2021 San Antonio Madrigal & Chamber Choir Festival Program

San Antonio Madrigal & Chamber Choir Festival Live Broadcast - April 10, 2021

Adjudicators Dianne Brumley Director of Choral Studies, Emerita University of Texas Rio Grande Valley-Brownsville Canyon Lake, TX

Karen Kenaston-French Director of Choral Activities University of Texas Arlington Arlington, TX

Robert Simpson Artistic Director, Houston Chamber Choir Lecturer of Church Music Shepherd School of Music, Rice University Canon for Music, Christ Church Cathedral Houston, TX

Clinicians Lynne Gackle Director of Choral Activities Mary Gibbs Jones Chair Professor of Ensembles Baylor University Waco, TX

Allen Hightower Director of Choral Studies University of North Texas Denton, TX

Sandra Snow Professor of Choral Conducting & Music Education Michigan State University College of Music Conductor, mirabai East Lansing, MI

Ridge Point Chamber Choir………………………………………………………….Chelsea Berner & De'Evin Johnson Abendlich schon rauscht der Wald Ecco mormorar l'onde We Shall Overcome

Fanny Hensel, IMSLP Claudio Monteverdi, IMSLP Robert T. Gibson, Arranger, Walton Music WW1727

Lake Creek Chamber Choir……………………………………………………………………………....Cameron Carnley Tutto lo di mi dici, "Canta: Weep, O Mine Eyes Esto les Digo

Orlando di Lasso, Edited by Maynard Klein, G. Schirmer, Inc. 11961 John Bennet, Edited by John Leavitt, Hal Leonard 00153770 Kinley Lange, Alliance Music Publications, Inc. AMP 0402

Holy Cross School Concordia…………………………………………………………………………......Craig Matherne Beati Mortui Ride the Chariot Plenty Good Room

Composed by Felix Mendelssohn - Edited by John Kilpatrick, cpdl.org - 20470 William Henry Smith, Neil A. Kjos Music Company - 1102 Moses Hogan, Hal Leonard Corporation - 08703330

Reagan Chamber Singers……………………………………………………………………………………...Mary Cowart O Rex Gloriae Luca Marenzio ed. by Anthony G. Petti - First Chester Book of Motets, Chester Music CH55096 Drop, Drop, Slow Tears Kenneth Leighton, Novello and Company NOV 290316 Alleluia Elaine Hagenberg, Elaine Hagenberg Music. G-EH1007 Jersey Village High School Chamber Choir……………………………………..…..Gregory Moore & Stefanie Stephens Il est bel et bon Let My Love Be Heard Dawn

Pierre Passereau, Chester Music CH 55388 Jake Runestad, Jake Runestad Music Eric Barnum, G. Schirmer

Cypress Ranch Chamber Choir………………………………………………………...Cynthia Douglas & Adam Bishea Si ch'io vorrei morire Sicut Cervus Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye

Claudio Monteverdi, CPDL #07836 Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, CPDL #32990 Irish Traditional, arr. Alice Parker, Lawson-Gould Music Publishers LG51452

Conroe High School, Cantare……………………………………………………………....Evan Key & Emily Eisterhold Die Nachtigall At Her Fair Hands Sing Unto God

Mendelssohn, ed. Robinson, Hinshaw Music Inc. — HMC407 Robert Young, Gentry Publications — JG2192 Paul Fetler, Augsburg Publishing House — 11-1244

Cinco Ranch High School, Bravo……………………………………………….……..Dorothy Wilson & Melanie Miller Prelude O nata lux At the Round Earth's Imagined Corners

Ola Gjeilo, HL 08501649 Thomas Tallis, Chester Music Ltd Willametta Spencer, Shawnee Press A0986

Cypress Woods Chamber Choir ………………………………………...Jason Womack, Jenae Aguirre & Aubrey Nelson Ave Generosa Look Up, Look Down Kaikki maat, te riemuitkaatte

