TPSMEA MS Honor and Children's Choir
2010-2011 Concert
Trinity Lutheran Church
800 Houston Avenue
Houston, TX 77007
www.trinitydt.org
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Janet Scarcella
2010-2011 TPSMEA Children's Choir
Houston Clinician
Janet Scarcella has taught music in Texas public and private schools for 30 years. Her teaching has spanned pre-K to collegiate work. She is Faculty Emeritus at St. John’s School in Houston, Texas where she taught for 22 years, developing a Kodály-inspired K-5 music curriculum, teaching elementary music classes, conducting elementary and high school choirs and serving as the K-12 Director of Fine Arts. St. John’s choirs under her direction have performed at Organization of American Kodály Educators and American Choral Directors Association National Conferences, Texas Music Educators Association Conventions, and in concert tours of Europe, Mexico, Scandinavia, Italy, and the British Isles. She was awarded the 2005 Texas Choral Directors Association Choral Excellence Award. Ms. Scarcella was the assistant conductor/ accompanist of the 1993 OAKE National Children’s Honor Choir with Dr. Mary Goetze and the conductor of the 2002 OAKE National Children’s Honor Choir. She has more than 30 years of experience directing church children’s choirs and she is a founding partner of Alliance Music Publications, a choral music publishing company. Active as a festival conductor, choral accompanist, adjudicator, and workshop clinician, she has taught teacher training classes at Colorado State and Duquesne Universities. She is currently Program Director and a faculty member of the Kodály Institute of Houston/ Moores School of Music / University of Houston. Ms. Scarcella holds Bachelor of Music Education (piano concentration) and Master of Music (Kodály emphasis) degrees from Sam Houston State University, where she also earned her Kodály certification, studying with American and Hungarian pedagogues.
John Hemmenway
2010-2011 Middle School Honor Choir
Houston Clinician
John Hemmenway is a native Houstonian. After graduating from Houston Baptist University in 1971, he became the first full time middle school choral director in the Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District. John taught at Arnold Middle School for 30 years and Goodson Middle School for his last year.
The Arnold choirs, under John Hemmenway’s direction, were invited to sing at the Texas Music Educators Convention on two occasions. His choirs received over 100 Sweepstakes at the Texas U.I. L. Contest. The Arnold choir was named “Best in Class” at the Astroworld Choral Contest.
John is the author of three sight-reading texts, Keys to Sight-reading Success Books 1-2-and 4. He has written several choral pieces used for the sight-reading portion of the Texas U.I. L. Contest. His arrangement of the State Song “Texas Our Texas” was printed in the Texas edition of the Glencoe state adopted text.
John has served as a clinician for many conventions, workshops and summer camps. He has been a clinician at the Texas Choral Directors, Texas Music Educators and Florida Music Educators Conventions. He has been the conductor/clinician for the Union Baptist Association, Episcopal, Lakeview Methodist and Southwest Texas University summer music camps. John has conducted region choirs in Louisiana and Tennessee as well as Texas.
John has served on the board of the Texas Choral Directors Association on two occasions. He has been the vice-president for Jr. High/Middle School, and also served as President of the Board. In 2005 The Texas Choral Directors Association honored him with the “Choral Excellence Award.” In 2009 Cypress Fairbanks I.S. D. honored John by naming it’s 48th elementary school John Edward Hemmenway Elementary.
In addition to his job as a school choral director, John Hemmenway has been the organist for several Houston churches. His longest tenure was at Houston’s First Baptist Church where in his last two years he not only played the organ he also conducted the adult choir. John recently retired from Lakewood UMC where he served as Director of Music/Organist.
John and his wife of 38 years, Marian, have two adult children Jason and Meredith.
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