The UNH Concert Choir presents a varied program of choral classics Friday, March 3, 2006 in the Johnson Theatre, PCAC. Under the direction of Lisa Wolff, the chorus performs sacred a cappella motets by Stanford and Casals, choruses by Handel and Haydn, and six partsongs “to be sung in the open air,” by Mendelssohn. Accompanist Paul Merrill is featured in Romantic choruses by Brahms and Schumann and Three Shakespeare Songs by American composer Emma Lou Diemer.

Conductor Lisa Wolff is known to Seacoast audiences for her work locally with the chamber chorus Amare Cantare. Among her numerous awards and honors are a Commendation from the Governor of New Hampshire and a Proclamation from the Mayor of Manchester celebrating her twentieth anniversary as Music Director of the Manchester Choral Society in 2002, and an Individual Artist Fellowship for 2002 from the New Hampshire Council on the Arts. Guest conducting credits include the 2005 Belknap Invitational Choral Festival, 2003 New Hampshire Music Educators Association Chamber Music Festival, New Hampshire Symphony Orchestra, Portsmouth Women’s Chorus, and New Hampshire All-State Music Festival.

A frequent adjudicator and clinician for choral festivals and voice competitions, she has taught voice at St. Paul’s School and privately. A graduate of Occidental College and Yale School of Music, Wolff is currently working on her Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Choral Conducting at the Boston University College of Fine Arts. She conducts the UNH Concert Choir this semester while Director of Choral Activities William Kempster is on sabbatical leave.

The concert is free and open to the public. For more information, call 2-2404.