State University and Yale University, where she obtained the MM and MAR degrees through the Institute of Sacred Music. She has pursued further studies in church music at the Hochschüle für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna, Austria, is an organ recitalist, and a published composer of both choral and handbell music.
