All-State Choir
Audition Information
2025 All State Choir
Audition Material
Audition Information
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Auditions will be done in each MCDA/MMEA District - see District Choir/MCDA District Rep for specific info.
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Audition includes District Choir vocal solo and sight-singing score along with "music minus one" quartet audition
Participation Information
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January 29-Feb 1, 2025
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Tan-Tar-a Resort at Margaritaville; Lake Ozark, MO
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$150 participation fee per student
All-State Coordinator Info
Important Forms
2025 Missouri All-State Choir
Information
January 29 - February 1, 2025
Students wishing to audition for
the Missouri All-State Choir should
complete the pre-audition form sent to their director from each MCDA district's All-State coordinator PRIOR to the audition date.
Once students are selected to the choir, they will be instructed to click the red link in the menu on the left to complete their All-State Choir Participation Forms. These forms are due no more than 10 days AFTER their audition date.
Repertoire
Title | Composer | Voicing | Publisher/Number |
|---|---|---|---|
Clap Praise | Diane L. White-Clayton | SATB | Hal Leonard, #00244978 |
Der Herr is mir mit | Dieterich Buxtehude | SATB | Barenreiter-Verlag, #3198 |
Summer is Gone | Samuel Coleridge-Taylor | SATB divisi | Gentry, #JG2655 |
No Mirrors in my Mama's House | Ysaye Barnwell | SATBB | EC Schirmer, #9286 |
Cliff Notes | Carol Barnett | SATB | Beady Eyes Publishing, carolbarnett.com |
93 Million Miles | Jason Mraz, arr. Susan LaBarr | SATB | Hal Leonard, #01197175 |
Oh, What a Beautiful City | arr. Rollo Dilworth | SATB | Hal Leonard, #00103129 |
Meet the Clinician
Dr. Eugene Rogers
A two-time Michigan Emmy Award winner, a 2017 Sphinx Medal of Excellence recipient, and a 2015 GRAMMY® Award nominee, Eugene Rogers is recognized as a leading conductor and pedagogue throughout the United States and abroad. In addition to being the founding director of EXIGENCE, Dr. Rogers is the director of choirs and an associate professor of conducting at the University of Michigan. Recently, he was named as the fifth Artistic Director of the two-time GRAMMY® Award-Winning Ensemble, The Washington Chorus (Washington, D.C.).
At the University, Rogers leads the graduate choral conducting program, conducts the chamber choir, and administers the program of over eight choral ensembles. His choirs have toured throughout China, South Africa, the United States, and have appeared at national and regional conferences. In December 2017, Musical America named Rogers one of the top 30 “Movers and Shapers” professionals in North America. His past appointments include being the director of the University of Michigan Men’s Glee Club, Macalester College (St. Paul, Minnesota), the Boys Choir of Harlem, Waubonsie Valley High School (Aurora, Illinois), and Anima Young Singers of Greater Chicago (formerly the Glen Ellyn Children’s Choir). In 2016, Rogers’ passion for issues of social justice and music was featured in the award-winning documentary Love, Life and Loss which highlights Joel Thompson’s powerful Seven Last Words of the Unarmed, and in 2013, he co-managed the production of the joint CD Ye Shall Have a Song with the Michigan, Yale, and Harvard Glee Clubs, a collaboration celebrating America’s three oldest collegiate choirs.
In 2015, Mark Foster Publishing began the Eugene Rogers Choral Series, a series featuring emerging composers who specialize in contemporary classical and folk music traditions, and the EXIGENCE Choral Series in 2018 which features folk and contemporary works by Black and Latinx composers. In 2011, Rogers traveled to and studied the choral traditions of East Africa (Tanzania).
Rogers holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in choral music education from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and the Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees in choral conducting from U-M. He currently serves on the board of Chorus America and is the former national chair of the Diversity Initiatives Committee for the American Choral Directors Association.
