Full Program - Missouri Music Educators Association

Friday, 1:15 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.
Salon C
Paxton Singers
Jennifer Stammers
Antiphonal Alleluia....................................................................................................John Leavitt
Hal Leonard 08703186
He Is Born with Pat-a-Pan ...........................................................................................Greg Gilpin
Heritage Music Press 15/2811H
Paddy Works on the Railway..............................................................................arr. Mark Brymer
Hal Leonard 08745050
Song for the Unsung Hero......................................................... Pamela Martin/Joseph M. Martin
Shawnee Press, Inc. E 0559
We Can Plant a Forest................................................................... Jim Papoulis and Mike Greenly
Boosey & Hawkes/Hal Leonard 48021020
What a Wonderful World.............................. George David Weiss and Bob Thiele/arr. Mark Hayes
Shawnee Press 35027575
Glory Bound!............................................................................Sally K. Albrecht and Jay Althouse
Alfred Music Publishing 23582
Jennifer Stammers holds a B.M.E. with concentrations in voice, piano and conducting, from
Benedictine College in Atchison, Kans., where she was named Outstanding Music Major 2001. She
teaches private voice and piano, has been on the faculty of the Sewanee (Tenn.) Church Music
Conference, and has taught at the elementary and middle school levels for Platte County R-III.
She founded the Paxton Singers in 2003 and is also the director for Platte City Middle School’s
musicals. In 2010 Jennifer initiated the 5th Grade Composers’ Project, a collaboration of entirely
original songs performed at their spring concert. The first performance was recorded for First Lady
Nixon, honorary chair of Missouri Verses and Voices, and was featured on KC Fox 4 News.
Outside school, Jennifer directs the choir of Trinity Episcopal Church, Atchison. Her fourth sacred
anthem, “For Zion’s Sake,” was published by St. James Music Press this past fall. She was
commissioned to compose a children’s musical, “A Song of Saints,” for Church of the Good Shepherd,
Rocky Mount, N.C., and she sings and is a frequent soloist with the St. Joseph (Mo.) Chamber
and Community Choirs. She’s also active in community theatre as an actor, stage manager and
director. In her spare time, Jennifer enjoys running and weight-lifting, and attending the musical
endeavors of her two high school daughters, both former members of Paxton Singers. This is the
Paxton Singers second performance at MMEA, the first being in 2007.
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