January 28-29, 2022
Westminster Presbyterian Church, Greenville, SCSchedule
Friday
8:00-9:30 rehearsal
Saturday
9:00-11:30 rehearsal
11:30-1:30 lunch on your own
1:30-3:00 rehearsal
3:30 worship
Jennaya Robison, Guest Director
January 28-29, 2022
Jennaya Robison, is in demand as a conductor, clinician, and soprano throughout the United States. She currently is an Assistant Professor of Music at Luther College where she conducts Aurora and Collegiate Chorale and teaches courses in conducting and vocal pedagogy. Prior to teaching at Luther College, she was the Artistic Director of Scottsdale Musical Arts, a multi-generational organization comprised of a professional orchestra and choir as well as children’s choirs and youth orchestras.
She has held faculty and teaching positions at the University of Arizona, Luther College, and the University of New Mexico. She has conducted orchestras at the University of Arizona, Luther College, and as well as community orchestras in Tucson and Phoenix, Arizona. As a public-school educator, she has taught in Iowa, Wisconsin, and Minnesota.
As a soprano, has sung as a soloist with the Grammy award winning True Concord, Tucson Symphony, Arizona Opera, Scottsdale Arts Orchestra, Scottsdale Symphony, St. Andrews Bach Society, Phoenix Youth Symphony, Tucson Masterworks Chorale, Rochester Choral Arts, Chamber Orchestra of Albuquerque. As a chorister, she has sung as a member of the Arizona Choir under the direction of Bruce Chamberlain, Las Cantantes under the direction of Bradley Ellingboe, the Dale Warland Singers in Minneapolis, Minnesota under the direction of Dale Warland, and in the Nordic Choir of Luther College under the direction of Weston Noble.
Her primary area of research is in the field of vocal health within the choral ensemble. She has presented lectures and workshops on vocal health in the choral setting at regional and state ACDA conferences and state NATS conferences. She has been an invited conductor and clinician at numerous festivals including All State Choirs in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and North Dakota, Wisconsin Middle Level Honors Choirs, Texas Collegiate Women’s Honor Choir, Montreat Music Conference Festival Choir and various regional and state honor choirs in Texas, Nevada, Arizona, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin.
She holds the Doctor of Musical Arts in Choral Conducting from the University of Arizona, the Master of Music in conducting and voice from the University of New Mexico, and the Bachelor of Arts in music from Luther College. She is currently the coordinator of Collegiate Repertoire and Standards and director of Student Activities for the North Central chapter of the American Choral Directors Association. Her choral series is published with Pavane Music.
It Is Well with My Soul, Nelson: SATB Augsburg 0-8006-7734-X | https://ms.augsburgfortress.org/downloads/080067734X.mp3
Love Divine, All Loves Excelling, Wilberg: SATB OUP 0-190386491-6 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRF4KKx7czU
My Eternal King, Marshall: Fischer CM6752 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52igaJb3oxk
Jesus, Savior, Pilot Me, Kohrs: MSM-50-6191 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvo4eQ8fNC8
Be Thou My Vision, Sorensen: Shawnee Press 35028337 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBLe7LFVYOY
Rise! Shine!, Garrett: MSM-50-6416 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbdUyIBtgqA
All titles are available through JW Pepper.
Singers not associated with a choir may contact Mark Kemp (mkempwpc@gmail.com) for help acquiring music.
January 24-25, 2020
Alan Raines, Guest Director
First Baptist Church, Charleston, SC
Friday
- Rehearsal 8:30 – 10:00pm
Saturday
- Rehearsal 9:30 – 12:30pm (with a break)
- Lunch 12:30 – 1:30pm (on site, cost included with registration)
- Rehearsal 1:30 – 3:00pm
- Worship 3:30pm (sample worship guide 2019)
March 6-8, 2020
Phillip Shoultz, Guest Director
Location: Crown Reef Resort & Conference Center, Myrtle Beach, SC
Friday
- Rehearsal 10:00-11:00pm
Saturday
- Rehearsal 9:00-12:00pm (with a break)
- Rehearsal 8:00-10:00pm
Sunday
- Rehearsal 9:00-9:30am
- Worship 9:30-10:45am (2019 Festival Worship Guide)
- Checkout 11:00am
2020 Youth Festival Repertoire
Pecknel Music stocks Festival anthems for us and offers discounts.
Luke Browder
Director of Print Music
Pecknel Music Company
1312 N. Pleasantburg Drive Greenville, SC 29607
Direct: 864-516-2346 | luke@pecknelmusic.com
All participating choirs are required to provide original copies for their participating singers. For maximum efficiency, text, notes, and rhythms should be learned prior to arriving for the Festival.
2019 Adult Festival Repertoire
Festival of Praise, Ijames, Beckenhorst, BP2064
And Can It Be, Forrest, Beckenhorst, BP2027
Great Creator, Marrolli, Morningstar, MSM 50-0068
O Love, Hagenberg, Beckenhorst, BP2097
I Sing Because I’m Happy, Dilworth, Hal Leonard, 00124479
Benediction, Larry Schultz, manuscript, tba
2019 Youth Festival Repertoire
Lord, Have Mercy, Choplin, Lorenz, 10/4096L
Gloria (from Missa Kenya), Bassler, Colla Voce, 36-20102
Si Si Ni Moja, Nouvared, Santa Barbara, SBMP1338
Festival of Praise, Ijames, Beckenhorst, BP2064
He is Marvelous, Powell, Hal Leonard, 08745985
Panis Angelicus, Franck, public domain, CPDL
Benediction, Larry Schultz, manuscript, tba
Pecknel Music stocks Festival anthems for us.
Pecknel Music Company
1312 N. Pleasantburg Drive Greenville, SC 29607
1-800-868-2275 or 864-244-7881.
All participating choirs are required to provide original copies for their participating singers. For maximum efficiency, text, notes, and rhythms should be learned prior to arriving for the Festival.
January 25-26, 2019
Phillip Shoultz, Guest Director
First Baptist Church, Charleston, SC
Friday
- Rehearsal 8:30 – 10:00pm
Saturday
- Rehearsal 9:30 – 12:30pm (with a break)
- Lunch 12:30 – 1:30pm (on site, cost included with registration)
- Rehearsal 1:30 – 3:00pm
- Worship 3:30pm (sample worship guide 2017)
Crown Reef Resort & Conference Center
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