UNA Alumna and Full-Time Disney Singer Janie Clasgens to be Special Guest on Una Voce’s “Surround Sound” Concert

Mar. 14, 2025

Michelle R. Eubanks , UNA, at meubanks@una.edu, 256.765.4392

FLORENCE, AL – Janie Clasgens, a University of North Alabama Department of Music graduate and full-time singer with Disney’s Voices of Liberty has been tapped to be the special guest as part of UNA Voce’s “Voices Unplugged” concert set for March 18 at 6 p.m. at St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church on Darby Drive in Florence.

“I am so honored and thrilled to be returning to UNA to sing with Una Voce at their spring concert this year,” said Clasgens from her home in Florida. “Singing in the Una Voce and learning from Dr. (Ian) Loeppky helped me develop so many of the skills I use every single day when singing with Voices of Liberty. The ‘Voices Unplugged’ concert was always my favorite performance of the year, so being asked to come back as the guest artist this years feels very full circle and incredibly special.”

Clasgens will be performing several pieces in the concert, both solo and with the Una Voce ensemble. The concert takes place annually and is organized by Dr. Loeppky, a Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities.

“I don’t think I have had a student who has excelled as equally in the realms of music education and music performance,” he said of Clasgens. “She’s become a consummate, dedicated music teacher, and she stood out as one of the finest singers I have ever seen in our choir, opera, and musical theatre programs. It paid off: She’s a full-time singer – with benefits – with one of the best vocal groups in the country. We couldn’t be more proud of her.”

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The University of North Alabama is an accredited, comprehensive regional state university offering undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral degree programs through the colleges of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering; the Sanders College of Business and Technology; Education and Human Sciences; and the Anderson College of Nursing and Health Professions. Occupying a 130-acre campus in a residential section of Florence, Alabama, UNA is located within a four-city area that also includes Muscle Shoals, Sheffield, and Tuscumbia. UNA Athletics, a renowned collegiate athletics program with seven (7) Division II National Championships, is now a proud member of NCAA Division I as part of the Atlantic Sun and United Athletic conferences. The University of North Alabama is an equal opportunity institution and does not discriminate in the admission policy on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, disability, age, or national origin. For more: una.edu and una.edu/unaworks/.