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AYS
Announces 2008-2009 Season Auditions
Do
you have a young singer in your life?
ATLANTA
YOUNG SINGERS of Callanwolde (AYS),
Atlanta 's premier choir for children and youth, wants to hear from
you. AYS has been teaching singers of
all ages to serve,
grow, learn,
and sing for over 30
years and is currently seeking boys and girls in
grades 2-12 of all musical levels to audition for its 33rd
season.
AYS
announces 2008-2009 Season Auditions,
by appointment only, beginning March
24 . Auditions may be scheduled on an individual basis.
Group
auditions will be held at each of our satellite
rehearsal locations:
•
Atlanta/Decatur/Emory (April 17 &
May 3) Callanwolde Fine Arts Center
•
West Cobb (April 24) Mable House Arts
Center
•
South DeKalb (April 29) Location TBD
Meet
new friends, travel the world, perform live, learn how music is
created, and bring music to life with AYS.
For more information or to schedule an audition, call 404-873-3365
or e-mail audition@aysc.org.
ATLANTA
YOUNG SINGERS has had much to celebrate at this past season.
In the past six months, AYS Singers performed
the National Anthem at Turner Field, recorded a radio commercial
for a local business, joined the professional choir Anúna
on stage at Atlanta's Symphony Hall, celebrated our 32nd
Annual Music of the Holidays with two performances
for Atlanta audiences, performed by special invitation at the Georgia
Music Educators Association (GMEA) conference in
Savannah, GA, and performed La
Luna Asoma: Inspired by Lorca at Sisters
Chapel featuring the world premiere
of Ciudad Sin Sueño:
Three Images by David Marcus commissioned for
AYS.
Still
to come this season, the Training Choir
and Introduction to Music Making Choir will perform
a Spring Recital featuring
Singer compositions and guest artists from Moving
in the Spirit, Junior Company at 11:00 AM on March 29 at
Callanwolde Fine Arts Center (980 Briarcliff Road, NE, Atlanta,
30306). In addition, all of the AYS
Choirs will perform Innovation
and Creation at Dunwoody United Methodist Church
(1548 Mt. Vernon Road, Dunwoody, 30338) at 8:00 PM on May 10. As
a participant in a consortium bid with 20 choruses around the world,
AYS will end its 2007-2008
on a high note with the premiere of the commissioned Like
a Singing Bird by composer Bob
Chilcott. In May 2007, Chilcott's donated commission gained
national attention at the 30th Annual Chorus America Conference
by earning a bid of nearly $30,000. The AYS
Treble Tour Choir will participate in the Pacific
Rim Children's Chorus Festival in Hawaii this summer.
Click
here to read
the full press release!
What
to expect at your AYS AUDITION:
Children
audition in a relaxed atmosphere that allows them to become acquainted
with Staff Members. Each child is asked to prepare a song
they know well and can present confidently. The song is performed
unaccompanied in a one-on-one situation with Music
Director, Paige Mathis or another AYS Music Staff Member
. Children are evaluated in the areas of vocal tone, pitch
accuracy, pitch dependence, aural skill and personal interest in
music. Older children and Youth Chorale applicants may also be asked
to demonstrate their skill levels in reading and counting music.
While
the child spends time with the Music Director or music staff member,
parents have the opportunity to talk with another staff member or
parent volunteer about AYS . An audition packet
is presented, and time is allowed for questions.
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