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KY
All-State High School Chorus
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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 |
2011 All-State Choir Schedule (to be posted at a later date)
2011 Audition
Information
KY
All-State High School Chorus
2011 Conductors
SATB
Choir
Dr. Joe Miller
Westminster College, Rider University, Lawrenceville, NJ
Joe Miller is conductor of two of America’s most renowned choral ensembles – the Westminster Choir and the Westminster Symphonic Choir. As director of choral activities at Westminster Choir College of Rider University in Princeton, N.J., he oversees an extensive choral program that includes eight ensembles. He is also founder and conductor of the Westminster Chamber Choir, a program that offers professional-level choral and vocal artists the opportunity to explore challenging works for two weeks each summer on the Westminster campus in Princeton.
His recent seasons with the Westminster
Choir have included the release of their first full recording, Flower of Beauty;
described as “consistently excellent” by American Record Guide; concert tours throughout the United States and annual residencies at the Spoleto Festival USA. His recent seasons with the Westminster Symphonic Choir have included performances of major choral works in Newark and Princeton with the Westminster Festival Orchestra, as well as collaborations with the New York Philharmonic and conductor Alan Gilbert, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s
and conductors John Adams and Sir Roger Norrington, the Lucerne Festival
Orchestra and conductor David Robertson and the San Francisco Symphony and
conductor Michael
Tilson Thomas.
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SSAA
Choir
Dr. Z. Randall Stroope
Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK
Z.
Randall Stroope is one of the most active
choral conductors and composers working today,
with
recent conducting engagements at the American
School in
Singapore, Canterbury Cathedral, England,
Salzburger Dom in Salzburg, Kennedy Center for
the Performing
Arts in Washington, D.C., Vancouver Symphony
(British Columbia), and two performances at
the Vatican
in the past year. His compositions sell over
200,000 copies a year, and are performed regularly
by esteemed
ensembles throughout the world, including
professional ensembles in France, Holland, Hong
Kong, Spain,
Japan, Australia, the Czech Republic, and
Canada. Dr. Stroope has personally conducted/recorded
13 professional compact discs, and recordings
of his
music are heard frequently on radio and television
broadcasts, including National Public Radio.
Stroope studied conducting at Arizona State University
with Douglas McEwen and with Margaret Hillis, Chorus Master of the Chicago
Symphony. He is the Director of Vocal and Choral Studies at Oklahoma State
University in
Stillwater, where he conducts the Concert Chorale and Chamber Choir and coordinates
the undergraduate and graduate choral conducting program at the University.
Dr. Stroope is also the Artistic Director of a summer international choral
festival in Rome, Italy. Choral groups under his direction have taken 15 international
tours, including China, Russia, Japan, Sweden, and South Africa.
Dr. Stroope studied composition with Cecil Effinger
and Normand Lockwood, both students of Nadia Boulanger (who was a student
of Gabriel Faure'). Stroope has published 90 musical works with Alliance Music
Publishers, Colla Voce Music, Heritage Music Press, MorningStar, and Walton
Music.
Dr. Stroope was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and received a Master of Music degree in voice performance from the University of Colorado and a doctorate in choral conducting from Arizona State University. He and his wife, Cheryl – a middle school choral music teacher in Stillwater - enjoy travel and time with their Sheltie. http://www.zrstroope.com/bio.htm
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TTBB
Choir
Dr. Michael Schwartzkopf
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Michael Schwartzkopf, Professor of Music at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, is a member of the Alliance of Distinguished Rank and Named Professors at Indiana University and holds the Pam and Jack Burks Professorship Chair in Music. He
has an undergraduate and masters in music education
and choral conducting from Indiana University and
the D.M.A in Choral Conducting from the University
of Iowa.
His philosophy of music is
reflected in his diverse involvement and activity in
the areas of performance, conducting, teaching, and
administration. At Indiana University he is the
music director and conductor of the Grammy nominated
Singing Hoosiers and teaches courses in choral music
education and conducting at the graduate and undergraduate
levels. He has been the Chair of the Music Education
Department and the Interim Chair of the Choral Conducting
Department. He is the past President of the
Central Division of the American Choral Directors
Association
(ACDA) and begins his sixteenth-year as the Director
the Chancel Choir of the First United Methodist Church
in Bloomington.
Under his direction, the Singing Hoosiers have performed for audiences throughout
the United States and recently in Wales, England, and Greece. In January of 2009 they were invited to perform for the Inaugural Ball of the Indiana Society of Washington D.C. They have two recordings on the TELARC label with the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra under the direction of the late Eric Kunzel, the most recent was “Christmastime is Here” released
in 2006.
He continues to be
active as an adjudicator, lecturer, clinician, and festival conductor and has
conducted numerous state, regional, and all-state choirs throughout the United
States and Canada. As a singer/performer, Professor Schwartzkopf has performed in the theaters, on the concert stages, and in the cathedrals of Europe and the United States with various orchestras and choral ensembles in a wide variety of styles. http://info.music.indiana.edu/sb/page/normal/875.htm
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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
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15 |
District
Chair: District audition results, Student Audition
fees, and Forms
A, B, and C due to State Choral Chair. |
Nov
1 |
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. |
Nov
15 |
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Dec
17 |
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Jan
17 |
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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. |
| 2011 All-State Choir Schedule (to be posted at a later date) |
| Handbook for District Chairs |
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