NJEA Convention Music Sessions & All-State Concerts, Nancy Clasen

NJEA Convention Music Sessions

November 9- 12, 2017 – Atlantic City

Sponsored by

New Jersey Music Educators Association

An affiliate of the New Jersey Educators Association

• Thursday 9:30 - 11:00 pm Ambassador Room, Sheraton Hotel

New Jersey All-State Band Procedures Open Meeting

• Thursday 11:30 - 1:00 pm Convention Center - Room 419

Front-Loading Your Choral Rehearsal: Constructing For

Success

Presenter: CHRISTINE C. BASS

• Thursday 12:00 - 2:00 pm Ambassador Room, Sheraton Hotel

New Jersey All-State Choral Procedures Open Meeting

Presenter: WAYNE MALLETTE

This meeting is open to all choral directors in New

Jersey. We will discuss current and future procedures for the New Jersey All-State Chorus.

• Thursday 1:30 - 3:00 pm Convention Center - Room 419

High School Choral Reading Session

Presenters: THOMAS C. VOORHIS & HILLARY

B. COLTON

• Thursday 1:30 - 3:00 pm Convention Center - Room 421

Fill Your Bucket With Fun Games That Build Musical

Excellence

Presenter: ELIZABETH A. PERRYMAN

• Thursday 3:30 - 5:00 pm Convention Center - Room 419

The Joy of Gospel Music As An Innovative Learning Tool!

Presenter: BEVERLY VAUGHN

• Friday 9:30 - 11:00 am Convention Center - Room 421

Creative Composing: Embracing Creativity, Nurturing

Musicality.

Presenter: NANCY MODEL

• Friday 1:00 - 2:30 pm Convention Center - Room 419

Communicating With And Involving Parents In Your

Music Program

Presenter: MELANIE R. NOLAN

• Friday 1:00 - 2:30 pm Convention Center - Room 421

Visual & Performing Arts Standards Update.

Presenter: JEFFREY SANTORO.

• Friday 3:00 - 4:30 pm Convention Center - Room 421

A Virtual Danielson Toolbox For Music Educators.

Presenters: LARISA A. SKINNER & AIXA

BURGOS

New Jersey All-State Chorus and Orchestra The Eighty-Sixth Annual Program

THE NATIONAL ANTHEM Chorus, Orchestra and Audience Conducted by Jeffrey Santoro, President New Jersey Music Educators Association

Mischa Santora, Orchestra Conductor

Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor .........A. Borodin Firebird Suite (1919) .........................Igor Stravinsky

Orchestra

PRESENTATION OF PINS TO THE CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA Marie Blistan, President New Jersey Education Association

Patrick G. Hachey, Chorus Conductor

Wonder ................................................ Mack Wilberg Spaseniye sodelal.....................................P. Chesnokov No Time............................................Susan Brumfield Baba Yetu.......................................................... C. Tin Nyon Nyon ............................................Jake Runetad Song to the Moon ................................. Z. R. Stroope Signs of the Judgment ................................. M. Butler

Chorus

Gloria (Movement 1) .......................................... John Rutter

Combined Orchestra & Chorus

Friday, November 10, 2017 at 8:30 p.m. Atlantic City Boardwalk Hall and

Sunday, November 19, 2017 at 3:00 p.m. NJ-PAC Prudential Hall Newark, NJ

Patrick Hachey is the Associate Choir Director at Roxbury High School in Succasunna, New Jersey. Hachey holds a Bachelor of Music Education degree and a Master of Music in Vocal Performance degree from Indiana University at Bloomington. While studying at IU, he served two years as the assistant director of the world renowned Singing Hoosiers and was a founding member of the well-known men’s a cappella group, Straight No Chaser. In 2011, Hachey was awarded the Singing Hoosiers Alumni Council Distinguished Alumni Award.

Before coming to Roxbury Township, Hachey held choral directing positions at Pequannock Township High School, Pompton Plains, NJ, and Hanover Park High School, East Hanover, NJ. Now in his twelfth year at Roxbury High School, he has conducted the Roxbury Chorale, the Vocal Jazz Ensemble, Melodies, Madrigals, Concert Choir, Freshman Women’s Ensemble, and the Eighth Grade Chorus at the district’s middle school. The Roxbury Melodies, Hachey’s select women’s choir, was selected as performance ensemble for the 2014 ACDA Eastern Division Conference in Baltimore.

In addition, Hachey serves as Drama Advisor at Roxbury High School, directing both the Fall Drama and the Spring Musical, and has a studio of private voice students. Still active as a lyric baritone in the New York metropolitan area, he has vast experience in solo performance, including classical, opera, musical theater, jazz and pop styles.

Hachey was the guest conductor of the 2006 & 2012 Sussex County High School Honors Choirs, the 2008 NJ Region I Mixed Choir, and the 2013 NJ Region II Women’s Choir. He is a sought-after choral clinician throughout the Northeast, having adjudicated in Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New Jersey, and is currently the Treasurer for the New Jersey American Choral Directors Association Executive Board.

Mischa Santora, Orchestra

Born to Hungarian parents in the Netherlands, Santora moved with his family of musicians to Switzerland where he began to study violin with his father, a member of the Lucerne Symphony. After he received a diploma in violin and teaching from the Academy for School and Church Music in Lucerne, Santora continued his violin studies with Professor Thomas Brandis, former concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic, at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin. He subsequently undertook conducting studies with Otto-Werner Mueller at the Curtis Institute of Music. Mischa Santora has established an impressive track record of creative programming and frequently acting in a conductor/stage director role. Santora was the associate conductor of the Minnesota Orchestra between 2003 and 2009, where he conducted numerous subscription concerts and fully staged operatic performances. As the music director of the International Opera Festival Miskolc (Hungary) for three seasons starting in 2002, he has collaborated with many of the most established singers from Europe and Russia. Between 1997 and 2002 Santora held the post of music director of both the New York Youth Symphony and the Juilliard PreCollege Orchestra, with performances at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center. In addition, he has worked with some of the finest young orchestras around the world, including the New England Conservatory’s Philharmonia, the Chamber Orchestra of the Curtis Institute, the Australian Youth Orchestra, the RIAS Orchestra in Berlin, and the Jeunesses Musicales Orchestra Switzerland.

The New Jersey Music Educators Association proudly presents

The 2017 New Jersey All-State Jazz Ensemble and Honors Jazz Choir

Timothy Brent, Jazz Choir Conductor

Program to be selected from: Spinning Wheel.................................... arr. Tim Brent Stardust ................................................ arr. Tim Brent Smack Dab in the Middle .................... arr. Tim Brent Love Makes the World Go ‘Round arr. Darmon Meader More I Can Not Wish You ...............arr. Phil Mattson Waters of March .............................arr. Gerhard Guter Cold Duck .....................................arr. Rosana Eckert The Very Thought of You ....................arr. Jeremy Fox

Walt Weiskopf, Honors Jazz Ensemble Conductor

Program to be selected from: Interloper ..................................................Thad Jones Best Coast ...........................................John LaBarbera Gentle Piece ....................................... Kenny Wheeler Three Sets for Jazz Ensemble ................Walt Weiskopf ‘Round Midnight ....Thelonious Monk, arr. Dave Lieb Little Pixie .................................................Thad Jones Manteca ..............................................Dizzy Gillespie

Finale NJ Honors Jazz Choir & All-State Jazz Ensemble TBA

Thursday, November 9 , 2017 Claridge Hotel Theater 7:30 p.m.

and

Friday, November 17, 2017 NJ-PAC Chase Room 7:00 p.m.

Tim Brent is a 9-time DownBeat AwardWinning vocal jazz educator, pianist, arranger and performer. Currently, he is the visiting assistant professor of popular music studies at Westminster College of the Arts at Rider University (Princeton, NJ). Most recently he was the director of the vocal jazz/contemporary program at Miami-Dade College Kendall campus. Tim is active as a performer and works regularly as a vocalist and pianist.

Before accepting the position as the director of vocal jazz studies at the University of North Texas (2009-2010), Tim completed his doctorate at the prestigious University of Miami and was teaching at both UM and MiamiDade College. Previously he was the Assistant Professor and Director of Jazz Vocal Studies at The University of the Arts (Philadelphia, PA) and was the director of the vocal jazz program at Northern Illinois University (DeKalb, IL).

Tim received his bachelor’s degree in choral music education from Western Michigan University where he was a member of the internationally renowned vocal jazz ensemble Gold Company under the direction of Steve Zegree before obtaining his master’s degree in jazz pedagogy from the University of Miami (Coral Gables, FL) where he was a teaching assistant under program director Larry Lapin. Tim has had vocal arrangements published by the University of Northern Colorado Jazz Press and Sound Music Publications, and has had numerous works performed/recorded by high school and college vocal groups throughout the country including Gold Company (Western Michigan University) JV 1 (University of Miami), Jazz Singers (University of North Texas) and SUNY Potsdam (New York).

Walt Weiskopf, Jazz Ensemble Director

Saxophonist, composer and author Walt Weiskopf has made an impressive mark as both a leader and sideman with over a dozen critically acclaimed albums and countless sideman credits. A dynamic player with enormous technical prowess, Weiskopf is equally well-regarded as a composer, with albums containing predominantly original work.

Born in Augusta, Georgia, Weiskopf grew up outside Syracuse, New York. He took up his first instrument, the clarinet, at age 10 and began his saxophone studies four years later. After graduating from Rochester’s Eastman School of Music in three years, he moved to New York City in 1980. He began his professional career performing with the Buddy Rich Big Band in 1981 at the age of 21. In 1983, Weiskopf began a fourteen-year association with jazz pianist and arranger Toshiko Akiyoshi.

Weiskopf was a visiting Associate Professor part-time at the Eastman School of Music from 2001 to 2008, then taught at Temple University, and is currently the Coordinator of Jazz Studies at New Jersey City University.