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Performing Choirs

Iowa State University Kaneland High School

Iowa State Singers Madrigals/Chamber Choir

The Kaneland High School Madrigals/Chamber
The Iowa State Singers is Iowa State University’s most Choir is an auditioned Chamber Choir. This curricular
select choral ensemble, comprising freshmen through ensemble presents an annual Madrigal dinner in the fall
seniors, approximately one half of them music majors. semester and performs chamber choir literature in the
Concert tours have taken them to Australia, Western spring semester. The ensemble consists of primarily ju-
Europe, Russia, China, Korea, and most recently Nor- nior and senior students. The Madrigal Dinner involves
way. The choir has been honored to perform at regional over 100 students and has been a fi xture in the commu-
and national conferences of ACDA in 2004, 2005, 2009, nity for 42 years. Over 600 community members attend
2010, 2015, 2018, and 2019 and at NCCO conferences four performances of the annual Renaissance feast each
in 2008 and 2011. year.

Bryan Kunstman has been the choir direc-
James Rodde, the Louise Moen-Hamilton
Professor and Director of Choral Activities tor at Kaneland High School since 2001.

at Iowa State University, conducts the Iowa He directs five curricular ensembles and
State Singers, the 150-voice Iowa States- represents the Fine Arts department on
men, teaches choral conducting and litera- the high school leadership team. He has
ture, and oversees a program of roughly 400 undergrad- served on the ACDA-Illinois board as the Male Choir
uate choristers. An active clinician, he has led numerous R&R chair and as a district representative. Each sum-
festival ensembles, including two regional ACDA honor mer, Kuntsman serves as a clinician for the St. Charles
choirs and a number of all-state choirs, most recently in Singers, SING! Summer choral festival and has worked
Texas, Kentucky, and Mississippi. Rodde has been the with middle school voices at the University of Illinois
artistic director of the Des Moines Choral Society since Youth Summer Music Camps, and presented multiple
2003. For more than a decade he served ACDA as the presentations for various choral festivals. He received a
North Central R&R Chair for Men’s Choirs. BME and MME from Northern Illinois University.

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