Colorado Music Educators Association

Presents the

4th Annual

ColoradoElementaryAll-State Choir

Tricia Kidd, ChairJon Hutchison, Chair-Elect Harriet Warren, Secretary Co-Treasurers, Rene Skvarna/LaShele WarrenCo-Performance Site Coordinators: Debi Schlatter/Dionne Titus ROCKE: Olivia TremblayORFF-RM: Larisa Somers Members-at-Large: Abby LarsenCraig PhippsZina SonkinaJennifer StreamNini Walker

District 1: Leslie Draper-RoyDistrict 2: Jan Osburn

District 3: Susan HardingDistrict 4: Teresa Montera

District 5: Jon HutchisonDistrict 6: Nancy West

District 7: Keith KoepselDistrict 8: Justin Bankey

Colorado Elementary All-State Choir Board of Directors

Saturday, January 31, 2015

4:30 P.M.

International Center

Mark Hudson, Colorado Music Educators Association President Rick Shaw, CMEA Immediate Past President andRaleigh “Butch” Eversole, CMEA President-Elect

William Kohut, CMEA Operations Director

2015 Colorado Elementary All State ChoirParticipating Elementary Schools and Directors

Vivace Choir Presto ChoirSchoolAvondale ElementaryBroomfield AcademyBoulder Country Day SchoolCentennial AcademyChinook Trail ElementaryColumbia ElementaryDiscovery Canyon CampusEmerald ElementaryFairmount ElementaryFlatirons ElementaryFranklin ElementaryGuadalupe ElementaryHomestead ElementaryImmanuel Lutheran SchoolJewell ElementaryKunsmiller Creative Arts Academy Laura Ingalls Wilder ElementaryLukas ElementaryMeiklejohn ElementaryMeridian Ranch InternationalOak Creek ElementaryRanch Creek ElementarySandburg ElementarySoaring Hawk ElementaryStober ElementaryUte Meadows ElementaryWoodman Hills Elementary

DirectorYvette Teschner

Sarah KleinsteiberRyan Parker

Theresa DerrBrenda Clark

Carolyn SmithElizabeth Ford

Diana SorboColleen Hope

Jan OsburnDavid Sheehan

Nancy WestDebi Schlatter

Olivia TremblayRene SkvarnaSarah BurtonCheryl Hubin

Tanya LeJeuneLaurie TalleyCraig Phipps

Erin RichardMarj Killick

Alison CarterStacie Emory

Christine DunningJoseph DeWinkle

Melissa Ellenberger

SchoolAcademy Endeavor ElementaryAurora Quest K-8Bear Canyon ElementaryBrantner ElementaryBromley East Charter SchoolBuena Vista ElementaryCarlson ElementaryCarson ElementaryChipeta ElementaryExcel AcademyGarfield ElementaryLincoln ElementaryMinnequa ElementaryPennington ElementaryPioneer ElementaryPonderosa ElementaryPrairie Ridge ElementaryRiverside ElementarySierra Vista ElementarySouth Mesa ElementaryStony Creek ElementarySwink ElementaryVivian ElementaryWebster ElementaryWoodmen-Roberts Elementary

DirectorJon HutchisonClaudia Horn

Michelle JonesTricia KiddGina Boyer

LaShele WarrenMeaghan Quigley

Nini WalkerShannon Glenn

Lori BoydMark Kubichek

Tim BrownTeresa Montera

Dionne HaaseJennifer StreamSharon Massey

Cathy KellerNathan Wubbena

Amanda SchoollandHarriet Warren

Jodi KnappAnne Savage

Dionne HaaseAbby LarsenSarah Loyer

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSThe Colorado Elementary All-State Choir Board wishes to thank and recognize the

following individuals and organizations for their support and cooperation for this event:Christina Schell and the Broadmoor HotelTom Bruszewski and his equipment crew

Kim Guinaugh and Cheyenne Mountain High SchoolDr. Jill Burleson Burgett and UNC music students

Samantha Bole, Program printed at Schusters’ Printing in Pueblo, CO Donna Baker, T-Shirts printed at Embroidery Plus in Pueblo, CO

Personal thanks from Tricia Kidd, CMEA Past President and CEASC Chair andSouthwestern Division President-Elect, National Association for Music Education to:

Bill Kohut, Cindy McCaskill, Rick Shaw and the CMEA Board of Directors -- for giving their approval to create the Colorado Elementary All-State Choir.

