Cardinal Singers to Korea
Cardinal Singers
It’s been almost six years since the acclaimed Cardinal Singers visited Korea. Their most recent tours after the pandemic were Magdeburg and Berlin, Germany in Fall 2022, South Africa in Summer 2023, and Germany in Summer 2024. Conductor Kent Hatteberg wanted to pursue a concert featuring the choir and a choir from Seoul performing major works with orchestra, similar to last summer at the Philharmonie in Berlin, where they performed Mendelssohn’s Psalm 42 and Die erste Walpurgisnacht.
This is the sixth South Korean tour for the Cardinal Singers, having won the Grand Prize at the 1st Grand Prix of Choral Music – World Choir Championships there in 2009. In 2010 they toured in Korea by invitation to perform at choral festivals in Taiwan and China. In 2019 they performed Mendelssohn’s Elijah at the Seoul Oratorio Festival as well as at several other concerts there.
The feature concert in Seoul will be a joint project with the Cardinal Singers and Chantez à Dieu, a choir based in Seoul, conducted by Dr. Kim Hae-Ock. The works selected for this feature event are Franz Joseph Haydn’s Missa in angustiis (Nelson Mass) and Anton Bruckner’s Te Deum. The project connects Dr. Kim Hae-Ock, former conducting professor at Yonsei University and former teacher of Dr. Won Joo Ahn (Yonsei University graduate), with Dr. Kent Hatteberg, also a teacher of Dr. Ahn.
The Cardinal Singers will perform several concerts of a cappella choral repertoire at various sites in South Korea.
Cardinal Singers Korea Concert Tour - June 2025
Daejeon Cosmopolitan Music Festival
Saturday June 14, Daejeon Arts Center
A Choral Celebration of Sound and Spirit
Stage 1 Sacred Echoes
Nr. 1 Unser Väter (Fest-und Gedenksprüche, Op.109) – Johannes Brahms
Kyrie (E-flat, Cantus Messe) – Josef Rheinberger
Domine Deus – David Caldarella
Virga Jesse – Anton Bruckner
Herr, nun lässest du – Felix Mendelssohn
Stage 2 Songs of Life and Love
1.Vita de la mia vita / 6. Io son la primavera (Six Madrigals) – William Hawley
Io mi son giovinetta – Claudio Monteverdi
II. Yver, vous n’estes qu’un villain (Trois Chansons de Charles d’ Orléans) – Claude Debussy
Comme Une Rose – Anthony Sylvestre (Premiered by the Cardinal Singers in February 2025)
Stage 3 Voices of Nature
Caedmon’s Hymn – Blake Wilson
Written for and premiered by the University of Louisville Carinal Singers, Dr. Kent Hatteberg, conductor
Earth Song – Frank Ticheli
Ong-hye-ya – arr. Hye Young Cho
A Little While – Ily Matthew Maniano
Commissioned by Dr. Kent Hatteberg and the University of Louisville Cardinal Singers
All Seems Beautiful to Me – Eric Whitacre
Stage 4 Spirituals and Heritage
My Lord, what a mornin’ – arr. H. T. Burleigh
I’m Gonna Sing ’Til The Sprit Moves In My Heart – arr. Moses Hogan
Didn’t my Lord Deliver Daniel- Arr. Moses Hogan
Great God Almighty – arr. Stacey V. Gibbs