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High School Choral
New Teachers
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.
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Contacts• Choral Section Chair: Bethany Jennings – [email protected]
• Past Section Chair: Eddie Adams – [email protected]
• Honors Chorus Chair: Ross Broadway - [email protected]
• All-State Chorus: Sarah McLamb – [email protected]
• MPA: Michelle Sullivan, Choral Activities Chair – [email protected] (for general information)• Email your MPA Site Chair for details about your district’s MPA
• Grievances/All-State Co-Chair: Sarah Fulton: [email protected]
• Public Relations/Educational Affairs: Jeffrey Danielson - [email protected]
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Contacts• New Teachers: Richard Butler – [email protected]
• HS Choral Mentoring Program: Richard Butler (above) or NCMEA Mentoring Chair: Windy Fullagar – [email protected]
• Music List Revisions: Heather Copley - [email protected]
• Sight Singing: Ashton Humphrey - [email protected]
• Awards (Teacher of the Year, Hall of Fame, Young Composer Showcase): Jenny Patchett - [email protected]
• Technology: A.J. Calpo - [email protected]
• Chair-Elect/Constitution: Roman Brady - [email protected]
• MPA Revision: Brad Bensen - [email protected]
• Conference Performance Coordinator: Aleisa Baker - [email protected]• Conference Performance Coordinator: Erin Pollock - [email protected]
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Websites
• http://www.ncmea.net/sections-2/high-school-choral/
• http://ncmeachoral.org/ - for Honors Chorus ONLY
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Mentoring
• NCMEA has a mentoring program for new teachers!• Go to NCMEA Mentoring Program for details• Contact: Windy Fullagar - [email protected]
• 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!
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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/
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• 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
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Honors Chorus
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
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Honors Chorus 2019Email Ross Broadway, your NC Honors Chorus Coordinator at - [email protected]
• 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 9th and 10th, 2019
• Performance: November 10, 2019 at UNCSA Stevens Center, Winston-Salem, NC, 3 p.m. – free of charge
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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!
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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
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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 1st 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 [email protected]
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All-State Chorus 2020
This year All-State convenesApril 24-25, 2020 at the
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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 [email protected]
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.
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Music Performance Adjudication (MPA)Solo and Small Ensemble: ENSEMBLES
• Register with your Site Chairperson by February 1• Registration is ONLINE ONLY• Go to Music Performance Adjuducation (MPA) and click on MPA Calendar
for dates and contact information.• $20.00 for ensembles of 2-4, $50.00 for ensembles of 5-24• Size limitation: A small ensemble is considered 2 to 24 singers• 2 to 4 singers: 1 memorized selection• 5 to 24 singers: 2 memorized selections• Does not have to be from MPA Approved Repertoire List, but Broadway,
Gospel, and Pop selections are not suitable• Sight singing was offered at three sites as a pilot program in 2017
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Music Performance Adjudication (MPA)Solo and Small Ensemble: SOLOS
• Register with your Site Chairperson by February 1• Registration is ONLINE ONLY• Go to Music Performance Adjuducation (MPA) and click on MPA Calendar for dates and contact information
• $15.00 per soloist• Up to 2 memorized selections if under time limit of 6 minutes total• Broadway, Gospel, Pop are not considered suitable• No sight singing
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Teacher of the Year AwardFor Questions: Email Jenny Patchett,Awards Chair, at [email protected]
Go to Teacher of the Year to nominate online.
Nominate a teacher that meets this criteria: a. Must be an active member of NCMEA, currently teaching high school choral musicb. Must have taught in North Carolina for at least 5 yearsc. Must be nominated by a member of NCMEA through a letter of recommendation citing the merits of the nomineed. Letter of recommendation may include personal experience, nominee’s professional memberships, educational
background, past teaching experience, church job (if applicable), etc…e. Nominees will be asked to send an updated resume
Nominations Open from Conference (Nov) to February 1
Online Voting is Open from April 30-June 10 to HS Choral Membership
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Hall of Fame InducteesEmail questions to: Jenny Patchett, Awards Chair, at [email protected]
Go to Hall of Fame to nominate online.
Nominate a deceased or retired teacher that meets this criteria: a. Served as an active director of high school choral music education in North Carolina public or private schools for
a period of ten years or more.b. Demonstrated excellence in the teaching of choral music on the high school level. Evidences would include
consistent high ratings at adjudicated choral festivals; participation in diverse choral experiences (All-County, All-State, Honors Chorus, performances in U.S. cities or abroad, etc.)
c. Made significant contributions to the improvement of choral music education and the betterment of the profession, including holding positions of leadership and/or service in professional organizations.
d. Demonstrated high ideals and professional integrity during the time of service.
Timeline for this year’s Inductees - Nominations will be due by Dec. 1 *Starting in 2020 nominations will be open from Conference (Nov) to February 1.
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HS Choral Section Young Composer ShowcaseEmail questions to Jenny Patchett, Awards Chair, at [email protected]
Once active, submission link in PDF Format to “Submittable” Form will be HERE.
A selection committee is appointed by the High School Choral Section Chair and includes composers and teachers.
Submissions are due by May 1st and notification will be by June 1st.
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Other Activities• All-County Chorus – see your local school district for information, there are multiple formats from massed choirs to director auditioned/selected to county-wide auditions
• Performance at NCMEA Convention: Email your Conference Performance Coordinators for Information (see Contacts)
• Adjudicators – there is a training seminar at ConventionYou must complete the training seminarMust have taught in North Carolina for 2 yearsSolo/Small Ensemble adjudicators must be either voice
majors or collegiate instructors
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Helpful Hints and Sites• https://www.edmodo.com/ – an educational “Facebook”• https://flipgrid.com/ - have students enter a code, click record simultaneously, and
video record each individual in your choir individually while they are singing in the choir! All at once!
• https://www.weebly.com/ – create your own website (if your district allows)• https://www.remind.com/ – a great way to send group texts to parents and students• https://www.musictheory.net/ – great resource with excellent graphics• https://edpuzzle.com/ – upload videos and imbed questions for students• https://www.thinglink.com/ – collect topical links on a related image for your
students• https://classroom.google.com/ - needs to be activated at a district level! • https://www.audacityteam.org/download/ – easy way to create rehearsal tracks!
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