November 2007 News
Thursday, November 29, 2007
San Marcos High School Madrigal Singers to Participate in Carnegie Hall’s Fifth Annual National High School
Choral Festival
Over 200 Students from Across the United States to Perform Brahms’ A German Requiem at Carnegie
Hall on March 10, 2008
The Weill Music Institute at Carnegie Hall recently announced that four choirs—from Santa Barbara, California; Baltimore, Maryland; Raleigh, North Carolina; and State College, Pennsylvania—were selected to participate in its fifth annual National High School Choral Festival. The festival culminates in a Carnegie Hall concert at 8:00 pm on Monday, March 10, 2008. The Carnegie Hall National High School Choral Festival gives young singers the opportunity to extensively rehearse a choral masterpiece with conductor Dr. Craig Jessop, music director of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, and perform in Carnegie Hall’s celebrated Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage. This season, Dr. Jessop leads the combined choirs and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s in Johannes Brahms’ A German Requiem, Op. 45 with soprano Janice Chandler-Eteme and baritone Stephen Powell as soloists. Each choir also performs repertoire under its own conductor. The four choirs were selected by recorded audition from among 71 applicant groups from 31 states throughout the United States.
Led by Carolyn Teraoka-Brady, San Marcos High School’s Madrigal Singers, one of five choral groups in the vocal music department, performs a varied repertoire of choral literature—Renaissance to contemporary—for the community and at festivals. In the last four years, the group has consistently received superior ratings at state and regional festivals in California. In 2006, the group received a first place score at the invitational “National Festival of Gold” in New York City, featuring some of the country’s finest ensembles. In addition to choral activities, students are also leaders involved in the school’s theatre productions, student government, Mock Trial, school newspaper, and CIF sports.