Katrina Axtell, a student at Northwestern College in Orange City, Iowa, will perform in the college’s Chamber Orchestra and Women’s Choir concert on Friday, April 25.
Axtell is a junior and is majoring in Spanish and biology health professions at Northwestern. She plays the flute in the orchestra.
She is a 2011 graduate of Cook County High School and is the daughter of Treg and Denise Axtell of Hovland.
The Chamber Orchestra, directed by Chad Hutchinson, lecturer in music, will present a variety of music. The program will include La Cenerentola (Cinderella) Overture by Gioachino Rossini, Pavane for a Dead Princess by Maurice Ravel and Valse Triste by Jean Sibelius.
“I really tried to provide a wide variety of pieces for the students to explore,” explains Hutchinson. “Very few students have been exposed to the work of Rossini or Stravinsky. These two composers, while very different in approach, have music that all college students should be exposed to in their four-year education.”
The Women’s Choir, also under the direction of Hutchinson, will perform numerous faithbased pieces, including Daniel Gawthrop’s Sing Me to Heaven, Andrea Gabrieli’s Crucifixus, David Hamilton’s Alleluia, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater and Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel, arranged by Ken Berg.
“I picked a set of pieces based off of texts traditionally done during Holy Week,” says Hutchinson. The choir will also perform Now is the Month of Maying by Thomas Morely and Bumble Bee by Anders Edenroth.
Northwestern College is a Christian college of more than 1,200 students in Orange City, Iowa. Northwestern provides an education committed to academic rigor and a Christ-centered worldview.
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