Creek Choir Newsletter 01.22.21

Dear Clear Creek Choir parents and students,
 
Attached below are the rosters for 2019-2020 Symphonic Chorale, Kapelle, and Chamber Singers as well as an announcement about a new after-school mixed choir named Ardore that is starting next year. Every year, it gets harder and harder to select the choir rosters because the level of performance, dedication, commitment, and audition keeps rising. There are many students who, five years ago, would have made our Chamber Singers but the same audition and performance level now places them into Kapelle. That attests both to your ability and talent as well as the level of performance that is ensured in Symphonic and Kapelle next year. There is SO MUCH TALENT and SO MANY GREAT STUDENTS in the Clear Creek Choir program, and you continue to make our jobs more and more difficult in terms of where to draw the lines for each of the ensembles.
 
We understand that there will be some disappointed students, but please know that we have done everything we can to ensure that both of our varsity ensembles and Chamber Singers will reach their potential next year and be of the highest level possible and give as many qualified students as possible a Clear Creek Varsity Choir experience. At 72 students, Symphonic Chorale is larger than it has been since Springs and Falls were opened, and Kapelle is also bigger than it (and its predecessor Advanced Women’s Chorale) has even been. These are both a testament to the dedication and talent of you students who continue to push yourselves to reach the highest level of musical knowledge and performance, and we are set up for us all to take our Creek Choir program even further next year than we have gone before.
 
For those students who auditioned and are not listed on the attached roster below, if you think there is an error, please contact us via email. Otherwise, we look forward to seeing you return to choir in either Concordia or Cantabile where we hope you will take on the challenge of working hard on your sight reading and performance skills while also assuming the roles of leaders in those choirs to teach the new students the expectations and skills required to be a successful member of our Clear Creek Choir family. Returning members in our JV Choirs are vital to their success and the success of our program, and we hope you will take on that responsibility while working on your own skills!
 
If you would like to contact us to get feedback on your placement, we ask that you please wait to hit send until next Monday, 6/10. We look forward to having that conversation with you, but we find that a little time allows for a more productive conversation to happen.
 
Mr. Stultz and I are genuinely excited to get started next August to see how far all of our new choirs can go. 2019-2020 is looking great! We hope that you enjoy your summer. We can’t wait to see everyone back next year!
 
Mr. Park and Mr. Stultz

We hope that your summer has started off well and that you are all getting some much deserved rest. This year, the choir auditions continued to get harder and more competitive than in years past, and that is a testament to our students' abilities and desire to improve. But it makes selecting the rosters extremely difficult. Please believe me when I say that we deliberated these results for hours before finally settling on them. Rest assured that every choir is in good shape for achieving success next year.

Below are the rosters for next year. We wish that we could place everyone in the choir that they want, but it's just not possible. We are shorter on tenors next year, and so in order to make more spots available in Symphonic Chorale for our sopranos, altos, and basses, we decided to have some high baritones and low altos rotating in and out of tenor so that we still have a balanced sound. But we stretched the roster as far as we could, and we were still left with quite a few sopranos and altos who in years past would have qualified for Symphonic Chorale.

But then again, that's why we create Advanced Women's Chorale, now called Kapelle. Because we didn't have enough open spots in Symphonic to fit all of our varsity treble singers. And so with Kapelle, we are fortunate to have a varsity choir for all of our varsity level sopranos and altos. 

All three of our Varsity ensembles have increase in numbers. Right now, Kapelle is in the mid-40s, Symphonic is sitting at 68, and Chamber is at 28. This is a testament to the health of our program and increasing ability of our students.

If your name is not on this list, you will be in Concordia or Cantabile. Invariably, students who did not qualify for varsity need to focus more on their music-reading and sight-reading skills. These reading skills are of the utmost importance when we consider which students will be in our varsity ensembles. So if this applies to you, try not to be too discouraged, and prepare to come in next year and focus a lot on those music-reading skills. And remember, every choir student receives the same performance and competition opportunities. So if you're not satisfied with your placement, use it to motivate you to hone your skills even more and really learn how to read all of those musical symbols on the page.

