News and Notices

By Sheryl Kelper   WILMINGTON, NC — After 47 years – on and off – as the director of the barbershop Azalea Coast Chorus of Wilmington, Joan Obernesser has retired.  On April 30, Obernesser officially passed the baton to the new director, Jennifer Sugerik. Sugerik is a music teacher and choral director at Ashley High School […]

HARROGATE DISTRICT, UK — he Dean of Ripon Cathedral’s vowing to ensure choristers maintain their role at the heart of music and worship at the Cathedral.  It follows the closure of the Ripon Cathedral Choir School after more than fifty years.  The Choral foundation will be set up in a new form to continue the 1000-year old tradition […]

By Indiah Miller   LONDON, UK — A choir has gained the attention of the world by recording an Olympic song featuring children from all corners of the globe.  Thirty children from the Capital Arts Children’s Choir based in Potters Bar, Barnet joined forces with the International Children’s Choir to perform Gloria in Londinium a moving […]

By Michael D Clark HAMILTON TWP, OH — Sarah Baker has brought a proud song to a school community once muted by financial despair. The Little Miami High School Director of Choral Music works in Southwest Ohio’s most financially troubled school system and she has seen how historically deep budget cuts sliced away local school […]

Kenneth Ray Steele was born March 1, 1945 in Toccoa, Georgia. Ken graduated from Stetson University in Deland, Florida with a Bachelor of Church Music degree and went on to earn his Master’s in Choral Conducting from the University of Texas in Austin.   During his 26 year teaching career he was choral director in […]

By Kim Inam   LONDON — A GROUP of schoolchildren battled the odds to take part in the Olympic opening ceremony.   Pupils from West Lea School and Hazelbury Junior School, in Haselbury Road, Edmonton, endured long hours of rehearsals and braved some personal difficulties including broken fingers and illness to join in the Kaos Signing […]