Ola Gjielo, Walton Music - WW1688 arr. John Wykoff, Walton Music - WW 1589 Mia Makaroff, Sulasol - SULS1189

Round Rock Dragon Choir……………………………………………....………Jamieson McCaffity & Anarra Whitcher Beati quorum via Dawn Kanaval

Charles Villiers Stanford, Public Domain Eric Barnum, G. Schirmer - 50490262 Sydney Guillaume, Sydney Guillaume

Bridgeland High School Chamber Choir…………………………………………..Christopher Fiorini & Dolores Noel A un giro sol de belli occhi Rosas Pandan When the Earth Stands Still

Claudio Monteverdi, CPDL (Public Domain) Visayan Folksong / Arr. by George G. Hernandez, Pavane Publishing P1286 Don Macdonald Galaxy Music Corporation (a division of ECS Publishing) Catalog number 1.3430

Langham Creek High School Chamber Singers……………………………………….Andrea Loer & Kirstie McCallum Earth Song If Ye Love Me El Paisanito

Frank Ticheli, Hinshaw Music Inc., HPC7098 Thomas Tallis, Oxford University Press #9780193521384 Anonymous, arr. Ward Swingle, UNC Jazz Press/Swingle Music #V1409

Westwood Chamber Choir……………………………………………………...…….Andre Clark & Robin Harwell King Laudate If Ye Love Me

Knut Nystedt, Walton Music Corporation WH208 Thomas Tallis, Oxford University Press 9780193521384

Cypress Creek High School Chamber Choir ……………………….………………….Sharon Paul & Alexander Bruce A Ce Joli Moi Ubi Caritas Dörven Dalai

Clement Janequin, Chester Book of Madrigals, Music Sales, Hal Leonard, 55495 Ola Gjeilo, Walton/Gia/Hal Leonard HL08501631 arr. Yongrub, Earthsongs/Experiencing Choral Music Hal Leonard

Centennial High School Chamber Singers………………………………………………………………….....Eric Cooley Laudate Weep, O Mine Eyes Soon- Ah Will Be Done

Knut Nystedt, Walton - WH208 John Bennet, Public Domain arr. William L. Dawson, Neil A. Kjos Music Company - T102A

James E. Taylor High School, Expressions …………………………………………………………………...Kevin Riehle Cry Out and Shout Õhtul (Evening) Gaudete omnes

Knut Nystedt, Alfred SBCH9307 Pärt Uusberg, Walton WW1601 Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Hal Leonard 08596793

The Woodlands HS Chamber Choir ……………………………………………………………………...Patrick Newcomb O Magnum Mysterium Let My Love Be Heard Ballad of Green Broom from Five Flower Songs

Tomás Luis de Victoria, CH 08793 Jake Runestad, JR0046 Benjamin Britten, OCTB-1875

Tomball Memorial High School Choir, The Major Chords …………………………..Jed Ragsdale and Kimberly Dillow Psalm 96 O Magnum Mysterium Muusika

Jan Sweelinck, Texas Choral Connections Textbook Ivo Antognini, Alliance AMP 0902 Paul Uusberg, Walton WW1598

Seven Lakes High School Chamber Singers……………………………………………….Klint Jordan & Elizabeth Tait Ave Verum Corpus Peze Kafé When the Earth Stands Still

William Byrd, Public Domain

Sten Kallman, Walton MUSIC WW1484 Don MacDonald, Galaxy Music Corporation 1.3430

Kingwood High School, The Madrigals…………………………………………………Jason Watt & Penelope Campbell Day of Fire and Sun Bandó Ribineann Caedmon’s Hymn

Dominick DiOrio, Walton Music WW1755 Michael McGlynn, www.MichaelMcglynn.com Blake Wilson, Walton Music WW1671

Cy-Fair Singers……………………………………………………………………………………………....Nicholas Likos Vignon, Vignette Prayer of the Children I Got a Hog and a Pig

Orlando di Lasso; Edited by Philip Lawson, Hal Leonard 00144250 Kurt Bestor; Arranged by Andrea Klouse, Alfred Publishing CH96165 Arranged by John Wykoff, Walton Music WW1591

