Shine Like Stars

Mission Statement

Music is a means of expanding one’s knowledge, developing discipline, and forming achievable life goals. As a community based on Marianist values, the Chaminade Choral Music Program is commi ed to providing a thorough music educa on. Integra ng all types of musical genres and techniques allows us to master the universal language of music with the aid of fellow musicians and singers. Music brings us together through camaraderie and a sense of family which makes the program successful. This places aspiring singers and musicians in an enriching environment where they can grow not only as singers but as people of character and strong leadership skills.

The Chaminade Choral Music Program helps develop and nurture individuals to reach the highest level of personal integrity. It is through dedica on, determina on, and leadership, provided through the love of music, that every musician of the program can apply what they have learned into their lives, with the aim to become leaders and benefactors of our future.

MUSIC

Speaks what cannot be expressed

Soothes the mind and gives it rest

Heals the heart and makes it whole

Flows from heaven to the soul

A non‐audi oned middle school choir open to all sixth, seventh and eighth grade students. Students are given opportuni es to express their individual musical talents, and develop life skills that result in confident and expressive singing. Students learn proper vocal reading technique, strengthen sight-reading skills, and perform a wide variety of song repertoire while experiencing the joy of choral singing.

Over the years, the C‐Notes have performed at Chaminade University (Hawaii); Heritage Choral Fes val (Anaheim & San Diego, CA), Music in the Parks Choral Fes val (Placen a & Valencia, CA) and other events such as the America Sings Fes val (Washington DC).

Each year, the C‐Notes take a Vocal Soundtrack Recording workshop at Disneyland in Anaheim and/or par cipate in an adjudicated choral fes val where they have consistently earned a “gold” ranking in the middle school concert choir division.

The Chaminade C‐Notes have had the dis nct honor of performing on the Carnegie Hall stage in 2011,2013, 2015, 2017 and 2019 and were selected by audi on to be the “feature choir” in the Na onal Youth Fes val at Carnegie Hall in 2011, 2013, and 2015.

They traveled to New York City in March 2023 to par cipate in Choirs of America Na onals for Top Choirs. It was a memorable trip with 3 main events: a NY city tour, an adjudicated choral fesval at Queens College where the C-Notes were awarded with a superior ra ng, and an epic performance at Carnegie Hall.

8th Grade

Camille Bayreuther

Brian Borck

Joshua Borck

Haley Boyd

Mira Charach

Marcus Chow

Diliana Fu

Hadley Gannaway

Alyson Goldstein

Olivia Honeycu

Benjamin Infield

Amelia Kim

Laila Kim

Devin Koresh

Maxx Krickler

Bani Kumar

Lola Legg

Isaac Montañez

Max Mortensen

Nikan Sanii

Trevor Skyers

Lila Tegtmeyer

Brodie Vehling

Cassidy Walters

Violet Wilson

7th Grade

Saira Daryanani

Charlo e Dichter

Lucas Dunlop

Haylie Durghalli

Sydney Flowers

Ava Golisch

Emma Grossman

Xitlali Gu errez

Nicholas Kasparian

Dylan Kim

Samantha Kosla

Jackson Money

Tessa Nabavi

Leah Newman

Eghosa Oronsaye

Cecilia Perez

Manny Sassounian

Beatrix Schmidt

Lauren Tenggardjaja

Dylan Toth

Ethan Urquico

Anya Vaswani

Zoya Vaziri

Sophia Yeganeh

Luca Yotnegparian

C-Notes Leadership Team

President

Vice President

Maxx Krickler

Laila Kim

Secretary Bani Kumar & Dylan Kim

Librarian

Spiritual & Wellness

Haley Boyd & Amelia Kim

6th Grade

Lexi Bowen

Natalia Cas llo

Erica Cohn

Brayden Goodman

Jaymin Goodman

Avi Gupta

Madison Holzer

Addison Honeycu

Vera Jacobson

Stella Mas

Mason Por llo

Maggie Vehling

Alyson Goldstein & Lila Tegtmeyer

Media Rela ons Jackson Money & Isaac Montañez

Team Building

Hadley Gannaway & Sophia Yeganeh

C‐Notes Influencer Diliana Fu

C7 is a select a cappella group which began eight years ago by student director Veronica Mansour ‘18. Since then, C7 has connued the a cappella tradi on led by high school student directors, Denise Enrique ‘20, Brendan Teehan ‘21, and currently by Lauren Effertz ’23 and Alyssa Judge ’25. This group consists of eight members from the C-Notes choir from all grade levels. Each year, they sing arrangements of every genre from jazz standards to modern-day pop. These students have dedicated themselves to learning complex harmonies and have grown as singers.

