2024 SPRING CONCERT
Our spring concert will be performed twice.
The first concert will be on Sunday, April 28, at 4 pm at Immaculate Conception Church in Nashua.
The second performance will be on Sunday, May 5, at 4 pm in Rochester.
We are pleased to include the composition that won our 2024 contest in our concert,
“The Heart WIll Sing” by Ian Good.
Scroll down for information on all our contest winners.
Tickets may be purchased from any chorus member, at Darrell’s Music Hall, online at Eventbrite, or at the door.
Nashua Choral Society and Granite State Choral Society are
pleased to announce the winners of our 2024 Song Competition.
First Place: “The Heart Will Sing” by Ian Good
Second Place: “Prayer” by Lucas Parhiala
Third Place: “I Am Glad” by Allison Kraus
Ian Good’s compositions and arrangements have been performed by the Gordon College Choir, Lyricora, the Westminster Bell Choir, Cape Symphony Orchestra, and various chamber groups and soloists. He has been commissioned by churches and school choirs, including LaGuardia High School in New York City, and his art song “Nocturne in a Deserted Brickyard” was a finalist in the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award competition. Ian’s compositions are published by Beckenhorst Press and GIA Publications. He holds an M.M. in Composition from Westminster Choir College where he met his wife Sarah. He is also a Grammy-nominated audio producer. www.ianmichaelgood.com
Lucas Parhiala’s musical journey began two years ago in his junior year of high school. He took a piano class and a class on music theory and discovered a deeply ingrained curiosity and passion for understanding music. From there, his teacher began to have him practice composing and it felt as though he spoke for the first time in his life, and he fell in love with the sound of that voice. Since coming to college he has focused on honing that voice and using it to express and spread love to loved ones, God, and to encourage others to spread love amongst each other.
Allison Kraus (b. 1997) is a Nashua born, New York City-based musician and writer. Off-Broadway/Regional credits include: Let You Be You LIVE (Writer), TinyTanic: The Musical (Music Director), Ships: A Musical Trilogy (MD), My Body, My Voice (MD), In Harmony (MD). Allison is a member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop. She has taught around New York at institutions such as the Atlantic Acting School and Amas Musical Theatre, and she sings with the Cathedral Chorale of St. John the Divine. Special thanks to Mom for instilling a lifelong love of all things choir.