My sincerest thanks to the CEASC Board of Directors for their dedication, hard work and unending enthusiasm to make this event happen. I’m privileged and blessed to work with an amazing group of dedicated professionals.

Colorado Elementary All-State Choir2015 Concert Program

4:30 P.M. Saturday, January 31, 2015

Colorado Elementary All-State Vivace ChoirJudy A. Herrington, Conductor

Galop ............................................................................................................................Ken Berg published by Pavane Publishing, JW Pepper#10028692

O Rushing Wind ..................................................................................................Mark Pattersonpublished by BriLee Music Publishing, JW Pepper#10352284

When I Close My Eyes ............................................................................................Jim Papoulis published by Boosey & Hawkes, JW Pepper#3299169

Cello: Olympia VidaRapsodia Española #2 .............................................................................. arr. Judith Herrington

published by Colla Voce Music LLC, JW Pepper#10451880

Jim Along Josie.....................................................................................arr. Reginald Unterseher published by Oxford University Press, JW Pepper#3700747

Colorado Elementary All-State Presto ChoirHenry H. Leck, Conductor

Laudamus Te ............................................................ Mozart/arr. Friedersdorf & Malvar-Keylock published by Hal Leonard Corporation, JW Pepper#10070216

Flute: Larisa Somers

Kol Han’shamah ............................................................................................ Robert Applebaum published by Hal Leonard Corporation, JW Pepper#10351260

Sing to the World ....................................................................................................arr. Ken Berg published by Hal Leonard Corporation, JW Pepper#10427136

I Let Her Go Go ................................................................................................... Douglas Beam published by Hal Leonard Corporation, JW Pepper#10351269

Will You Teach Me? .....................................................................................................Allen Pote published by Hal Leonard Corporation, JW Pepper#10438891

Colorado Elementary All-State Combined Choirs

Shine on Me ....................................................................................................arr. Rollo Dilworth published by Hal Leonard Corporation, JW Pepper#3295346

Celebrar el Dia..........................................................................................................Vic Harrison published by Hal Leonard Corporation, JW Pepper#10431440

Judy A. HerringtonColorado Elementary All-State Vivace Choir Conductor

Judith A. H e r r i n g t o n brings more than 35 years of teaching and c o n d u c t i n g experience to her work at Tacoma Youth Chorus and Charles Wright A c a d e m y in Tacoma, Wash ington, where she received the Inspi rat ional Faculty Award and the Murray

Foundation Chair for Teaching Excellence. A graduate of the University of Oregon, Ms. Herrington earned her Master of Education degree from Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon. She has furthered her conducting studies through master classes with Rodney Eichenberger and Henry Leck. She has served on the Washington American Choral Directors Association Board as R&S Chair for Children’s Choirs, President and Past-President of the Board and is the 2011 recipient of its Leadership and Service Award. She is an inaugural member of the School of Arts and Communication Advisory Board at Pacific Lutheran University.

Judith Herrington is the Founder and Artistic Director of the highly acclaimed Tacoma Youth Chorus, a choral education program of seven select choirs, grades 1 through 12, serving more than 240 young people in the south Puget Sound region of Washington since 1991. The chorus is recognized throughout the Northwest-Puget Sound area for their performance of outstanding music literature, superb musicianship and collaborations with professional performing organizations. Under Ms. Herrington’s direction, the Chorus has performed for National Orff-Schulwerk Conventions, Northwest MENC convention and the Northwest ACDA conventions (1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014). The Chorus has performed internationally as well, with cathedral tours in France, Eastern Europe and in Britain, Wales and Ireland.

