AMEA 2017 Performing Groups
The Gadsden State Community College A Cappella Choir was founded in 1966 and has been performing at venues across the Southeast since. The group, which is open to all Gadsden State students, historically has about 25 to 35 singers per semester. J.T. Harrell has been the third director of the group beginning in 2011. The group sings for a variety of campus events, community events and local churches. They also go on an annual tour in the spring. The broad repertoire of the group makes the group accessible to many different venues throughout the year. The A Cappella Choir sings an average of 45 concerts each year and is in high demand in Northeast Alabama. We are grateful for the support we receive from the College as well as from Dr. Martha Lavender, president of Gadsden State, and Mario Gallardo, division chair.
Hewitt-Trussville Middle School is located in Trussville, Alabama and is part of the Trussville City School System. The school has more than 1100 students in grades six through eight. The HTMS Band is an integral part of the Fine Arts Department. The Band program serves over 415 students in grades six through eight. Sixth grade students are placed in the Beginning Band program where they receive group and individualized instruction. In the seventh and eighth grades, students are placed into one of three ability-based performing groups. The top ensemble, Honors Band, is under the direction of Brandon Peters and the Symphonic Band and Concert Band are under the direction of assistant director, Corinth Lewis. In addition to the Honors Band, Symphonic Band, and Concert Band, the HTMS Jazz Band is an auditioned group of seventh and eighth grade students. The HTMS Band program has received many awards as well as earned consistent superior ratings at the yearly Alabama Bandmasters Music Performance Assessment. T number of students chosen for the District IV Honor Band and All-State Band has grown each year. The Honors Band is made up of seventh and eighth graders and is under the direction of Brandon Peters. Members of the Honors Band are in their second or third year of study. Many of the students are active participants in All-State and honor bands throughout the state. In 2016, two students were named to the Alabama Middle School All-State Band with two alternates, and twenty-one students placed in the District IV Honor Band. The Honors Band has been selected as a guest ensemble for the 2016 University of Alabama Middle School Honor Band Festival.
The Homewood Middle School Percussion Ensemble is a student-oriented group of 86 young musicians striving to achieve musical excellence through the performance of quality percussion literature. Our overall goal is to teach our students to appreciate and enjoy music so they can become life-long supporters of the arts. There are currently 86 percussionists at HMS in grades 6-8. The Percussion Ensemble is an extension of the regular band class and practices during the band periods throughout the day. The 8th the top percussionists in the Homewood Middle 8th
grade ensemble is made up of Grade Symphonic Blue Band. The 7th
grade percussion ensemble in divided into two classes. The Band Program at HMS is directed by all four band directors in the Homewood School system and assisted by our part time director, John Bradley, The 8th
Alabama Bandmasters All State Band Clinic in 2005. The 8th
Grade Percussion Ensemble was honored to perform at the grade Symphonic Band has
performed at the Alabama Music Educators Association Convention in 2002 and 2006 and the Southeastern United States Concert Band Clinic in Troy, AL 2003 and 2006. Synergy has
taken Homewood by storm and is being talked about in the Drumming comminuty nation wide. Remo percussion has already done a lengthy story on our new Special Needs Drumming group and we cant think of a better venue than to show them to other educators and get other directors thinking outside the box as to how to include our special needs kids in their own music programs. Two other schools in our state have been inspired by our group and are now in the works to create their own groups just like this. We feel Synergy can bring a whole new performing group aspect to AMEA that is lacking in other performances chosen on a yearly basis.
The Huxford Symphony Orchestra performs six concerts and an opera each year on the campus of UA. A key component of the ensembles program at the University of Alabama School of Music, the orchestra is open to music majors as well as students from other disciplines around the university. The Huxford Symphony rehearses for two hours twice a week and students receive college credit for playing in the ensemble. During the 2016-2017 season, the orchestra will perform Mahler’s Symphony no. 4, Gershwin’s American in Paris, Hindemith’s Symphonic Metamporphosis, and Dvorak’s Symphony no. 8, among other works. The Huxford Symphony will welcome composers Christopher Theofanidis and Clint Needham for on-campus residencies as we present works by each composer. We will collaborate with the Tuscaloosa Symphony Orchestra in a side-by-side performance and will perform as the pit orchestra for the University of Alabama Opera Theater’s spring production. We are the official orchestra of the International Trumpet Guild’s 2016 Ellsworth Smith International Trumpet Competition and will feature faculty soloists and the winners of our student concerto competition on concerts throughout the season. For more information, visit
music.ua.edu.
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