Dover High School to host East Central Ohio League Band and Choir Festival

  • November 24, 2010
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Dover High School will serve as the host for the 11th annual East Central Ohio League Band and Choir Festival to be held Monday, Nov. 22. The day’s activities begin with a 9 a.m. rehearsal for the 88-voice choir and 77-piece symphonic band. These 165 students represent all seven schools of the ECOL, which are Cambridge, Claymont, Coshocton, Dover, Meadowbrook, New Philadelphia, and River View. Dover’s choir director, Shawna Hinkle, and band director, Micah Carrick, will serve as the chairpersons of this year’s festival. The choir and band directors nominated their top musicians for the honor of participating in the festival. The clinician for the honor choir is Frank Bianchi, director of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Chorus and adjunct professor of music at the Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory of Music. He recently retired from Medina High School, where he spent the past 20 years conducting seven award-winning choirs. His choirs have performed at 14 OMEA, ACDA, and MENC state, divisional, and national conventions. He is a past recipient of the Outstanding Music Educator Award given annually by the Ohio Music Education Association. This year’s honor band will be conducted by Laura Joss, chair of the Music Education Department and conductor of the Concert Wind Ensemble at the Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory of Music. Recently, Joss traveled a second time to South America as part of an Artists in Residency program sponsored through the Ohio Arts Council and the Santiago Chile North American Cultural Institute. She conducted both bands and orchestras at the Liceo Experimental de Musica Copiapo in Copiapo, Chile, and facilitated teacher work sessions to begin to write the National Chilean Artistic School Music Education Curriculum. Joss is active both nationally and internationally as an adjudicator, music education consultant, and clinician. The day-long activities culminate with an evening concert of exciting music, which will be held in the Dover High School auditorium at 7 p.m. Tickets will be sold at the door that evening and are $6 for adults and $4 for students.


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