KY All-State High School Chorus

KMEA State Choral Chair
Ryan Marsh
Lafayette High School
401 Reed Lane
Lexington, KY 40503
(859) 846-9817, Home
(859) 381-3492, School
(859) 381-3487 Fax
ryan.marsh@fayette.kyschools.us

2010 All-State Choir Schedule

2010 Audition Information

Minutes from the May, 2008 Choral Council meeting

KY All-State High School Chorus
2010 Conductors

SATB Choir
Dr. Brad Holmes
Millikin University, Decatur, IL

Dr. Brad Holmes has been Director of Choir Programs at Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois since 1991.  In his nineteen years at Millikin, Dr. Holmes has overseen the growth of the choral program to five traditional choirs and a variety of smaller vocal ensembles involving 300 students and eight choral/vocal ensemble staff.  The Millikin University Choir has been a regular performer at state and regional MEA  and ACDA conferences.  Their recent performance before the 5000 choral directors at the National Convention of ACDA garnered new attention on the choir’s approach to tonal variety.  Dr. Holmes's extensive guest conducting schedule has included All-State and District festivals as well as church music clinics throughout the United States.  Internationally, he has been a Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University.  His choirs have sung in 33 countries, most recently in China and Taiwan.  Brad Holmes’ choral arrangements are available through First Step Publishing, Millikin’s student-run publishing house and through Santa Barbara Music Press.

 

SSAA Choir
Morna Edmundson
Elektra Women's Coir, Vancouver, BC

Morna Edmundson is one of Canada’s best-known choral conductors, with special interests in the areas of tone colour, language, and interpretation. As a conductor, singer, and administrator, her professional music career spans over twenty-five years, including eight years as a professional singer in the Vancouver Chamber Choir. Ms. Edmundson is best known for her 21 years of accomplishment as Co-Founder and Co-Conductor of Elektra’s Women’s Choir, with which she has received numerous honours and awards. At the end of the 2008/2009 season, Morna will be appointed Artistic Director of Elektra at the same time as her long-time colleague Diane Loomer steps into the Conductor Emeritus role.

Morna’s career as a choral musician has followed her passion for a cappella singing, for contemporary music, for early music, and for integrating the beauty of folksong traditios into choral repertoire.  For 14 years she shared her love of quality repertoire with a new generation of singers in her role as Associate Director of Coastal Sound Music Academy, where she was Music Director of the mixed-voice Youth Chamber Choir.  She has adjudicated in North America and Asia, conducted honour choirs in several states, co-directed the ACDA National Women’s Honour Choir, and gives frequent workshops with choirs of all ages.  Ms. Edmundson has given lectures on her work at local, national, and international meetings of choral professionals. For six years she served on the Board of the Directors of the International Federation for Choral Music. In May 2000 she was presented with the Healey Willan Award for outstanding service to the BC Choral Federation, an organization she serves as a member of the President’s Advisory Council.

Morna is also an accomplished arts administrator and cultural leader in Vancouver, serving as Administrative Director of Festival Vancouver, Co-Chair of the Arts Festivals Association of Metro Vancouver, volunteer President of the Coastal Sound International Choral Festival, formal and informal mentor to other conductors and administrators, and frequent contributor to cultural planning in the city and province.  Prior to these roles, she served as Executive Director of the World of Children’s Choirs 2001 festival and symposium, and Assistant Director of the 1993 World Symposium on Choral Music in Vancouver.  Ms. Edmundson holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of British Columbia, a Diploma in Choir Pedagogy from the Stockholm Conservatory and a Master of Music degree in Choral Conducting from Western Washington University.  
http://www.elektra.ca/conductors.html

 

TTBB Choir
Gabriel Crouch
Depauw University, Greencastle, Indiana

From 1996 until 2004, Gabriel occupied the second Baritone position in The King's Singers, the post formerly held by Simon Carrington. In those eight years, he made a dozen recordings on the BMG label (including a grammy nomination), and gave more than 900 performances in almost every major concert venue in the world. His work took him from the Lincoln Center in New York to the Suntory Hall in Tokyo, from Opera houses in Cape Town and Vienna to the great recital halls of the Santa Cecilia (Rome) and Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), and included two performances at the PROMS festival in London's Royal Albert Hall. Special collaborative projects saw him working and performing with some of the world's most respected artists, including percussionist Evelyn Glennie, pianists Emmanuel Ax and George Shearing, singer Barbara Hendricks and 'Beach Boy' Bruce Johnston.

