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About the Choir

Classics Today calls The Portland State Chamber Choir “amongst the finest choirs in the world.” Since its founding in 1975, the Chamber Choir has performed and competed in venues across the country and around the world, earning over 30 medals and awards in international choir competitions including being the only American choir to have won the Seghizzi International Competition for Choral Singing in Italy in 2013, and the Bali International Choral Festival in Indonesia in 2017.
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The Chamber Choir’s 2013 recording Into Unknown Worlds was the first student choral album to make Stereophile’s list “Recordings to Die For.” Their 2017 recording The Doors of Heaven was the first University choral album to hit #1 on the Billboard Classical Chart and also took second place for the American Prize. Their latest recording, Translations, received awards and features in both Gramophone and Stereophile magazine and is a semifinalist for the American Prize in Choral Music.

The Chamber Choir has performed multiple times at National and Divisional Conferences of the American Choral Director’s Association and The National Association for Music Education, and hosted the 2015 National Conference of the National Collegiate Choral Organization. They also perform regularly with The Oregon Symphony; they also sang backup for Josh Groban.
 
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Ethan Sperry

Conductor

Ethan Sperry is the Barre Stoll Professor of Choral Music at Portland State University, Artistic Director and Conductor of the Oregon Repertory Singers, and editor of the Global Rhythms series for earthsongs music, one of the best-selling choral series in the world. Choirs under his direction have performed at over a dozen ACDA and NAfME Conferences, toured over twenty foreign countries and sung at The Hollywood Bowl, The Kennedy Center, and the United Nations. Sperry has been a frequent guest conductor for composer A. R. Rahman including his performance at the 2007 Filmfare Awards, the Indian equivalent of the Oscars. Sperry also serves as a consultant for the KM Music Conservatory in Chennai, the first classical music school in India, which opened in 2009.

The SPRING 2025 Portland State Chamber Choir

Dr. Ethan Sperry, Conductor
Colin Shepard, Pianist

Soprano
Rachel Bard
Jana Brown
Madeline Green
Victory Ilechukwu
Rubi Jensen
Daily Landazuri
Serena Mason
Lily Pounders
Cat Terrell
*Kathryn Thomas
Camilla Villanueva

* indicates section leaders


Alto
Addison Domenigoni
Lily Foster
Giselle Jensen
Kendall McCrary
Julianne Rathbone
Della Simone 
Josie Stapleton
Lily Sveinbjornsson
Madi Terry
​*Annie Thomas

Tenor
Ethan Blatter
Jonathan Brinkley
Wyatt Budeau
Jere Burkholder
Diego Mercado
Colin Shepard
*Ian Timmons
Ethan Vaughan
​Patrick Wood

Bass
Henry Alexander
Felipe Araya
Spencer Beste
Josue Chan
*Peter Freeman
Phill Hatton
Marcus Luka
David Muller
Alden Payne
Tanner Sheldon
Evan Swanson
​Izaak Thoms

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  • PSU College of the Arts
  • Portland State University