ESO & NSCS: Two Volunteer Arts Groups Team Up in Verdi’s Requiem

The Evanston Symphony is excited to partner with the North Shore Choral Society to perform Verdi’s Requiem on June 15 at 2:30 p.m. at Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, 50 Arts Circle Drive in Evanston.

For more than 75 years, the 140-member North Shore Choral Society has been a prominent member of the arts community of the northern suburbs and beyond. Their mission—to explore, study and perform a wide range of choral music for the enrichment and enjoyment of its singers and audiences—is realized in three or more concerts a season with a repertoire from the traditional to the avant-garde. The NSCS gives non-professional singers the opportunity to perform choral masterworks, and you may remember them from our last two Christmas Concerts.

Since 2009, Dr. Julia Davids has been the North Shore Choral Society’s music director. She holds degrees in education, conducting and voice performance from the University of Western Ontario, and in addition to her duties with the NSCS, she is the Stephen J. Hendrickson Endowed Chair of Choral Activities at North Park University in Chicago, where she directs the choirs and teaches conducting and music education. A resident of Skokie with her husband and two children, she is also a soprano soloist and has appeared with Bella Voce, the Callipygian Players, the Haymarket Opera and Music of the Baroque.

Join us at this final concert of our 2013-2014 season on Sunday, June 15. Please note, this concert has no intermission; latecomer seating is about halfway through program.There are few tickets left for this highly anticipated concert. To gets yours now, visit evanstonsymphony.org or call 847-864-8804.