Contact: Tammy Lane • First Posted: Sunday, January 1, 2012

About 1,200 students across the state vied for slots in the Kentucky Music Educators Association’s 2012 High School All-State Choirs. Vocalists in grades 10-12 auditioned in quartets – all performing the same piece, sung a cappella; they also had to sight-sing. Only 15 percent of a school’s choral enrollment is allowed to audition, so many schools hold preliminary tryouts. The Lexington-area district of KMEA usually has the most students auditioning, making it all the more competitive. 

KMEA chose the top 560 students and assigned them to one of three choruses: a mixed group of men and women, a women’s choir and a men’s choir. The groups will perform at 8 p.m. Friday Feb. 10 at the Kentucky Center for the Arts in Louisville during the KMEA state conference.

Henry Leck, founder and artistic director of the Indianapolis Children’s Choir and director of choral activities at Butler University, will lead the SATB* choir. Cristi Miller, a master teacher, conductor and composer based at Heritage Hall Schools in Oklahoma City, will guide the SSAA* choir. Craig Jessop, dean of the Caine College of the Arts at Utah State University, will direct the TTBB* choir.

Congratulations to these participants from Fayette County Public Schools.

SATB choir:

• Bryan Station: Steven Olson.
• Lafayette: Amie Huesman, Megan Peterson, Carolina Balling, Rowan Calkins, Brodie Craig, Haley Goode, Kathryn Dressman, Rowan Schaefer, Tomer Eres, Colton Ryan, Wilford Wulfenstein, Lewis Aldridge, Carl Chapman and Carl Trammel.
• Paul Laurence Dunbar: Abbie Hymas and Oliver Nilsson.

SSAA choir:

• Henry Clay: Anne Courtney Feenick and Irene Alcaraz-Perez.
• Lafayette: Sydney Jahnigen, Caroline Keegan, Kelli Crawford and Rachel Wilson.
• Paul Laurence Dunbar: Lindsey Bell, Sarah Hadi and Aly Cleaver.
• Tates Creek: Brittany Milslagle.

TTBB choir:

• Bryan Station: DeSean Elliott and Woodford Jones.
• Lafayette: Conner Sands, Cameron Mahan, Tanner Hoertz and Adam Brown.
• Paul Laurence Dunbar: Lane Hill, J.P. Deering, Ethan Cross and Kyle Wilson.
• Tates Creek: Hunter Henrickson.

* Key: S, soprano; A, alto; T, tenor; B, bass

For more information, contact Debbie Sogin, (859) 381-3533.

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