NC Music Educator Conference 2019

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During her work with the Westminster Symphonic Choir,
Quist collaborated with the New York Philharmonic, The
Philadelphia Orchestra, Dresden Staatskapelle, and composers
Ola Gjeilo and Tarik O’Regan. She was chorus master for the
Philadelphia Orchestra Choir’s performances of Mahler’s 3rd
Symphony, conducted by Yannick Nezet-Seguin. She also served
as chorus master for the premiere of Toshio Hosokawa’s opera,
Matsukaze, at the Spoleto Festival USA and the Lincoln Center
Festival.
Prior to her new position, Quist was director of the
Westminster Vocal Institute and director of choral activities at
San José State University. Her other honors include the James
Mulholland National Choral Award and the Audrey Davidson
Early Music Award. Her research focus is voice science and
pedagogy in choral singing, and she recently presented lectures on
the topic of choral sound across the country.
Charlotte Latin School
of the many choral opportunities provided at Southeast Middle
School. Other ensembles include sixth, seventh, and eighth grade
beginning chorus, seventh and eighth grade continuing chorus,
and seventh and eighth grade auditioned chorus.
Angel Rudd has been choral director since August 2008.
Previously she taught at Rockingham County Middle School, and
currently teaches at Southeast Middle School in Kernersville. She
obtained a degree from UNC – Greensboro in music education
with concentrations in choral education and piano. She has
successfully prepared choirs to perform at the Lincoln Center
and area venues in New York City; Alabama Theatre and Legends
in Concert, Myrtle Beach; Biltmore Estate; and show school
representation at local state events, such as Music Performance
Adjudication, Honors Chorus, and All-State Chorus.
In addition to educational responsibilities at Southeast Middle
School, she serves on the NCMEA executive board as the All-
State Chorus coordinator. This is a rigorous coordinating job that
offers music opportunities for 600 students across the state. She
has also worked with the ACDA, organizing and planning concert
performances for selected national choirs across the United States.
In the summer, she is a staff member for the North Carolina
Summer Institute of Choral Arts at Warren Wilson College in
Asheville, and works throughout the year as a liaison for traveling
choirs who attend from all over the United States.
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The Charlotte Latin Middle School Concert Choir has a
long history of excellence. Under its former director, the choir
consistently earned superior ratings at MPA and performed at
the NCMEA Professional Development Conference in 2008. The
choir is in its second year under a new director, and together they
performed three concerts for the school community and earned a
superior rating at MPA in the spring of 2019.
Charlotte Latin School is an accredited, independent,
coeducational, non-sectarian, college-preparatory day school
serving more than 1,400 students in transitional kindergarten
through twelfth grade. Its mission is to encourage individual
development and civility in its students by inspiring them to
learn, encouraging them to serve others, and offering them many
growth-promoting opportunities.
Emily Shusdock is the director of middle school choirs at
Charlotte Latin School. She holds a B.M. in Music Education
and an M.A.T. from Westminster Choir College in Princeton,
N.J. Outside school hours, she teaches private voice, and sings
professionally with Bach Akademie Charlotte, The Same Stream,
the Chamber Singers of the Charlotte Master Chorale, and other
ensembles.
Southeast Middle School
Southeast Middle School, part of the Winston Salem Forsyth
County School District, was opened in 1998. Since opening, it
has welcomed students from many diverse cultures, backgrounds,
and demographics. Southeast Middle School performing arts
programs have thrived over the years and now provide music
education to half of the school’s population. The treble choir is one
A painter paints
pictures on canvas.
But
MUSICIANS
paint their
pictures on
silence.
– Leopold Stokowski
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