January 12-14

We are very pleased to announce the twelfth annual UAB Honor Choir Festival!! We hope this will be a wonderful musical experience for your students, and invite you to offer this opportunity to all who wish to participate. In fact, we welcome you to bring your entire choir, should you so choose!

The festival will be held on the campus of UAB.

The schedule will be as follows:

Thursday, Jan. 12  5:30-7:00 Registration in the Hulsey Recital Hall
(make sure students eat dinner before they come!)
7:00-9:00 Rehearsals

Friday, Jan. 14   9:00-12:00 Rehearsals
12:00-1:00 Lunch Break (lunch will be provided for purchase)
1:00-3:00 Rehearsals

Saturday, Jan. 15 9:00-12:00 Rehearsals
12:00-2:15 Lunch Break (on your own) and change clothes
2:15 Warm-up for Concert
3:00 Free Concert in the Jemison Concert Hall, Alys Stephens
Center for the Performing Arts

The Sr. High Honor Choir will be comprised of ninth, tenth, eleventh and twelfth grade students. We are thrilled to have Dr. Deanna Joseph, Director of Choral Activities at Georgia State University, as the clinician for the choir this year! Dr. Joseph is a dynamic, inspiring conductor with whom your students will love working! On the enclosed sheet, please recommend as many students as you wish for participation. Since we are not auditioning, please make every effort to send a well-balanced group of singers.

The cost for the festival will be $50 per student. This includes their music, the festival weekend and a UAB Honor Choir T-Shirt (please note their T-Shirt size on the registration form). All meals and lodging are the responsibility of the student. Upon receipt of your registration forms, you will be sent information regarding local hotels and restaurants as well as a map to the Hulsey Center and Alys Stephens Center.

A non-refundable $10 registration fee (per student) is due with your registration. The balance ($40 per student) will be due on January 12 at registration. Have your students make checks payable to the UAB Department of Music.

Please mail your registration form(s) so that we receive them no later than Friday, November 11, 2011. The $10 registration fee (per student) is also due at this time. (For example, if you are sending 20 students, $200 is due with your registration form. It may be a school check for the entire amount or 12 individual checks. Please make sure the checks are made payable to the UAB Department of Music.)

Send registration form(s) and fees to:

UAB Department of Music
Attn: Brian Kittredge, Director of Choral Activities
246 Hulsey Center
950 13th Street South
Birmingham, AL 35294