New Teachers High School Choral
Contents • How to join! • Contacts • Websites • Mentoring • Student Events • Honors Chorus • Honors Chorus 2019 • All-State Chorus • All-State Chorus 2019 • (MPA) LARGE ENSEMBLE • (MPA)Solo/Small - Ensembles. • (MPA)Solo/Small - Solo. • Teacher of the Year Award • Hall of Fame Inductees • Young Composer Showcase • Other Activities • Helpful Hints and Sites
How to join! •You must be a current member in good standing of NCMEA for your school to participate in any of the following events! •To Join: https://nafme.org/membership/ •Participating students must be enrolled in a scheduled choral class receiving one unit of credit in the current school year. Contents
Contacts • Choral Section Chair: Bethany Jennings – hschoral_chair@ncmea.net • Past Section Chair: Eddie Adams – jadams@wcpss.net • Honors Chorus Chair: Ross Broadway - nchonorschorus@gmail.com • All-State Chorus: Sarah McLamb – ncallstatechoir@gmail.com • MPA: Michelle Sullivan, Choral Activities Chair – ncmeachoralactivities@gmail.com (for general information) • Email your MPA Site Chair for details about your district’s MPA • Grievances/All-State Co-Chair: Sarah Fulton: sefulton@clevelandcountyschools.org • Public Relations/Educational Affairs: Jeffrey Danielson - Jeffrey.danielson@carteretk12.org MORE CONTACTS ON NEXT SLIDE Contents
Contacts • New Teachers: Richard Butler – richardbutlerjr@ccs.k12.nc.us • HS Choral Mentoring Program: Richard Butler (above) or NCMEA Mentoring Chair: Windy Fullagar – mentoring_program@ncmea.net • Music List Revisions: Heather Copley - hcopley@wcpss.net • Sight Singing: Ashton Humphrey - ashton.humphrey@carteretk12.org • Awards (Teacher of the Year, Hall of Fame, Young Composer Showcase): Jenny Patchett - jpatchett@wcpss.net • Technology: A.J. Calpo - jgcalpo@gaston.k12.nc.us • Chair-Elect/Constitution: Roman Brady - rdbrady@wsfcs.k12.nc.us • MPA Revision: Brad Bensen - bbensen@wcpss.net • Conference Performance Coordinator: Aleisa Baker - aleisa.baker@bcsemail.org • Conference Performance Coordinator: Erin Pollock - eslenk@ncmcs.org Contents
Websites •http://www.ncmea.net/sections-2/high-school-choral/ •http://ncmeachoral.org/ - for Honors Chorus ONLY Contents
Mentoring •NCMEA has a mentoring program for new teachers! •Go to NCMEA Mentoring Program for details •Contact: Windy Fullagar - mentoring_program@ncmea.net • Sign up for a mentor, sub money is available for mentor/mentee visits • Mentoring Pre-Conference: Will pay for room (with a roommate) or half room price (if private room) and lunch Saturday if you are a participant! Contents
Student Events •Go to the “Student Events” tab on the website and you will find information on all our student events • Honors Chorus • All-State • MPA’s (Large Ensemble and Solo/Small Ensemble) • http://www.ncmea.net/sections-2/high-school-choral/programs/ Contents
Honors Chorus • Register at http://ncmeachoral.org/, pay, and postmark registration by 11:59 p.m., Sept.10 • Audition fee of $20.00 per student, school/booster check or money order only. The fee is $21.00 if paying by credit card. • You can bring up to 10% of your CHORAL enrollment (Ex: 1-14 enrolled=1 audition, 15-24 enrolled=2 auditions, 25-34 enrolled=3 auditions, etc.) • Count each student only once no matter how many classes they are registered in! • Audition sites alternate yearly: • Odd Years – East: Thursday, Central: Friday, West: Saturday • Even Years – West: Thursday, Central: Friday, East: Saturday • Sites: • East: Meredith College, Raleigh, NC • Central: UNC-Greensboro, Greensboro, NC • West: St. Luke United Methodist, Hickory, NC Contents
Honors Chorus • Registering: send $20.00 ($21.00 if paying with Credit Card) registration fee per student postmarked by Honors Chorus Coordinator’s designated postmark deadline. • Auditions (about 6 minutes) include: Vocalizing (for range only), Singing vocal part from audition piece, and sight singing (tracks are available for download to practice the sight singing audition process) • Audition results will be sent by email along with Sight Singing from Audition ** For Schools with Seated Singers ** • J.W. Pepper will send music packets directly to your school (for teacher and student(s)) – you don’t have to order, but you do have to pay! You may need to secure a PO number as soon as you have a student selected. • Honors Chorus convenes Saturday and Sunday at the beginning of Conference (early November in Winston Salem) • Singers are mixed and screened – so make sure your students know their music! • Go to https://sites.google.com/site/nchonorschorus/ for details Contents
