9-10 Honor Choir

Audition Information

OpusEvents will be open and ready to accept Honor Choir applications March 1-April 15

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Login using ACDA information. (username: ACDA email password: ACDA membership number)

Please read all instructions below before uploading

Please contact Jana Fox, MYHC Coordinator jafox@heliascatholic.com with questions

 Audition Fee - $13; Participation Fee - $38*

*Fees increased $2 in 2019 to supply all singers with professionally recorded learning tracks.

Scholarship Form - Free/Reduced Lunch verification

The scholarship covers participation fees, not audition fees

Click for Honor Choir Application  

 DEADLINE FOR MYHC AUDITIONS IS  April 15, 2020

PAYMENT INFORMATION:

Credit Cards may be used on the Opus sight, after all audition materials and information are uploaded click the pay now link.

If paying by check send one check for all students. Include with the check a list of student names and name of sponsoring MCDA member, DO NOT send a check without this information. Make checks payable to MCDA and mail to Jana Fox  5015 Angelia Ct  Jefferson City, MO  65109.                                                             

Checks must be received before students can be placed in a choir.

You must be a current ACDA member and know your ACDA membership # to access the application.  Membership must be current at the time of audition and at the time of performance. 

AUDITION PROCESS: FOR UPLOADS USE TWO/THREE TRACKS--UPLOAD EACH TRACK SEPARATELY

RECORDING INSTRUCTIONS FOR 7/8 AND 9/10: USE THREE SEPARATE TRACKS

1. VOCALIZATION (all grades): Sing the top 5 (ascending) pitches and bottom 5 (descending) pitches of your range on “loo” or “ah” unaccompanied. Play the starting pitch for each set. The ascending set be from do - so and the descending set should be from so - do.

2. My Country ‘tis of Thee/America (grades 7/8, 9/10 only): Starting on the pitches listed below, sing the first verse unaccompanied. Accompanied singers will be disqualified.

*For My Country ‘tis of Thee begin on the following pitch for each voice part.

Soprano: A above middle C

Alto: E above middle C

Tenor: A below middle C

Baritone: F below middle C

3. SOLO (grades 7/8, 9/10 only): One to two minutes of an Aria, Art Song, or Folk Song, etc. (with or without accompaniment) that may be suitable for a competition or festival. Limit the piano introduction to no more than 5 seconds. Pop, Gospel, and Contemporary Christian pieces are not acceptable and will result in disqualification





About the Clinician
Yoojin Muhn serves as the Director of Choral Activities at the University of Texas at San Antonio, where she directs the UTSA Chamber Singers, Concert Choir, and Women’s Choir and teaches choral conducting for both undergraduate and graduate students. Muhn has served as the Artistic Director at Tucson Masterworks Chorale in Tucson, Arizona and directed the Oriana Women’s Chorus and led the Concert Choir as an assistant director at the University of Southern California. She recently has been appointed as a choral conducting faculty at the Music Across the Pond, a summer music program in England. 

Muhn studied composition at SookMyung Women’s University in Seoul, Korea, earned a master’s degree in Sacred Music from Westminster Choir College where she graduated with distinction, another master’s degree in Choral Conducting from the University of Cincinnati, and a doctor of musical arts degree in Choral Music with honors from the University of Southern California. She also serves as the Director of Music Ministries at Vistoso Community Church in Oro Valley, Arizona.

Repertoire

Gloria https://youtu.be/XCBNaZnJpbM


Pure Imagination https://youtu.be/7CoOaHKnlw4


Kua Rongo Mai Koe https://www.jwpepper.com/sheet-music/media-player.jsp?&type=audio&productID=3249224


Arirang https://www.jwpepper.com/sheet-music/media-player.jsp?&type=audio&productID=10873353


Beautiful City https://youtu.be/91hQ0kvEGfM


Participation Information

MCDA MISSOURI YOUTH HONOR CHOIR 
9/10 Choir Schedule 
Rehearsal: 
Jefferson City First United Methodist Church 
201 Monroe Street 
Jefferson City, MO 65101 
 
Performance: 
Capitol Plaza Hotel 
415 W. McCarty St, 
Jefferson City, MO 65101 
 
Wednesday, July 17, 2019
 8-8:45 a.m. Registration First United Methodist Church 
9:00-11:30 Warm-up and Rehearsal Sanctuary, FUMC 
11:30 Lunch provided in lobby, First United Methodist Church 
12:15-2:30 Rehearsal 
2:30 Students move to Capitol Plaza (please provide 
transportation for your students) 
3:00-4:30 Rehearsal, Capitol Plaza Hotel/Jefferson Room 
4:30 Dismissed for Supper (on your own) 
6:15 Choir meet in Lincoln Room, Capitol Plaza 
7:00 Concert, Capitol Plaza 
 
Concert attire is honor choir t-shirt, black pants or skirt, black socks or nylons, and black shoes. Honor choir t-shirts will be handed out upon arrival.
 
Parking: during the day, please park in the Madison Street Parking Garage (between Madison and Monroe Streets on Capitol Avenue) 
 
ALL OTHER LOTS ARE RESERVED PARKING AND STREET METERS 
HAVE A TWO HOUR LIMIT.
 
Directions from Capitol Plaza Hotel: Right on McCarty Street, left on Monroe 3 blocks. The church is on the right on the corner of Capitol and Monroe.