Ms. Herrington is highly regarded as a guest conductor, workshop and choral clinician. Most recently, Ms. Herrington has conducted all-state and regional honor choirs and festivals in Idaho, Texas, Oregon, Washington, California, Hawaii, Montana, Wyoming, Pennsylvania, Alaska, Tennessee and Tokyo. She served as visiting faculty for graduate coursework at VanderCook College of Music. A noted composer and arranger, she has published choral compositions, arrangements and co-authored choral teaching texts through Pavane Publishing, Hal Leonard Publishing, and Colla Voce Publishing. She also edits a choral series for Pavane Publishing.

As a young musician in the greater Cincinnati area, Wes Sparkes participated in numerous ensembles and competitions as a pianist and trumpeter. He was a semi-finalist in both the 2003 World Piano Competition and the 2006 Oberlin International Piano Competition, in addition to winning the 2005 OMTA Senior Piano Division state competition. He graduated from University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music in 2010 with a Bachelor of Music in Trumpet Performance. Mr. Sparkes attended Colorado College for his Master of Arts in Teaching. He is the choir director at Eagleview Middle School in Colorado Springs. His program at Eagleview serves over 250 singers who participate in semester, yearlong, and auditioned choirs.

Wes SparkesAccompanist

Colorado Elementary All-State Vivace Choir PersonnelAvondale

ElementaryAmairani ChaconKaydence Good

Kylie GoodNeva Lucero

Trevor SummersKiahna Villegas

Broomfield AcademyCarter DormanKayley Dorman

Giovana GiorgettiViAnna Hollis

Kaiya KolbRose Miller

Juliana PerezVanessa TuElena Yim

Boulder Country Day SchoolClayton BaldwinWilliam Doering

Fletcher GundersonWilliam Host

Libby HowensteinSkyler Kranjcec

Centennial Academyof Fine Arts Education

Faeth ApplegateRyan CamposTimothy CurrieHolley HudsonRuby Kartler

Lilly KleinShelby Merriman

Ilena SmithLizzy Veitch

Chinook Trail ElementaryIsabelle ColemanJamey JohnsonRooke McKnightRyan PrettymanSophia Puglise Karissa Shetler

Columbia ElementaryMarin Broadbent-BellSamanth Manuszak

Bridget McGrawLillian Pagadvan

Discovery Canyon CampusSadie ChambersIsabella Greve

Shreya KrishnanAubrey Meyers

Aryanna Perez-AlcoverDiya Suri

Emerald ElementaryEden AtencioSophia Powell

Fairmount ElementaryCooper Best

Lindsey JohnsonRiley JonesLucy Kohara

Delaney SchiffbauerNorah Schumacher

Flatirons ElementaryAutumn Nack

Novella SpielmanRory Armstrong Oscar Pederson

Torrien KetellapperSophie Campbell

Franklin Elementary

Sarah MerrillTatum O’SheaHalley Peecher

Eden TrippNathaniel Wember

Jennifer Zirkle

Guadalupe Elementary

Alayna KarlskinDalton Romero

Levi RuybalSantiago RuybalShiinei Tallman Samantha Vigil

Homestead ElementaryBrooklyn Berven-Fox

Olivia EdenChloe King

Camden KrumholzKatelyn Macauley

Ellie Morris

Immanuel Lutheran SchoolCaleb AusemaBailey Bianco

Cameron BorchertRyan Jensen

Samantha Strange

Jewell ElementarySaraya Bechen

Kashiana GriglerKristin Grigler

Abigail KemperCarlos Ortiz

Verron Paschal

Kunsmiller Creative Arts AcademyLilyana Evans

FayeEtta JohnsonEsmeralda Munoz

Sophia PorrecaHolly TranAna Yanez

Laura Ingalls Wilder Elementary

Lily AhlesAddi Burns

Grayson DaleyLars Lundberg

Andreas WilwerdingJuilianna Wolf

Lukas ElementaryKymber Boognl

Jamie Bose-RhinesmithHaden DeWittJude Gassen

Jackie LawlessDelaney Mullen

Meiklejohn ElementaryMegan BurnsLydia WagnerJeffrey BowenHannah FaleEthan WebbBrianna Fay

