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Online Audition Window October 12-‐23, 2020
dale.beech@dcsms.org, Treble Choir Chair terrell.hall@dcsms.org, SATB Choir Chair
daniel.vernon@gulportschools.org, TTBB Choir Chair
2021 Mississippi ACDA All State High School SATB Honor Choir Clinician and Repertoire Information
March 25-‐27, 2021 University of Southern Mississippi
SATB Clinician: Dr. Rosephayne Powell SATB Collaborative Pianist: Jennifer Rushton
Dr. Rosephanye Powell has been hailed as one of America’s premier women composers of choral music. Dr. Powell serves as a Charles W. Barkley Endowed Professor and Professor of Voice at Auburn University. Recent commission and premiere highlights include: Love Will Make A Way (SATB) premiered by the Metropolitan Youth Chorale of New York at Lincoln Center, NY; Get Busy (SATB) premiered and conducted by the composer at Carnegie Hall, NY; A Christmas Medley (SATB), commissioned and performed by multi-Grammy award-winning Chanticleer, as their concert closer for “A Chanticleer Christmas” Tour 2017; When I Sing (SSA), commissioned by the American Composers Forum CHORALQUEST series; I Want to Die While You Love Me (SSAA), composed for the ACDA 2013 Women’s Choirs Commission Consortium; Gospel Trinity (SATB), premiered at the Lincoln Center, NY; Phenomenal Woman, composed for MUSE: Cincinnati’s Women’s Chorus; Friendship composed in celebration of the 20th Anniversary of the Jacksonville Children's Chorus; With What Shall I Come (SATB), composed for the St. Olaf Choir celebration of the 25th anniversary of Dr. Anton Armstrong, conductor, and premiered at Carnegie Hall; Why We Sing (TTBB), composed for Cantus Vocal Ensemble; The Lord Is My Light and My Salvation (SATB), composed for the NCMEA North Carolina Honors Chorus; and The Cry of Jeremiah, a four-movement sacred work for narrator, chorus, organ and orchestra, commissioned by the American Guild of Organists, premiered at the Lincoln Center, NY. Dr. Powell travels the country and internationally serving as a composer-in-residence, workshop clinician,
and conductor for honor choirs and All-State choral festivals. Recent commitments include: Tennessee All-State SSAA Choir; South Carolina ACDA SSA Honor Choir; Delaware All-State High School Mixed Choir; West Virginia All-State High School Mixed Chorus; Hillsborough County SSA Honor Choir (FL), conductor; Oklahoma All-State High School Women's Choir, conductor; KMEA All-State High School Women’s Choir (Kansas); North Carolina MEA High School SATB Honor Choir; Georgia All-State Senior Women Chorus; Middle Tennessee Vocal Association Treble Honor Choir; Boston Children’s Chorus (MA), conductor, composer-in-residence; Festival Disney Choral Festival, clinician and adjudicator; the World Choir Games (Cincinnati, OH), adjudicator; Melbourne International Singers Festival (AUS), conductor, composer-in-residence; the Italian Feder Gospel Choirs Workshop (Milan, Italy), conductor, composer-in-residence. Dr. Powell holds degrees from The Florida State University (D.M.), Westminster Choir College (M.M), and Alabama State University (B.M.E).
Title Composer/Arr. Publisher Publication ID
Solidaridad Rosephayne Powell Hal Leonard 08747007
Dies Irae Z. Randall Stroope Alliance AMP0575
To Sit and Dream Rosephayne Powell Hal Leonard 08711521
*Jabberwocky (all SATB audition piece) Rene Clausen Santa Barbara SBMP528
Tundra - NEW voicing, not in print yet. Ola Gjielo Walton Music WW1835
Get Busy Rosephayne Powell Hinshaw Music HMC2559
Audition Material: • I Am the Wind (SA only) • In Meeting We Are Blessed (TB only) • Jabberwocky (everyone) • Sight Reading (everyone)
www.msacda.org for more info.
