We are thrilled to collaborate with the North Carolina A&T State University Choir and their distinguished conductor, Maestro Travis Alexander, in “Shout for Joy” on March 16 and 18, 2024. This remarkable ensemble and their conductor bring forth a wealth of talent, passion, and musical excellence, and it is our great privilege to sing alongside them.
North Carolina A&T State University Choir
The University Choir is the official ensemble of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in Greensboro, NC, and the premiere choral unit for the Department of Visual and Performing Arts within the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. The University Choir produces at least four major campus concerts per year, and performs extensively in churches, schools, and concert halls throughout the United States annually through Fall and Spring Recruitment Tours.
Renowned for its riveting performances and wide and versatile repertoire of classical masterworks, Negro Spirituals, Opera, Broadway, Jazz, and Gospel, the University Choir has performed TWICE at the WHITE HOUSE in Washington, DC., and has been featured on Black Issues Forum and UNC TV through an annual broadcast of their Christmas Concert.
Travis W. Alexander
Concert Organist, Conductor, Pianist, Tenor
Travis W. Alexander received Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from the School of Music at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He has completed further summer study and masterclasses in organ performance and conducting at the Yale University Institute of Sacred Music and Harvard University. A professor at NC A&T State University, he serves as Director of Choral Activities and University Organist, conducting the renowned University Choir and Chamber Singers.
Alexander is a 2018 GRAMMY MUSIC EDUCATOR AWARD nominee and finalist, the only professor out of 3,000 nationwide nominees to come from an Historically Black College or University. He has conducted the NC A&T State University Choir twice in full concert performances at the WHITE HOUSE in Washington, DC, at the request of former President and Mrs. Barack Obama in honor of Black History Month. Alexander was featured in a documentary by Black Issues Forum and UNC-TV “A Maestro and His Chorus” which featured a live broadcast and subsequent yearly reruns on PBS of the December 2016 Christmas Concert of the NC A&T State University Choir.
Alexander served previously as National Conductor and Concert Organist for the 105 Voices of History National Concert Choir with performances in Washington, DC at the historic presidential Andrew Mellon Auditorium, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, TN. He has collaborated extensively with Maestro James Meena, Opera Carolina, and the Charlotte Symphony in performances of AIDA and recitals with internationally acclaimed Mezzo-Soprano Denyce Graves. He has conducted choral concerts in Rome, Florence, Venice, London, Wales, Ghana, West Africa, and Canada.
He is a member of the Sixth District Executive Board of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., Greensboro Opera Company Board of Trustees, Charlotte Chapter of the American Guild of Organists, and the American Choral Directors Association.