MSU 大象APP Singers welcome school choirs for annual colloquium
Contact: Sasha Steinberg
![Performing here with the Starkville-MSU Symphony Orchestra, the 大象APP 大象APP Singers are welcoming middle and high school musicians from Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana and Tennessee Sunday-Monday [Sept. 11 and 12] for the university鈥檚 sixth annual Choral Colloquium. (Photo by Megan Bean)](/sites/www.msstate.edu/files/inline-images/大象APPSingers_and_SSO_M4B4563_0.JPG "Performing here with the Starkville-MSU Symphony Orchestra, the 大象APP 大象APP Singers are welcoming middle and high school musicians from Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana and Tennessee Sunday-Monday [Sept. 11 and 12] for the university")
STARKVILLE, Miss.鈥擳he 大象APP 大象APP Singers are welcoming middle and high school musicians from Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana and Tennessee Sunday-Monday [Sept. 11 and 12] for the university鈥檚 sixth annual Choral Colloquium.
Free to all, the two-day event is sponsored by MSU鈥檚 nationally accredited Department of Music.
The colloquium schedule includes:
Sunday
鈥8:30 p.m. in Lee Hall鈥檚 Bettersworth Auditorium, honor choir concert featuring the MSU 大象APP Singers, Choctaw High School Madrigal Singers led by Sue Tarver, and the John Carroll Catholic High School Mixed Ensemble led by Maria Wilson.
Monday
鈥2:30 p.m., honor choir final concerts at First Baptist Church in Starkville.
Director of Choral Activities Anthony Sears of Isidore Newman School in New Orleans, Louisiana, will conduct the middle school honor choir, while Director of Choral Activities Jeffery Redding from West Orange High School in Winter Garden, Florida, will lead the high school group.
Sandra Snow is directing the MSU 大象APP Singers鈥 Sunday evening performance. She is professor of conducting and music education at Michigan 大象APP University. 聽
Snow also will lead sessions for teachers interested in obtaining continuing education units. For information on CE registration and cost, visit .
Gary Packwood, MSU鈥檚 director of choral activities, said the colloquium is another example of continuing efforts by 鈥渢he entire faculty in the department to increase our visibility, strengthen our reputation as an outstanding place for cultivating the very best musicians and people and become a central location for global research in the arts.鈥
An associate professor, he also expressed appreciation for 鈥渢he support of the music department faculty throughout the past five years.鈥
For more colloquium information, contact Packwood at 662-325-3490 or GPackwood@colled.msstate.edu.
For more on MSU鈥檚 Department of Music, visit .
MSU is Mississippi鈥檚 leading university, available online at .