IOWA LAKES COMMUNITY COLLEGE MUSIC DEPARTMENT STUDENTS PERFORM DURING ANNUAL SPRING TOUR

The Iowa Lakes Music Department students have been "on the road" in 2004.

This year, the Iowa Lakes Concert Choir, the Men's Choir, the Jazz Choir and the Iowa Lakes Jazz Band went on tour and performed April 15 for Harris-Lake Park High School and Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn High School. On April 20, they performed for Newell-Fonda High School and Wall-Lake View-Auburn High School.

Then, April 22-25 Iowa Lakes students traveled to Madison, Wisc., for the performances of the musical "Camelot", Pianist Murray Perahia (one of the most sought-after and cherished pianists of our time) and the W. A. Mozart Opera, Cosi fan tutte.

Musicians participating in these events included: David Benson of Titonka; Dain Blacker of Chisholm, Minn.; Ruchina Cho of Seoul, South Korea; Danielle Clouse of Ruthven; Josh Day of Cresco;  Denise Eades, Eric Hansen, Karen Hiles, Amy Koenecke, Katrina Lutzow, Ashley McDonald, Aaron Nelson, Kristin Porter, Sean Pulatie, Jeremiah Schacherer and Tom Spalding of Estherville; Will Gast of Garner; Matt Gerdes of Lake Mills; Andrew Gisch of Laurens; Kristie Harson and John Wallace of  Everly; Teri Hinrichsen of Ute; Jillian Kempema of Rock Valley; Nick Klein of Hartley; Andy Lageschulte of Aurelia; Ashley Lastine of Clarinda; Heidi Lotz of Pocahontas; Mark McAlpine of Woodbine; Shawn Miller of Primghar; Thea Molacek of Wallingford; Jeromy Mouw, Jeff Ondler, C J Pesante and Doug Stueven of Spirit Lake; Tim Petersen of Milford; Andy Preston of Lake Park; Leah Salton of Ayrshire; Joeli Schipull of Pomeroy; Steve Smith of Fonda; Ryan Stephas of Spencer; Candace Twait of Cylinder; Karen Van Veldhuizen of Hull; Tony Williams of Emmetsburg; and Nathan Zwiefel of Fenton.