2021 Soprano/Alto Choir (pictured above)

Summer 2022 Honor Choir ​Information 
Event Timeline: 2021-2022 school year
March 7, 2022 – Ready to receive new mp3 files
April 1, 2022 – Online application completed (mp3 upload deadline)
April 15, 2022 – Audition fees due, *$11 per student* (postmark deadline)
April 18, 2022 – Website notification of accepted singers
May 11, 2022 – Participation fees due, *$60.00 per student* (postmark deadline)
July 7-8, 2022 – Rehearsals & Performance at 2022 KCDA In-Service Workshop

Festival Scores – Audition Management System
We will use Festival Scores to manage audition mp3 uploads and judging. Teachers may begin
creating their Director account and adding in their student profiles now. In order to get started with your audition profiles and uploads, use the following Event Tag to activate this Audition Event in your Director account: 9JLTPRS

Please send payment(s) to:
Janie Brokenicky
14270 Liberty Circle
Wamego, KS 66547
Important Links:
KCDA Soprano Alto Choir
​Co-Chairs:
​
Braden Unruh
4-12 Vocal Music Director, Goessel
​(620) 755-0745
unruhb@usd411.org

Amanda Pfenninger
Vocal Music Director,
Douglass
(785) 639- 2121  
apfenninger@usd396.net 
All-State Soprano/Alto Choir

This honor choir opportunity is open to singers currently enrolled under the direction of a KCDA member in grades 9, 10, 11, or 12 in a junior high, high school, or community choir program in the state of Kansas.

This ensemble performs  as part of the KCDA Summer Convention on July 8, 2022.
Katherine Chan, 2022 Clinician
Australian conductor, Katherine Chan, is known for her energy and enthusiasm on the podium. Currently, she is the Director of Choral Activities & Assistant Teaching Professor of Music at Northeastern University. A sought-after choral clinician, she also serves as the Associate Conductor and Director of Community Engagement, to Back Bay Chorale. Chan’s unique talent has been displayed at prestigious international festivals, including performance at Australian National Choral Association’s Choralfest, ACDA National Conventions, National Conductors’ Symposium (Canada), and as a conducting scholar at the Oregon Bach Festival, Taipei Bach Festival and Hong Kong SingFest. Chan placed in the top-4 at the 2017 ACDA National Graduate Conducting Competition and in 2019, placed top-12 in the WYCCAA World Choral Conducting Competition, Kong Kong. Notable engagements include conducting Xi’an Symphony Chorus (China), Boston Landmarks Orchestra, and conducting a semi-staged performance of Fauré’s Requiem with singers from Minnesota Chorale. Chan holds a Doctor of Musical Arts in Conducting from the University of Minnesota, a Master of Music from the University of Washington, and Bachelor of Music Performance and Pedagogy in Piano from the Queensland Conservatorium of Music Griffith University.