Hope College Chapel Choir from Holland, MI will present a concert in the sanctuary of Sardis Presbyterian Church, Charlotte on Saturday, March 14, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. The church’s street address is 6100 Sardis Road. There will also be childcare provided for this event. This year’s program highlights several arrangements of South African songs, as well as a wide variety of sacred and secular works from the Western choral tradition. The Hope Chapel Choir, founded in 1938, has toured extensively throughout the United States and Canada, and has traveled abroad on eight occasions. The choir is also featured in Hope College’s long-standing tradition, Christmas Vespers, the award-winning television broadcast of which is seen around the country at Christmastime on PBS.
The choir is under the direction of Brad Richmond, who is in his 18th year as Director of Choral Activities at Hope College. Prior to this, he served as Director of Choirs at Southeastern Louisiana University. His presentation of Bach’s B Minor Mass with Southeastern’s Concert Choir and Orchestra won the Gambit Classical Arts Award for the best choral performance of 1998 in the New Orleans are and the surrounding region.