News : Participants announced for the 32nd Annual Opus Honor Choir Festival

32nd Annual Opus Honor Choir Festival Participants from V-S Announced

Ms. Michala Martin, Choral Director at Vinton-Shellsburg High School, is pleased to announce that Maddie Beauchamp, Darby Glynn, and Ellery Johnson were recently selected for participation in the thirty-second annual Opus Honor Choir Festival.  Over 2600 students were nominated by their directors for 720 positions in the four Opus Honor Choirs.  Selections were made by means of a recorded audition.  Guest conductors of the choirs include Roger Jensen, Retired, Treynor, 5th & 6th Grade Honor Choir; Joseph Tangen, Pella Middle School, 7th & 8th Grade Bass Clef Honor Choir; Collete McClellen, Mid Prairie High School, Wellman, 7th & 8th Grade Treble Clef Honor Choir; and Dr. John Flanery, Bishop Heelan Schools, Sioux City, 9th Grade Mixed Honor Choir.  The 2019 Opus Honor Choirs will perform at 4:00pm on November 21st in C.Y. Stephens Auditorium in the Iowa State Center in Ames.  The Opus Honor Choir Festival is made possible by the Iowa Choral Directors Association, Inc.