Youth Choir Festival 2010

Date: Sunday, October 24, 2010
Clinician: Anton Armstrong
Location:
St. Andrew United Methodist Church
5801 West Plano Parkway
Plano, TX 75093-4637

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The Dallas Chapter of Choristers Guild invites you to our 2010 Youth Choir Festival. Dr. Anton Armstrong, conductor of the St. Olaf Choir will serve as clinician and conductor of this year's choir. It will be a wonderful afternoon of rehearsal, followed by a culminating concert. Your youth choir will be inspired! Please consider registering your group for this event well in advance as it may fill up quickly.

Registration Information:

1-30 Students, $80
31-50 Students, $100
51+ Students, $120
Please make checks payable to Dallas Chapter Choristers Guild

Registration forms with payment may be mailed to:
Cameron LaBarr, CG Youth Choir Festival Chair
Christ United Methodist Church
3101 Coit Road, Plano TX 75075

Please contact Cameron@cumc.com with any questions.

Repertoire:

  1. I Will Sing Unto the Lord--Kenny Potter
        Choristers Guild #CGA 1178 (SATB/organ and trumpet)
  2. Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus--Taylor Davis
        Choristers Guild #CGA 1078 (SAB/piano)
  3. Sing We Now of Christmas--arr. John A. Ricketts
         Choristers Guild #CGA 754 (SATB/finger cymbals, tambourine, and hand drum)
  4. Thee We Adore--arr. Ralph Johnson
         Neil A. Kjos Music Co.  Ed. 6261 (Two-part mixed and piano)
  5. Praise His Holy Name--Keith Hampton
         Earthsongs/The Anton Armstrong Choral Series (SATB/piano/tambourine)
  6. We Praise You, O God--arr. Carolyn Jennings
         Augsburg-Fortress #0-8006-5848-5 (SATB and Congregation/ organ and trumpet). 

Clinician Bio:

Anton Armstrong is the Harry R. and Thora H. Tosdal Professor of Music at St. Olaf College and Conductor of the St. Olaf Choir. He assumed this position in 1990 following 10 years in Grand Rapids, Michigan where he served on the faculty of Calvin College and conducted the Campus Choir, the Calvin College Alumni Choir and the Grand Rapids Symphony Chorus.

A graduate of St. Olaf College, Armstrong earned a Master of Music degree at the University of Illinois and the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Michigan State University. He holds membership in several professional societies, including the American Choral Directors Association, Choristers Guild, Chorus America, and the International Federation for Choral Music. Armstrong also serves as editor of a multicultural choral series for Earthsongs Publications and co-editor of the revised St. Olaf Choral Series for Augsburg Fortress Publishers. He is featured with André Thomas on an instructional video on adolescent singers entitled Body, Mind, Spirit, Voice. He is a contributing writer to Volume I of Teaching Music through Performance in Choir and a contributor to Way Over in Beulah Lan’ by André Thomas.

Armstrong is widely recognized for his work in the area of youth and children’s choral music. He served for more than twenty years on the summer faculty of the American Boychoir School, Princeton, New Jersey and conducted the St. Cecilia Youth Chorale, a 75-voice treble chorus based in Grand Rapids, from 1981–90. He has conducted the Troubadours, a 30-voice boys’ ensemble of the Northfield Youth Choirs, since 1991. He currently serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of the American Boychoir School. In 1998, he began his tenure as founding conductor of the Oregon Bach Festival Stangeland Family Youth Choral Academy.

Armstrong is active as a guest conductor and lecturer throughout the world, with speaking engagements in North America, Europe, Scandinavia, Korea, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Venezuela, and the Caribbean. In 2003 he was honored to serve as the first Peter Godfrey Visiting Professor of Choral Music at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and in 2005, he served as the Visiting Housewright Scholar in the School of Music at Florida State University. In recent years he has guest conducted such noted ensembles as the Utah Symphony and Symphony Chorus, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, the Westminster Choir, the American Boychoir and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. He has also collaborated in concert with Bobby McFerrin and Garrison Keillor.

Anton Armstrong's full bio can be found at http://www.stolaf.edu/music/stolaf_choir/conductor.html