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We warmly welcome our 2012 Choirs-in-Residence! Currently accepting applications for 2012-2013.
ChildrenSong of New Jersey
ChildrenSong
of New Jersey, directed by Polly Murray, is a choral music education
and performance program based in Haddonfield, New Jersey.
Established in 2000, the program serves 110 children in three
choirs between the ages of 8 and 17 from Camden, Burlington, and
Gloucester counties. The organization’s mission is to provide
quality vocal music instruction with the goal of attaining the
highest level of artistic excellence in choral music performance.
Recent performances include Washington National Cathedral, Kimmel
Center in Philadelphia, South Jersey Performing Arts Center,
Atlantic City Convention Center, and Canterbury Cathedral. The Choir
has performed with the Haddonfield Symphony, Academy of Vocal Arts,
Sounds of Liberty Chorus, and the Philadelphia Orchestra. The
Concert Choir recorded a treble version of Elton John’s Rocket
Man to be sold with a children’s book about legendary runner
Steve Prefontaine and recently celebrated its 10th Anniversary with
a commission based on a chorister’s poem entitled Together in
Song. ChildrenSong boasts an annual outreach program,
Songfest, where over 300 young singers share in a day of
music-making from all over the state of New Jersey. The program
includes study of a country and its music, an ethnic dance, and ends
in a performance at a local high school.
Polly Murray – Founding Artistic Director
Polly Murray is an accomplished choir director and music
teacher in the Camden County area and the Founding Artistic Director
of ChildrenSong of New Jersey. Mrs. Murray is also an Elementary and
Middle School Vocal Music Specialist on the faculty of the
Haddonfield School District, where she teaches Kodály and Orff-Schulwerk-based
classroom music and chorus.
Mrs. Murray received her Bachelor of Music degree from
Temple University, Master of Music degree from Northwestern
University, and has pursued post-graduate work at Westminster Choir
College. She has completed certification levels in Kodály and Orff-Schulwerk,
and three levels of Choral Music Experience.
She has been repeatedly featured in the Philadelphia
Inquirer and Camden County Courier-Post as an outstanding
music teacher in the Greater Philadelphia region. She has also
received numerous awards for teaching, including Partners in
Education Golden Apple Teacher Award for Camden County, Outstanding
Music Educator award from Merchantville Elementary School, the New
Jersey Symphony Master Teacher Award, the Markeim Art Center’s
Applause Award in Music for contributions to the arts in South
Jersey, and most recently was awarded a grant from NJMEA to
incorporate technology in the music classroom. In 2007, she won a
teacher fellowship award from the Geraldine Dodge Foundation for
study at the Kodály Institute in Kecskemet, Hungary for the Summer
Institute Program.
In addition to teaching, Mrs. Murray has presented
workshops in elementary classroom and choral music at the New Jersey
Music Educator’s State Conference, New Jersey Education Association
State Conference, Rowan University, Pennsylvania Orff-Schulwerk
Association, and for the New Jersey ACDA Summer Conference. She has
also served as the Guest Conductor for the 2005 ACDA New Jersey
Elementary Honor Choir and 2001 South Jersey Elementary Festival
Chorus.
You may visit their website at: http://www.childrensong.org/
The Fort Wayne Children’s Choirs
The Fort Wayne
Children’s Choir is recognized as one of the finest choirs in the
nation because of the excellence of its musical education, the
diversity of its membership and the quality of its contributions to
the community’s cultural life.
The Fort Wayne
Children's Choir offers a performance-based program which strongly
emphasizes developing music literacy and appreciation through choral
literature. The choir is organized into seven levels of curriculum,
with auditioned singers placed in a choir level based on their
musical skill, growth and development. Each choir includes a strong
focus on team-building, self-discipline and positive creative
expression.
In 1973,
Jocelyn Basse created the Children of Peace Choristers to meet the
need for an extra-curricular choral opportunity for area youth.
Incorporated in 1984 as the Fort Wayne Children’s Choir (FWCC), the
choir has expanded to nearly 300 singers from 85
schools. Subsequent conductors/directors of the Fort Wayne
Children’s Choirs include Ty Mazgig and Fred Meads.
FWCC members
not only gain exceptional music skills, but learn about history,
culture, foreign language, poetry, self-esteem, team-building and
leadership. Singers are brought together from numerous backgrounds
to achieve a common goal—artistic and educational excellence.
The mission of
the Fort Wayne Children’s Choir is to provide a choral program
exemplifying artistic and educational excellence for children from
diverse backgrounds. The Fort Wayne Children’s Choir contributes to
the community’s cultural environment by providing opportunities to
experience the unique beauty of professionally trained young voices.
Visit the FWCC
website at:
http://www.fwcchoir.org/
2012 marks the
seventh year the Ft Wayne Children’s Choirs have attended NCSICA! We
welcome them again!
Capital City Girls Choir
Capital City Girls Choir (CCGC) is a vocal and music
training program for girls from Raleigh, North Carolina and the
surrounding communities.
CCGC is associated with the community outreach program of the School of Music at Meredith College. The three choirs of the organization are open to singers from ages nine through eighteen. Capital City Girls Choir has performed at the North Carolina Museum of Art, the White House, the Washington National Cathedral, the Crescent City Choral Festival, Canterbury and London, England, Salzburg and Vienna, Austria, and at various venues in Caen, the Loire Valley, Normandy and Mont St Michel, France and British Columbia. In 2002, CCGC was featured as the Honor Choir at the Children in Harmony Festival at Walt Disney World. In the summer of 2004, they performed John Rutter's Mass of the Children, which was conducted by the composer. In June 2006, the Girls Chorale sang in New Orleans at the Crescent City Choral Festival and in May 2007, the Girls Chorale returned to Florida to participate at the Children in Harmony Festival. Choir members have performed with other such noted conductors as Jean Ashworth Bartle, David Brunner, Joan Gregory, Barbara Tagg, Z. Randall Stroope, Lynn Gackle, and Henry Leck.
Amy Brock Davis is in her second year as Associate
Conductor for the Girls Chorale. She received a BA from Meredith
College in 1992 and MM in Choral Directing from Appalachian State
University. Davis is a National Board Certified Teacher specializing
in early adolescence through young adulthood choral music. She has
taught in middle and high schools in Roanoake Rapids and Durham and
was the co-director of DPS Spotlight Singers. Summers find her
coordinating middle school activities for the North Carolina Summer
Institute in Choral Art in Boone, NC. While a student at Meredith,
she was an assistant to Page and the Girls Chorus.
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