In 2002 he planned and coordinated, in partnership with the Poet Laureate, Andrew Motion, a special Jubilee concert in the Royal Albert Hall featuring seven newly commissioned works by Britain's leading composers and poets, all performed by the King's Singers and televised by the BBC.

During this time he developed a passion for choral coaching and the nurturing of student choirs, and since leaving the King's Singers he has thrown himself into educational work alongside his continuing singing career. He has given workshops in the USA both independently and with the King's Singers, notably at ACDA, SPEBSQSA, Amerifest and MENC conventions, with the Harlem Boys Choir and at a special festival of 10 high school choirs in Dallas. This year he served as guest conductor and vocal coach at the Feliciana International Choral Festival and prepared four New Jersey high school ensembles for performances in front of former President Clinton. Across the Atlantic, Gabriel has given a 4-day series of workshops to choirs from across Europe at the Schleswig Holstein Festival in northern Germany (2001 and 2003), has been part of the Ensemble in Residence at London's Royal College of Music, and he now regularly coaches around a dozen young professional groups across the European continent. His achievements in the choral world have led to many invitations to adjudicate choral competitions, notably the mixed choir final of 'Sainsbury's Choir of the Year' (televised by the BBC), and in 2004, he adjudicated every round of the "Vereins und Westbank Jugend Kulturell A Cappella" competition in Germany.
Still only 31 years of age, Gabriel is nevertheless a veteran of the professional music world. His career began when he was barely eight years old, in the choir of Westminster Abbey, where he served as Head Chorister and performed a solo at the wedding of HRH Prince Andrew and Miss Sarah Ferguson. After taking up a choral scholarship at Trinity College, Cambridge, (under Dr Richard Marlow) he co-founded and directed a male voice ensemble, Henry's Eight, with whom he undertook a series of tours and recordings (for Hyperion) of music of the Flemish Renaissance.
His work as a singer, coach and musical director recently led to his name appearing in the London Times' list of 'Great British Hopes'.              http://www.depauw.edu/music/people/faculty/crouch.asp

Handbook for District Chairs

KY All-State High School Chorus
Deadlines
All Items must be postmarked by the deadline date.

Sept/Oct

Contact your District Chair for district deadlines for the
  following forms:
   • Form A (Total Choral Enrollment Form)
   • Rosters signed by principal, counselor, and local choir teacher.
   • Audition fee

Nov 1
District Chair: District audition results, Student Audition fees, and Forms A, B, and C due to State Choral Chair.
Nov 15
Anticipated date for posting All State Choir membership on KMEA web-site. Results will not be mailed. Form D (Choir Acceptance Form) will be emailed to schools with student names of those invited for participation in All State Choir.
Dec 1

• All State Chorus Acceptance Form (Form D) (must contain all   signatures) due to State Choral Chair.
All State Medical Form (one per student) due to State Choral Chair.
All State Rules and Regulations for Participation Form
 
(one per student) due to State Choral Chair.
All State Chorus Music Order Form due to KMEA Office.

Dec 17
All-State Housing Form due to KMEA Office.
Jan 17
Talent Show Audtion Form due to Alyssa Vanderpool.
January–see linked schedule
Regional Rehearsal: Attendance to a regional rehearsal is required by each student for All State participation. Failure to attend a regional rehearsal will result in an automatic withdrawal from All State Choir.
REMINDER:
You must have proof of your school registration as well as your current KMEA dues card number before you audition in the district.
2010 All-State Choir Schedule
Handbook for District Chairs

2010 All-State Choir Rosters
2009 All-State Chorus Participant Press Release
All State High School Chorus Ticket Information
(tickets available for sale beginning Dec 15)

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