If you would like to contact us to get feedback on your placement, we ask that you please wait to hit send until next Monday, 6/11. We look forward to having that conversation with you, but we find that a little time allows for a more productive conversation to happen.

We hope that you have a great summer, and we look forward to seeing you all back here in August. 

 
2018-2019 Chamber Singers
 
Soprano
Zoe Beck (Sop 2)
Madigan Ewing
Miranda Hixson (Sop 2)
Sophia Sereni (Sop 2)
Skyla Sonnenburg
Kat Velasco
Riana Vermillion
 
Alto
Carly Allard (Alto 2 who will sometimes sing Tenor)
Hailey Clough (Alto 2 who will sometimes sing Tenor)
Elisabeth Elings (Sop 2)
Tej’a Lane
Luci Melcher (Alto 2 who will sometimes sing Tenor)
Madison Plotner
Haley Schrader (Sop 2)
Rorie Weidman (Alto 2 who will sometimes sing Tenor)
Tenor
Mitchell Bonvillian
Aiden Martinez
Maven Mendoza
Noah Young
 
Bari-tenor (will rotate by song between bass and tenor)
Jacob Bulseco
Brandon Falknor
Tyler Hoover
Shane Wehe
 
Bass
Tony Dudley
Travis Falknor
Brady Raboin
Hayden Spurling
Joel Velasco

2018-2019 Kapelle
(formerly Advanced Women’s Chorale)
 
Soprano 1
Princess Anderson
Gia Bishop
Haley Boland
Maci Cummings
Layla de la Rosa
Emma Delboccio
Lauren Ferguson
Shreya Gadagojou
Ally Hickman
Kennedy Jobe
Sarah Johnson
Mary Kate McMahon
Ja’niya Stallworth
Cali Sherbert
 
Soprano 2 (2-pt voice split)
Caroline Brocard (S)
Brelyn Burger (S)
Kendall Coney (S)
Hailey Garcia (A)
Maureen Ho-Sam-Sooi (A)
Anne-Marie Kielb (A)
Kira McCutchon (A)
Jessica McDermand (S)
Stephanie Morrison (A)
Taryn Riley (S)
Maddy Trevillion (A)
Mia Villareal (S)
Chloe Voyles (A)
Janae Wheeler (S)
Sarah Young (A)
 
Alto
Sahana Boosupalli
Jaycee Danford
Sarah DeForke
Erin Flores
Yancey Grice
Avery Griggs
Alexa Jackson
Katya Licona
Karla Lindo
Yasmin Lopez
Laney Martin
Kelsey Phillips
Gillian Respondek
Aliyah Skipper
Chloe Tankink
Hannah Willis

2018-2019 Symphonic Chorale
 
Soprano
Sutton Anderson (S2)
Aishu Bajracharya (S2)
Zoe Beck
Vallari Bhatia
Alicia Brown (S2)
Ally Decker
Madigan Ewing
Ella Gard
Miranda Hixson (S2)
Sarah Ischy
Sammi Leard
Kadee Loyd (S2)
Kayla Pfeiffer
Tatianna Portillo
Emma Robins
Skyla Sonnenburg
Lexi Sultzer
Kat Velasco
Riana Vermillion
 
Alto
Carly Allard (Alto 2, will sometimes sing Tenor)
Megan Bader (Alto 2, will sometimes sing Tenor)
Cassidy Bouse (S2)
Hailey Clough (Alto 2, will sometimes sing Tenor)
Emily Cook (S2)
Anabella Cooper (Alto 2, will sometimes sing Tenor)
Alma DeLeon (S2)
Elisabeth Elings
Ellie Erdberg (Alto 2, will sometimes sing Tenor)
Rachel Jurbala (S2)
Tej’a Lane (Alto 2, will sometimes sing Tenor)
Anna Golovko
Payton Hamilton
Luci Melcher (Alto 2, will sometimes sing Tenor)
Kate Navarro (Alto 2, will sometimes sing Tenor)
Madison Plotner (S2)
Maddy Reeder (S2)
Sophia Sereni (S2)
Haley Schrader (S2)
Camryn Smith (S2)
Rorie Weidman (Alto 2, will sometimes sing Tenor)
Bria Wullschlager

