Seventy-six choral students and choir director Tom Wine from Wichita State University’s School of Music will be onstage Tuesday, June 2, in New York City’s Carnegie Hall to perform the world premiere of “Requiem” by David N. Childs.

Most of the WSU students come from Wine’s A Cappella Choir, which will combine with two other college choirs from New York for the performance.

The combined choirs, soloists and orchestra will be conducted by Childs, a prolific young composer with more than 50 choral works in print and commissions from around the world.

Childs, an active clinician and adjudicator in the United States, serves as associate professor of choral studies at the Blair School of Music, Vanderbilt University, Nashville.

He has also served as music director for the Vanderbilt Opera Theater program.

Born in 1969 in New Zealand, he earned his bachelor’s degree in composition and musicology from Canterbury University, Christchurch, New Zealand; a Master of Music in conducting from the Florida State University, Tallahassee; and a Doctorate of Musical Arts from Louisiana State University.

The WSU troupe left on May 30 for New York City, where they were to rehearse for three days before the June 2 Carnegie Hall performance.