The East Tennessee State University Men’s Ensemble has been invited to perform at the national convention of the 2007 American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) in Miami.
The 44-voice group, directed by Dr. Thomas Jenrette, is the only university choral ensemble from Tennessee and the only male ensemble in the country to be selected to perform at the convention. Selection for this honor is by audition, which included recorded performances by the Men’s Ensemble from the past three years.
The ETSU singers will perform four times at the convention – twice at the Jackie Gleason Theater of the Performing Arts, once at the Knight Concert Hall at the new Carnival Center for the Performing Arts, and once at the Exhibit Hall at the Miami Convention Center. They will sing for over 6,000 choral directors and musicians from around the world attending the convention, which runs from March 7-11.
The Men’s Ensemble is an auditioned group of music and non-music majors at ETSU. They were selected to perform at the 1988 and 2004 southern division conventions of the ACDA and at the 1999 national ACDA convention in Chicago.
In addition, they sang for the southern division convention of the Music Educators National Conference, two national conventions of the Intercollegiate Men’s Choruses, and twice at the White House in Washington, D.C. The Men’s Ensemble has performed on five international concert tours, the most recent of which was in Germany earlier this year.

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