Holy Radiant Light

The Concert Choir is one of the four choral organizations at Columbia Christian College and tours annually throughout the western United States and Canada. They have appeared twice on programs of the Northwest Division of the Music Educators National Conference, in 1985 and 1987. They have also performed at the Oregon Music Educators Association State Conference in 1982, 1984, 1986, and 1990; the 1984 American Choral Directors Association Regional Convention, and were invited back in 1986; and the Oregon ACDA College Choir Festival 1981-1990.

Richard L. Dalzell, professor of choral and vocal music, has been at Columbia since 1979. He holds the B.A. degree in applied music, summa cum laude, from Abilene Christian University and the M.M. degree in voice and choral performance from the University of Idaho with additional work at the University of Washington, College of Idaho, Portland State University, University of Oregon, and University of Kansas. He has studied choral music and conducting under John Finley Williamson, Robert Shaw, Norman Luboff, Helmut Rilling, and Eric Ericson. A bass-baritone soloist and a frequent vocal/choral adjudicator and clinician, Mr. Dalzell was the recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities stipend in 1976. Before moving to Portland he was chairman of the music department at Treasure Valley Community College in Ontario, Oregon, where he taught for twelve years. He is a past president of the Oregon chapter of the American Choral Directors Association and is president-elect of the Northwest Division of ACDA. He is serving as Oregon State Collegiate Membership Chairman for Oregon Music Educators Association/Music Educators National Conference, and also holds membership in the National Association of Teachers of Singing and the National Association of Jazz Educators.