Student Directors

Lauren Effertz ‘23 Alyssa Judge ‘25

Members of C7

Lucas Dunlop

Sydney Flowers

Hadley Gannaway

Dylan Kim

Laila Kim

Maxx Krickler

Jackson Money

Maxx Krickler ‘27

Max Mortensen

Trevor Skyers

Cassidy Walters

CHAMINOTES and CHAMINETS

This vocal ensemble is open to students in sixth, seventh and eighth grade. These audi oned singers learn and perform a cappella style of music and learn to blend and sing in close harmonies. The ensembles perform pieces in the tradi onal

“Barbershop” style as well as in “contemporary popular” style. These students are all members of the Chaminade C-Notes and perform in the Christmas and Spring Concerts as well as other Chaminade events throughout the year.

CHAMINOTES Barbershop BOYS Quartet

Dylan Kim

Maxx Krickler

Jackson Money

Trevor Skyers

CHAMINETS Barbershop GIRLS Quartet

Haley Boyd

Sydney Flowers

Emma Grossman

Laila Kim

Part 1

Oh Praise the Mighty Lord ................................................... Handel, Arr. P. Liebergen

Welcome by Mrs. Kathy Rohrs

Musica Dei ............................................................................................................... C.C. Miller

Orange Colored Sky........................................................................ M. Delugg, W. Stein

C7 Ensemble: Lucas Dunlop, Sydney Flowers, Hadley Gannaway, Dylan Kim, Laila Kim, Maxx Krickler, Jackson Money, Max Mortensen, Trevor Skyers, Cassidy Walters

Soloists: Laila Kim, Sydney Flowers

Smile ........................................................................... Turner, Parsons, Chaplin, Arr. B. Bram

C7 Ensemble: Lucas Dunlop, Sydney Flowers, Hadley Gannaway, Dylan Kim, Laila Kim, Maxx Krickler, Jackson Money, Max Mortensen, Trevor Skyers, Cassidy Walters

Long Live ............................................................................................................... T. Swift

Duet: Lauren Effertz ‘23 & Alyssa Judge ‘25

Happy Together .................................................. G. Bonner, A. Gordon, Arr. L. Garnett

Chaminotes: Dylan Kim, Maxx Krickler, Jackson Money, Trevor Skyers

The Lion Sleeps Tonight ..................................................................... Arr. S. Tuurnbull

Chaminotes and Chaminets: Dylan Kim, Maxx Krickler, Jackson Money, Trevor Skyers

Haley Boyd, Sydney Flowers, Emma Grossman, Laila Kim

This is My Love Song ................................................................................... M. Krickler

Original Piano and Vocals: Maxx Krickler

The River Sleeps Beneath the Sky ................................................... M.L. Lightfoot

Narrator: Madison Holzer

Cerf-volant (Kite Flying) ......................................................... C. Barratier, B. Coulais

Narrator: Sophia Yeganeh

Soloist: Lucas Dunlop

Song of the Revolution ................................................................................ R. Dilworth

Narrator: Brian Borck

KE STARS Part 2

El Vito ...................................................... Traditional Spanish Folk Song, Arr. J. Jensen

Accompanied by Maxx Krickler

Soloist: Laila Olivia Kim

Shine Like Stars................................................................................................ PinkZebra

Soloist: Emma Grossman

Try Everything ...................................... Sia, T. Hermansen, M. Eriksen, Arr. L. Effertz

C7 Ensemble: Lucas Dunlop, Sydney Flowers, Hadley Gannaway, Dylan Kim, Laila Kim, Maxx Krickler, Jackson Money, Max Mortensen, Trevor Skyers, Cassidy Walters

Soloists in order of performance: Lucas Dunlop, Dylan Kim, Sydney Flowers, Cassidy Walters

In My Life (The Beatles) ................................... J. Lennon, P. McCartney, G. Martin

Duet: Bani Kumar, Cassidy Walters

For Good ......................................................................................................... S. Sc hwartz

Conducted by Maxx Krickler

8th Grade Soloists in order of performance: Hadley Gannaway, Isaac Montañez, Brodie Vehling, Olivia Honeycutt, Alyson Goldstein, Amelia Kim, Haley Boyd, Diliana Du, Camille Bayreuther, Lila Tegtmeyer

Wind Beneath My Wings ........................................................... J. Silbar, L. Henley

Soloist: Laila Kim

Pianist: Lara Kim ‘24

As I Am ..................................................................................................... J. Bi eber, Khalid

Duet: Trevor Skyers, Carter Skyers ‘19

Wonderful World ................................................................. B. Thiele, G.D. Weiss

8th Grade Soloists in order of performance: Max Mortensen, Marcus Chow, Mira Charach, Josh Borck, Lola Legg

If You’re Happy/Amen ................................................................................ A. Thomas

Music and Choral Director

Kathy Rohrs

Harpist, guitarist, conductor, composer

Kathy joined the Chaminade faculty in 2001 as the general music and choral director. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Classical Guitar and a K12 Secondary Music Creden al in Music Educa on from California State University, Northridge.