Honors Chorus 2019 Email Ross Broadway, your NC Honors Chorus Coordinator at - nchonorschorus@gmail.com •East Audition – Thursday, September 26, Meredith College •Central Audition – Friday, September 27, UNC-G •West Audition – Saturday, September 28, St. Luke’s UMC •Rehearsals: November 9 th and 10 th , 2019 •Performance: November 10, 2019 at UNCSA Stevens Center, Winston-Salem, NC, 3 p.m. – free of charge Contents
All-State Chorus • To benefit NEW TEACHERS, deadline for registration is December 1 • Register at All-State Choral Festival • $45.00 non-refundable registration fee for each choir. This includes the required event t-shirt, which is worn in the performance. • These fees will be applied to your total fees, which are $45.00 per seated student due by All-State Coordinator’s designated postmark deadline. • Allotments are assigned by enrollment. You’ll know your allotments by Jan. 1 and will have to submit your registration fee balance no later than Feb. 1. Any schools submitting with a post-mark date after Feb. 1 will incur a $25.00 late fee. • When submitting chorus program enrollment, count each student only once no matter how many classes they are in! Contents
All-State Chorus • You choose which choirs you participate in. • You select your singers for up to three choirs this year: TTBB (9-12), SSA (9-12), SATB (9-12) • You must assign one student to each voice part in a choir before you can duplicate a voice part assignment. Students in the SATB choir must be prepared to sing both divisis for their part. (All Sopranos in the SATB choir should be able to sing Soprano 1 and Soprano 2, for example) • Programs with 24 or fewer students may not be guaranteed a slot in every choir, and will be refunded registration fees if their enrollment is not sufficient to allow for one slot in every choir. • Your students must attend a three hour District Rehearsal. • All-State convenes in Charlotte in April/May Contents
All-State Chorus •Your school must have participated in an MPA within the last two years: Solo/Small Ensemble or Large Ensemble •Two exceptions: 1. New School or 2. Teacher’s 1 st year at the school – if the school went to MPA last year and you have the information, go ahead and submit it! •Once you receive your allotments, select your students and order your music. J.W. Pepper has the repertoire lists, but you are responsible for acquiring the music. •Singers are screened, so make sure they know their stuff! •See All-State Choral Festival for details. • Contact Sarah McLamb, your All-State Coordinator, with any questions ncallstatechoir@gmail.com Contents
All-State Chorus 2020 This year All-State convenes April 24-25, 2020 at the Charlotte Convention Center Contents
CHORAL ACTIVITIES Choral Activities includes: Large Ensemble Music Performance Adjudication (MPA) Solo and/or Small Ensemble Music Performance Adjudication (MPA) Email questions about general information to Michelle Sullivan, your Choral Activities Chair at ncmeachoralactivities@gmail.com Email your site chair for information specific to you site. Look for your MPA Site: MPA Sites
Music Performance Adjudication (MPA) LARGE ENSEMBLE • Register with your Site Chairperson by February 1 • Registration is ONLINE ONLY • Go to Music Performance Adjudication (MPA) and click on MPA Calendar for dates. sites, and contact information and to download the MPA Approved Repertoire List • $125.00 per ensemble • No size limitation (small ensemble is considered up to 24) • Perform two memorized selections: One MUST be from the MPA Approved Repertoire List, the other can be off the list, but of comparable difficulty (exception: Comments Only or Grade 1, in which case BOTH songs should be OFF the list) • Sight singing is optional: one rhythmic exercise and one singing exercise in a voicing/difficulty level selected by the choral director, The difficulty levels do not need to be the same for both types of sight singing. • “Retired” sight singing is available online through Bethany Jennings . Contents
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