Musica eclectica
7:30 PM | NOV. 14, 2025 | CONCERT HALL | MUSIC BUILDING
Andrew Crane, conductor
O Sing to the Lord .
Come, Come, Ye Saints (premiere)
Andrew Fellows, organ
GOD’S GRANDEUR
Ehre sei dem Vater, MWV B 48
Intimation of Immortality
Avery Gunnell, piano
Exsultate Deo (premiere)
LUCY WALKER b 1998
. ENGLISH FOLK SONG
Arr Michael Garrepy
Text by William Clayton
FELIX MENDELSSOHN 1809–1947
SHAWN KIRCHNER b 1970
Text by William Wordsworth
MATTEO MAGISTRALI b . 1980
OF WINDS AND WATER
Placido è il mar, from Idomeneo . . . . . . WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART 1756–1791
Sydney Crandall, soloist
Allante String Quartet; Alexander Willey, bass
Maddie Franklin, Rebekah Payne, flute; Melissa Coulter, Hazel Pak, clarinet
Julianna Hollenbach, Spencer Landen, horn
Lord of the Winds and the Water (premiere) . . . . ERIC GALLUZZO
Deck the Halls
TOO SOON?
The Truth Sent from Above
TRADITIONAL WELSH CAROL
Arr Benedict Sheehan t
ENGLISH FOLK CAROL
Arr . Ralph Vaughan Williams
Michael Wells, Allie Smith, Tavita Ah Loe, soloists
Go, Tell It on the Mountain
AFRICAN AMERICAN SPIRITUAL
Arr Stacey Gibbs
HOLDING ON
Please Stay JAKE RUNESTAD
b . 1986
Avery Gunnell, piano
Emma Pettit, soloist
Daniel Suckow, narration
Hold On AFRICAN AMERICAN SPIRITUAL
Kelsey Snyder, graduate conductor
Arr . Moses Hogan
Zach Durgin, Mark Hansen, Rebecca Miess, Maya Nelson, Emmeline Sevey, Ashley Stewart, soloists
Go the Distance, from Hercules
ALAN MENKEN AND DAVID ZIPPEL
b 1949; b 1954
Arr Aaron Dale
Soprano I
Sydney Crandall
Rebecca Miess*
Emmeline Sevey
Allie Smith
Ashley Stewart
Soprano II
Marianne Brooks
Emma Pettit
Juliet Ingram
Kelsey Snyder*
Lizzie Stein
Alto I
Emmie Burch
Avery Gunnell*
Maya Nelson
McKayla Walker Romo
Morgan Scott
Angie Whiting Vance
BYU SINGERS
Alto II
Holly Dixon
Katelyn Edgeworth
Alenda Evans
Peterson
Macey Fisher
Julia Gee*
Jessie Olsen
Tenor I
Tavita Ah Loe
Zach Durgin
Dallin Hwang*
Daniel Suckow
Tenor II
Mark Hansen
David Mitchell
Trevor Smith
Brixtin Walker*
Baritone
Trace Glick
Taylor Imbler*
David Kime
Justin Palmer
Samuel West
Tanner Whitehead Bass
Adam Bell
Andrew Fellows
Monte Gardiner
Ryan Kasparian*
Jason Oliphant
Braden Traasdahl
Michael Wells
Kelsey Snyder, graduate assistant
Section leaders indicated by asterisk
Angie Whiting Vance, president
Trace Glick, Lizzie Stein, vice presidents
Ashley Stewart, publicity
Tavita Ah Loe and Emmie Burch, attire
Service committee: David Kime (chair), Zach Durgin, Emma Pettit, McKayla Walker Romo, Daniel Suckow
Special events committee: Alenda Evans Peterson (chair), Monte Gardiner, Jessie Olsen, Justin Palmer
Biographies
BYU Singers
Brigham Young
University Singers is an exciting choir with impressive voices and a wide range of styles. Conducted by Andrew Crane, the group performs pieces from nearly every musical genre as well as many original works written or arranged for the choir.