Montgomery Madrigals……………………………………………………...…………………………….…....Heather Orr Chanson on "Dessus le marché d'Arras Cantate Domino Stars

Anon. Before 1528/Adrian Willaert, Associated Music Publishers, Inc. Claudio Monteverdi, JN Music 1376-1 Kyle Pederson, Carl Fischer CM9609

Honor Choir Concert, Kinder High School for the Performing Arts 2021 San Antonio Madrigal and Chamber Festival Honor Choir Kinder High School for the Performing Arts Madrigal Singers – Julia Hall, Director

2021 Madrigal Adjudicators Dianne Brumley is Director of Choral Music Studies and Professor of Music Education, Emerita at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley – Brownsville. She was appointed in 2003 and was the first person to hold the position of Director of Choral Studies at the University. Brumley was the founding conductor of the University Master Chorale. During her ten-year tenure at UTRGV, the Master Chorale was selected to perform at the 2011 Texas Music Educators Association Convention and toured internationally. Brumley also served for 20 years as the founding Conductor and Artistic Director of the South Texas Chorale and Orchestra. Brumley is a frequent guest conductor, clinician, motivational speaker, and adjudicator throughout Texas and the United States. Currently, she serves as a choral music education consultant. Before her time with the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Brumley was a successful choral music educator in public schools. Choirs under her direction were selected for honor performances at Texas Music Educators Association conventions, American Choral Directors Association regional and national conventions, and a featured performance at the Texas Choral Directors Association convention. Active in Texas choral music endeavors for many years, in 2011 Brumley was honored to receive the Texas Choral Excellence Award and in 2018 the Texas Choir Master Award from the Texas Choral Directors Association.

Karen Kenaston-French is Associate Professor and Director of Choral Activities at the University of Texas Arlington, where she conducts the A Cappella Choir, teaches graduate and undergraduate conducting and heads the Vocal Area. Under her direction, the UTA A Cappella Choir performed at the National Collegiate Choral Organization convention in College Park Maryland (2019), gave invited performances at the Texas Music Educators Association state convention (2019 and 2014) and Southwestern Division Conference of ACDA (2016), and served as Ensemble-in-Residence for the National Student Conducting Competition at the American Choral Directors Association conference in Salt Lake City (2015). The choir has made appearances with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, the Fort Worth Chorale, Texas Ballet Theatre, and the Fort Worth Symphony. Prior to her arrival at UTA, Dr. Kenaston-French served as Director of Choral Activities at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee, taught conducting at Southern Methodist University and the University of North Texas and was director of music ministries at Plymouth Park United Methodist Church in Irving, Texas.

She holds a B.A. from West Virginia Wesleyan College, M.M. and M.S.M. degrees from Southern Methodist University, and a D.M.A. from the University of North Texas. In the 2019-2020 season, Dr. Kenaston French took over as Artistic Director/Conductor of the Ft. Worth Chorale, following Jerry McCoy as only the fifth conductor in the organization’s 56-year history.

Robert Simpson is the Founder and Artistic Director of the Houston Chamber Choir. He also serves as Canon for Music at Houston’s historic Christ Church Cathedral and Lecturer of Church Music at Shepherd School of Music at Rice University. Chorus America awarded him the Michael Korn Founders Award for the Development of the Professional Choral Art and most recently awarded the Houston Chamber Choir the Margaret Hillis Award for Choral Excellence in 2018. Mr. Simpson is the recipient of the 2015 American Prize in Choral Conducting. Choirs under his direction have toured the United States, Europe, and Mexico, and performed before national conventions of Chorus America, the American Choral Directors Association, The American Guild of Organists, The Association of Anglican Musicians, and The Hymn Society of America.

They have appeared nationally on CBS-TV, ABC-TV, and American Public Radio. Mr. Simpson is married to Marianna Parnas-Simpson, the noted children’s choir conductor.

