the power and beauty of a wide variety of choral music. The choir won a Grammy Award for its performance on the highly acclaimed Telarc CD recording of John Adams’ On the Transmigration of Souls with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. In 2004, it was nominated for a Grammy for its performance on the internationally acclaimed Telarc recording of Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana. Beginning in 1996-97 with two seasons of Christmas With Robert Shaw, they have performed for 13 annual holiday seasons with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. The Young Singers are also featured on the Telarc recording of Puccini’s La Boheme. On Jan. 27, 2011, the GYS Chamber Choir (a mixed, SATB ensemble) performed at the Georgia Music Educators Association conference in Savannah. The Young Singers have performed for thousands of music educators at American Choral Directors Association conferences in South Carolina and Tennessee (1998 and 2004), and two recent performances at the GMEA conference. GYS offers beginning through advanced choirs for children in second through 12th grades, including Treble Choir, Allegro Choir, Concert Choir, Chamber Choir and the Georgia Young Men’s Ensemble. Gwinnett Young Singers is sponsored in part by the Georgia Council for the Arts through the appropriations of the Georgia General Assembly. The Council is a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts. For more information, call 770-935-6657 or visit gwinnettyoungsingers.com. Kristen Blanda Viveka Chandrasekaran Natalie Gambrell Chris Honeychurch Julia Hufford Leigh Johnson Tatyana Keating
Lydia Kelley Jackie Lenz Anna McDaniel Paul Massey Grace Orowski Emma Pattillo Evan Peacock
Sarah Penkava Gunter Petit Keri Pomeroy Cosetta Righi Emma Riley Shaysee Sainte Crosse Wren Shimoji
Nina Siso Elizabeth Willet Gabrielle Willet Ruth Willet Hailey Williams
lynn urda, Conductor & Musical Director
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ynn Urda is the full-time conductor and music director of the Gwinnett Young Singers. She has an active schedule as a guest clinician, conductor and adjudicator for All-State and Honors Choirs, choral festivals and workshops for youth and their conductors. She has distinguished herself for her unique ways of achieving excellence in choral blend, intonation and sensitive singing. Mrs. Urda holds a degree in music education and voice from Lynn Urda the Florida State University School of Music. She is a former public school music specialist and has spent most of her professional life as a church musician, directing children’s, youth and adult choirs. She holds membership in Chorister’s Guild and the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA), for which she has served as Repertoire and Standards Chair for Children’s Choirs in the Georgia division of ACDA. She is the director of youth and children’s choirs at Tucker First United Methodist Church.
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