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February 16-19, 2022 Chicago, Illinois

First-Plymouth Church Indiana University Jacobs School of Music
Schola Cantorum NOTUS

Winner of the 2019 The American Prize in Cho-
ral Performance, NOTUS is one of the country’s most
unique collegiate vocal ensembles with a singular com-
mitment to championing living composers through the
First-Plymouth’s Schola Cantorum sings for morning commissioning, programming, and recording of new
and evening worship services at First-Plymouth Church works. NOTUS has performed across the nation, from
in Lincoln, Nebraska—a diverse and inclusive commu- regional and national ACDA conferences to Carnegie
nity of faith called to increase the love of God and neigh- Hall. They were honored to be one of only 24 choirs in
bor. In the last five seasons, the choir has been blessed to the world invited to perform at the 12th World Sympo-

sing for the Nebraska Choral Directors Association, the sium on Choral Music before it was cancelled due to the
Nebraska MEA, and National ACDA—serving, in each COVID-19 pandemic.
instance, as the only church choir selected to perform on
the convention program. The Schola has been privileged Dominick DiOrio is a member of the cho-
to sing under the direction of inspiring composers and ral conducting faculty at the Indiana Uni-
conductors, including Alice Parker, Anton Armstrong, versity Jacobs School of Music, where he
Lee Nelson, Jason Max Ferdinand, and Jake Runestad. leads the select, new music chamber cho-
rus NOTUS. In July 2020 he became the
Tom Trenney serves as minister of music 14th artistic director and conductor of the Mendelssohn
at First-Plymouth Church in Lincoln, Ne- Chorus of Philadelphia and has served as president and
braska, and as associate professor of music president-elect of NCCO. He has also previously served
and director of choirs at Nebraska Wes- as chair of ACDA’s Composition Initiatives Standing
leyan University. He is artistic director of Committee (2016-2020) and as a member of the board
Lincoln’s Abendmusik Concert Series and Conductor of of directors for Chorus America (2015-2018). He holds
sounding light—a professional choir he founded in 2003. a DMA from the Yale School of Music, an MMA and
In the past few years, Trenney’s choirs have been hon- MM from Yale, and a BM in composition from Ithaca
ored to perform for state, region, and national ACDA College.
conferences. He is a graduate of the Cleveland Institute
of Music and the Eastman School of Music.

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