2021 Madrigal Clinicians Lynne Gackle is Director of Choral Activities at Baylor University and holds the Mary Jane Gibbs Professor of Music Chair. She conducts Baylor Bella Voce, Baylor Concert Choir, teaches choral conducting, choral literature, and serves as the Director of the Ensemble Division. Prior to her Baylor appointment, Lynne taught at the University of South Florida, the University of Mississippi, and the University of Miami (FL). She received her education from LSU (BME) and the University of Miami (MM/Ph.D.). Lynne is an active choral clinician and conductor, nationally and internationally. She has held various positions within the American Choral Directors Association, including President, Southern Division, and ACDA-Florida and served as the TCDA-VP of Collegiate/Community Choirs. She currently serves as the National President of the American Choral Directors Association. Gackle is the editor of Choral Artistry for the Singer (Walton Music/GIA) and the Lynne Gackle Choral Series (Colla Voce). Internationally recognized for her research on the female adolescent voice, Lynne is the author of Finding Ophelia’s Voice, Opening Ophelia’s Heart in addition to contributing-author for other books published by GIA, Oxford, and Lead Author for Voices In Concert (Hal Leonard/McGraw Hill).

Gackle was awarded Baylor’s Outstanding Faculty Award in Research (2012).

Allen Hightower is the Director of Choral Studies at the University of North Texas where he serves as conductor of the A Cappella Choir and the Grand Chorus and oversees a comprehensive choral program that includes eight choral ensembles. Dr. Hightower leads the masters and doctoral programs in choral conducting.

As a member of UNT’s Early Music Faculty, he leads the vocal ensemble Vox Aquilae, an artist partner of the UNT Baroque Orchestra. Previously, Dr. Hightower was the first holder of the Weston Noble Endowed Chair in Music at Luther College where he served as conductor of the renowned Nordic Choir and Artistic Director of Christmas at Luther. As Luther’s Director of Choral Activities, he gave leadership to a choral program that included six choirs and over 530 singers. From 2000-2010, Dr. Hightower served as Director of Choral Activities at Sam Houston State University. During his tenure, the SHSU Chorale performed for the 2007 ACDA National Convention, the 2010 ACDA Southwestern Division, and the 2003, 2006, and 2010 conventions of the Texas Music Educators Association. From 1992-1996 he was Director of Choirs at Odessa Permian High School and led the PHS Kantorei and Chamber Orchestra in performance at TMEA in 1996.

Sandra Snow As conductor, pedagogue, and scholar, Sandra Snow is widely acknowledged as one who brings singers of all ages and abilities to artful performance through an understanding of the music and its context in the world around them. As Professor of Choral Conducting and Music Education at the Michigan State University College of Music, the MSU Women’s Chamber Ensemble has appeared as featured performers at American Choral Directors Association conventions at state, regional, and national levels. As a guest conductor, she travels extensively in North America and abroad. In 2017 Snow created Mirabai, a project-based professional women’s chorus. Mirabai features alumna associated with the MSU Women’s Chamber Ensemble.

Mirabai was a featured ensemble at the Texas Choral Director’s Association conference in 2018. The inaugural recording, Ecstatic Songs, was released in 2018. Snow is the author of the DVD “Conducting-Teaching: Real World Strategies for Success'' published by GIA (2009), a resource for conductor-teachers at all levels of teaching. She edits the choral music series In High Voice published by Boosey & Hawkes. Snow is the Artistic Director of the American Institute for Choral Teacher Education produced annually at MSU. Snow is a recipient of the Michigan State University William J. Beal Award for Outstanding Faculty, the MSU Teacher-Scholar Award, and the Dortha J. and John D. Withrow award for Excellence in Teaching.

