Voice Lessons
Southeast is proud to offer voice studies with a diverse and experienced faculty. Our curriculum promotes a complete educational experience in vocal technique and interpretation of opera, oratorio, art song and music theatre. Voice lessons are available to majors and minors and to non-majors if openings are available

Voice Faculty: 
Christopher Goeke,  Leslie Jones, Timothy Schmidt, Lori Shaffer

Students are often selected to perform solos with University choral ensembles, the orchestra and in master classes and recitals.

Southeast faculty and students also participate in the National Association of Teachers of Singing student auditions each year, frequently yielding finalists and placing winners in this vocal competition.

Choirs at Southeast
The Choral Union is the University’s largest choir.  Each semester, over 100 singers from the University and the community gather to rehearse and perform major choral works with the Southeast Missouri Symphony Orchestra.  This choir has performed masterworks from Handel’s Messiah to Rutter’s Requiem to pieces especially commissioned for Southeast Missouri State University!  The Choral Union meets in Brandt Music Hall from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday.  No audition is required!

The University Choir is Southeast’s premiere choral ensemble.  Open to all University students by audition, this 50-voice choir performs vocal music of the highest quality—not just from the classical choral repertoire—but spirituals and folk songs from America and abroad.  Rehearsal times are Mondays from noon to12:50 p.m. and Tuesdays and Thursdays from 12:30–1:45 p.m. (audition required)

Cantus Choralis is the University’s newest choral ensemble.  Open to all University students by audition, this 20-voice chamber choir is designed to study, rehearse and perform choral works most appropriately sung by a small ensemble.  Specific attention is given to (but not limited to) the music of the Renaissance and Baroque periods.  Singers also learn about and engage in period- and style-appropriate performance practices. Cantus Choralis rehearses Wednesday afternoons from 4:30 to 6 p.m. and Fridays from noon to12:50 p.m. (audition required)

For audition information, or if you would like to know more about choral opportunities at Southeast, call or email Dr. Steve Hendricks.

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