Collegiate Choir

The Collegiate Choir is the flagship vocal ensemble for the School of Music at Illinois Wesleyan Univ

ersity. The Choir is comprised of dedicated students in all majors at the School of Music as well as from various other academic disciplines throughout the university and is joined by audition only. This ensemble is focused on presenting collegiate level choral literature at the highest level and has been visible both regionally and nationally as an invited choir for conferences of the American Choral Directors Association as well as internationally in many facets. Most recently the Choir won the overall Grand Prix at the 2024 Žilina Voce Magna Choral Competition in Zilina, Slovakia. 

 

The IWU Collegiate Choir tours annually and students who accept the invitation to sing in this ensemble take on this responsibility with great pride. Recent international performance tours have included Slovakia, Poland, and the Czech Republic and the Choir tours throughout the United States with regularity. The students who make up the Collegiate Choir maintain a high academic standard and a rigorous rehearsal schedule both in and out of schedule class times. Past conductors of the IWU Collegiate Choir are among some of the most notable names in choral conducting including Lloyd Pfautsch, David Nott, and J. Scott Ferguson, and the School of Music is happy to welcome the Choir's fifth conductor, Dr. Cody S. Parrott this fall!