We invite you to 蜜桃影像AV's 2025 Middle School and Junior High Choral Festival featuring guest artist Laura Farnell!
Students currently in grades seven through nine are welcome. You will learn 4 selections on site (no preparation required), and you will be led in rehearsals with educator and composer extraordinaire Laura Farnell as well as by our 蜜桃影像AV choral faculty Dr. Karsten Longhurst and Dr. Julie Yu.
Directors will also have teacher sessions with Ms. Farnell, Dr. Longhurst, and Dr. Yu.
Join Us
10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 24
- Check-in begins at 9:30 a.m.
- Registration fee is $10 and covers the cost of the choral music for the day that the students can keep. Fee is payable by Credit Card, Cash, or Check made out to " 蜜桃影像AV" with MS/JH Choral Festival on Memo.
- Registration deadline - Oct. 13!
- Following registration, directors will receive an email with waivers that must be filled out for each participating student.
Laura Farnell has a passion for making music with singers, working with educators, and creating accessible and artistic choral compositions. After receiving her BME in Choral Music (piano emphasis) from Baylor University in Waco, Texas, Laura taught elementary music for two years in Mansfield ISD, followed by eight years of junior high choir in Arlington ISD. She was honored by her schools with Teacher of the Year awards in 2000 and 2003, and she received an Excellence in Education Award in 2004 as Arlington ISD's outstanding junior high teacher of the year.
Laura presently lives in Arlington, Texas, and serves as a choral adjudicator and an invited music conference presenter/clinician for district, region, and state honor choirs across the country. As a composer, she especially enjoys writing and arranging music for developing choirs and has more than one hundred choral compositions in publication, including many commissioned pieces and a co-authored choral sightreading method book. She currently edits the E2A Choral series through Alliance Music Publications.
She and her husband, Russell, and their two sons (all singers), attend First Presbyterian Church of Arlington where Russell serves as Minister of Music and Laura directs the youth and children's choirs.
