KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY YOUTH CHORAL CAMP
July 19-21, 2012
WITH RENOWNED CHILDREN’S CHOIR DIRECTOR JANEAL KREHBIEL!
Students with unchanged voices who will be in 5th-8th grade in the 2012-2013 school year are invited to be a part of the 2012 KSU Youth Choral Camp. Students will engage in a fun and extraordinary learning atmosphere where they will learn how to use their talent and focus to create beautiful music with other musicians from all over the state of Kansas.
Students will be guests in the Kansas State University student housing and dining services. Activities will include music rehearsals, hands-on-activities, sessions with KSU choral professors and of course SUMMER FUN activities such as swimming at the new city water park, bowling and the insect zoo!
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Information
Cost per student is $250 which includes:
Faculty and Staff
Students will work with renowned conductor, Janeal Krehbiel and Kansas State University choral faculty during their 3 days on campus. They will be supervised by full-time Kansas State University music camp counselors.
Questions?
Please contact Dr. Julie Yu, Co-Director of Choral Studies, for more information. 785-532-3815 or julieyu@ksu.edu.
Cost per student is $250 which includes:
- Housing (2 nights)
- Meals (Day 1 - lunch & dinner) (Day 2 - breakfast, lunch & dinner) (Day 3 - breakfast & lunch)
- All activities (Recreational activities include Manhattan City Water Park, bowling, KSU Insect Zoo)
- Packet of music
- T-shirt and photo
Faculty and Staff
Students will work with renowned conductor, Janeal Krehbiel and Kansas State University choral faculty during their 3 days on campus. They will be supervised by full-time Kansas State University music camp counselors.
Questions?
Please contact Dr. Julie Yu, Co-Director of Choral Studies, for more information. 785-532-3815 or julieyu@ksu.edu.
JANEAL CRABB KREHBIEL, founder and director of the Lawrence Children’s Choir, is a clinician and festival director throughout the United States. A graduate of Bethel College in Kansas, she earned a Master’s degree in Music Education at Wichita State University. She was a member of the Chorister’s Guild Board of Directors, has been the featured clinician at St. Olaf College, Montreat Music Conference, Westminster Choir College, and the North Carolina Summer Institute of the Choral Art. She has held seminars at colleges and universities, directed camps and festivals and published many articles about choral music for children and youth. In March 2000 Ms. Krehbiel was the guest conductor for the National 2000 Children’s Choir at Carnegie Hall. She conducted the 2007 National Children’s Choir at Carnegie Hall and conducted the Lawrence Children’s Choir in a premier performance at Carnegie Hall.
She taught elementary vocal music in the Denver Public Schools (Colorado), high school vocal music in the Hesston Public Schools (Kansas), and completed fifteen years with the Lawrence, Kansas public schools, teaching grades 7, 8, and 9. For eighteen years she served as children’s choir director at the Bethel College Mennonite Church.
Ms. Krehbiel is an active member of ACDA, MENC, KMEA, and Chorus America. She is the past president of the Kansas chapter of ACDA. She organized the Kansas Honors Children’s Choir and directs honors choirs, regional and all state honor choirs for children and junior high students throughout the United States. In July 1999, her colleagues in Kansas ACDA awarded the Harry Robert Wilson Award to Ms. Krehbiel in recognition of her outstanding contribution to choral music. In December 1999, Janeal was awarded the Outstanding Middle Level Music Educator for Northeastern Kansas.
Under Ms. Krehbiel’s direction, the Lawrence Children’s Choir was chosen to sing at the 1999 national ACDA convention, the 1996 regional ACDA convention, the 1996 national MENC convention, and was the featured choir for the World’s Largest Concert on PBS in 1994. In 1998 the choir was the artist in residence choir for the North Carolina Summer Institute of the Choral Art. In 2000 and 2007 they were chosen to sing the featured concert at Carnegie Hall for the FSI Festival, where Ms. Krehbiel was the conductor of the National Children’s Choir. In 2003 they were the featured children’s choir at Chorus America’s National Convention. They also performed at St. Martin in the Field and St. Paul’s Cathedral in 2003. They were invited to perform at the SWACDA convention in March, 2004. The choir toured Germany in the summer of 2005 and was one of four American choirs to sing at the International Choral Festival in Missoula, Montana in the summer of 2006. The choir was selected to perform for the National ACDA Convention in 2009.
Ms. Krehbiel was the conductor of the National ACDA Jr. High Honors Choir in Los Angeles in 2005. She has been the guest conductor for numerous ACDA divisional convention’s Honors Choirs, both for children and junior high singers and has taught and conducted in Singapore.
