2024 Fall Honor Choir
November 1-2, 2024
Elementary/Children's Choir Coordinator: Darrell Parks
Jr. High/Middle School Choir Coordinator: Will Mason-Walker
Jr. High/Middle School Choir Coordinator: Will Mason-Walker
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2023 Honor Choir Information
2023 Children's Choir Audition Folder
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2023 Jr. High SATB Choir Audition Folder
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Additional Information
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2023 Honor Choir Audition Forms
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2024 Honor Choir Audition Timeline
Friday, September 15 - HC #2023 AUDITION DEADLINE
Auditions uploaded via above Google form, audition fee DUE $5 per student via PayPal/ Check (unpaid fee= student audition not judged).
Saturday, September 23 - HC #2023 ADJUDICATION at Franklin County High School.
Tuesday, September 26 - HC #2023 RESULTS will be emailed.
Friday, October 13 - HC #2023 REGISTRATION DEADLINE
Acceptance fee DUE. $65 per student via PayPal/ Check/ or photo sent of a PO is acceptable. NOTE: Once schools officially register students, those lists will be sent to Beethoven&Co by KYACDA leadership, and repertoire will then be mailed directly to schools (receipt within 3-5 business days).
Friday, November 10 - Saturday, November 11 - KYACDA HC #2023 at EKU Center for the Arts
Auditions uploaded via above Google form, audition fee DUE $5 per student via PayPal/ Check (unpaid fee= student audition not judged).
Saturday, September 23 - HC #2023 ADJUDICATION at Franklin County High School.
Tuesday, September 26 - HC #2023 RESULTS will be emailed.
Friday, October 13 - HC #2023 REGISTRATION DEADLINE
Acceptance fee DUE. $65 per student via PayPal/ Check/ or photo sent of a PO is acceptable. NOTE: Once schools officially register students, those lists will be sent to Beethoven&Co by KYACDA leadership, and repertoire will then be mailed directly to schools (receipt within 3-5 business days).
Friday, November 10 - Saturday, November 11 - KYACDA HC #2023 at EKU Center for the Arts
2023 Honor Choir Repertoire Lists
Directors, do NOT purchase honor choir music! Rep packets will be mailed directly from Beethoven & Co. to schools after registration is complete.
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Children's Choir
Craig Hurley, Conductor Andrea Nance, Collaborative Pianist We Will Sing for Joy, Scarlatti/arr. Lowe Thula Klizeo, Shabalala/arr. MacDonnell Grow Little Tree, anonymous/arr. Ramsey Banjo Sam, arr. Broeker God Bless America (combined piece), Berlin/arr. Eilers |
Jr. High SATB Choir
Dr. Kari Adams, Conductor Karina Johnson, Collaborative Pianist Wide Open Spaces, Quartel Dream Keeper, Dilworth This is Your Time, Norris Sikirileke/Koloi, Mthembu God Bless America (combined piece), Berlin/arr. Eilers |
2023 Honor Choir Clinicians
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Children's ChoirCraig Hurley, ClinicianCraig Hurley is the conductor of the Spivey Hall Young Artists, the preparatory choir of the nationally renowned Spivey Hall Children’s Choir. Dr. Hurley has served as a guest clinician for several honor choirs throughout the southeast. Choirs under his direction have performed at GMEA in 2015 and 2018. He currently serves as president of Georgia ACDA.
Dr. Hurley is the music specialist at Ford Elementary School in Cobb County, Georgia. He has presented sessions at the Music Educators Association in-service conferences for Georgia, Florida, and Alabama as well as the Southern Division ACDA Conference in 2020. Dr. Hurley was honored as Teacher of the Year in 2002, 2016, and was the 2020 Cobb County Elementary General Music Teacher of the Year, and the 2021 GMEA Music Educator of the Year. Dr. Hurley is a published researcher whose interests include music literacy, the child’s singing voice, and expressive choral performance pedagogy. He holds a doctorate in music education from The University of Georgia. Dr. Hurley lives in Marietta, GA with his wife, (also a music teacher) 3 kids, and dog. |
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Jr. High SATB ChoirKari Adams, ClinicianKari Adams is Assistant Professor of Choral Music Education and conductor of Concert Chorale at the University of Missouri. She holds a PhD in music education from the University of North Texas as well as degrees from the University of Central Missouri and Freed-Hardeman University. Prior to her appointment at Mizzou, Adams served as Assistant Professor of Choral Music Education and director of Levana at Florida State University. In 2023, she received the Outstanding Teaching in the Major (Undergraduate) award from FSU. Before working in higher education, she taught middle school choral and general music in Knob Noster, Missouri, where she was named Teacher of the Year in 2015. She is a passionate educator, conductor, and researcher.
Adams engages in guest conductor, clinician, and adjudicator opportunities regularly. She has conducted All State and regional honor choirs in Florida, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Tennessee, and Virginia. She has also presented at state practitioner conferences in Alabama, Arkansas, Kansas, Florida, Missouri, and Texas as well as at national ACDA and NAfME conventions. Her articles focused on research-based strategies for practitioners have been published in Music Educators Journal, Update: Applications of Research in Music Education, Florida Music Director, and Choral Journal. Adams’s research has been published in leading journals in the field including Journal of Research in Music Education, Journal of Music Teacher Education, Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, Update: Applications of Research in Music Education, and International Journal of Research in Choral Singing. Her research interests include music teacher education, teacher identity construction, aesthetic response to music performance, and implicit theories of musical ability. In addition to her publications, she has presented on these topics at regional, national, and international conferences. |
2023 Fall Honor Choir Hotel InformationWe are working on being able to provide room blocks at one or more of the following EKU area hotels:
Hampton Inn
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2023 Fall Conference Venue InformationEKU Center of the Arts:
The EKU Center is Central Kentucky's premier live entertainment and arts destination, located conveniently off of I-75 in Richmond on the campus of Eastern Kentucky University. |
Past KYACDA Honor Choir Clinicians
Ruth Dwyer
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Lesley Mann
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Jeffrey Ames
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