Director Information

The Middle School Honor Choir is a unique learning opportunity in which talented middle school singers are selected through an audition process to sing in a clinic and concert with approximately 80 other private school students from Texas.  Students prepare 3 choral works, learning their vocal part, for the recorded audition.  A panel of judges made up of participating directors adjudicate the audition CD’s and select the top 20 sopranos, altos, tenors and basses to comprise the Honor Choir.  These select students come together for a weekend to sing under the direction of a well-known conductor and finish out the weekend with a concert on Saturday afternoon.  Students experience quality instruction, challenging music, and the joy of singing with other gifted singers from all over Texas.  Students are awarded an Honor Choir patch to commemorate their experience.

Important Dates & Details

Coming soon

Guidelines

• Directors are encouraged to review the audition procedures for “All-State Choir Auditions” when preparing students for participation in Middle School Honor Choir.  These same guidelines are used for Middle School Honor Choir audition CD’s.
• Participating directors MUST attend the MSHC judging on Thursday, October 21 (2 sites available) OR pay (in advance) a proxy fee of $60.  Directors that do not attend the judging session or fail to secure a proxy will have their students’ CD’s removed from the judging.
• Contest entry per student is $14.  All student fees should be paid by ONE school check and mailed directly to the TPSMEA address.
• Online registration is handled by www.solochair.com.  Online registration deadline is Wednesday, October 20, 2010.
• Directors must use the accompaniment CD produced by TPSMEA to record their students’ auditions.  Click here to order the rehearsal CD’s.
• Participating students must be ages 12-14 and must not be older than 14 at the time of the clinic/concert.  The standard grade range for this age is 6th-8th grade.  If a student is 14 and in the 9th grade, he/she needs to participate in All-Region/All-State.