Student Performance Samples

There Will Be a Light, Yuav Tsum Muaj Hnub Zoo

Even through Distance Learning, we’re still making music together. We were so grateful to Sam Grace and members of imPulse - MPLS for collaborating with us to bring “There Will Be A Light” to life. The composer and soloist, Douachi Yang, is a former Harding student and wrote a powerful piece about resilience and hope.

Best part? The song is available for all to perform for free.

Click here to learn more about the MPLS (imPulse) Songbook Project.

News Feature: Harding High School Choir!

Our Midwinter Collaboration Concert with South High School made it onto Channel 5 news! We were thrilled to welcome Jessica Miles and KSTP news to highlight our choir and orchestra as we prepared for our collaboration concert with South High School’s Treble Choir and String Orchestra.

Click here to read the full article!

Juntos -Jim Papoulis (Midwinter Collaboration 2020)

Collaboration is at the heart of the Harding Music Department. Beginning in 2017, Jennifer Greupner and I created the “Midwinter Collaboration Concert” and since then we’ve welcomed Augsburg University, Border CrosSing, Star of the North Wind Band and this year, South High School.

Thanks to a grant from HiWay Federal Credit Union, we were able to bring 135 student musicians together for this special concert. Students wrote letters to a pen pal across the river, shared a meal and made music together. Please enjoy this performance of Juntos, featuring Bella Voce (Harding) and Treble Choir (South).

Triston Yang, videography

Liberty and Justice For All

The 2019-2020 Harding High School Chamber Choir performing "Liberty and Justice For All" from the Justice Choir Songbook.

Paulo Gladney, solo
Triston Yang, videography

My Dad the Mekong/Love Forever

Harding High School and Augsburg University joined forces to present the world premiere of '“My Dad the Mekong/Love Forever” a bilingual piece in Hmong and English for two choirs. The work was written by Elliot Z. Levine with poems by Peter Yang and Lee Her. For more information about the work and process, check out my blog post about it.

Tres Cantos Nativos Dos Indios Krao

Our annual Midwinter Collaboration concert always features a guest artist. In 2020, one of our collaborators was Border CrosSing, a professional choir I sing with and work for. Not only do we partner with an outside artist, this concert brings together various choirs within our department and gives students a chance to work collaboratively with their peers. This performance of Tres Cantos is performed by Concert Choir and Chamber choir, preceded by a reading of a poem in Nahuatl titled “Xon Ahuiyacan”.