Goshen College to host men’s choir festival

January 19, 2017

Goshen College Men's Choir — Goshen College Men’s Choir

Concert: Men’s Choir Festival
Date and time: Sunday, Feb. 5, 2017 at 4 p.m.
Location: Sauder Concert Hall, Goshen College Music Center
Tickets: $7 adults, $5 seniors/students. GC faculty/staff/students free with valid ID.

Goshen College will host a one-day men’s choir festival Sunday, Feb. 5, culminating in a joint concert at 4 p.m. in the Music Center’s Rieth Recital Hall.

Performing will be the Goshen College Men’s Choir, under the direction of Scott Hochstetler, associate professor of music. The concert will also feature the Goshen High School Crimson Men’s Choir, the Northridge High School Varsity Lights and The Open Fifths, a local a capella men’s choir.

Scott Hochstetler, DMA, is associate professor of music at Goshen College, where he teaches in the choral, vocal and opera theater programs. Dr. Hochstetler is a diverse conductor, having led church, school, college and community ensembles, and worked with singers from novice to professional. Under his direction, the Goshen College Chamber Choir performed live on A Prairie Home Companion in May 2015. Hochstetler regularly clinics choirs and has led groups on tours throughout the United States and Canada. As a baritone, Dr. Hochstetler has performed opera and oratorio roles and given recitals in Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and Oregon. With graduate degrees from the University of Michigan and Michigan State University, Dr. 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.