AMEA 2013 Performing Groups
The Montgomery Academy’s Upper School Chorus is comprised of 70 students who are not auditioned. The chorus performs a wide variety of repertoire from renaissance to contemporary and consistently receives “Superior” ratings at District, State, and National Festivals. Choruses at The Montgomery Academy have been invited to perform at State Conventions of The American Choral Directors Association and State and National Conventions of The Music Educators National Conference. They have also been featured with the New England Symphonic Orchestra at Carnegie Hall. The chorus has had successful tours in South Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia, Tennessee, Texas, New York, California and Florida. Recently, the Upper School Chorus has been invited to perform at The Alabama ACDA Invitational Choral Festival and has been invited to present solo performances at Mississippi State Choral Colloquium Honor Choir, The University of Southern Mississippi’s Southern Invitational Confrence and The University of Alabama’s Honor Choir Festival. In order to improve as an ensemble, the Upper School Chorus has participated in choral clinics with David Childs, Kenneth Fulton, Lynne Gackle, and Larry Wyatt and Ron Staheli, Eric Nelson, Z. Randall Stroope, and Andre Thomas.
The Pelham High School Wind Ensemble is the premier instrumental performing group at Pelham. The group is one of three concert ensembles and is made up of seventy-seven musicians in grades ten through twelve who earn and keep their positions within the group through a series of yearly class evaluations. Individual performance is stressed in the Wind Ensemble which is evidenced by the number of students who audition for and are chosen for
various university honor bands, district and county honor bands and all-state. While travel and competition are huge motivators to the students in the group, they continue to be focused on upholding the rich tradition of musical performance that is so much a part of the program. Each year, over half of the graduating members of Pelham’s Wind Ensemble go on to continue their music in college ensembles and Pelham currently has more than ten graduates pursuing music performance or music education as a career.
The Northside Singers were organized in 1997 when Mrs. Karen Hickok was hired as the music teacher. The Singers are an auditioned group of approximately 80 fourth and fifth grade students. They rehearse once a week, before school and present musicals and formal choral programs twice a year.
The Singers have
performed for other local schools, Rotary club, local nursing homes and businesses, the Alabama State Principals’ Meeting in Montgomery, Old Alabama Town, as well as at the state capitol where they sang for the state legislature.
The Southern Chorale is the primary touring ensemble at the University of Southern Mississippi. The group has appeared at numerous meetings of ACDA and MENC, including national conventions in Chicago and Los Angeles and the Southern Division ACDA in Memphis. Recent endeavors include a recording project of the music of native Mississippi composer James Mulholland and a performance of the Mass in B Minor by JS Bach. In the last decade the group has had concert tours of England, France, Mexico, and Jamaica. In 2005 Manhattan Concert Productions hosted the Chorale for a Hurricane Katrina Relief concert in Carnegie Hall. The group has been invited to perform with the Transylvania Philharmonic, Cluj Romania, in May of 2013.
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