Clark University Chorus & Clark University Jazz Workshop perform Duke Ellington's Sacred Concert
Featured Soloist: Patrick Dailey, countertenor
Set List:
Praise God and Dance Heaven Freedom Suite
To be contended – Freedom – Word You Heard – Sweet, fat and that – To be contended The Shepherd
The Majesty of God
Come Sunday
David Danced
Almighty God
Is God A Three-Letter Word For Love?
Praise God and Dance
Clark University Chorus
Soprano:
Gwen Arbetman, Lydia Barnes, Sarah Campbell, Lucy Fleming, Brooke Fullerton, Alyssa Hopper, Hanna Lavenson, Zoe Marinakos, Sarah Nicholson, Jamie Quinn, Em Schweizer, Grace Soares, Zoe Yearout
Alto:
Zoe Armstrong, Chloe Carleton, Cecilia Cortes, Shannon Dean, Katie Donovan, Megan Gohn, Samantha Hanam, Eli Humphrey, Claire Jenkins, Shea Kushnir, Ace Larrabee, Rachel Nadai, Charlotte Nickason, Ashley (Nhi) Nguyen, Kendall (Nghi) Nguyen, Alix Petz, Madison Richards, Aine Sheehan
Tenor:
Lawson Dunford, Marz Glennon, Ryan Hovey, Adlai Nelson, Cameron Smith, Jay Verchin
Bass:
Giorgo Caripidis Soto, Aidan Carter, Joshua Girouard, Jonathan Hoff, Daniel Kelly, Graham Pelligra, Channing Webber
Clark University Jazz Workshop
Flute:
Jill Cass
Clarinet:
Amira Aderibigbe, Ruby Krasnow
Alto Saxophone:
Kylee Rutkiewicz, Emily Watzl
Tenor Saxophone:
Zach Baranowski, Jon Hayes, Sarah Plutnicki
Baritone Saxophone:
Cody Lagasse
Trumpet:
Aidan Griffith, Ashleigh Hughes, Will Talbot
Trombone:
Adlai Nelson, Ben Sawyer
Guitar:
Will Verde
Bass:
Oliver Gorman, acoustic
Monica Sager, electric
Keyboards:
Mahdi Boulila Thomas Mueller
Percussion:
Paul Davis, drums and percussion
Nikki Emery, drums
Ian Hirons, vibraphone
Music Director and Conductor:
Cailin Marcel Manson
Jazz Band Director:
Jerry Sabatini
Collaborative Pianist:
Pianist Yelena Beriyeva
Guest Artist:
Patrick Dailey
Patrick Dailey has been described as possessing “a powerful and elegant countertenor voice” (Los Angeles Daily News) and a “VOCAL STANDOUT” (Boston Classical Review). His artistry was identified early through the national NAACP ACT-SO Competition (2005 and 2006), the NFAA ARTS, and Grady-Rayam Prize In Sacred Music of the Negro Spiritual Scholarship Foundation. Dailey made his professional operatic debut with Opera Saratoga as the first countertenor member of the company's Young Artist program and was the first countertenor invited to Opera New Jersey's Victoria J. Mastrobuono Emerging Artist program. Operatic repertoire includes Oberon in Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Nerone in Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea, and Belize in Eötvös' Angels in America. He performs regularly with Harlem Opera Theater, ALIAS Chamber Ensemble, Memphis Symphony Orchestra, and has appeared with the Mid-Atlantic Symphony Orchestra, the Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra (NC), Soulful Symphony, Arkansas Philharmonic Orchestra, and Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. On January 19, 2009, Mr. Dailey sang a featured duet with Aretha Franklin as the finale for the annual Let Freedom Ring Celebration at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Additionally, he has been a featured artist with Cook, Dixon, and Young (formally Three Mo’ Tenors) since 2012.
Mr. Dailey is a 2012 graduate of Morgan State University and received his master of music from Boston University. He currently serves on the voice faculty of Tennessee State University where he established the Big Blue Opera Initiatives (BBOI) and the annual Harry T. Burleigh Spiritual Festival. Additionally, he is the founding artistic director of the W. Crimm Singers (aka Wakanda Chorale), professional ensemble in residence of BBOI. He is a co-founding member of historically informed crossover ensemble, Early Music City.
Mr. Dailey serves on the boards of ALIAS Chamber Ensemble, the International Society of Black Musicians, the International Florence Price Festival, and the Artistic Planning Committee of the Nashville Symphony. He also serves as community project curator with Intersection Contemporary Music Ensemble and arts and culture coordinator of the NAACP-Nashville Branch. A passionate advocate for Historically Black Colleges and Universities, he is a consultant on HBCU initiatives with Opera America, Early Music America, and New Music USA and is an artist ambassador of the Music Inclusion Coalition. He is on the faculty of the Narnia Festival of Narni, Italy leading a program on African American Concert and Sacred Music, and is the program director of the Nashville Opera- Big Blue HBCU Fellowship, an HBCU initiative of the the company in partnership with TSU. Most recently, Dailey was named to the 2020 class of the Nashville Black 40 Under 40 and he was recognized for Outstanding Service from the Coalition for African Americans in the Performing Arts of Washington, DC earlier this summer.