08/14/2025
Save the date! Choir auditions are just over a month away! 💚Sign up link will be available September 1st! More info to come!
Your Audition will include
Vocalizing to see your range
Melody memorization
Sight-singing
Rhythm reading
And singing verse one on your chosen voice part of the Road Home.
Materials available upon sign-up.
If time allows) You should prepare a short song or part of a song (approx. 30 - 60 seconds long) that you can sing by yourself with no piano or backing track. The song can be Classical, Music Theater, Folk or Pop Music.
If you have further questions, please contact
Prof. Morris at [email protected]. See you in choir!
12/06/2024
First Community Sing Concert tomorrow🤯❤️
Second concert of the season!
Location
First Christian Church
1314 SW Park Ave.
Portland, OR 97201
Cost / Admission
$20 General, $10 students and seniors
Join the PSU University Choirs and Community Choirs under the direction of Coty Raven Morris, Peter Freeman, and Ian Timmons as they present an evening of holiday and seasonal selections sure to evoke your imagination. Our concert includes selections spanning a multitude of cultures that are sure to leave you singing. We will also feature performances by guest ensembles for an array of enchanting stories and music as we reflect on the melodies and threads that connect us all 🥹
11/16/2024
Don’t miss your chance to hear esperanza spalding perform as guest artist in the much-anticipated world premiere of Darrell Grant’s “My Father Digging,” based on Seamus Heaney’s famous poem “Digging.” This premiere is just one of many great works at the Portland State University Choirs concert “Tapestry of Time,” featuring the PSU Chamber Choir, Thorn Choir and Rose Choir. The choirs will perform selections from around the world, bookended with music by female composers Hildegard von Bingen from the Middle Ages and Elaine Hagenberg, our most popular living composer. Don’t miss this spectacular choir season opener!
PSU Choirs present “Tapestry of Time”
Friday, November 22, 7:30 PM
Sunday, November 24, 4:00 PM
Portland’s First United Methodist Church
$10 Students and Seniors, $20 General
Learn more at the Events Calendar link in Bio.
11/01/2024
A very spooky and silly HAPPY HALLOWEEN 🎃from your Portland State Choir team 😆❤️👻
09/30/2024
Welcome Back, Portland State! We hope you have a wonderful first day of school! 🔥👩🏾🏫
whether you are looking to make new friends, participate in high caliber music making, to be part of a successful team, or just to have a good time, there’s a place for YOU in Choir! 🙌🏾❤️
Check out one of our interest sessions this week! Hope to see you there and have a great fall term!
09/26/2024
Happy Fall, Everyone!
The Portland State Auditioned Choirs are ready to dive back into what will be an EVENTFUL year! 🥰
Everything from performances with the Oregon Symphony to local community sings… trips across the country to premiere new music and even trips across the WORLD! 🤯❤️It’s a great day to sing at Portland State! 👏🏾👑
Want to be part of this magic? It’s not too late to join one of our community choirs or contact Prof. Coty Raven Morris about an auditioned ensemble!
Hope to see you there!
05/31/2024
Join us tonight for 'Into the Light', closing out the 2023-24 choir season. Event now free for PSU Students with their student ID!
pdx.edu/events/Into-the-light
05/25/2024
Go Nic!! And go Chamber Choir!! Album coming later this year... 💚🎼💚