Online Audition Window October 12-‐23, 2020
dale.beech@dcsms.org, Treble Choir Chair terrell.hall@dcsms.org, SATB Choir Chair
daniel.vernon@gulportschools.org, TTBB Choir Chair
2021 Mississippi ACDA All State High School Treble Honor Choir Clinician and Repertoire Information
March 25-‐27, 2021 University of Southern Mississippi
SSAA Clinician: Dr. Edith A. Copely SSAA Collaborative Pianist: Hope McKellip Bass
Edith A. Copley is a Regents’ Professor and Director of Choral Studies at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. She conducts the highly acclaimed Shrine of the Ages Choir (founded in 1933) and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in conducting and graduate choral literature. The Shrine of the Ages Choir has performed at state, regional and national conferences of the American Choral Directors Association and the National Association for Music Education. NAU choral ensembles under her direction have toured internationally to Western Europe, the Peoples Republic of China, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Bulgaria, Istanbul, Estonia, Latvia, and South Korea and Hong Kong in May 2020. Prior to her NAU appointment, she taught secondary choral music for seven years in the Midwest and four years overseas in Vienna, Austria. She has also served as the assistant and interim principal conductor of the May Festival Chorus that regularly performs with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Cincinnati Pops. In Spring 2016, Dr. Copley retired as Music Director of the Master Chorale of Flagstaff (MCF). She led the auditioned 100-voice community chorus for 23 years. Additionally, she has served as the chorusmaster for
Flagstaff Symphony Orchestra for 27 years. During that time, she has conducted numerous choral/orchestral works, including Brahms’s Ein Deutsches Requiem, Orff’s Carmina Burana, Bach’s B Minor Mass, Mozart’s Mass in C Minor, Duruflé’s Requiem, Haydn’s Creation, and the Britten War Requiem. Dr. Copley is an active member of NAfME and a life member of ACDA. She has served in many leadership roles, including President of the ACDA Western Division and Arizona ACDA, state and divisional newsletter editor, and interest session chair for the 2011, 2019, and 2021 ACDA National Conferences. Dr. Copley also conducted the 2013 ACDA National Mixed Honor Choir in Dallas and the NAfME All-National Mixed Honor Choir in the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville. Dr. Copley has received numerous honors, including NAU School of Performing Arts Centennial Teacher of the Year Award, Arizona Music Educator of the Year, Arizona ACDA Outstanding Choral Director Award, and the Weston H. Noble Award from her alma mater Luther College. Dr. Copley has her own choral series with Santa Barbara Music Publications and is in high demand as a clinician, adjudicator and guest conductor in the US and abroad. She has conducted all-state choirs in 37 states, and choral festivals in Carnegie Hall, the Walt Disney Concert Hall in LA, Orchestra Hall in Chicago, Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, and the Strathmore Music Center in Maryland. Dr. Copley also has conducted international choral festivals in Germany, the Netherlands, Tasmania, Japan, Luxembourg, Australia, China, Turkey, England, Poland, and Oman.
Title Composer/Arr. Publisher Publication ID Psalm 100 (4 hand) René Clausen Mark Foster / Hal Leonard 35017696 (SSA, 4 hand) Ave Maria Guy Forbes Alliance AMP0671 Oh, Had I Jubal’s Lyre Handel, arr. Robert W. Gibb Gentry / Hal Leonard HL 08738714 Rejoice O Virgin (Bogoroditse Devo)
Rachmaninoff, arr. Veronica Sichivitsa
Musica Russica Ra028wc
Cikala le Pong Pong Ken Steven Earthsongs S-‐420 *I Am the Wind (SA audition piece) Elaine Hagenberg Elaine Hagenberg EH1003 I’ll Fly Away Craig Courtney Beckenhorst Press BP2110
Audition Material: • I Am the Wind (SA only) • In Meeting We Are Blessed (TB only) • Jabberwocky (everyone) • Sight Reading (everyone)
www.msacda.org for more info.
Online Audition Window October 12-‐23, 2020
dale.beech@dcsms.org, Treble Choir Chair terrell.hall@dcsms.org, SATB Choir Chair
daniel.vernon@gulportschools.org, TTBB Choir Chair
2021 Mississippi ACDA All State High School TTBB Honor Choir Clinician and Repertoire Information
March 25-‐27, 2021 University of Southern Mississippi
TTBB Clinician: Dr. Dustin Cates TTBB Collaborative Pianist: Aaron Mann
Dr. Dustin S. Cates is a teacher, conductor, singer, researcher and proud native of Kansas City, Missouri. He is passionate about music making and its ability to have a positive impact on the human condition. As a result of his experience as a leader and educator, he is in demand as a choral adjudicator, clinician, presenter, and conductor throughout the United States. Dr. Cates is Assistant Professor of Choral Music Education at Boyer College of Music and Dance, part of the Center for the Performing and Cinematic Arts at Temple University. His teaching opportunities include conducting the Temple University Chorale, supervising graduate students, and teaching courses in music education, choral/vocal pedagogy, and choral methods. His research focuses on issues of diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice in choral
music. Prior to his work at Temple, Dr. Cates served as Artistic Director and Conductor of Heartland Men’s Chorus, taught high school choral music in the Kansas City metropolitan area, and served as Associate Director of Worship Arts at The United Methodist Church of the Resurrection. Dr. Cates is an active member of the National Association for Music Education (NAfME) and American Choral Directors Association (ACDA). He serves as National ACDA Repertoire and Resources Chair for Tenor/Bass choral ensembles and is Past President of the Kansas Choral Directors Association. Dr. Cates considers his most important roles to be husband to Dr. Raymond Cattaneo, and father to their son Emmaus.
Title Composer/Arr. Publisher Publication ID *In Meeting We Are Blessed Troy Robertson
Hinshaw HMC 2597
Ring Out, Wild Bells Ron Nelson
Hal Leonard 48004361
Ave Verum
William Byrd Dustin Cates Manuscript
As I Have Loved You
Andrea Ramsey
MusicSpoke
MusicSpoke
O Sole Mio
Eduardo di Capua/ Arr. Jacob Naverud
Santa Barbara SBMP 1364
Harriet Tubman
Rollo Dillworth
Hal Leonard 35030209
Chasing Visions
Don Macdonald
MusicSpoke
MusicSpoke
Audition Material: • I Am the Wind (SA only) • In Meeting We Are Blessed (TB only) • Jabberwocky (everyone) • Sight Reading (everyone)
www.msacda.org for more info.