Meridian Ranch ElementaryKaiya ApricioRaina Dale

Erin DouglassElla FitzgeraldEleana SevyBriea Smith

Oak Creek Elementary Dez Archuleta

Isabella LozanoAdam Salomon

Ranch Creek ElementaryLoryn CookAnnie Elliott

Silvia GorbeaAlyssa MurphyElena Parker

Emily Smotryski

Sandburg ElementaryMae Bryant

Caroline CasterSophia FloydEmma LarsonSophia Lisco

Hannah Stringfellow

Soaring Hawk ElementarySeth Dissel

Maddie FuchsOlivia Fuchs

Cailey HolmanNatalie MartinezErin McMahon

Stober ElementaryJordan CliftKyle Drobny

Juliette FabreLydia HelmsIsabella Hunt

Anastasia Mondragon

Ute Meadows Elementary

Emma AckermanSuah ChangKyla Fouts

Grace HartnettAllyson Jaramillo

Anne MillerMorgan Miller

Alyson O’DoughertyGenesis Towner

Woodman Hills ElementaryHailey Knutson

Maddison MarksmeierSarah Misner

Adam MombleauBeverly ParkAriana Stowe

Henry H. Leck

Colorado Elementary All-State Presto Choir Conductor

An internationally recognized choral director, Henry Leck is a professor emeritus and recently retired director of choral activities at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana. He is currently the Founder and Artistic Director of the Indianapolis Children’s Choir which is in its 29th season. The touring choirs of the Indianapolis Children’s Choir have performed regularly for national ACDA, MENC, OAKE and AOSA Conferences. Mr. Leck recently arranged and conducted the national anthem for Kelly Clarkson and the Indianapolis Children’s Choir at the Super Bowl XLVI.

Mr. Leck has conducted Mixed, Men’s, Women’s, Junior High and Children’s All-State choirs and festival choirs in nearly every state. He is a frequent conductor of regional and national honor choirs, including the ACDA Southern, Southwest, North Central, Central, Western and Northwest Honors Choirs. For twenty-one years, he has conducted the National Youth Choral Festival in Carnegie Hall. Mr. Leck has conducted many international festivals including the Musica Mundi Tuscany Children’s Choir Festival in Italy, the Central European International Children’s Choral Festival, the International Children’s Choir Festival in Beijing, China and the Vienna Children’s & Boys Choir Festival with the Vienna Sangerknaben. He recently conducted

the Tokyo International High School Honor Choir in Japan. For more than twenty years he has conducted a festival with David Flood at Canterbury Cathedral. Mr. Leck has just been named an Honorary Associate Professor of the Hong Kong Institute of Teacher Education. He also was recently selected as the U.S. Jurist for the 1st Xinghai Prize International Choir Championships and as an international lecturer for the International Symposium on children and youth choral music in Guangzhou, China. In the summer of 2014, he was a jurist at the World Choir Games in Riga, Latvia.

He has recently written a textbook titled, Creating Artistry through Choral Excellence. Mr. Leck received his training from the University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point, the University of Colorado and Indiana University.

Jolene EdwardsAccompanist

Jolene Edwards is honored to accompany the 2015 Elementary All State Choir. During her fourteen years working with Widefield School District 3 Music, Jolene has been the accompanist for Watson Junior High, Widefield High School and is currently the Administrative Assistant to the WSD3 District Music Coordinator. Mrs. Edwards has performed with four District 3 CMEA choirs, provided accompaniment for numerous musicals, and continues to accompany district ensembles as well as other district events and festivals as needed. She served as the CEASC Vivace Choir accompanist for 2014. In addition, she has worked with area church choirs and soloists for many years and enjoys all opportunities to accompany.

Mrs. Edwards has been a private piano instructor for twenty years. Primarily self-taught, Jolene loves to make piano lessons available to any student that has a desire to learn. She has had the privilege to teach many children and adults in the Widefield/Security area and is proud to have been part of their musical experiences.

