The North Carolina
Summer Institute in Choral Art, Inc.
A Summer Music Camp for Elementary, Middle & High School Students and Teachers Seeking National Board Certification in Music.
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Middle and High School Chorus
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June 14-19, 2009
Dr. Jeffrey Ames
Clinician, Senior Chorus
Dr. JEFFERY L. AMES, Assistant Director of Choral Activities at Baylor University, holds a Ph.D. in Choral Conducting and Choral Music Education and a Master of Choral Music Education degree from Florida State University, and a Bachelor of Music degree, with at double major in Vocal Performance and Piano Accompanying, from James Madison University. His prior appointments include Director of Choral Activities at Edgewater High School and Lincoln High School in Florida. During his tenure at Lincoln High School, several advanced choirs performed at state ACDA conventions and at Carnegie Hall. Dr. Ames is a sought after adjudicator, clinician, accompanist and composer. As a choral clinician, Dr. Ames conducted the inaugural Florida Male All-State Chorus and has performed internationally in the countries of Italy and Costa Rica. As an accompanist, he has performed with prestigious conductors such as Andre Thomas, Anton Armstrong, Allen Crowell, and Bradley Ellingboe. A distinguished musician, Dr. Ames currently is the immediate past Assistant Director of Choral Activities and an Assistant Professor of Music in the School of Music at Baylor University in Texas where he conducted the Concert Choir. Dr Ames is the new Director of Choral Activities at Belmont University in Tennessee.
Mrs. Janet Pummill
Accompanist, Senior Chorus
Janet Pummill is Coordinator of Accompanying / Resident Staff Accompanist at Texas Christian University. She has achieved a national reputation as accompanist, collaborative and solo artist and is in demand as a professional accompanist or soloist for concerts, recitals, conventions, honor and all-state choirs. Four of her choral arrangements have been premiered in Carnegie Hall by the New York Pops Orchestra. She was twice vocalist with the Robert Shaw Institute Festival Chorus. 2009 marks her 14th year with us at NCSICA!
Dr. Rollo Dilworth
Clinician, Middle School
Rollo A. Dilworth is Associate Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities and Music Education at the North Park University School of Music in Chicago, Illinois. He recieved his Doctor of Music Degree in Conduction Performance at Northwestern University where he studied conducting and composition with Robert A. Harris. Additional composition teachers include Robert Ray, Pauline Oliveros and Marta Ptaszynska. Dilworth's choral compositions are part of the Henry Leck Creating Artistry Choral Series with Hal Leonard Corporation and Colla Voce Music Company. He has recently published pieces with the Santa Barbara Publishing Company as part of the Mary Alice Stollak Choral Series. Dilworth is a contributing author for the Essential Elements for Choir and the Experiencing Choral Music textbook series, both published by the Hal Leonard Corporation/Glencoe/McGraw-Hill Publications, and for MusicExpress! Teachers Magazine. An active conductor, composer, educator and clinician, Dilworth has taught choral music at the elementary, secondary and university levels. His performing endeavors have taken him to Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia. In addition to composing music in the choral genre, his research interests are in the areas of African-American music and music education curriculum and instruction. Dilworth is an active member of the Music Educators National Conference, the National association of Negro Musicians, the American Choral Director's Association, and chorus America. He currently serves on the ACDA Central Division Board of Directors as the Repertoire and Standards Chair for Multicultural and Ethnic Music.
Ms. Sallie Pummill-Pollack
Accompanist, Middle School
Sallie Pummill-Pollack performs internationally as a soloist, accompanist, and chamber musician making her Carnegie Hall debut in June 2000. She holds an Artist Diploma/ Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance from Texas Christian University and Master of Music in Chamber Music and Accompanying from the University of Illinois. She won the 1996 Fulbright Scholarship to the Royal Conservatory of Mons, Belgium. She is married to Peter Pollack, percussionist for Blue Man Group in Las Vegas and is currently pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts program at Manhattan School of Music.
Mr. Peter Pollack
Guest Artist
Peter Pollack received his Bachelor of Music in percussion performance from Oberlin College under Professor Michael Rosen, his Master of Music at Michigan State University under Professor Mark Johnson, and his Doctorate of Musical Arts at the University of Illinois under Professor Thomas Siwe. As a graduate assistant Professor Pollack taught studio majors and directed the percussion ensembles. A drum set specialist, Professor Pollack has played and recorded with numerous rock groups in New York City, Chicago, and Champaign, Illinois the Springfield, Illinois Symphony, Lansing Symphony Orchestra, the Champaign/Urbana Symphony, and the Fort Worth and Midland Symphonies. While at the University of Illinois, he was timpanist with the Sinfonia De Camera. He currently performs with the Las Vegas production of Blue Man Group, a position held since 2000. He is also a professor at the Community College of Southern Nevada, teaching the History of Rock Music. He is married to Sallie Pummill Pollack and they are the proud parents of twins, Maxwell and Laura, and new son Zachary.
