Kentucky Junior High Chorus

Byron Lucas, Coordinator
Franklin-Simpson High School
P.O.Box 389
Franklin, KY 42135
byron.lucas@simpson.kyschools.us
270-586-3273 office phone
270-586-2021 office fax

 

The Kentucky Junior High Chorus (KJHC) is comprised of the Kentucky Junior High Mixed Chorus (KJHMC) and the Kentucky Junior High Treble Chorus (KJHTC). Each chorus has approximately 200 seventh, eighth, and ninth grade students who are selected by audition from the state of Kentucky. Both choirs perform in concert as part of the Kentucky Music Educator's Association In-Service /Professional Development Conference in Louisville, on February 10, 2011, in Whitney Hall at the Kentucky Center for the Arts.

 
Conductor for the 2011
Kentucky Junior High MIxed Chorus
Rollo Dilworth
 
Conductor for the 2011
Kentucky Junior High Treble Chorus
Jana Ballard
 
 

    Jana Ballard has been on the music faculty at LaGuardia High School of Music and Art & Performing Arts in New York, New York since the fall of 2007.  At LaGuardia High School, Ms. Ballard conducts both the Senior Chorus and Advanced Women’s Choir, and she prepares the opera workshop chorus.  Other responsibilities include teaching voice classes and music history classes.  Ms. Ballard is also the conductor of the New York City Labor Chorus.  Prior to teaching in New York City, Ms. Ballard taught in Kentucky for eight years where she was a high school choral director and private voice instructor.  In addition to her teaching responsibilities, Ms. Ballard was very involved in professional leadership and organization on the state level such as the Kentucky Choral Directors Association and Kentucky Music Educators Association (MENC).  Ms. Ballard received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in music education from Western Kentucky University.