SEWARD, NEBRASKA (April 5, 2024) On Friday, March 22, the Concordia Music Department hosted its Spring 2024 composers' recital. The composers' recital provides a unique opportunity for students who have composed original musical works to debut them in front of an audience.

The program featured pieces by five different Concordia students. Performances included arrangements for voice, saxophone, organ, piano, violin, and viola.

Nathan Hoft of Eldridge, Iowa, was featured in this recital.

Student performers included (listed in program order):

"Scallywag Song" by Logan Walgate, junior, St Charles, Missouri

Grace Donnelly, sophomore, Three Forks, Montana, alto saxophone

Nathan Hoft, senior, Eldridge, Iowa, alto saxophone

Jonah Carter, freshman, McKinney, Texas, tenor saxophone

Logan Walgate, baritone saxophone

"Lenten Alleluias" by Thomas Schulteis, senior, Parker, Colorado

Thomas Schulteis, organ

"Fathom" by Anna Grass, senior, Seward, Nebraska

Anna Grass, violin

Sadie Henson, junior, Herrin, Illinois, piano

"Improperium. . . et dederunt" by Ryan Edinger, junior, Wentzville, Missouri

Magdalene Hall, senior, Spring, Texas, viola

Ryan Edinger, piano

"Salvation Belongs to the Lord" by Joshua Jurchen, sophomore, Seward, Nebraska

Kirsten Horne, junior, Seward, Nebraska, soprano

Anna Grass, senior, Seward, Nebraska, soprano

Morgan Rohde, freshman, Fort Wayne, Indiana, alto

Alannah Stahl, senior, Saginaw, Michigan, alto

Caleb Zeckzer, senior, New Haven, Indiana, tenor

Samuel Dunbar, junior, Utica, Nebraska, tenor

Dylan Parker, sophomore, Fairfax, Virginia, bass

Grant Rohde, sophomore, Reed City, Michigan, bass

About Concordia University, Nebraska

Concordia University, Nebraska, founded in 1894, is a fully-accredited, co-educational university of The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod located in Seward, Nebraska, which currently serves more than 2,500 students. Concordia offers more than 100 undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs in an excellent academic and Christ-centered community that equips men and women for lives of learning, service, and leadership in the church and world. For more information, visit cune.edu.

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