UPUMC Music Events
Highpoint Chamber Singers in concert at UPUMC
Saturday, February 21 at 6:00 pm | UPUMC Sanctuary
Sunday, February 22 at 11:00 am (during worship services)
The Chamber Singers from High Point University, located in High Point, NC, is the premier vocal ensemble of the university. This select ensemble is made up of students from many academic disciplines across campus and who hail from all over the country. Each person was chosen through a competitive audition and receives of scholarship for his or her participation. The choir rehearses five days per week and performs over 40 concerts annually.
The choir has been honored to perform a solo concert to a sold-out audience at Carnegie Hall in New York in 2011; was the featured collegiate choir performing at the North Carolina Music Educators Association (NCMEA) Conference in 2013; The regional convention of the College Music Society (CMS) in 2015; performed at the North Carolina American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) Conferences in 2015 and 2018; the Southern Division Conference of the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) in Chattanooga, TN in 2016; and was excited to be one of the featured collegiate choirs, selected from over 700 world-wide, at the Quadrennial General Conference of the United Methodist Church in Portland, Oregon in 2016. Chamber Singers have also been featured on several compact disc recordings from Hinshaw Music Inc. as part of their promotion of new choral music and have been honored to premier choral works by Dan Forrest, Richard Waters, James Green, David Schwoebel, Paul Mealor, and many others.
Chamber Singers have toured extensively throughout the United States and abroad. International performances include St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, the Duomo in Florence, and St. Mark’s in Venice, Italy; and concerts in Vienna and Salzburg, Austria; Berlin, Germany; Prague, Czech Republic; Budapest, Hungary; and Wroclaw, Poland. From January through May of 2017, members of the choir spent the semester touring Europe, while based out of Prague, Czech Republic and studying at Anglo-American University. In 2021 and 2023 Dr. Foster and the choirs at High Point University were featured on a nationally televised Christmas Eve special on ABC affiliate tv stations and reproduced in 2022 and 2024 on NBC affiliate tv stations. In 2022 Chamber Singers toured the Czech Republic and was a featured ensemble in Vienna, Austria where they participated in a concert celebrating the 252nd birthday of Beethoven with a festival chorus, orchestra, and soloists at St. Stephen’s Cathedral. In 2023 the choir traveled to England and Scotland and joined with professional choruses Vox Anima and the Voces 8 organization in a concert featuring the music of acclaimed composer Paul Mealor. In 2024 Chamber Singers were featured multiple times during the Christmas season on the Fox News nationally televised program “The Five”.
Music Ministry Meet-up
Wednesdays | 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Join us weekly for a time of fellowship and music. For more information, please contact Mark Pope, Minister of Worship, at mpope@upumc.org.
Music & Worship Ministries Events
Fall 2025: The Music Ministry of University Park UMC will proudly celebrate the exceptional artistry of our esteemed composer, Alex Gonzales, by showcasing his masterful compositions.
October 2024: Dr. Marcell Steuernagel joins us during morning worship services to sing his compositions and to lead us in worship.