Colorado Elementary All-State Presto ChoirPersonnel

Academy EndeavourElementaryOlivia GilmanAvery Hamel

Collin HuxtableSanam Kanchan

Julia WatersEmily Woyte

Aurora Quest K-8Shannon BakerSydney Fagan

Celestheophelin HutagalungMallory Johnson

Joey JosephJulie Putnam

Bear Canyon ElementaryAudrey Irvin

Parker LandoAlex Marquez

Rebecka McVeyEmma Stanek

Eliana Warkentin

Brantner ElementaryIsaiah Alvarado

Kaitlyn AuldMackenzie Bowie

Elle DeRoinBethany ReadMakayla Shank

Bromley East Charter School Elementary

Breanna BrandsmaGrace Martin

Chloe McMakinBrianna Monarrez

Daniel Vazquez-LopezKatie Zirker

Buena Vista ElementaryJordan Anderson

Norah ButtsLogan Elston

Mikaila FandrichJoie Kellner

Cecillia SiegelSammi Clapham

Carlson ElementaryRobin BolducWyatt Brent

Cassie CastlemanCeci Davies

Elsie GothmanLoralei Murphy

Carson ElementaryAnnika BuhrTaylor Day

Reed JacobsKate McVey

Julia ThomasJessica YoungWilla Conway

Meghan MaloofHalston Seremet

Chipeta ElementaryMary Francis Cowan

Caroline EllisCarter Moyer

Ratna UnnikrishnanEthan Van Caster

Aimee Wright

Excel AcademyVeronica LloydJessica Pease

Katie ResendezJolee Rios

Teagan TuckerSamantha Wood

Garfield Elementary Luthien Bloom

Ruby CrowlBrittyn DowdellAbigail LincolnMolly MoranJulia Ward

Lincoln Elementary Abigail Beard

Maya Hairston-ChaseKate Gilmore

Allison Sakiye HomichiLuna Keen

Sophie Rapp

Minnequa AcademyLeigha Edmonson

Eric GonzalezAndrew Martinez

Yinneth Perez-Munoz

Pennington ElementaryRiley Allen

Regan GonzalesJeweliana Mancuso

AJ PlasencioAlexis Tefft

Brielle Trefren

Pioneer Elementary Aram-Abi BonillaColin DuckworthElizabeth GrossGabriela HokeQuinn McClain

Fernando Zavala

Ponderosa ElementarySkyler Ambrozevitch

Elora AyoubKara Frohling

Lauren GutscheDaycia Melaragno

Ellie Sedin Ratrovsky

Prairie Ridge ElementaryMaggie BruhnKira Hanvey

Abigail LarsenGrace McFadden

Quinn McNeillBethany Parker

Eli PerryAlex Sturn

Brooklyn Weingardt

Riverside Elementary Chenney Castonon

Harrison ChabinLance FullenwiderBrecken GucciniRaeanna Nelson

Joseph Thompson

Sierra Vista Elementary Hailey Sutherland

Anna SmithChristina HeinzeHaley MartinezAlelxis Adams

Ava Wells

South Mesa ElementaryMorghan AutobeeElizabeth Cannon

Emily HandDonovan Soto

Mitchell SullivanBenjamin Trujillo

Stony Creek Elementary Jacy Delao

Kaitlyn FosterHailey Glass

Julia KlinefelterMadi Lilly

Allison Murray

Swink ElementaryJoe HawkinsAaron Hilton

Baylie KruegerJenna LewisEdit Morales

Makayla Taullie

Vivian ElementaryNatasha NeffIvy Singelton

Devlon StephensTaryn Valdez

Webster ElementaryArlee Aragon

Gabi BorchardChristina CarlosElizabeth CarlosCyrenide Frasier

Connor LantMadison Osgard

Dante Reedy Devin Riding

Woodmen-Roberts Elementary

Marissa BlumMelissa Ellsworth

Amelia MoserRachel Newton

Halle RuizJazmine Strader

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