RANDOLPH UPPER SCHOOL CONCERT CHOIR


The Randolph Upper School Concert Choir is the non-auditioned, elective choral ensemble of Randolph School’s Upper Division (grades 9-12). Since 2011, the Upper School Concert Choir has grown from an enrollment of 16 singers to 35 at the conclusion of the 2014-2015 school year. Visibility in the greater Huntsville community has increased with such initiatives as concert collaborations with the choirs of the University of Alabama Huntsville in 2013, and the Huntsville Youth Orchestra in 2015. Singers in the Randolph Upper School Concert Choir are routinely accepted into the Madison County Honor Choir Festival, the Alabama Honor Choir, and the Alabama All-State Choir Festival. Since 2011— the ensemble’s first participation in many years—the Randolph Upper School Concert Choir has garnered 2 overall Excellent and 2 overall Superior ratings (including Superior ratings, every year, in Sight-Reading) at State Choral Performance Assessment.


Chris Walters has served as Director of Choirs at Randolph School in Huntsville (AL) since 2011, where he has overseen tremendous growth in choral ensemble participation and achievement. At Randolph, he currently conducts all choral ensembles grades 9-12, and as well, teaches Songwriting, Music and Meaning, and AP Music Theory. Choirs under his direction continue to garner Superior ratings at regional festivals and contests, receiving consistent praise for their technical accuracy and quality of musicianship. Dr. Walters also serves as Instructor of Voice at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, as Assistant Conductor of the Huntsville Community Chorus, and as Music Director of the Huntsville Collegium Musicum—a professional octet specializing in early choral music. Prior to Huntsville, Dr. Walters taught junior high and high school vocal music in Jacksonville (IL) where he established a fully-graded and sequential 7th-12th grade public school vocal music program. Dr. Walters has conducted choral ensembles at Vanderbilt University,


Emory University, Boston University, Assumption College, and at Harvard University. At Harvard most recently, while serving as Assistant Conductor of the acclaimed Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, he conducted highly successful performances across Germany and Austria as part of the Collegium’s 2011 Tour, which included concerts at the Berlin Dom, Köln Dom, Salzburg Dom, and Stephandsdom (Vienna), and collaborations with the Yale Glee Club, the Cologne University Chamber Choir, Dr. Hoch’s Conservatory Choir, and the Humboldt University Chamber Choir. The recipient of several commissions, including a research-grant for composition resulting in a choral cantata based on the story of King David. Dr. Walters is an active composer. His octavo, Weary with Toil, winner of the 2006 Illinois ACDA Choral Composition Competition, is published by Colla Voce Music, Inc. Dr. Walters has completed conducting studies with Ann Howard Jones, David Hoose, Dennis Shrock, Eric Nelson, David Childs, Dennis Keene, Dale Warland, Craig Hella Johnson, and Robert Page. He holds the Bachelor of Music degree (summa cum laude, Pi Kappa Lambda, and with first honors) from the Blair School of Music and the Master of Education degree from Peabody College, both of Vanderbilt University. He also holds the Master of Sacred Music degree in choral conducting from Emory University, and recently completed the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in choral conducting from Boston University in 2014. He remains active as a clinician, presenter, and guest conductor.


Concert Program


Thursday, 1:00 PM Alabama Ballroom A


Chantez à Dieu (Psalm 96)..................................Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck .........................Choral Public Domain Library Sitivit anima mea.........................................................G.P. da Palestrina ................................Choral Public Domain Library Zigeunerleben, op. 29, no. 3.......................................Robert Schumann ................................Choral Public Domain Library Mit hjerte altid vanker......................................................Carl Nielsen....................................Choral Public Domain Library Things That Never Die.....................................................Lee Dengler.....................................................Shawnee Press, Inc. Dúlamán..................................................................Arr. Michael McGlynn .......................................Warner Chappell Music Pokpok alimpako......................................................Francisco F. Feliciano............................................................Earthsongs


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