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Eric Delagrange
  • Class of 2013
  • Amherst, NY

Mercyhurst College student Eric Delagrange honored in 'best quartet' category at Pa. choral festival

2011 Mar 8

Mercyhurst College junior Eric Delagrange was among four students from Mercyhurst College named the "best quartet" among more than 100 participants in the 2011 Pennsylvania Collegiate Choral Association Festival Concert Feb. 3-5 in Indiana, Pa.

Delagrange, a native of East Amherst, NY, studies voice with Louisa Jonason, chair of the D'Angelo Department of Music, and Brent Weber, assistant professor of music.

Choral director Rebecca Ryan accompanied 13 Mercyhurst students to the festival. Other schools represented included Seton Hill University, Carnegie Mellon University and Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

The Pennsylvania Collegiate Choral Association annually invites colleges to send their top singers to a statewide festival where they work with a nationally known choral conductor. This year's guest conductor was William Dehning, former chairman and professor of choral music at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music.