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Rutgers University Kirkpatrick Choir, with approximately 50 members, is the most advanced choir at Mason Gross. Its mission: to educate professional musicians through performance. The choir performs a significant repertory of major choral orchestral masterworks, Baroque music accompanied by period instruments, and important works of the 20th and 21st centuries. Rutgers Kirkpatrick Choir was approached by the Milken Archive of American Jewish Music to record several CDs of important 20th-century works, including Miriam Gideon’s Sacred Service, which was released as part of the Milken Archive’s comprehensive multiyear recording series on Naxos American Classics series. They also have a Naxos release of Samuel Adler’s Five Sephardic Songs. The release of their Naxos distributed CD, The Fire Within on the Affetto label, presented Lou Harrison’s setting of the Buddhist Heart Sutro, “La Koro Sutro,” allowing home audiences to hear the major work presented in the concert listed by The New York Times as one of the “Top Ten Classical Music Performances of 2017.”

Rutgers University Kirkpatrick Choir capped the 2019-20 school year with an award-winning performance in Germany at the Marktoberdorf Festival, following their work as the ensemble-in-residence at the University of Saarland in Saarbrücken, Germany. In April 2019 the choir performed the Brahms Requiem at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall in New York City.