TROY , Ala. -- Troy University ’s annual Choral Masterwork Festival is scheduled for March 11 at 8 p.m. in Claudia Crosby Theater on Troy ’s campus.

The event, which is made possible through grants from the Alabama Council on the Arts and the Troy Arts Council, will showcase the Troy University choral program, as well as bring together musicians, students and teachers from throughout Alabama , Georgia and Florida . The Festival will kick off Spring Reunion/Irish Week festivities on the Troy Campus.

Troy University Collegiate Singers and Chamber Choir under Conductor and Festival Director Paul MaGahie will serves as hosts for the event, which will feature selections from Requiem by French composer Gabriel Faure and the Five Mystical Songs by English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams.

Guest choirs include the Shelton State Singers, Wallace State Concert Choir Singers and the Bainbridge College Singers.

Guest soloists for the event are Michelle Lott, a soprano from Montgomery, and Chris O’Rear, a baritone from Montgomery who is an adjunct instructor of voice at TROY .

Lott’s singing career has included musical theatre, as well as opera and oratorio with performances with Onstage Atlanta, the Atlanta Opera, Atlanta Savoyards Light Opera, West Bay Opera, West Marin Opera Festival and Opera Birmingham. She has also toured with the Opera Birmingham and the Atlanta Opera Education programs. Lott apprenticed with the Israel Vocal Arts Institute in Tel Aviv and the Georgia State Opera Workshop where she originated the role of Darlene in the premiere of Milton Granger’s Test Tube. Her oratorio experience includes the Brahms Requiem, Bach Magnificat, Durafle Requiem, Britten’s Ceremony of Carols, Charpentier’s Christmas Mass, the Faure Requiem and John Rutter’s Feel the Spirit.

O’Rear is an adjunct instructor of voice at Troy University and at Huntingdon College . He has his own private voice studio and is currently pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in vocal performance at the University of Alabama . O’Rear holds a bachelor’s degree from Winthrop University in Rock Hill , S.C. and a master’s degree in music with an emphasis in church music and choral conducting from Sanford University . He has performed the role Germont in La Traviata and Belcore in Le Elisir d’amore. Additionally, O’Rear has performed as soloist for Bach’s St. John Passion, Brahm’s Requiem and Handel’s Messiah. He is a frequent soloist with the Montgomery Chorale.

The Festival Orchestra will be composed of professional, faculty and student musicians from Troy , Tallahassee , Fla. and the Montgomery area.

 Tickets can be purchased at $10 for adults, $5 for students or $2 each for a student group of 10 or more.  Tickets can be ordered from the Troy University Box Office, 670-3773, or bought at the door. The event kicks off Irish Week at Troy University .