Choral and Vocal Studies

Welcome to the FHSU Choral Program

Dr. Terry Crull, Professor of Music and Director of Choirs

I am very excited to have you as part of the FHSU choirs! The Concert Choir, the Women's Chorale, and the top vocal ensemble, the Fort Hays Singers all sing a wide variety of choral music. The Fort Hays Singers travel often (Austria and Hawaii recently) and both FHS and CC have sung at KMEA many times. Many choir students also are in the Fall Musical and the Spring Opera. COME SING WITH US!

Students from across campus all have the opportunity to participate in any of the choral ensembles at Fort Hays State University. Contact Dr. Terry Crull, Director of Choirs, to learn more.

Concert Choir

The Concert Choir is the premier mixed ensemble at FHSU, and is made of of 50-65 singers from all across the campus. Placement is by open auditions held at the beginning of the year. Concert Choir performs a wide range of choral literature from the classics to music of contemporary composers, and is recognized for excellence in choral performance.

Recent recordings:

Fort Hays Singers

The Fort Hays Singers is a 16-20-voiced select ensemble specializing in choral chamber music from a variety of music style periods. Recent international performances for the Chamber Choir have included Austria and Taiwan, and the group takes regular regional tours.

Recents recordings:

Women's Chorale

The Women's Chorale is open to all women on the FHSU campus. Placement in the group is by open auditions held at the beginning of the year. The great wealth of choral literature written for SSAA voices will be explored, and performances are in combination with the other choirs on campus as well as one or two separate performances each semester.

Music Theatre

The Musical Theatre program at FHSU is designed to provide promising young performers with hands-on experience in voice and acting. A fully staged musical is produced every fall semester, with auditions open to majors and non-majors. Faculty collaborate together with the student cast to produce a show that is one of the most popular events open to the public in Hays and surrounding communities.

Past productions have included Mamma Mia!, Showboat, Company, Into the Woods, Caberet, Oklahoma, Crazy for You, The Music Man, and many more.

Opera

Dr. Joseph Perniciaro, Professor

Opera at Fort Hays State University is a time-honored tradition first producing H. M. S. Penafore for the 1910/11 season. To this day, we annually produce a fully staged and designed opera with orchestra.As Director of Opera, my goal is to help you combine your developing vocal technique with the ability to move and express onstage through course work and stage performances. I encourage you to dive-in headfirst and audition for the spring opera your first year!

Past productions have included Hansel and Gretel, The Wandering Scholar, Bastien and Bastienne, L'Orfeo, Trouble in Tahiti, The Little Match Girl, A Hand of Bridge, Tickets Please!, The Medium, The Impresario, Dido and Aeneas, L'enfant et les Sortileges (The Bewitched Child), The Pirates of Penzance , and The Magic Flute.