BROOKINGS – Music educators from around the state will gather for three days of concerts, workshops and discussions during the South Dakota In-Service Music Conference. The conference, hosted by South Dakota State University Feb. 7-9, will feature performances by approximately 1,000 elementary, middle school, high school and university students.
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BROOKINGS – Music educators from around the state will gather for three days of concerts, workshops and discussions during the South Dakota In-Service Music Conference. The conference, hosted by South Dakota State University Feb. 7-9, will feature performances by approximately 1,000 elementary, middle school, high school and university students.
Running concurrently with the conference are the South Dakota Bandmasters Association annual meeting and SDSU Choral Day.
The Feb. 7-8 evening concerts are free and open to the public and will take place in the Performing Arts Center on the SDSU campus.
Choral Day is scheduled for Feb. 7. Concerts open to the public include the Elementary Festival Honor Choir directed by Drake University professor Barb Sletto, at 4:45 p.m., and the Festival of Mixed Voices, directed by Brian Schmidt from Baylor University at 7:30 p.m.
Sletto is founder of the Heartland Youth Choir and has also conducted the Des Moines Children’s Chorus and Iowa Youth Chorus. Her duties at Drake include the Drake Women’s Chorale.
Schmidt, a 2003 SDSU graduate, is founder and artistic director of the South Dakota Chorale. At Baylor, he serves as conductor of the A Cappella Choir and Chamber Singers. He holds a doctorate in choral conducting from the University of North Texas.
Other vocal groups performing during Choral Day include: the Omaha Skutt Catholic High School; Aberdeen Central High School Vocal Jazz; Sioux Falls Lincoln High School Choir; the Brookings High School Treble Choir; and the Chester High School Choir.
Conductor Stephen Bolstad will serve as conductor-in-residence for the bandmasters association’s conference. He is the director of bands for James Madison University in Virginia.
Friday evening’s concert features the SDSU Wind Symphony. The Boston Brass, this year’s Patricia Noethe Pierce Artists-in-Residence at SDSU, will join them onstage as will guest conductors Bolstad and SDSU Professor Emeritus James McKinney.
Other instrumental ensembles appearing during the conference include: the Sioux Falls O’Gorman eighth-grade band; the Sioux Falls O’Gorman High School Band; Tea Area High School Band; the Augustana University Band; the Offutt Brass; and the Northern State University’s Symphonic Band.
For more information, visit the SDSU music program’s website at www.sdstate.edu/music or call 688-5188.
