Wartburg College Department of Music

We look forward to welcoming all new & returning students to instrumental auditions this week! 2024-2025 is going to be a fantastic year at Wartburg!

Sing at Wartburg College!

If you know of someone attending Wartburg College this year, please encourage them to sing with us and join a choir! Simply have them sign up online using this link. Choir placements start on Monday! Thanks for helping spread the word.

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/8050F44A5AF2BA46-50266133-wartburg #/

Registration for the 2024 Chamber Music Festival (both strings & piano) on October 6, 2024 is now open!
All forms & information can be found at www.wartburg.edu/festivals

The Wartburg Meistersinger Chamber Music Festival is designed to bring together regional high school string and piano players to collaborate with world class artists. Special guests this year will include the internationally renowned chamber ensemble, Neave Trio! Formed in 2010, Neave Trio-violinist Anna Williams, cellist Mikhail Veselov, and pianist Eri Nakamura-were recently nominated for a Grammy and have received prestigious accolades for their “…engaging and cutting-edge performances.”

Students can register as a soloist, part of a chamber group, and/or both! This one-day event will allow participants to receive feedback on All State music, upcoming college auditions, MTNA events, and/or material they are studying in large ensembles/private lessons. Registration is due by Sept. 27, 2024 (Please see below). For further questions, please contact Dr. Rebecca Nederhiser (strings) [email protected] or Dr. Suzanne Torkelson (piano) [email protected].

We are so excited that our student teachers are so excited to be immersed in their first full week with kiddos and cooperating teachers! 🧡🎶🧡
Enjoy every moment, future educators! Go get ‘em! 🍎🤩🍎

Registration for RitterSing 2024 opens on Tuesday, August 27! Join us for a day of igniting all things Tenor & Bass for the school year on Saturday, October 5, 2024! All Tenor/Bass singers, 7th grade through Adult welcome!

This year we are excited to welcome composer and Wartburg alum, Connor Koppin! We also look forward to hearing from Iowa native, Steven Albaugh and his Rosemont High School tenor bass ensemble from Rosemont, MN!

RitterSing ensembles will be conducted by our very own Dr. Lee Nelson and guest conductor, Trent Buglewicz, vocal director at Linn-Marr High School!

You can find information regarding registration, literature, schedules, & more starting Tuesday, August 27 at: www.wartburg.edu/festivals
While you’re there, check out all the exciting festivals coming up at Wartburg this year!

Contact Sarah Bouska with additional questions at: [email protected]

Happy first day of school to all of our instrumental music student teachers and their cooperating teachers!!!! Have a great semester!!!

🧡🖤🧡

Stop by the MN-ACDA Booth to visit about Wartburg with Emma and Nate!

We are thrilled to invite you to our EDUCATOR SESSIONS again this summer during the
2024 Wartburg College Meistersinger All-State Choir Camp!

These FREE sessions are offered on the first camp day at both Meistersinger All-State Camps, Monday, August 5 and Friday, August 9 from 3:30pm to 5:30pm at Wartburg College.
Special guests include Dr. Jennifer Larson, Voice Faculty at Wartburg College, Thad Driskell, IHSMA Executive Director, and Jason Heitland!

Sessions will cover:
• Individual Voice Pedagogy for Choral Specialists: Taking Care of the Voice (You can't buy a new one friends!)
• All-State updates
• The importance of process
• Successful rehearsal and audition techniques
• What if I have never taught All-State literature?
• Understanding what happens when your students audition.

In addition to the FREE Educator Sessions, you are encouraged to visit campus and are welcome to observe rehearsals and sectionals!

Refreshments will be served. No need to register, all are welcome!
Our Educator Sessions are open to any Iowa Educator who would like to know more about the All-State Process, Support, Mentorship and Growth!

Please feel free to share this information with others!

If you are in need of a list of your students attending, please email:
[email protected].

If you plan on arriving by bus, please email:
[email protected].
This will help us to prepare for your arrival!

