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SOUTHERN MISS CHAPTER OF STUDENT A.C.D.A.

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We would like to invite you to the 10th annual Southern Invitational Choral Conference at Southern Miss to be held September 23 and 24, 2013. This year’s conference will feature clinicians Paul Hondorp from Western Kentucky University and Ryan Beeken from Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

Students will take part in intense rehearsals, high-quality performances and meet fellow musicians from all over the Southeast. SICC also presents an opportunity for students to audition for a choral scholarship at Southern Miss. Teachers can earn continuing education units (CEUs) by attending the various sessions. We are enthusiastic about meeting and working with you and your students. Please contact us with any questions.

Sincerely, Gregory Fuller, PhD, Director of Choral Activities The University of Southern Mississippi 601.266.4092 | Gregory.Fuller@usm.edu

• fun souvenirs, performance T-shirt provided• new friends and interaction with colleagues• Monday night mixer with food and music• great choral music• continuing education units for teachers• no auditions required and music provided• single meal card provided for students and teachers to use either for a meal on campus or snacks at break• reading sessions and master classes for teachers (music provided)• final concert on Tuesday afternoon by all singers

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Copiah Lincoln Community College, MississippiDavidson High School, AlabamaEast Central Community College, MississippiHarrison Central High School, MississippiHolmes Community College, Mississippi Itawamba Community College, MississippiJones County Junior College, MississippiMeridian Community College, MississippiMississippi Gulf Coast Community College – Jackson County, MississippiMississippi Gulf Coast Community College – Jefferson-Davis, MississippiMississippi Gulf Coast Community College – Perkinston, MississippiNorthwest Mississippi Community College, MississippiPearl River County Community College, MississippiPetal High School, MississippiPoplarville High School, MississippiPresbyterian Christian High School, MississippiStarkville High School, MississippiTheodore High School, Mississippi

Coahoma Community College, MississippiEast Central High School, MississippiEast Mississippi Community College, MississippiGautier High School, MississippiGulfport High School, MississippiHattiesburg High School, MississippiItawamba High School, MississippiLeflore High School, AlabamaLong Beach High School, MississippiMeridian High School, MississippiMooreville High School, MississippiNatchez High School, MississippiNortheast Mississippi Community College, MississippiOcean Springs High School, MississippiSaltillo High School, MississippiStone County High School, MississippiWarren Central High School, MississippiWest Jones High School, Mississippi

PERFECTATTENDANCE FIVEYEARS+

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Southern Miss Choral Activities would like to acknowledge and thank high schools and community colleges who have been regular supporters of the conference.

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Ryan Beeken proudly serves as director of choral studies at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, where he conducts the University Chorale, Chorus and Chamber Singers. He also teaches graduate and undergraduate choral conducting and supervises student teachers. Beeken also serves as artistic director for the Blair Concert Chorale, whose mission includes fostering a growing appreciation of quality choral music for the population of south central Pennsylvania.

Dr. Beeken’s choirs have performed at state, regional, and national conventions of the American Choral Directors Association. His collaborations include projects with Simon Estes, Cantus, the King Singers, David Dickau, James Mulholland and Andrea Ramsey. A frequent clinician and festival director Dr. Beeken is regularly engaged as a conductor, clinician and adjudicator throughout the United States. He has served on the executive committee of the American Choral Directors Association at both the state and regional level, and he regularly presents sessions for symposia.

Prior to his appointment at IUP, Dr. Beeken taught at Michigan State University, where he conducted the Women’s Glee Club and while residing in Des Moines, Iowa, directed the Drake Chorale at Drake University. He also taught elementary, middle school and high school music for 16 years, most recently serving as director of vocal music for Waukee Schools in suburban Des Moines, where he lead a program of more than 300 students and 12 ensembles to national distinction.

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Dr. Paul Hondorp is director of choral activities and associate professor of music at Western Kentucky University, where he leads an active choral program and teaches at the undergraduate and graduate level. Dr. Hondorp has served as an adjudicator, clinician and guest conductor in both in the United States and abroad. Recent engagements include guest clinicianships with the Singapore Choral Resource Center and the Taipei International Choral Festival. In June 2012 he travelled to Hong Kong as guest conductor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong Chorus. A lyric tenor, Dr. Hondorp performs regularly with the Dallas-based professional chamber choir Vox Humana, whose first recording “Voices of Light” was released in summer 2013 on the Naxos label. He sang with the Oregon Bach Festival Chorus for six seasons and served on the vocal faculty of the Berkshire Choral Festival in Sheffield, Mass. His professional recording credits include ensemble performances with the Hot Springs Music Festival (Naxos, The Music of Edmund Dede), Oregon Bach Festival Chorus (Hänsler, the final six Haydn masses), and an educational series of compact discs by GIA Publications.

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Gregory Fuller is in his 14th year as director of choral activities at The University of Southern Mississippi. As the chair of the conducting division, he leads the Southern Chorale and the Hattiesburg Choral Union and teaches and supervises candidates in

the Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts conducting programs. In 2004, he

created and sponsored the first Southern Invitational Choral Conference, an event that now hosts more

than 50 institutions each September.

Previously, he held similar appointments at the University of Missouri in Columbia and Briar Cliff University in Sioux City,

Iowa. His choirs have appeared at national and state meetings of MENC and ACDA. He has toured and conducted

throughout North America, Europe and Japan. Active in orchestral, wind and choral settings, he is a frequent clinician and guest conductor. He is currently employed as the chorus

master at the Parkway Heights United Methodist Church in Hattiesburg, Miss.

