Community Chorale
The UT Dallas Community Chorale (MUSI 2327) performs in the Fall and Spring Arts Festivals. The 40 - 80 voice chorale offers students, alums and faculty as well as members of the community, an opportunity to enjoy performing interesting choral music. Students will benefit by improving their singing and achieving musical goals through the preparation and performance of excellent and fun music. The Chorale is open to all who are interested in singing music in a wide variety of styles from Medieval to modern pop.
The mission of this Chorale is to give student singers and community singers the opportunity to enjoy performing choral music. Emphasis is placed on producing free and beautiful sounds while achieving the highest level of performance. Singers will benefit in the improvement of their singing technique and from meeting mutual musical goals with others.
The Chorale has performed the of music of Purcell, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Rachmaninov, Debussy, Faure, Elgar, Howells, Britten,Bruckner, Dello Joio, Tavener, Lauridsen, Stroope, and Whitacre. View the full list here
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Community Involvement
Community members are welcome to join the UT Dallas Chorale without having to register as a student at UT Dallas. The community member should enter the campus at the main gate and tell the guard that they are visitors. The guard will issue a temporary parking pass for the night. After the community member turns in a completed Community Singer form, their car will be registered with campus security as approved to park on campus on Monday evenings.
All singers in this chorale may be requested to purchase music or CDs.
Director's Biography
Mary Medrick
Contact Mary Medrick at Mary.Medrick@utdallas.edu
Mary Medrick is known as an extraordinarily versatile musician, trained in classical music, while frequently performing in the areas of opera, musical theater and early music. She is an ASCAP Special Award recipient and a member of the American Federation of Musicians. She has performed in 17 countries and was pianist for the premiere of Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess in Israel. As a writer, Medrick has produced three opera libretti and the scores for three Broadway style shows. Her original works have been performed in New York, Texas, Michigan, Colorado, California, Alaska, Florida, Iowa, Louisiana, and Mexico.
In the Dallas area, Medrick is active as a musical director and conductor. Recent productions include The Threepenny Opera (UNT), Les Miserables (Garland Civic Theater), A Christmas Carol and Shakespeare's Twelfth Night (Dallas Theater Center). As keyboardist, Medrick has performed with the Dallas Opera Orchestra, the Dallas Summer Musicals (numerous shows), Watertower Theater (Sondheim's Sweeney Todd and Into the Woods), the Charleston Symphony, East Texas Symphony, Richardson Symphony, San Antonio Symphony and Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra (Guadalajara, MX). Medrick is also called upon to produce computer-generated tracks and to provide MIDI orchestrations for a variety of productions.
As an undergraduate at University of South Florida, her first love was music theory, which she also pursued in graduate coursework at U. of North Texas. Medrick's teachers include Dr. Armin Watkins, Dr. Jerry Wallace and Steve Nielsen (piano), Annetta Monroe and Dr. Mary Ella Collins (voice), and Dr. Stephen Park, Dr. Ann Hawkins and Dr. Gene Cho (theory). She holds a Bachelor of Music and a Master of Arts from UT Dallas.
At UT Dallas, Medrick teaches piano, music theory/composition and has music directed, composed music for and stage directed theater productions. With her broad background in the humanities, she has taught Musical Theater Workshop Exploration of the Arts and Elements of Art and Performance.
Additional information about the operas, La Curandera, The Old Majestic and Monkey See, Monkey Do may be found at: Schirmer.com
