Choir Tour 2025: Vox Profundi

Monday, Feb. 24 – Sunday, March 2, 2025

“Let all the World in Every Corner Sing”

Tour Itinerary

Date & Time	Location
Monday, February 24 7:30 p.m.	First Presbyterian Church, 210 S Wayne St, Milledgeville, GA 31061
Tuesday, February 25 7:30 p.m.	Columbia Theological Seminary, 701 S. Columbia Drive, Decatur, GA 30030
Wednesday, February 26 7:30 p.m.	Germantown Methodist Church, 525 Farmersville Pike, Germantown, OH 45327
Thursday, February 27 7:30 p.m.	Millersburg Mennonite Church, 288 E Jackson St, Millersburg, OH 44654Vox Profundi and Franklin Central Men’s Choir
Friday, February 28 7:30 p.m.	First Mennonite Church, 4601 Knollton Rd, Indianapolis, IN 46228Vox Profundi and Franklin Central Men’s Choir
Sunday, March 2 7:30 p.m.	Goshen College

Vox Profundi (Latin for “Deep Voice”), founded in January of 2004 as the Goshen College Men’s Chorus, follows in the long tradition of GC low-voice singing groups beginning with the glee clubs and the Rambler Quartet of the early 1900s. Open by audition to tenors and basses from all disciplines across campus, the chorus performs music from all genres and time periods with special emphasis on sacred a cappella literature. Vox Profundi sings on- and off-campus concerts and represents the college on periodic tours. The choir often combines with the college treble chorus, Voices of the Earth, and the GC Symphony Orchestra to perform major works. Vox Profundi performed to acclaim at the ACDA Central Division Regional Convention in 2012 and has appeared with regional orchestras, including the Toledo Symphony and Ft. Wayne Philharmonic. Since 2016, Vox Profundi has served as hosts for the annual Goshen College Low Voice Choir Festival.

Personnel

TENOR 1:

BASS

TENOR 2:

BARITONE:

Dr. Scott Hochstetler, DMA, is professor of music at Goshen College, where he teaches in the choral, vocal and opera/musical theater programs. Hochstetler is a diverse conductor, having successfully led church, school, college and community ensembles, and worked with singers from novice to professional. He has directed the Elkhart County-based professional choir, Camerata Singers, since 2011. Under Hochstetler’s direction, Vox Profundi (formerly the Goshen College Men’s Chorus) performed to acclaim at the ACDA regional convention in March 2012. Hochstetler regularly clinics choirs and has led groups on tours throughout the USA and Canada. Hochstetler guest conducted the 2016 and 2024 Mennonite Secondary Council Choral Festivals and was the guest clinician for the IMEA Area A Circle the State with Song festival in February 2020. In the areas of opera and musical theater, Hochstetler has served as music director and/or conductor for numerous productions.

As a baritone, Hochstetler has performed opera and oratorio roles and given recitals in Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and Oregon. Most recently, he appeared with the Elkhart County Symphony as baritone soloist in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9. As a scholar, Hochstetler’s work on Vaughan Williams has been published in The Choral Journal. He is co-author of The IPA Pronunciation Guide to Translations and Annotations of Choral Repertoire, German Texts, published by earthsongs. With graduate degrees from the University of Michigan and Michigan State University, Hochstetler has studied conducting with David Rayl, Sandra Snow, Jonathan Reed, Jerry Blackstone, Theodore Morrison and Kenneth Kiesler, and he has studied voice with Leslie Guinn, Stephen Lusmann, and Doyle Preheim.

Hochstetler lives in Goshen with his wife, Rachel and two children, Leah and Aaron.