Morningside Vocal Arts Festival

 
 
 

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MORNINGSIDE VOCAL ARTS FESTIVAL

FEATURING JOCELYN HAGEN

JANUARY 12-13, 2025

The Morningside University Vocal Arts Festival will be held on Sunday, January 12, and Monday, January 13, 2025, with renowned composer, Jocelyn Hagen, in residence.

As part of this FREE high school event, many of the region’s finest high school musicians will prepare and perform four of the composer’s choral selections under the direction of Dr. Ryan Person, participate in special masterclasses with the composer, and take part in voice classes and lessons with Shannon Salyards Burton, Morningside’s director of voice studies, and other music faculty members. A final performance on Monday evening will feature the Festival Choir, Morningside Choir, and three select high school soloists.

Choir Singing

FEATURING

JOCELYN HAGEN

Jocelyn Hagen composes music that has been described as “simply magical” (Fanfare Magazine) and “dramatic and deeply moving” (Star Tribune, Minneapolis/St. Paul). She is a pioneer in the field of composition, pushing the expectations of musicians and audiences with large-scale multimedia works, electro-acoustic music, dance, opera, and publishing. Her first forays into composition were via songwriting, still very evident in her work. The majority of her compositions are for the voice: solo, chamber and choral. Her melodic music is rhythmically driven and texturally complex, rich in color and deeply heartfelt. In 2019 and 2020, choirs and orchestras across the country are premiering her multimedia symphony The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci that includes video projections created by a team of visual artists, highlighting da Vinci’s spectacular drawings, inventions, and texts. Hagen describes her process of composing for choir, orchestra and film simultaneously in a Tedx Talk given at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, now available on YouTube. Hagen’s commissions include Conspirare, the Minnesota Opera, the Minnesota Orchestra, Voces8, the International Federation of Choral Music, the American Choral Directors Association of Minnesota, Georgia, Connecticut and Texas, the North Dakota Music Teachers Association, Cantus, the Boston Brass, the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra and the St. Olaf Band, among many others. Her work is independently published through JH Music, as well as through Graphite Publishing, G. Schirmer, EC Schirmer, Fred Bock Music Publishing, Santa Barbara Music Publishing, and Boosey and Hawkes.

Jocelyn Hagen

THE ARTS AT MORNINGSIDE

SCHOOL OF VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS

The Morningside University School of Visual and Performing Arts provides immersive opportunities for Morningside students and the Siouxland community to experience the power of music and the fine arts. All Morningside students, regardless of major, can audition and perform in ensembles and productions.

Christmas At Morningside 2022 Performance