December 6, 2024
Looking for a beginners honor choir experience? Maybe a chance for your elementary ensemble to perform for peers and receive feedback from a clinician? The MidSouth Music Institute Elementary Honor Choir is the event for YOU!
Students will spend the day learning music, playing games, and having fun with likeminded peers from across the region. No musical preparation is necessary on the part of the teacher - we'll provide all the music and do all the teaching on site!
Do you have a choir that needs an entry level experience performing in a festival setting? Register your choir to perform during one of our guest performance slots at the ending concert. Our clinicians will use state assessment rubrics to give you feedback to take home and encourage your budding musicians!**
No auditions necessary. Teachers registering 25 students or more will receive a discount, whether you choose to perform for the guest hour or not. Parents may also register individual children.
Participants will also receive a voucher for one free ticket to the Christmas with CoroRio concert on December 14th.
Registration is due to Amy Touchstone by November 15th.
Forms can be emailed to [email protected] or mailed to
1587 Cedar Grove Drive, Hernando MS 38632
**Performance slots for individual choirs at the final concert are on a first-come, first-served basis. Performance slots are not for individual singers. Clinicians will give verbal and written feedback through a recording device, but will not come on stage to clinic the choirs at the performance.
Parents registering their children individually may send payment via check (as listed on the registration form) or through PayPal or Venmo. PayPal registration will include a 3% service charge. Please email [email protected] to secure this payment option.
Our 2024 Clinician:
Elicia Garcia Curry
Director of the Memphis Children’s Chorale, Elicia Garcia Curry, is the Director of the Choirs at Collegiate School of Memphis as well as Minister of Music at First Congregational Church. Elicia also served Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church’s Creative and Worship Arts Department where she served as the Children’s Choir Director for six years.
Elicia served as a member of the Memphis City Schools Teacher Field Test Group and Development Team, which developed the pilot evaluation method for Tennessee music teachers in 2012. She was also a Peer Evaluator of this new evaluation method. Elicia served as the West TN Vocal Music Educators Association Junior High Honor Choir Chair from 2016-2018. During her tenure at Mississippi Boulevard, she was invited to serve as the Children’s Choir Clinician and Director for the 2019 Disciples of Christ National Convention in Des Moines, IA. She currently serves on the Shelby County Schools Fine Arts Leadership Council and is the Lead Middle School Choral Director for the district. Elicia facilitates SCS district level professional development sessions and serves as a mentor to new choral directors across the district. She also serves as a cooperating teacher for the University of Memphis Teacher Education Program.
Elicia holds a Bachelor of Music in Music Education from the University of Memphis and a Master of Music in Music Education from Kent State University. She is an active member of the West Tennessee Vocal Music Educators Association, the National Association for Music Education and the American Choral Directors Association.
