New Trier Choirs

New Trier
High School Choirs

Illinois, USA

Spain Tour

MARCH 22 – 27, 2024

Concert dates

BARCELONA

Friday, March 22 at 19:30 h

L'Aliança del Poble Nou Casino
Rambla del Poblenou, 42

Another Op’nin’
From Kiss Me Kate (1949)
by Cole Porter

People Company
From Funny Girl (1964)
by Jule Styne and Bob Merrill

Precious
by Esperanza Spalding, arr. Kerry Marsh

Apple Tree
by Aurora, arranged by Katerina Gimon
The Last Words of David
by Randall Thompson

Come Travel with Me
by Scott Farthing

Firedance of Luna
by Darius Lim

Arirang
Traditional
arr. Hyo-Won Woo

Indodana
Traditional isiXhosa
arr. Michael Barret & Ralf Schmitt

Children, Go Where I Send Thee
arr. Kevin Johnson

Bridge Over Troubled Water
by Paul Simon

VALENCIA

Saturday, March 23 at 19:00h

With Special Guests
The Allegro Choir of the O.N.C.E. Foundation
Gran Vía de Ramón y Cajal, 13,
Extramurs, 46007 Valencia

Laudate Dominum
by Jacob Narverud

Sh-Boom
by “The Chords.”
arr. Patsy Ford Simms

Vichten
by Angele Arsenault, arr. Hart Rouge

Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy!
by The Andrews Sisters

Apple Tree
by Aurora, arranged by Katerina Gimon

Dancing in the Dark
by Howard Dietz & Arthur Schwartz
arr. Kerry Marsh

Rest
by Michael Englehardt, ed. Kerry Marsh

Sit Down You’re Rockin’ the Boat
by Frank Loesser, arr. Mark Brymer

Another Op’nin
from Kiss Me Kate (1949)
by Cole Porter

La Vida es Bella
by Roberto Beningni

VALL d’UIXO

Sunday, March 24 at 19:30h

Teatro La Vall d'Uixo,
Polígono la Moleta, 1,
12600 la Vall d'Uixó, Castellón

Order My Steps
by Glenn Burleigh, arr. Jack Schrader

Shoo Shoo Baby
by the Andrew Sisters

Laudate Dominum
by Jacob Narverud

Sh-Boom
by “The Chords.”
arr. Patsy Ford Simms

All at Sea
by Matthew Chalmers

I Gotta Get
by Aimee Nolte
arr. Matt Falker

Precious
by Esperanza Spalding, arr. Kerry Marsh

Rest
by Michael Englehardt, ed. Kerry Marsh

Ukholo Lwam/iSabata

Last Words of David
by Randall Thompson

Another Op’nin
from Kiss Me Kate (1949)
by Cole Porter

Sit Down You’re Rockin’ the Boat
by Frank Loesser, arr. Mark Brymer

Oklahoma
by Rodgers and Hammerstein

Come Travel with Me
by Scott Farthing

Arirang
Traditional
arr. Hyo-Won Woo

Indodana
Traditional isiXhosa
arr. Michael Barret & Ralf Schmitt

Fire Dance of Luna
by Darius Lim

Children Go Where I Send Thee
arr. Kevin Phillip Johnson

Bridge Over Troubled Water
by Paul Simone

ALTEA

Wednesday, March 27 at 12:00h

Nostra Senyora del Consol,
Plaza Iglesia, 2, 03590, Altea

Laudate Dominum
by Jacob Narverud

Order My Steps

Ukholo Lwami/iSabata

I Will Lift My Eyes
by Rollo Dilworth

Last Words of David
by Randall Thompson

Rest
by Michael Englehardt, ed. Kerry Marsh

Indodana
Traditional isiXhosa
arr. Michael Barret & Ralf Schmitt

New Trier Choirs

New Trier Township High School District 203 is a comprehensive four-year high school in Northfield and Winnetka, Illinois, located along the Lake Michigan shore, approximately 16 miles north of Chicago. New Trier serves Chicago’s North Shore suburban communities of Glencoe, Kenilworth, Northfield, Wilmette, Winnetka, and portions of Glenview and Northbrook, communities that reflect a tradition of support for academic and cultural achievement. Freshmen are housed on the Northfield Campus; sophomores, juniors, and seniors are housed on the Winnetka Campus. Governed by its own Board of Education, the district serves six sender public school districts (kindergarten through eighth grade), each with its own governing board. Local private and parochial schools also graduate students who advance to New Trier High School. As evidence of the New Trier motto, “to commit minds to inquiry, hearts to compassion, and lives to the service of humanity,” New Trier offers numerous opportunities for learning and involvement outside of the classroom in activities, athletics, fine and performing arts, and social service through:

  • More than 150 clubs and other student activities, including an extensive social service component;
  • 35 interscholastic sports (winning more athletic state championships than any high school in Illinois interscholastic history) as well as an extensive intramural program;
  • and fine and performing arts programs, including a Grammy Award winning music department.

