The Sangre de Cristo Chorale will peform its ‘Heavenly Home’ concert at 4 p.m. Oct. 19 at St. Bede’s Episcopal Church in Santa Fe and 4 p.m. Oct. 20 at the United Church of Los Alamos. Courtesy photo
COMMUNITY News:
The Sangre de Cristo Chorale will present its fall concert Heavenly Home at 4 p.m. Oct. 19 at St. Bede’s Episcopal Church in Santa Fe and at 4 p.m. Oct. 20 at the United Church of Los Alamos.
The Sangre de Cristo Chorale also will perform Heavenly Home at 3 p.m. Oct. 27 during the Bosetti Concert Series at the Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Denver.
This twice-monthly concert series is named after Monsignor Joseph Bosetti, who served at the Cathedral 1912 to 1954.
Through the centuries, the sun, moon and stars have been linked to eternity through poetry, music, and religion. Sangre de Cristo Chorale will explore this relationship using Shawn Kirchner’s inspiring “Heavenly Home” as the framework for a concert that includes pieces by William Byrd, Dan Forrest, Claude Debussy, Jake Runestad, Morten Lauridsen, Kate Rusby and Edward Elgar.
Tickets cost $20 in advance and $25 at the door. 18 and younger are free. Advance tickets may be ordered online at www.sdcchorale.org.
Heavenly Home will be conducted by Music Director Fred Graham. Graham is a recent transplant to New Mexico from Minnesota, and is an active singer, voice teacher, choral director, organist and clinician.
He is music director at Saint John’s United Methodist Church and teaches choral and vocal music at Santa Fe Community College and the New Mexico School for the Arts. Deborah Wagner will be the piano accompanist.
This concert will open the 2019-2020 season of four concerts in its 42nd season of serving northern New Mexico with the mission of entertaining, educating, uniting, and inspiring singers and audiences by performing great choral music.
Fred Graham
Fred Graham is a singer, organist, and conductor who has performed in these three roles throughout New England, New York, Washington, D.C., Louisiana, Arkansas, and Minnesota. In October 2016 he led his Minnesota choir on a European tour, which included performances in St. Ludwig’s Church in Munich, St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna, and the Salzburg Cathedral.
Graham was the founding Artistic Director of the Red River Chorale, a community chorus in Alexandria, Louisiana. Graham received a Master of Sacred Music degree from Boston University, where he completed a double major in voice and organ (with graduate recitals in each field) and a Bachelor of Music degree in Sacred Music with a voice major from Centenary College of Louisiana.
He is Music Director at St. John’s United Methodist Church in Santa Fe and serves as Program head for Performing Arts at Santa Fe Community College, where he teaches chorus and voice. This is Graham’s second season as the music director of the Sangre de Cristo Chorale.
Deborah Wagner
Pianist Deborah Wagner is a native of Las Vegas, Nevada, and completed her Doctorate of Musical Arts at Arizona State University. She has earned degrees from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and Northwestern University.
She has performed with Santa Fe New Music, the Santa Fe Symphony, the Santa Fe Desert Chorale, the Sangre de Cristo Chorale and Santa Fe Repertory Company.
In addition to teaching and playing, Deborah regularly works with singers and instrumentalists in the Santa Fe area and toured soloists and choirs throughout the county.
