AMEA 2006
Clinicians and Performers
Emma Sansom High School is a 4A high school located in Gadsden, Alabama that has an enrollment of just under 500 students. The 2005 - 2006 school year will represent the final year of existence for Emma Sansom High School. Next year, Emma Sansom, Gadsden and Litchfield High Schools will combine to form the new Gadsden City High School.
The Emma Sansom High School
Band program is made up of students in grades 9 - 12 and consists of the "Rebel" marching band, sym- phonic band, concert band and jazz band. "Rebel" marching band is the largest ensemble with-
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in the program and has a membership of 110 - 120 students annually. The symphonic band performs for several Veteran's Day programs each November as well as a formal Christmas, Winter and Spring Concert. This ensemble participates in the Alabama Bandmaster's Association District and State Concert Band Festival each year and consistently receives supe- rior ratings.
Elva Kaye Lance is Director
of Bands at Mississippi State University where she teaches instrumental methods, conducts the Wind Ensemble and directs the "Famous Maroon Band." Now in her fourteenth year at Mississippi State, Ms. Lance has taught a wide assortment of classes within the music education department, supervised student teachers, and maintained the Euphonium-Tuba studio. She is the Director of the State Band Camp, which is a summer workshop for high school and middle school students and also serves as Coordinator for the Mississippi State University Band Directors Institute, which provides inservice training for instrumental music educators in the region. Prior to joining the faculty at MSU, Ms. Lance served as band director at the junior high and high school level in the state of Mississippi where her bands consistently received superior ratings in all categories. She is an alumna of Mississippi State University and the Maroon Band, where she served as Euphonium soloist. Ms. Lance obtained her graduate degree from Southern Oregon State University.
Professional affiliations include the Mississippi Bandmaster's Association, Kappa Kappa Psi, Sigma Alpha Iota, Phi Beta Mu, Phi Kappa Phi, Music Educator's National Conference, College Music Society and the College Band Director's National Association. She maintains an active schedule as a guest conductor, clinician and adjudicator throughout the state and region.
A select group of up to fifty-five singers, the University of North Alabama Collegiate Singers are the premier choral ensemble on campus, which repre- sents the University on tour every year.
Recent tours
have taken the choir to New Orleans, Mobile, Cincinnati, Chicago, Washington D.C., Houston, and Orlando. Two elite groups are drawn from the ranks of the Collegiate Singers: the Chamber Choir and the Vocal Jazz Ensemble.
The Chamber Choir performs
works from the Renaissance to modern chamber works, such as their Fall 2005 performance of Veljio Tormis Curse upon iron. The Vocal Jazz Ensemble performs in a wide range of styles and genres from jazz to pop to swing.
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