ALL STATE CONCERT: All-State Elementary Chorus

Day: Thursday, January 9, 2020
Time: 1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Venue: Tampa Convention Center
Room: Ballroom A
Format: All-State
Topics
Grade Levels
Sponsored By: FEMEA

Literature will be selected from:

Gloria, Peter Robb (Don't know)

Art Thou Troubled, G.F. Handle/Jean Ashworth Bartle (Hinshaw Music)

The Little Horses, arr. by Douglas Pew (Santa Barbara Music Publishing)

You'll Never Guess What I Saw, Ruth Watson Henderson and Susan Astington (Gordon V. Thompson Music)

Stars Tonight, Judith Harrington (Pavane Publishing)

Joy, Jim Papoulis (Santa Barbara Music Publishing)

Robyn Lana

Robyn Lana is the Founder, Managing Artistic Director and Conductor of the Cincinnati Children's Choir (CCC), Ensemble-in-Residence at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music Preparatory Department (CCM). At CCM, she sponsors undergraduate interns and mentors graduate choral conducting students.

Recognized for building tone, artistry, and independent musicianship in children and youth, Ms. Lana has conducted international, state and regional honor and festival choirs, including the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) Southern Division, and an international children's festival choir at Carnegie Hall. She has served as conductor/clinician internationally in China, Italy, and Malaysia (2015) and is a founding co-director of the Coastal Song Children's Choir Festival. She has presented workshops for ACDA, American Orff-Schulwerk Association (AOSA) National Conference, Chorus America, the World Choir Games 2012, National Association for Music Education (NAfME) state and regional conventions, Chamber Music America National Convention, and regionally at colleges and universities. Her choirs have performed for State, Regional, and National professional development conferences including ACDA Central Division and the AOSA National Conference.

Ms. Lana is the editor of a choral series in her name with Santa Barbara Music Publishing. The highly successful series is quickly growing and has become respected throughout national choral community. She has published articles in the ACDA's Choral Journal, Choristers Guild's The Chorister, and Chamber Music America's CMA Matters.

Session Coordinator:
Robert Todd

The FMEA Professional Development Conference and All-State Ensembles receive support in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Arts and Culture, and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture.