Kathryn Wilson tours with Dordt College Chamber Orchestra and Concert Band

2015 Mar 2

Kathryn Wilson of Mason City, Iowa, is embarking on a spring music tour with the Dordt College Chamber Orchestra and Concert Band during the school's spring break. Wilson is a junior majoring in K-12 education and choral/instrumental music education. Wilson performs in the Chamber Orchestra and Concert Band, and she plays clarinet.

This free concert is part of a spring tour with performances scheduled in Arizona, California, Colorado, and New Mexico.

Directed by Dr. Bradley Miedema, the ensembles will perform works by George Frederic Handel, Percy Grainger, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Eric Whitacre, and more. The concert is free, with a freewill offering received to help defray tour expenses.

Dordt College has approximately 300 U.S. and international students who participate in the music program, with opportunities to perform in four choral groups, two orchestras, and three bands. Music scholarships are available to qualified students.

Dordt College in Sioux Center, Iowa, is a comprehensive Christian college rooted in the Reformed tradition. U.S. News & World Report, Forbes.com, Washington Monthly, and Princeton Review all list Dordt on their best colleges lists. At Dordt, 98 percent of enrolled students receive financial aid, thanks in part to generous alumni committed to the mission of the college. Dordt offers more than 90 programs of study to a student body of approximately 1,450. See www.dordt.edu for more information.