The New Trier High School Choral Program currently consists of seven curricular ensembles: Northfield Chorus, an introductory mixed ensemble, High Five Choir, a mixed ensemble of all abilities, Trevian Glee Club, an advanced bass ensemble, Choraliers, an advanced treble ensemble, Varsity Voices, an intermediate mixed vocal jazz ensemble, Swing Choir, an advanced mixed vocal jazz ensemble, Choir-Opera, an advanced mixed musical theatre ensemble, and Concert Choir, an advanced mixed classical ensemble. We also offer extracurricular opportunities such as Frosh-Soph Musical, Lagniappe-Potpourri, and the Choir-Opera Musical. Additionally, we travel and perform at state and national conferences. The groups that are performing for you today rehearse in separate class periods. They will perform separately and then will combine for the mass choir set for the rest of the program.

Each choir will bring a unique sound of choral music from America. We are incredibly excited to be singing and sharing music with everyone here in Spain.

THE DIRECTORS

Amy Branahl

Director of Choral Activities

Amy Branahl is the Director of Choral Activities at New Trier High School in Winnetka, Illinois. There, she is an adviser, teaches Choruses, Music Director of the Frosh-Soph Musical Workshop, and the Artistic Associate for the Choir-Opera Musical. Mrs. Branahl is currently coaching for the Varsity Girls’ badmiNTon program. Mrs. Branahl graduated from the University of Illinois (Champaign-Urbana) with a BME(Voice/Piano) and MME(emphasis in choral conducting) degrees in Choral Music Education. She also graduated with a master’s degree from Northeastern for her Principal Licensure. Mrs. Branahl is a board member of the Illinois American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) and is serving as President-Elect. She is a member of these organizations: ACDA, ILMEA, Jazz Education Network(JEN), and League of Women Voters(LVW).

An avid arranger, Mrs. Branahl started arranging music when she was a member of the Rip Chords, an a cappella group, at the University of Illinois. She founded three a cappella groups which have received many awards such as Best Arranger, Best Choreography, and Best Vocal Percussionist at the Varsity Vocals International Championship of High School (ICHSA) A cappella Semifinals and Finals in New York City. She debuted her first album “Counting Stars” and one of the tracks, “Burn” was chosen for the BOHSA (Best of High School A cappella) compilation album. She released a second album called “So Beautiful.” Mrs. Branahl has been a guest conductor at district ILMEA Junior High Festivals and a guest clinician for her alma mater District 207 and also District 211. She is honored to debut her first published choral arrangement at these festivals. She prepared and led sectionals for the IMEC Allstate Honors Chorus and also for the Regional ACDA sectionals for the headlining conductors.
Amy and her supportive husband Jared have three strong and handsome boys and reside in the Northwest suburbs of Chicago. Mrs. Branahl is active in the community and a board member for Youth Choral Theater of Chicago. When she’s not conducting or teaching, she loves to travel and show her crafting enthusiasm by documenting her knitting or crocheting while watching tennis, other sports, music artists, or shows. Check out her work @craftingcourtside.

Nathan Landes

Choral Director

Nathan Landes is a choral director and music teacher at New Trier High School in Winnetka, Illinois where he has spent the last 18 years of his career. He previously taught at East and West Leyden High Schools and Glenbard North High School. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Music Education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Mr. Landes’ vocal jazz ensembles from New Trier have performed on the national stage at both the Jazz Education Network (JEN) Conference in New Orleans and the National ACDA Convention in Dallas. He also served as the District 7 Vocal Jazz Representative for three years. In addition to teaching and conducting at New Trier, Mr. Landes has been a guest conductor at district ILMEA Jazz Festivals and other events, and prepared high school honor choruses to sing with the Elgin Symphony Orchestra.
As a singer, Mr. Landes enjoyed performing with the Chicago Symphony Chorus for seven years. He is also a Fulbright-Hayes Scholar having participated in the Seminars Abroad program in South Africa during the summer of 2003.

Susan Vaughan

Choral Director

Susan Vaughan holds a Master of Arts degree in Vocal Performance from Northwestern University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Music Education from Eastern Michigan University. A native of Canton, Michigan, Susan Vaughan is currently in her thirty-first year as a choral music educator. She taught elementary general music for nine years in Northbrook School District 28 and has taught seven out of nine choirs over the past twenty-two years at New Trier High School in Winnetka, Illinois. Ms. Vaughan has been a member of the Chicago Symphony Chorus and is an active Illinois Music Education Association and American Choral Directors Association member. Ms. Vaughan currently serves as co-director of Concert Choir, which has performed at the Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia (2012), Carnegie Hall, New York(2014, 2006) and the Kennedy Center, Washington D.C. (2017).

Ms. Vaughan is the founding music director of the High Five Choir, a group of students of all abilities coming together through the power of music building long standing friendships, raising ability awareness and serving as agents of change for our school, our community, and our world. The High Five Choir has been featured in the Chicago Tribune (2010), NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams Making a Difference (2011), WGN News (2011), and ABC Celebrating Abilities (2018). Under the direction of Ms. Vaughan, the High FIve Choir has been invited to present at the ILMEA MusEd, Wheaton, IL (2018), IL ACDA Fall Conference, Wheaton, IL (2019), Central and North Central ACDA Spring Conference, Milwaukee, WI (2020), Webinar series on Adapted Music (May 2022), as well at IMEC, Peoria, IL (2009, 2014, 2017, 2023).

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