2027 Choral Tune-Up
Making music across generations.
Save the Date!
SAVE THE DATE
Saturday, January 30th, 2027
9:00am - 12:30pm
Roseville Lutheran Church
1215 Roselawn Avenue, Roseville, MN 55113
With optional Conductor & Educator Sessions on Friday, January 30th from 5pm-9pm.
Tom Trenney
Jennaya Robison
What you’ll experience:
Enjoy a morning workshop of singing with Tom Trenney and NLC Artistic Director Jennaya Robison. Singers work in a rehearsal setting alongside members of the National Lutheran Choir learning 4-5 choral selections led by the clinicians. The event concludes with a mini performance by the National Lutheran Choir and the choir of First Plymouth Congregational Church (Lincoln, NE), under the direction of Tom Trenney. Featuring music alongside new anthems for church, school, and community choirs, this annual festival promises to be an invigorating morning of making music together.
Who can attend:
We invite singers of all backgrounds to join us. Whether you sing in a school choir (grades 7-12), community ensemble, church choir, or have never sung in a choir before in your life, we welcome you to raise your voices with 400+ other singers who love music as much as you do!
What else should you know:
Registration will be open in the fall. You can register as an individual, or register a group of singers (e.g. school choir, church choir, community ensemble.) If you’re a conductor, educator or future educator pursuing a degree in music who is looking to advance your skills and techniques, we have a special Conductor Track opportunity built just for you.
Our Tune-Up Clinicians
Tom Trenney
Composer, conductor, organist, preacher, and teacher Tom Trenney has been blessed to serve as Minister of Music to First-Plymouth Church in Lincoln, Nebraska, since 2009. In 2019, he was invited to become Associate Professor of Music and Director of Choirs at Nebraska Wesleyan University where he now holds the Susan Sehnert Stuart Professorship in Choral Music. Tom’s choirs have been honored to perform for state, regional, and national conventions of the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA), and they have been award winners in the American Prize for choral ensembles. In 2023, Tom was honored with the Raabe Prize for Choral Composition from the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians, and in 2024, Tom was named the Nebraska Music Education Association's Music Educator of the Year.
Tom has been a featured performer at churches, colleges, and concert halls across the country including Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center, Seattle’s Benaroya Hall, Kansas City’s Kauffman Center, D.C.'s Kennedy Center, and NYC's Carnegie Hall. His choral compositions are published by Augsburg Fortress, Beckenhorst Press, Choristers Guild, E.C. Schirmer/Galaxy, Gentry, Morningstar, Musicspoke, Pavane, and G. Schirmer.
A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Eastman School of Music, Tom is grateful for the inspiration of his teachers and mentors – especially Anton Armstrong, David Davidson, Craig Hella Johnson, (Mister) Fred Rogers, William Weinert, Anne Wilson and Todd Wilson.
Jennaya Robison
Jennaya Robison is the Artistic Director of the National Lutheran Choir and is a highly accomplished conductor, educator, and vocalist. She holds the Doctor of Musical Arts in choral conducting from the University of Arizona, the Master of Music in conducting and voice from the University of New Mexico, and an undergraduate degree in music (music education and voice) from Luther College. Her extensive work in the field of choral conducting includes serving as the Raymond R. Neevel/Missouri Associate Professor and Director of Choral Studies at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory until 2023, Associate Professor of Choral Music at Luther College from 2013 to 2020 and founding Scottsdale Musical Arts in 2009.
Tom Trenney’s Music
Enjoy this piece, For Everyone Born, performed by the National Lutheran Choir.
What is the Choral Tune-Up?
The Choral Tune-Up is an opportunity for singers, music educators, and directors from throughout the region to join singers from the National Lutheran Choir to learn about choral music and vocal techniques from world-class clinicians. Together we explore repertoire easy to use with a church choir, school group, or volunteer ensemble.
Join us each winter to connect with other singers, learn new music, and work with our special guest clinicians.
Interested in bringing a group of students?
Hi, my name is Emily Bird, and I’m the Director of Education and Community Outreach!
If you’d like to discuss bringing a group of students to the Choral Tune-Up, please contact me directly using the contact form below!
