Students to Perform in ACDA Honor Choirs
Five Bronxville School students have been selected to perform in Honor Choirs at the 2010 Eastern Division Conference of the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) in Philadelphia from February 10 through 13. The ACDA is a music education organization of over 18,000 members who conduct over one million singers in schools, churches, and communities around the nation.
Juniors Lydia Ciaputa (soprano 1) and Hannah Geiling (soprano 2) will sing with the High School Women’s Honor Choir. Sixth-grader Kathleen Conaton (soprano 1), eighth-grader Charlotte Gemes (alto 1), and ninth-grader Allison Cane (alto 2) will sing with the Children’s Honor Choir. The singers were chosen on the basis of audiotaped submissions last fall of two scales, the first verse of My Country ’tis of Thee, and one to two minutes of an aria, art song or folk song.
Honor choir members will gather in Philadelphia on February 10 for three days of rehearsal culminating in performances on February 13 at the Church of the Holy Trinity on Rittenhouse Square. In addition to their official performances on the 13th, the honor choirs will sing on February 12 in the lunchtime recital series at Macy’s-Center City, home of the famous Wanamaker Organ, the world’s largest operational pipe organ with over 28,000 pipes.
The Women’s Choir will be conducted by Dr. Sharon Paul, Associate Professor of Music, Chair of Vocal and Choral Studies, and Director of Choral Activities at the University of Oregon. The Children’s Choir will be conducted by Elaine Quilichini, director of the University of Calgary’s Women’s Choir and founder and Artistic Director of the Calgary Girls Choir, one of Canada’s most dynamic youth music programs.
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