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Catherine McElhiney
  • Theatre Arts
  • Class of 2016
  • Harrisburg, PA

Catherine McElhiney Named to Bob Jones University's Concert Choir

2015 Oct 27

Catherine McElhiney of Harrisburg successfully auditioned into the University Concert Choir, one of the top five choral organizations at Bob Jones University.

McElhiney is a Senior pursuing a BA in Theatre Arts.

The University Concert Choir, consisting of upperclassmen and graduate students, is one of BJU's top five choral organizations. In addition to public concerts of standard choral literature, the Concert Choir sings in the BJU Opera Association and Oratorio performances and ministers in local churches and Christian schools through sacred music concerts. The choir was recently featured at the South Carolina American Choral Directors Association Conference at Southern Wesleyan University in Central, South Carolina.

Dr. Beth Eubank, the director, has been a member of the BJU music faculty since 1997. She earned her bachelor's degree in music education from Shenandoah Conservatory of Music, her master's degree in music education from BJU and her doctorate in music education from the University of Georgia. She has done postgraduate choral conducting studies at Westminster Choir College, University of Michigan, University of Kentucky, the Eastman School of Music, Sarteano, Italy with Simon Carrington and University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.