Brenau Chamber Choir will present its annual holiday concert at 8 p.m. Monday, Dec. 8, at Pearce Auditorium on the campus at Brenau University. The concert is free and open to the public. 

According to Michelle Roueché, director of choral activities in the university’s music department, the choir will presents a Christmas cantata by Bach and perform various carols. However, for the first time, the choir will then share the stage with the Gainesville State College Choir and Brenau’s Spectrum Singers for a performance of the electrifying Christmas Cantata by American composer Daniel Pinkham.

The Brenau choir is scheduled to perform Friday, Dec. 5, at the famed Biltmore Estate in Asheville, N.C., at 5:45, 6:45 and 7:45 p.m.   This marks the second consecutive year the group has been featured on the program in one of the region’s top year-end holiday tourist attractions. 

For more information about the Brenau concert, contact 770-538-4764.

ABOUT BRENAU – Founded in 1878, Brenau University currently enrolls about 2,600 students in graduate, undergraduate and preparatory programs in the Academy; Women’s College; Evening and Weekend College; and Online College. The main campus of the Georgia-based liberal arts institution is in Gainesville with satellite campuses located in suburban Atlanta, Augusta and Kings Bay. Brenau’s 2009  ranking as the 10th-best higher education value in the Southeast by U.S. News & World Report marks the university’s third consecutive year in that position for the magazine’s America's Best Colleges guidebook.