Westminster College will host the University of Kansas Chamber Choir in concert Wednesday, March 19, at 7:30 p.m. in Wallace Memorial Chapel.

The 40-member choir will perform "Exultate Deo" by Hans Leo Hassler, "Cantata no. 4 Christ lag in Todesbanden" by J.S. Bach, "Collegium Regale" by Herbert Howells, "When David Heard" by Norman Dinerstein, and selections from "Peaceable Kingdom" by Randall Thomas.

The group, which is currently making a ten concert, ten-day tour of the mid-Atlantic states, has received numerous accolades and honors, and has sung at national and regional conventions of the American Choral Directors Association, at state and regional conventions of the American Choral Directors Association, at state and regional music education conferences, and has toured extensively throughout the United States, South America, and Europe.

The choir is under the direction of 1976 Westminster College graduate Dr. Paul Johnson, professor of music and director of choral activities at the University of Kansas. He previously served as the director of choral activities at Southwest Texas State University, where he received the Teaching Award of Honor in 2000. Johnson has served as conductor, clinician or adjudicator for more than 400 events throughout the United States, Europe and the Caribbean. He has been a conductor-in-residence at Trinity College of Music in London, and won the first American choral director in residence at the Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw, Poland in more than 40 years. He will return to guest conduct at Carnegie Hall and Avery Fisher Hall in New York City in spring 2004.

The event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Dr. Robin Lind, director of choral activities at Westminster College, at (724) 946-7287 or e-mail lindra@westminster.edu.