We look forward to hosting you and your students at the 2024 Wartburg Meistersinger All-State Choir Camps in August!

Audition Alert! 🎵

All incoming and returning Wartburg instrumentalists wanting to perform in Band, Kammerstreicher, Orchestra, and/or Jazz Band can now access audition material and sign up for an audition time.

For further information, use the link and/or scan the QR code below. https://www.wartburg.edu/instrumental

Please email Dr. Rebecca Nederhiser or Dr. Lia Snead for further details:

[email protected] | [email protected]

We look forward to a great year ahead!

The many generations of Wartburg represented at Iowa Choral Directors Association Summer Symposium 2024! ICDA is celebrating its 50th Symposium this year!
Wartburg College has 13 Scholaship Students represented, numerous volunteers, AND members who are attending their 1st summer symposium and members who have attended 48 of the 50 symposiums!
What a legacy of support, representation, continued learning, and growth!

📣REMINDER!!!
Registration for the 2024 Meistersinger All-State Camp, closes on Sunday, July 21 at 11:59pm.

Register at: www.wartburg.edu/camps

Session 1: August 5-7, 2024
Residential & Commuter Options Both Available

*Residential Camper: Housed on Campus
*Commuter Camper: Not Housed on Campus (driving/arriving to & from each day)

Session 2: August 9-11, 2024
Commuter Option Available

Residential Option is FULL, filled, at capacity!

You can also find our FAQ sheet at www.wartburg.edu/camps

Questions? Please email:
[email protected]

Things to come:

🎵All information emailed to campers & families once registration is closed.

🎵Educator Session information & details

🎵Continued announcements & details

We look forward to seeing you at Wartburg College in August!

Rebecca Nederhiser, conductor of the Wartburg Community Symphony, is a finalist for the American Prize’s — Vytautas Marijosius Memorial Award in Orchestral Programming.

Nederhiser submitted the symphony's innovative February 2023 performance, “Music Takes Flight,” which showcased the world premiere of Jocelyn Hagen's “Messages from Everywhere,” blending orchestra, choir, AI imagery, and more.

Congrats to Dr. Nederhiser and the entire WCS team for pushing creative boundaries and inspiring our community! Read more: https://www.wartburg.edu/2024/07/11/wartburg-community-symphony-conductor-finalist-for-american-prize/

📣REMINDER!

Early Registration for the 2024 All-State Camp closes on June 30! Get your registrations in to save with early registration.
Registration is open through July 21 or until capacity!

Session 2: August 9-11 reached full housing capacity on 6.18 at 12:30pm.

What does this mean & what are the options?
☑️ You can still register for All State Camp Session 1 (August 5-7) as a commuter OR as a residential camper

☑️ You can still register for All State Camp Session 2 (August 9-11) as a commuter. This means you are driving to camp each day OR finding alternate housing such as a hotel.

☑️ We have reached housing capacity for All State Camp Session 2 (August 9-11)…every room is full.

☑️ You are welcome to register for Session 2 as a commuter and send an email to: [email protected] & request to be added to the waitlist for housing. If we have an opening, we can then let you know that you could be moved to be in on campus housing, but it is not guaranteed because we are currently at capacity.

Early register ends on June 30.
Late register is July 1-21 or sooner if capacity is reached.

We can’t wait to see you at Wartburg for All State Camp 2024!

We’re looking forward to welcoming campers, 7th to 12th grade, for the Meistersinger Music Camp starting this Sunday, June 23.

This week of camp focuses on empowering, collaborating and creating!

Students have opportunities in Band, Choir, Orchestra, Keyboard, Introduction to Music Therapy, Music History, Conducting, Organ and Handbells and much more!

All are welcome to the Finale Concert on Friday, June 28 at 10:30am in Neumann Auditorium at Wartburg College, and the Finale Piano Recital in Wartburg Chapel at 11:45am!

Another example of how we Experience More, together, at Wartburg 🎵🧡🖤🎵