Mrs. Rohrs has been honored for her excellence and achievements throughout the years with awards such as the Bravo Award Specialist Teacher, William Joseph Chaminade Award, Crea ve Arts Teacher of the Year, Innova on in Educa on Award, semi-finalist for the first Grammy Music Educator award.

Undoubtedly, Mrs. Rohrs believes strongly in the value of music educaon. Her experience and dedica on challenges students intellectually, socially, physically, psychologically and allows them to a ain the skills necessary to be successful in life.

Student Directors

Lauren Effertz '23 is a Chaminade High School junior and C7 student director. As a former member of C-Notes and C7 in 6th, 7th, and 8th grade, Lauren is absolutely honored to work with these talented students. She has loved watching each and every singer grow and is so thankful for being able to con nue to work with the C-Notes and C7. Lauren would like to thank Mrs. Rohrs for dedica ng herself to this wonderful program, Mrs. Enrique for working so hard behind the scenes, and Ally Judge for being a fantas c co-director. She would also like to thank her parents for their love and support.

Alyssa Judge ‘25 is a Chaminade High School Freshman and C7 student director. She was a member of C7 in both 7th and 8th grade, and she is grateful to be able to con nue working with C7. She has loved watching the group grow together over the past few months and would like to thank them and her co-director Lauren Effertz for making this experience so enjoyable.

Maxx Krickler '27 is a Chaminade 8th grader and the current C-Notes President. He was also the collabora ve pianist at Carnegie Hall and Queens College, student accompanist at rehearsals, and the C7 codirector. He has been a member of C Notes and C7 since 6th grade, and is also part of Chaminotes. Maxx is incredibly grateful for the opportuni es and having such a great learning experience under the direc on of Mrs. Rohrs. He also wants to thank C7 and Barbershop for being wonderful and fun groups to be a part of, Mrs. Enrique for her reless efforts and dedica on to C-Notes, and Mr. Park for his constant guidance and support.

Concert Musicians

Ma hew Park has worked 28 years as a musician and director. He is currently music director at St. John Eudes Catholic Church in Chatsworth, California where he directs 3 different choirs. He has previously served as the director of the San Fernando Valley Male Chorus and has toured throughout Europe and Asia with various choirs. Ma hew serves as the accompanist for 4 different school's choral programs and has been with the Chaminade Family for about 16 years. In addi on, he directs/accompanies several musical theatre shows a year. Venues include: Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center, CSUN, Hunger Ar st's Theatre, Santa Monica Playhouse, High Street Theatre, SCCT, Granada Theatre, TROLL, IOTA, Not So Ar ul Produc ons, Chaminade College Preparatory, Santa Susana High School, and Alemany High School. He would like to thank his wife Ana Maria and their dog Charlie for their love and support.

Tina Cur s holds a Bachelor’s of Music degree (CSUN), Master’s Degree in Music (U.S.C.), and teaching creden al (CSUN). As a freelance drummer/percussionist, Ms. Cur s has had the pleasure of performing with people such as: Motown Legend Smokey Robinson, jazz great Lionel Hampton, and the Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) among others. As an educator, Ms. Cur s has enjoyed teaching percussion studies at Glendale College & Ventura College and is a highly sought-a er private music instructor. Ms. Cur s is the percussion ensemble and choir director at Robert Frost Middle School in Granada Hills since 2006.

Special Thanks from the C‐Notes...

For the vision and support of our Chaminade Choral Music Program:

Rob Webb, President

Mike Valen ne, Middle School Principal

Dorothy Kane, Middle School Vice Principal

Carolina Gunter, Middle School Vice Principal

To Janet Koller, Trish Lyons, Michael Lehrmann & Cassie Bedoya, for all their help in the business office with C-Note related ac vi es.

To the Advancement Office—Chris ne Calara, Ariana Danova, Cheryl Gambe a, Suzanne Du‐mas, for their con nued support to the C-Notes program.

To Patricia Fernandez, for sharing her wonderful crea vity in designing uniform sweatshirts for C-Note fes vals through the years, especially the NYC Carnegie trip , and for helping us with QR codes to share our cket link and concert program.

To Tommy Smeltzer, for his exper se in filming and recording our concerts over the years.

To Kathy Willmont, for coordina ng and ordering uniform merchandise for C-Notes.

To Alex Nadolski, for always suppor ng our IT needs throughout the year

To Oscar Perez & Jason Alvarez, for our concert set-up, staging, and sound

To Ma hew Park, our incredible C-Note piano accompanist, we appreciate your years of dedicaon, talent, and me that you share with us each week during rehearsals and concerts.

To Tina Cur s, our wonderful percussionist, thank you for sharing your gi of music with us over the past many years at each of our concerts.