Fuller holds a bachelor’s degree in cello and voice from Oklahoma Baptist University, as well as a master’s and

doctoral degree from the University of Missouri.

GREGORY FULLERCONFERENCE COORDINATOR

John Flanery, assistant choral director, began teaching at The University of Southern Mississippi in 2006. He teaches undergraduate choral conducting, choral procedures, choral literature, and directs the Concert Choir, Southern Miss Men, Spirit of Southern and the Southern Miss Gulf Coast Civic Chorale.

The Concert Choir and Spirit of Southern have both been selected to perform at the Mississippi convention of ACDA and MENC. He founded the Festival of Choirs on the Mississippi Gulf Coast as well as the Southern Experience Show Choir and Choral Camp. John is also the church choir director at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church.

His Doctor of Musical Arts and master’s degree are both in choral conducting from the University of Kentucky. He holds a bachelor’s degree in music education from Briar Cliff University in Sioux City, Iowa. As a high school music educator in the state of Iowa for nine years, John conducted concert choirs, madrigal dinners, show choirs, jazz choirs and many other ensembles. John is a regular clinician and judge throughout the Midwest and Southeastern United States. He and his wife, Juliane, have four children, Elias, Cecelia, Josephine and Lucinda.

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10 a.m.– Registration begins in Thad Cochran Center second and third floors.

COMMUNITY COLLEGE MONDAY Noon – Rehearsal/sectionals2 p.m. – Break2:45 p.m. – Rehearsal/sectionals4:30 p.m. – Supper break6 p.m. – Rehearsal6:50 p.m. – Dismiss7 p.m. – Southern Miss Concert in Bennett Auditorium8 - 10 p.m. – Mixer

TUESDAY9 - 11:30 a.m. – Rehearsal with break 11:30 a.m. – Lunch break 1 p.m. – Rehearsal at *Main Street Baptist Church 2:15 p.m. – Break 2:30 p.m. – Rehearsal in choir room3:15 p.m. – Break 3:30 p.m. – SICC Concert at Main Street Baptist Church

HIGH SCHOOLMONDAY Noon – Rehearsal/sectionals2 p.m. – Break2:45 p.m. – Rehearsal/sectionals4:30 p.m. – Supper break6 p.m. – Rehearsal 6:50 p.m. – Dismiss7 p.m. – Southern Miss Concert in Bennett Auditorium 8 - 10 p.m. – Mixer

TUESDAY 9 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. – Rehearsal with break 12:30 p.m. – Lunch break 2 p.m. – Rehearsal at *Main Street Baptist Church 3:15 p.m. – Break 3:30 p.m. – SICC Concert at Main Street Baptist Church

TEACHERS MONDAY12:15 p.m. – Session 11:10 p.m. – Beethoven/Session 22 p.m. – Break2:45 p.m. – Session 33:30 p.m. – Session 4 4:25 p.m. – Supper break 6 p.m. – Session 5 6:50 p.m. – Dismiss7 p.m. – Southern Miss Concert/ Session 6 in Bennett Auditorium8 -10 p.m. – Mixer

TUESDAY9 a.m. – Session 79:45 a.m. – Session 810:30 a.m. – Session 911:30 a.m. – Lunch1 p.m. – Lunch/visit rehearsal at Main Street2:15 p.m. – Visit rehearsal/Session 10 at Main Street3:15 p.m. – Break3:30 p.m. – SICC Concert/Session 11 at Main Street

SCHOLARSHIP AUDITIONSChoral scholarship auditions for The

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STUDENT SELECTION PROCESS Each high school is invited to bring two or three balanced SATB quartets to participate in the honor choir. Community colleges are invited to bring three or four balanced SATB quartets for the community college honor choir. Students must be excellent sight-readers, have good vocal technique and display exemplary rehearsal behavior. If possible, priority should be given to students who will continue to sing in college. Please limit selection to those students who read music well and work hard in rehearsal.

If you have a need to bring a group that is not balanced with voice parts, permission must be sought from Dr. Fuller (gregory.fuller@usm.edu) or Dr. Flanery (john.flanery@usm.edu).

SCHOLARSHIP AUDITION SICC presents an opportunity for students to earn a choral scholarship to The University of Southern Mississippi for the 2014-15 academic year. Auditions are open to all high school seniors and community college students who attend SICC. Students planning to be music majors should prepare two songs—one of a fine art (or “classical”) nature and one from any style. Those planning on being music minors or who plan on not majoring in music at all should prepare one piece of a fine art (or “classical”) nature. An accompanist will be provided.

FAQ STUDENT ATTIRE School-appropriate clothing should be worn for all rehearsals, and the SICC T-shirt and jeans or khakis should be worn for the concert (no shorts for performance).

REHEARSALS To help us make SICC a successful conference, we ask that any deviation from the schedule be cleared with Dr. Fuller or Dr. Flanery. It is important that all conference attendees help our productivity by being present and keeping distractions at a minimum. Please consult with us before allowing any student to arrive late or depart early from any rehearsal or event. PARKING PASSES Parking passes will be available prior to SICC on the Web at www.usm.edu/choirs.

CEUs CEUs are not included in the teacher registration fee but are available at an additional cost. Teachers must attend all CEU sessions in order to receive their credits.

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Please make check or money order payable to Southern Miss Choral Activities

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When making your reservations, please use the conference code to receive special rates. Remember that most of the rooms have two double beds and can house four students, which brings the total cost of lodging to around $18-$22 per student, per night. Make sure to specify if you want double/double rooms or kings. Monday night is the only required night; however, some schools may want to arrive Sunday evening.

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