On the international stage BYU Singers has won overall first place honors in the following European competitions: World Choir Festival and Competition on Musicals (2025, Thessaloniki, Greece); Fleischmann International Trophy Competition at the Cork International Choral Festival (2024, Cork, Ireland); International Stasys Šimkus Choir Competition (2022, Klaipėda, Lithuania); and Aegis carminis (2021, Koper, Slovenia). They have given concerts in some of the most prestigious venues in the world, including Carnegie Hall in New York City, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., the Sydney Opera House and Town Hall, the Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, the Hanoi Opera House, the Kapella in St. Petersburg, the Musikverein in Vienna, and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles.
They have traveled throughout the United States and to 28 countries including Russia,Germany, Greece, Italy, England, Egypt, Australia, Ghana, Ireland, China, Indonesia, Vietnam,and the Baltic states. The choir was the United States representative at the Fourth World Choral Symposium in 1996, performed at the inaugural conference of the National Collegiate Choral Organization in 2006, and has appeared on numerous occasions at state, national, and regional conferences of the American Choral Directors Association, National Association for Music Education, and National Collegiate Choral Organization.
The ensemble was featured on national television in four programs created for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and has released 10 full-length solo albums. Their online content consistently ranks among the most streamed for American university choirs. BYU Singers was founded in 1984 by Ronald Staheli.
Consisting of around 40 students pursuing a variety of graduate and undergraduate degrees in such areas as computer science, accounting, law, engineering, and music, BYU Singers originates in the School of Music of the College of Fine Arts and Communications at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. BYU is one of the nation’s largest private universities with an enrollment of more than 30,000 students from all parts of the United States and 120 foreign countries.
Dr. Andrew Crane
Andrew Crane joined the BYU faculty in 2015, where his main duties include conducting the Brigham Young University Singers and teaching courses in the graduate conducting curriculum. Previous to this appointment, he served for four years as Director of Choral Activities at East Carolina University (ECU), and six years in the same position at California State University, San Bernardino (CSUSB). He is also the former choral director at Provo High School. Teaching honors include the BYU College of Fine Arts and Communications Excellence in Mentoring award, and the CSUSB College of Arts and Letters Outstanding Professor award for scholarly, research, and creative activities.
Choirs under his direction have appeared by invitation at numerous state, regional, and national conferences of the American Choral Directors Association, National Association for Music Education, and National Collegiate Choral Organization. Recent examples include the 2025 ACDA national conference in Dallas, TX, the 2022 ACDA Western Division conference in Long Beach, CA, the 2019 ACDA national conference in Kansas City, MO, and the 2017 NCCO national conference in Baton Rouge, LA.
On the international stage Dr. Crane has led the BYU Singers to first place awards in the following European competitions: World Choir Festival and Competition on Musicals (2025, Thessaloniki, Greece); Fleischmann International Trophy Competition at the Cork International Choral Festival (2024, Cork, Ireland); International Stasys Šimkus Choir Competition (2022, Klaipėda, Lithuania); Aegis carminis (2021, Koper, Slovenia). In 2015, he conducted the ECU Chamber Singers to first place honors at the International Choral Competition Gallus
(Maribor, Slovenia), and in 2012 the same ensemble, under his direction, was named winner of The American Prize in Choral Performance, College/University Division.
From 2011-2024 Crane enjoyed a secondary career as a professional ensemble tenor, appearing with such esteemed groups as Seraphic Fire, Santa Fe Desert Chorale, Yale Choral Artists, Spire Chamber Ensemble, Carnegie Hall Festival Chorus, and others. As a soloist, he has performed the tenor roles in much of the standard concert repertoire for chorus and orchestra.
Active as a conductor of honor choirs, clinician, adjudicator and presenter, Crane has appeared in these capacities in 21 U.S. states as well as in Switzerland, China, Indonesia, Italy, Vietnam, and the French Caribbean. In addition, Crane curates a choral series under his name through Walton Music. He and his wife Casandria (also a BYU alumna) reside in American Fork, UT and are the parents of four adult children.
Celebrating 100 years of the BYU College of Fine Arts and Communications and 150 years of Brigham Young University