To Lauren Effertz & Ally Judge, for being student directors and mentors to “C7” students as well as sharing their me and talents with all the C-Notes.

To Maxx Krickler, for sharing his musical gi s and his outstanding leadership to the C-Notes. You were an inspiring collabora ve pianist in NYC and thank you for the beau ful artwork for the spring concert program.

To Kathleen Baucom‐Acker & Jill Teehan, for their support and for helping the students learn the French lyrics for Cerf-volant (Kite Flying).

To my colleagues, Kathleen Baucom‐Acker, Anne e Damien, Heather Eaton, Bobby Jones, Kerrie O’Shea, Emily Piper, Mike Russ, Nikki Russ, Cynthia Snyder, Sara Shenouda, & Jill Teehan, for their never ending willingness to help, encourage and support all C-Notes at events and ac vi es throughout the year. You are inspira onal teachers!

To Juliane Chilopoulos, for pu ng together the Liturgical Choir musician books for our school liturgies and taking care of our choral library.

To Charisse Enrique, C-Notes Parent Assistant, Uniform/Snack Coordinator and Admin/Events Support, for her countless hours of planning, prepara on and assistance in all C-Notes ac vi es. Mrs. Enrique, you are my angel!

To our NYC parent volunteers, Mrs. Ina Borck, Mrs. Joyce Chow, Mrs. Latasha Flowers, Mrs. Ilene Gannaway, Mrs. Jaime Grossman, Mrs. Reesa Krickler, Mrs. Kelly Mortensen, Mrs. Heidi Mukamal, Mrs. Michele Troutman, for their me and assistance in preparing, distribu ng and organizing our NYC travel bags, garment bags, beanies and scarves. A special shout-out to the Borck, Chow & Krickler families, for taking care of our gold fans. We appreciate your work in repairing and helping restore all the fans back in beau ful, shiny condi on for our NYC performances and Chaminade concerts.

To Mrs. Jaime Grossman, Mrs. Margret Kim, Mrs. Reesa Krickler, Mrs. Kelly Mortensen, for their con nued help and support wherever and whenever needed at rehearsals, events and ac vi es.

To Dr. Brian & Mrs. Jiaying Kim, for sharing their wonderful photos and videos of the C-Notes during fes vals and concerts through the years.

To Francesco Alleruzzo & Kathleen Driscoll, for their con nued musical support of the C-Notes throughout the years.

To Michael Rohrs, my dear husband, I am privileged each day to receive your love and support. You made it possible for me to live out my passion of music at Chaminade.

To all our wonderful C‐Notes parents and friends who generously share their me, energy and talents. Thank you to all rehearsal snack sponsors, concert a re helpers, donors of concert items in the lobby and snack bar, and all concert volunteers. We appreciate everything you’ve done to get us here, the final concert of the school year. It takes a village to run this program and we are blessed to have you. We appreciate everything you do to help the C-Notes! It would not have been possible without your kind support. The C-Notes SHINE LIKE STARS because of you!

CHAMINADE FUND SPONSORS

Dikran and Houri Sassounian

Paul Kovelman and Noreen Sawyer‐Kovelman

Michael and Reesa Krickler

Donations to the C-Notes program can be made through the Chaminade Fund. Your support is appreciated.

Please contact the Advancement office at advancement@chaminade.org or 818-360-0615

https://www.chaminade.org/gi ving/support-chaminade

To the Chaminade community, my second family for the past twentytwo years,

As most of you know, I will be re ring in a few weeks, and I wanted to take just a few moments to thank you all so much for what has been such a fulfilling part of my life in a place where I have felt so joyful, crea ve and capable.

To the amazing students in the Classes of 2001- 2023: Sharing your journey through your middle school years was such a source of joy for me. Being able to make beau ful music with you and share your triumphs and some mes your tears was an honor I never took for granted. I always knew I was working with the very best students in the world, individuals who would go on to make a difference in this world and con nue to love, learn, and lead. I am so proud to know each one of you.

To all the wonderful and generous parents: Thank you for your support, your words of gra tude, and for trus ng me to play a small part in shaping your child’s futures. You raised a group of remarkable young persons of good character and good humor. It was an honor to work with them and with you.

And finally, to my colleagues, past and present, many of whom have become my truest and dearest friends: There are no words to express my gra tude for your friendship and affec on. We have shared so much mo re than just a profession; we have shared our lives, our ups and downs, our hopes, and along the way we became a family. Very few people can say that about their colleagues. You will always be in my heart wherever I go in the world.

I once heard it said “There is no such thing as an ending, just a place where you leave a story.” I know in the months and years ahead; I will always remember all the amazing memories I have been blessed with these past twenty-two years

Thank you for changing my life for the be er, Mrs. Kathy Rohrs