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Jeffco Middle & High School
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Program
To be selected from:
Jeffco Middle School Honor Choir
Give Us Hope
Jim Papoulis
Hold Fast to Dreams
Susan LaBarr
Dies Irae
W.A. Mozart
Arr. Patrick M. Liebergen
Dreams of Thee
Eric William Barnum, music
Percy Bysshe Shelley, poem
As I Journey On
Chris Maunu
Jeffco High School Honor Choir
I'm Gonna Sit at the Welcome Table
Negro Spiritual
arr. M. Roger Holland II
In Remembrance
text_Traditional and Jeffrey L. Ames
music_Jeffrey L. Ames
horn_Lee Cyphers, University of Denver
Make them Hear You
from Ragtime
Lynn Ahrens & Stephen Flaherty
arr. Kirby Shaw
The Lord Is My Light and My Salvation
Rosephayne Powell
The Road Not Taken
text_Robert Frost
music_Douglas E. Wagner
Jeffco Middle School Honor Choir
Soprano
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Alto
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Tenor/Bass
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Jeffco High School Honor Choir
Soprano
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Alto
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Tenor
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Bass
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Guest Conductors
Dr. Nathan Payant
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Dr. Nathan Payant is a devoted conductor, educator, and professional singer who strives to cultivate long-lasting connections with others through the choral arts. He has choral teaching and conducting experience at the middle school, high school, college, community, and professional levels. Nathan is an Instructor of Music at Colorado State University, where he directs the Concert Choir, teaches Conducting, Voice Skills for Music Therapists, Foundations of Music Education, and Music Appreciation. He is also the Director of Music and Arts at First United Methodist Church in Fort Collins.
A dedicated advocate for choral music education, Nathan is involved in NAfME, CMEA, ACDA, and CoACDA, placing special emphasis on encouraging lifelong singing. He is frequently invited to present lectures and reading sessions at state conferences, as well as visit and clinic at local high schools throughout the Front Range in Colorado. He has served on the Colorado All- State Choir Board, the Vocal Music Council of CMEA, and the Colorado ACDA Council as the Treble Choir R&R Chair. He fully believes in promoting standards of the choral repertoire, as well as discovering and supporting newly composed works. Nathan is a very active member of the professional choral community in Colorado. Currently, he is the Artistic Director of the Fort Collins community choir, Laudamus Chamber Chorale, as well as the Chorus Personnel Manager and singer in Colorado Bach Ensemble. He also has a passion for composing/arranging and has several choral arrangements published through Hal Leonard Publishing. A native of South Dakota, Nathan is a proud alumnus of Northern State University in Aberdeen, SD, where he earned a Bachelor of Music Education degree. He received his Master of Music degree in Choral Conducting from Colorado State University and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Choral Conducting and Literature from University of Colorado, Boulder. Outside of his professional responsibilities, Nathan enjoys traveling and spending time with his beautiful wife, Natalie, and three daughters, Faythe, Ava, and Lilian. |
M. Roger Holland II
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M. Roger Holland, II is a Teaching Associate Professor in Music and Religion and Director of The Spirituals Project at the Lamont School of Music, University of Denver. A graduate of Union Theological Seminary in New York City where he received the Master of Divinity degree, Roger also served as Artist-in-Residence and director of the Union Gospel Choir for over 13 years. In 2015 Union awarded him the Trailblazers Distinguished Alumni Award, the first given to a graduate whose ministry is music, for his contributions to the legacy of African American music. He received a Master's Degree in Piano Performance from the Manhattan School of Music, also in New York, and completed his undergraduate work at Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey where he majored in Music Education with a concentration in piano and voice.
Roger is editor of the In Spirit and Truth series published by GIA Publications, Inc., which reflects the aesthetic of Black Catholic worship. Commissioned works include The Dream and The Dreamer, The Tribulation Suite, and The Call. Original music collections published by GIA include “Building Up the Kingdom,” featuring the single “Worthy God,” and his recent collection, “Honey from the Rock, Vol. 1-4” He has played for the Broadway productions of Oprah Winfrey’s The Color Purple and the Tony award winning show, Memphis. In November 2016 Timothy Cardinal Dolan of the Archdiocese of New York presented Roger with the Pierre Toussaint Medallion for service. He is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in pastoral music. |