THE SPIRITUAL RENAISSANCE SINGERS - Guest Artists 2009Comprised of Greensboro NC area adult residents of various cultural and professional backgrounds and directed by Patricia Trice and Jerrye Mooring, SRSG seeks to preserve and perpetuate through performance the unaccompanied arrangements of the African-American spirituals. The repertoire includes works arranged by music director Trice, William Dawson, Undine Moore, John W. Work, and Jester Hairston and four spirituals arranged by William Whalum as well as arrangements about nativity, faith, and heaven.Patricia Johnson Trice is the founder and music director of the Spiritual Renaissance Singers of Greensboro (SRSG). She holds the B.Mus. in music education from Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Master of Science in music education from the University of Illinois, Master of Music in piano performance from UNC-G, and the Ph.D. in music education from the Florida State University. She was a member of the faculty at North Carolina A&T State University for nine years before going to Hillsborough Community College in Tampa, Florida, from which she retired as Professor of Music after twenty-seven years of service. While there, she coordinated piano and choral studies for the music department, developed student, faculty, and artist recitals for the College, and was an active solo- and duo-pianist. She co-founded the Spiritual Renaissance Singers of Tampa in 1989 to preserve and perpetuate through performance the unaccompanied choral arrangements of the African-American Spiritual. When she discovered very little reference material about the genre, Dr. Trice began a research project that culminated in several journal articles, conference presentations, and a reference book, Choral Arrangements of the African-American Spirituals, published by Greenwood Press in 1998. She conducts workshops in performance techniques of the unaccompanied arrangements of the spirituals as well as informances about the spiritual folk songs. She has arranged several spirituals for unaccompanied mixed ensemble as well as a suite for mezzo-soprano and piano and an unaccompanied duet for two mezzo sopranos. Dr. Trice has also been an active church musician. She was interim choir director at Temple Terrace Presbyterian Church in Temple Terrace, Florida, and was organist, from 1984 to 1994, at First Presbyterian Church in Brandon, Florida where she wrote the specifications for the 15-rank Zimmer pipe organ installed and dedicated in 1991. Currently, she is Coordinator of Music at Providence Baptist Church in Greensboro and director of the Sanctuary Choir. She holds professional membership in the Music Teachers National Association, is a member of the board of “Music for a Great Space,” and former vice-chair of the Greensboro Public Library Trustee Board.
Jerrye Williamson Mooring, assistant music director of the Spiritual Renaissance Singers of Greensboro holds the Bachelor of Arts in music education from North Carolina Central University and the Master of Music in music education from East Carolina University. She is a certified Orff specialist and received professional certification from the Music Educator’s National Conference in 1991. In addition she received training in handbell choir development at Queens College in Charlotte. Mrs. Mooring’s 35-year teaching career includes positions at Frink High in Lagrange, NC, Barber Scotia College, along with Dudley High School and Morehead Cultural Arts Magnet School in Greensboro. While at Morehead, she developed the only handbell choir in the public school system. She retired from teaching in 2006 after a five-year stint as choir director of the North Carolina A&T State University Concert Choir.Presently, she is organist, piano teacher, and founding director of the Children’s Choir at St. Mary’s Catholic Church. Prior to that she was organist at St. James Presbyterian Church for eleven years. Welcome Jerrye.
Schedule
Average daily schedule will include nine hours of rehearsal, four hours of planned recreation, and plenty of time for relaxing meals. Activities planned for the evening include: an outdoor cookout, a dance, talent show, show choir experience, and performances by guest artists.
Participation Awards
Each camper will receive a certificate of participation for each year they attend NCSICA. We also offer the Maxine Blackwell Loyalty Award for the female camper with most years of participation, the Lara Hoggard Loyalty Award for the male camper with the most years of participation, the Paul Fry Award for the school with the largest enrollment each year ( minimum 20) and the Martha Casstevens Award for the Middle School with the largest enrollment each year ( minimum 20). Awards are presented at the Talent Show/ Show Choir evening. Each choir-in-residence will receive a plaque recognizing their participation.
Housing
Participants will be housed in dormitories located on the West campus of Appalachian State University, a short walk from the Broyhill Music Center, Hayes School of Music. All participants will be housed two to a room, with adult participants housed separately from counselors and campers. Counselor to camper ration is 1:34. Due to limited housing campers will be accepted on a first-come first-served basis. Among the recreational facilities provided will be the university gyms, handball and racquetball courts, tennis courts, track, and numerous outdoor sports fields.