Tenor
Hunter Allison
Mitchell Bonvillian
Gavin Hernandez
Colin Hyma
Aiden Martinez
Orion Mason
Maven Mendoza
Noah Young
 
Bari-tenor (will rotate by song between bass and tenor)
Jacob Bulseco
Brandon Falknor
Daniel Holder
Tyler Hoover
Shane Wehe
 
Bass
Jaidon Abdo
Julian Delgado
Tony Dudley
Garrett Everett
Travis Falknor
Jose Gaytan
Joseph Lucena
Brady Raboin
Anuar Salas
Hayden Spurling
Jaden Styla
Joel Velasco
Aiden Vermillion
Dalton Ward

2017-2018 Symphonic Chorale
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Sopranos
Victoria Blackburn
Mia Carter
Hannah Fulcher
Kailey Gingo
Ariel Gutierrez
Anna Jane Hilbrich
Miranda Hixson
Sarah Ischy
Spencer Plato
Tatianna Portillo
Emma Robins
Sophia Sereni
Camryn Smith
Skyla Sonnenburg
Aleena Stamness
Kat Velasco
Riana Vermillion

Altos
Clarebelle Abarquez
Zoe Beck
Cassidy Bouse
Hailey Clough
Paige Cook
Anabella Cooper
Ally Decker
Rachel Jurbala
Alma de Leon
Elisabeth Elings
Layla Elodat
Nohelle Lewis
Lesley Lucena
Lucy Melcher
Haley Schrader
Hallie Thompson
Maddy Vansco
Rorie Weidman

Tenors
Chance Agostaros
Mitchell Bonvillian
Travis Falknor
Gavin Hernandez
Zach Hoover
Colin Hyma
Jason Keyzer
Aiden Martinez
Maven Mendoza
Cooper Miller
Justin Pollio
Noah Young

Bass
Jacob Bulseco
Kameron Compton
Tony Dudley
Garrett Everett
Brandon Falknor
Khristian Garcia
Marshall Griffin
Gabriel Hardcastle
Jake Hinkle
Daniel Holder
Joseph Lucena
Devin Pritt
Brady Raboin
Anuar Salas
Jaden Styla
Shane Wehe

2017-2018 Advanced Women's Chorale

Soprano 1
Sutton Anderson
Aishu Bajracharya
Vallari Bhatia
Haley Boland
Lauren Ferguson
Shea Grande
Ally Hickman
Te’ja Lane
Sammi Leard
Lanie Martin
Maddy Reeder
Ja’Niya Stallworth

Soprano 2
Carly Allard
Ally Bogar
Emily Cook
Arianna Fernandez
Erin Flores
Lia Hommel
Taryn Riley
Niya Robinson
Cali Sherbert
Janae Wheeler
Bria Wullschleger

Alto
Megan Bader
Bethany Cosgrove-Hay
Jaycee Danford
Scarlett Dugas
Mariah Eakman
Anna Golovko
Payton Hamilton
Alexa Jackson
Anne-Marie Kielb
Madison Plotner
Destiny Vergin

2017-2018 Chamber Singers

Sopranos
Mia Carter (Sop. 2 in SSA)
Miranda Hixson (Sop. 2 in SSA)
Sophia Sereni (Sop. 2 in SSA)
Skyla Sonnenburg
Aleena Stamness
Kat Velasco
Riana Vermillion

Altos
Hailey Clough
Paige Cook
Elisabeth Elings
Nohelle Lewis (Sop. 2 in SSA)
Lucy Melcher (Sop. 2 in SSA)
Hallie Thompson

Tenors
Mitchell Bonvillian
Travis Falknor
Jason Keyzer
Justin Pollio (Ten. 2 in TTB)

Bass
Jacob Bulseco (Ten. 2 in TTB)
Brandon Falknor
Marshall Griffin
Zach Hoover (Ten. 2 in TTB)
Brady Raboin

​Names not appearing on this roster are in Bel Canto (9th grade women), Cantabile (10th-12th grade women), or Concordia (9th-12th grade men). If you think there has been an error, please e-mail Mr. Park or Mr. Stultz immediately. (We do make mistakes.) Have a great summer!