The Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts presents its 2023 Spring Concert Series

Photo Credit from the 2022 Winter Concert: Christmas City Studio

BETHLEHEM, PA–The acclaimed Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts (Charter Arts) Music Department is proud to present its annual Spring Choral Concert and Spring Instrumental Concert with stunning performances featuring the school’s various choirs and ensembles.

The 2023 Spring Choral Concert, May 1 & 2, 2023 at 7 PM, will feature the school’s 9/10 Choir, 11/12 Choir, Treble Choir, and Touring Choir as well as a combined choral finale featuring all singers. All choirs will be performing diverse and challenging repertoire covering multiple styles of music (and languages!) including gospel, jazz, chant, folk song, spiritual, and modern choral repertoire.

The concert will culminate with a combined choral finale, The Lake Isle by Ola Gjeilo, a refreshing work set to capture text from W. B. Yeats in the Irish style. The piece will feature over 100 choral singers as well as a string quartet and solo guitarist.

The vocal music department is led by Erica Dickson.

The 2023 Spring Instrumental Concert, May 5, 2023 at 7 PM, will feature the Charter Arts Guitar Ensemble, Percussion Ensemble, Wind Ensemble, and Orchestra. The Wind Ensemble and Orchestra will feature music from the movies while the Guitar and Percussion Ensembles will play tunes from Pat Metheney and Kit Watkins among others.

The instrumental music department is led by Matthew Wells.

All concerts will take place in the Charter Arts Theatre, located on the school’s campus at 321 East 3rd Street, Bethlehem. Tickets are $5-$10 and available at: www.CharterArts.org.ABOUT THE CHARTER ARTS MUSIC DEPARTMENT:

Instrumental Music and Vocal Music are two distinct individual departments at Charter Arts. However, some of the courses are required of both majors while others are department-specific. Instrumental students are provided large ensemble experience through Orchestra, Wind Ensemble, Charter Arts Big Band and Percussion Ensemble. Small ensembles such as Advanced Jazz Combo, Pop/Jazz Ensemble, Guitar Ensemble, Chamber Ensemble, and String Ensemble also boast a full concert schedule. Through community partnerships, students also perform at various venues across the Lehigh Valley.In the Charter Arts Vocal Music program, students learn to read music at an advanced level, as well as understand the historical setting of the pieces in their musical repertoire. The faculty helps them listen analytically, with skills that develop both their critical sense of music and thought. Working with each other, students learn teamwork and become creative and cooperative members of musical ensembles.

Beyond ensembles, the music curriculum is vast and challenging. Students have four years of music theory and four years in a technique class where the vocalists work with a vocal specialist and the instrumentalists work with a specialist in their instrument family. Along with a collection of music electives, these classes prepare students for careers as professional musicians, music majors in college or university, and/or lifelong lovers and learners of music.

ABOUT THE LEHIGH VALLEY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS (Charter Arts):

Charter Arts is an audition-based public charter school that provides a comprehensive curriculum for high school students, grades 9-12, who have a dedicated passion for the creative and performing arts. Students major in one of seven artistic areas: dance, instrumental music, literary arts, production arts, theatre, visual arts, or vocal music.

Charter Arts is proud to celebrate its nineteenth year as one of the most respected high schools for the arts in the nation. Charter Arts was named a 2018 National Blue Ribbon School of Excellence by the U.S. Department of Education. Recently, Charter Arts was ranked #1 Best Public High School Teachers in PA and #1 Best Charter High School in PA on Niche’s 2023 Best Schools in America Rankings.

Audition appointments for the 2023-2024 school year are being accepted now. For more information, visit www.CharterArts.org.

Charter Arts is located at 321 East 3rd Street, Bethlehem PA 18015.

Information & Image Provided By:
Ann Gillette
Manager of Public Relations and Media
Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts
321 East 3rd Street, Bethlehem, PA 18015
www.CharterArts.org