Previous Results 2020 First Place and 2021 Honor Choir Kinder High School for the Performing and Visual Arts Madrigal Singers, Shannon Carter, Director 1st Runner-up The Kingwood Madrigals, Jason Watt, Director 2nd Runner-up Montgomery Madrigals, Heather Orr, Director 3rd Runner-up Reagan Chamber Singers, Mary Cowart, Director Performances of Distinction (in alphabetical order) Anderson Chamber Choir, David Beussman & Meredith Phillips, Directors Burleson Centennial Chamber Singers, Eric L. Cooley, Director Cinco Ranch Bravo, Dorothy Wilson, Director Cypress Creek Chamber Choir, Sharon F. Paul & Alexander Bruce, Directors Cypress Ranch Chamber Choir, Cynthia Douglas & Adam Bishea, Directors James E. Taylor Expressions, Kevin Riehle, Director Jersey Village Chamber Choir, Gregory Moore & Stefanie Stephens, Directors Klein Oak Chamber Choir, James Kritikos, Director Langham Creek Chamber Singers, Andrea Loer & Kirstie McCallum, Directors Pearland Kantorei, Michael Kessler & Jon Marcum, Directors Round Rock Dragon Chorale, Jamieson McCaffity & Raegan Grantham, Directors Seven Lakes Chamber Singers, Klint Jordan & Elizabeth Tait, Directors The Woodlands Chamber Choir, Patrick Newcomb, Director Tomball Memorial Major Chords, Jed Ragsdale & Kimberly Dillow, Directors Vandegrift Chamber Choir, Michael Zook, Director Vista Ridge Ovation, Steve White & Becky Azard, Directors Westlake Madrigals, Edward Snouffer, Director

2019 First Place and 2020 Honor Choir Cy-Fair Singers, Nicholas Likos, Director 1st Runner-up Cypress Ranch Chamber Choir, Cynthia Douglas/Adam Bishea, Directors 2nd Runner-up Reagan Chamber Singers, Mary Cowart, Director 3rd Runner-up Pearland Kantorei, Michael Kessler/Jon Marcum, Directors Performances of Distinction (in alphabetical order) Centennial Chamber Singers, Eric Cooley, Director Colleyville Heritage Chamber Choir, Thomas Rinn, Director Conroe Cantare, Clay West, Director Cypress Creek Chamber Choir, Sharon Paul/Alexander Bruce, Directors Cypress Woods Chamber Choir, Jason Womack, Director Garland Celebration Singers, Riley Worthen, Director Klein Oak Chamber Choir, James Kritikos, Director Kingwood Madrigals, Jason Watt, Director Langham Creek Chamber Singers, Chris Fiorini/Andrea Loer, Directors Montgomery Madrigals, Heather Orr/Andre Trahan, Directors Seven Lakes Chamber Singers, Emily Chandler, Director Spring Chamber Choir, Stephanie Hicks/Josh Levine, Directors Tomball Memorial Major Chords, Jed Ragsdale, Director Vandegrift Chamber Choir, Michael Zook, Director

2018 First Place and 2019 Honor Choir The Woodlands Chamber Choir Patrick Newcomb, Director 1st Runner-up Midway Chambers Singers Jeff Rice, Director 2nd Runner-up Vandergrift Chamber Choir Michael Zook, Director 3rd Runner-up Kingwood Madrigals Jason Watt, Director Performances of Distinction (in alphabetical order) Arlington Chamber Singers, Mason Barlow, Director Centennial Chamber Singers, Eric Cooley, Director Conroe Cantare, Clay West, Director Cy Fair Singers, Nicholas Likos, Director Cypress Ranch Chamber Choir, Cynthia Douglas/Adam Bishea, Directors Cypress Woods Chamber Choir, Jason Womack, Director Garland Celebration Singers, Cheryl Wilson, Director Houston High School for the Performing and Visual Arts Madrigal Singers, Shannon Carter, Director J.J. Pearce Forte, Michael Lysinger, Director Langham Creek Chamber Singers, Christopher Fiorini, Director Montgomery Madrigals, Heather Orr, Director Pearland Kantorei, Michael Kessler, Director Seven Lakes Chamber Singers, Emily Chandler, Director Taylor Expressions, Kevin Riehle, Director

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