Youth Choir Festival 2011

Date: October 23, 2011
Clinician: Dr. André Thomas, Conductor
Location:
St Andrew United Methodist Church
5801 West Plano Parkway
Plano, TX 75093-4637

Schedule

1:00 p.m.-1:30 p.m. - Arrival and Check in
1:30 p.m.-1:55 p.m. - Sectional Rehearsals
2:00 p.m.-5:15 p.m. - Full rehearsal with Dr Thomas
5:30 p.m. - Concert

Registration Information:

Download Registration Form (PDF)

1-15 Students, $100
16-30 Students, $125
31-45 Students, $150
46+ Students, $175

Please make checks payable to Dallas Chapter Choristers Guild

Registration forms with payment may be mailed to:

Daniel S. Banke, CG Youth Choir Festival Registrar
First United Methodist Church
214 South Denton Street
Gainesville, TX 76240-4826

Contact Cameron LaBarr, Youth Choir Festival Chair at CameronLaBarr@gmail.com with any questions.

Repertoire:

  1. A Shaker Celebration - Z. Randall Stroope
    (Choristers Guild CGA630)
  2. Joyful Joyful We Adore Thee - Craig Curry
    (Choristers Guild CGA1170)
  3. My Everything - Keith Hampton
    (Choristers Guild CGA1233)
  4. Yesu Kwetu Ni Rafiki - Mark Burrows
    (Choristers Guild CGA1234)
  5. Do Lord Remember Me. arr. Andre Thomas
    (Heritage Music Press 15/2753H)
  6. Take me to the Water. arr. Rollo Dilworth
    (Hal Leonard HL 08745366)

Clinician Bio:

ANDRÉ J. THOMAS, the Owen F. Sellers Professor of Music, is Director of Choral Activities and Professor of Choral Music Education at Florida State University. A previous faculty member at the University of Texas, Austin, Dr. Thomas received his degrees from Friends University (B.A.), Northwestern University (M. M.), and the University of Illinois (D.M.A). He is in demand as a choral adjudicator, clinician, and director of Honor/All-State Choirs throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, New Zealand, and Australia.

Dr. Thomas has conducted choirs at the state, division, and national conventions of the Music Educators National Conference (MENC) and American Choral Directors Association (ACDA). His international conducting credits are extensive. They include conductor/clinician for the International Federation of Choral Musicians, summer residency of the World Youth Choir in the Republic of China and the Philippines, winter residency of the World Youth Choir in Europe, and a premier performance by an American choir (Florida State University Singers) in Vietnam. He has been the guest conductor of such distinguished orchestras and choirs as the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in England, guest Conductor for the Berlin Radio Choir in Germany, the Netherlands Radio Choir, the Charlotte Symphony, Tallahassee Symphony, and the China’s People’s Liberation Orchestra. Since 1988, he has also served as Artistic Director of the Tallahassee Community Chorus.

Thomas has also distinguished himself as a composer/arranger. Hinshaw Music Company, Mark Foster Music Company, Fitzsimons Music Company, Lawson Gould, Earthsongs, and Heritage Music Company publish his compositions and arrangements.

Dr. Thomas has produced two instructional videos "What They See Is What You Get" on choral conducting, with Rodney Eichenberger, and "Body, Mind, Spirit, Voice" on adolescent voices, with Anton Armstrong. His recent book "Way Over in Beulah Lan'.. Understanding and Performing the Negro Spiritual" has quickly become a major source in this area of study. He is a past president of the Florida ACDA, and the past president of the Southern Division of ACDA.