2023-2024 Concert Choir
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Soprano
Mia Cisneros Payton Fraser Savannah Groh Gracie Mitchell Brianna Ocampo Alina Sergeant Isabelle Valadez Calloway Walsh Riley Wylie Tenor Juaquin Alicea Brandon Brown Ethan Fry Trent Hughey Dylan Lee |
Alto
Charlotte Dean Kari Dillard Jordin Gray Holli Holt Natalie Lopez Katie Mongelli Leah Nordquist Hailey Pasteris Xierra Rapata Nari Tate Bass Aidan Crawford Brody Johnson Joel Klima Camari Lewis Mason Simpson |
Insidious - Timothy C. Takach
Learned and recorded in quarantine, here's the Concert Choir's rendition of Timothy C. Takach's "Insidious". Takach refers to "Insidious" as choral horror music. It helped make our quarantine Halloween a lot more fun! Click below to give it a look.
General Information
The Concert Choir features primarily Juniors and Seniors, and is an auditioned ensemble. The Concert has traveled to St. Louis, Cincinnati, Nashville, and Memphis. The Concert Choir features literature ranging from Renaissance to Modern and Multicultural works. The Concert Choir features a rigorous rehearsal and performance schedule, featuring studies in music theory, ear training, the biology of singing, and rehearsal technique.
ILMEA Audition Info
Each Fall, around Columbus day, ILMEA (Illinois Music Educator's Association) has auditions for its district (and subsequently All-State and All-State Honors) choir. To audition, you have to sing short excerpts from three prepared selections along with scales and triads. Each school in district 1 is permitted to have 4 students per section (S1, S2, A1, A2, T1, T2, B1, B2) audition.
Below are linked practice recordings for the scales and triads. The recordings give four "clicks" on the starting note, then play the scale or triad. They proceed as major scale, natural minor scale, harmonic minor scale, melodic minor scale, major triad, augmented triad, minor triad, diminished triad. There is also a pdf linked below for how to use solfege for each of these.
For more information about the auditions, please click here.
Below are linked practice recordings for the scales and triads. The recordings give four "clicks" on the starting note, then play the scale or triad. They proceed as major scale, natural minor scale, harmonic minor scale, melodic minor scale, major triad, augmented triad, minor triad, diminished triad. There is also a pdf linked below for how to use solfege for each of these.
For more information about the auditions, please click here.
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