Supervision
Competent and experienced counselors will supervise all student activities, providing appropriate care for the privacy and security of all participants.
Counselors must hold a NC or comparable teacher certification. Ratio of dorm counselors to campers is 1:34. Additionally, ASU provides overnight security in each dormitory.
Head Counselors
Head Counselors will again be Mrs. Barbara Bowden, choral director at Northern Middle School and Daniel Glaze of Grimsley High School, both of Greensboro, NC.
This will be the fourth year for both head counselors.
Daniel Glaze and Barbara Bowden.
Rotation Class Instructors
Outstanding North Carolina teachers will supervise and instruct each 30 member rotation class each day. Instructors include: Ann Pratt, Diane Woodward (GA), Sharon Smith (WA), Marshall Johnson, Kathryn Sauls and Kathi Howell.
Nurse
Mrs. Cathy McCluskey, RN, BSN, NCSN, school nurse of Mt. Airy, NC, will be on duty at all times during the course of the workshop.
Honors Chorus Audition Preparation Class
Each camper will have the opportunity for daily instruction on the Honors Chorus audition piece. Diane Woodward (GA) and Stephen Williams will be the instructors. Each class participant will receive a complimentary copy of the audition piece.
Honors Chorus Scholarship
Students successfully participating in the 2008 North Carolina Music Educators Association Middle and Senior Honors Chorus will be awarded a $50.00 scholarship towards tuition for NCSICA 2009.
All Honors Chorus singers will receive this scholarship. All scholarship applications must include payment and be postmarked no later than April 1st, 2009.
Concerts and Souvenirs
Talent Show-Show Choir Night will be held Thursday, June 18 at 8 PM in Rosen Concert Hall. An Open Rehearsal of the Choirs will be held on Friday June19 at 1:30 PM. No admission is charged. Parking is only available in the Stadium Parking Lot. Participants in NCSICA may purchase souvenirs from private North Carolina companies specializing in DVD and CD recordings. Anticipated cost for these items is: $25.00 per DVD/CD recording. Orders can be placed at the open rehearsal on Friday. These items will be mailed to participants approximately 90 days after the close of camp.
Certification / Graduate Credit
North Carolina Music Teachers may request a letter of participation indicating they have completed 30 hours of instruction for the week long workshop ($35.00 fee). As the superintendent of your school system must approve such hours in advance, teachers are reminded to secure this approval prior to attending the workshop. Graduate credit is available through Appalachian State University Summer Session Program . Contact ASU Summer School Office at 828-262-3154 or at www.summerschool.appstate.edu regarding university credit registration information.
Master Classes
Master Classes for adult participants will be taught by the guest clinicians and visiting consultants. Master Classes are available at no cost to registered participants. Others may register for each class at a cost of $15.00 per rehearsal or class.
Cost
Cost per student and adult for the five days (Sunday afternoon through Friday afternoon) including all meals, room, accident insurance, music, materials, instruction, complimentary T-shirt, keychain, social activities, performances and guest artists, use of recreational facilities is
$450.00.History
During the first thirty-one years of operation, Dr. Lara Hoggard, William Rand Kenan Professor (Emeritus), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was the musical director. The following nationally recognized choral musicians have served as clinicians for the students and teachers of NCSICA since that time:
1964 NCSICA at UNC-CH with Dr. Lara Hoggard
Paul Salamunovich, Eva Mae Struckmeyer, Donald Neuen, Linda Spevacek, John Cooksey, Ronald Shirey, Jing Ling Tam, Rodney Eichenberger, Andre Thomas, Kevin Fenton, Lee Kjelson, Lynne Gackle, Jo-Michael Scheibe, Judy Bowers, Carl Stam, William Cutter, Sally Herman, Ann Howard Jones, Henry Leck, Mary Goetze, Cynthia Bradford, Earlene Rentz, Richard Cox, Rhonda Flemming, Anton Armstrong, Janeal Krehbeil, Simon Carrington, Granville Oldham, Z. Randall Stroope, Carolee Curtright, Weston Noble, Martha Shaw, Rollo Dilworth and Jeffrey Ames.
Registration Deadline
All applications with registration fees must be postmarked no later than April 15, 2009 to avoid additional late charges - see application. Housing may be limited this year. Campers are encouraged to apply early and will be accepted on a first-come first-served basis. There will be a $50.00 handling fee for cancellations made prior to May 14, 2009. Cancellation notification must be made in writing and postmarked by May 14. We'll try, but we can't guarantee availability of housing, music, t-shirts or roommate choices for registrants who apply after June 1. No refunds will be made after May 15, 2009.
To Register:
Please print and completely fill out the application and have your music teacher complete the recommendation form. All student application forms must be mailed by the teacher. Please attach your check or money order in the appropriate amount, payable to NCSICA.
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