Sunday Showcase: Lindsey Wilson College Singers
The Lindsey Wilson College Singers are organized on professional standards to represent LWC as a performing arts ensemble. The mixed ensemble performs repertoire from all eras, specializing in sacred anthem literature. The Singers tour extensively, having performed in over forty states and seven countries. In 2002, 2006, 2009, and 2018 members of the ensemble performed at Carnegie Hall.
The ensemble’s touring tradition created partnerships across the United States; including Langley Air Force Base in Virginia to Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in California. The Lindsey Wilson College Singers were honored to present a world premiere setting of speeches for the Lincoln Bicentennial as well as collaborate on numerous projects with the U.S. Department of the Interior.
Representing Kentucky in performances commemorating the 75th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor was the ensemble’s 4th project with Music Celebrations International. Previously members of the ensemble participated in the Rome Choral Festival; the Paris Choral Festival, including a wreath-laying ceremony at the American Cemetery in Normandy, France; and the Mozart Choral Festival in Salzburg, Austria. In addition, this past summer, members of the ensemble participated in the Dublin Choral Festival in Ireland, performing in St. Patrick’s Cathedral.
The membership of the Lindsey Wilson College Singers spans numerous majors across the campus and the influence of the LWC Singers creates a contagious excitement; a truly winsome personality!
Gerald L. Chafin serves as Conductor of Choral Ensembles at Lindsey Wilson College, Columbia, KY. Dr. Chafin’s innovation pioneered a multi-disciplinary concert approach as well as an extraordinary touring tradition with LWC Choral Ensembles. He has created courses in performance coaching as well as worship and the arts. Dr. Chafin twice received the Exemplary Teaching Award from the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry of the United Methodist Church. As a graduate student at Southern Seminary in Louisville, he was named a distinguished Rice-Judson Scholar. And, interestingly, through his teachers and mentors, his musical genealogy traces to Beethoven.