University of St. Thomas Chamber Singers

The University of St. Thomas Chamber Singers is a select, mixed ensemble of undergraduate students representing a number of major fields. Choir members sing a broad variety of styles and genres including secular and sacred music from all historical eras as well as choral works representing folk idioms from around the world. Every spring, the Chamber Singers combine with the UST Concert Choir to perform a major choral/orchestral work with professional orchestra. Recent repertoire includes Verdi’s Requiem, Mozart’s Mass in C minor, Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem, Handel’s Messiah, and Haydn’s Missa in Illo Tempore. The choir tours locally, regionally, and internationally, having traveled to Italy in 2006, Central Europe in 2003, and Spain in 2000. The UST Chamber Singers were selected to sing at the North Central ACDA convention in 2008, the ACDA-MN convention in 2004, and the MMEA annual conventions in 2007 and 2001.

Angela Broeker

Angela Broeker is Director of Choral Activities at the University of St. Thomas, where she conducts the Chamber Singers and teaches undergraduate courses in choral conducting and choral methodology. She is active in the school’s Graduate Programs in Music Education, teaching two choral conducting and two choral literature courses for students pursuing a Master’s Degree in Music Education with a Choral Concentration. Since arriving at UST in 1999, her choirs have sung at the North Central ACDA convention in 2008, the ACDA-MN convention in 2004, and MMEA conventions in 2007 and 2001.

In addition to her university responsibilities, Angela Broeker is a national clinician specializing in treble choirs. She presents for national, regional, and state conventions of the Music Educators National Conference, the American Choral Directors Association, the Organization of American Kodály Educators, and the American Orff-Schulwerk Association. She serves as guest conductor for numerous honors choirs including all-state treble or children’s choirs in Indiana, Maryland, Oklahoma, Wyoming, Minnesota, South Dakota, Alabama, Wisconsin, North Dakota, Hawaii, Ohio, Connecticut, Nebraska, Tennessee, and North Carolina. In 2008, 2003 and 1999 she conducted the National OAKE Children’s Honors Chorus. She conducted ACDA regional honors choirs for the North Central and Central Divisions in 2002 and 1996.

Angela Broeker received her D.M.A. degree from the University of Oklahoma and her M.M. and B.M.E. degrees from Indiana University. Her research interests include seventeenth-century vocal music suitable for treble choirs and authentic, respectful performance of music from diverse cultures. She served as guest editor of the April 2006 Choral Journal and has written articles for the April 2006 Choral Journal, the July 2000 Music Educators Journal, the MENC Spotlight on Teaching Chorus, the spring 2008 Orff Echo as well as many local and regional music publications. She is co-authoring a book with Mary Goetze entitled “Educating the Young Singer: A Choral Resource for the Teacher-Conductor,” due out in the summer of 2009.

Angela Broeker

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