The Missouri Choral Artists is a brand-new Springfield-based group of professional choral singers founded earlier this year by Kelly Garrison and Matthew Felts. When Matt Felts calls the group "professional," he defines them as "all either former music majors, current teachers, some former teachers--kind of all ages. I just moved to Springfield to actually help get this project off the ground about a month ago." The group will perform Arvo Pärt's Berliner Messe (Berlin Mass) for chorus and string orchestra, and other works by Baltic composers, in a concert Sunday June 26th at 4:00pm at All Saints Anglican Church, 2751 E. Galloway, under the direction of conductor Dr. Amy Muchnick. Missouri Choral Artists is comprised of between 16 and 24 musicians from both the local area and as far away as Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, Topeka and Columbia. "The numbers in the ensemble change with every performance," says Matt Felts. "This group is unique in that it doesn't really have necessarily a
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