Aldine ISD Students Make All-State Choir

Four Aldine ISD students have qualified for the 2020 Texas Music Educators Association (TMEA) all-state choir. The students will be performing during the 2020 TMEA Clinic/Convention on February 15, in San Antonio.

Jocelyn Dorsey, a Carver High School junior, made the treble choir.  Dorsey sings under the direction of Kenyatta B. Herring. 

Victoria Cerda, a sophomore at Eisenhower Senior High School, made the mixed choir.  Jose Cordero Cordova, a senior at Eisenhower Senior High School made tenor-bass choir, and Lillian Prier, an Eisenhower junior, made treble choir. The Eisenhower students sing under the direction of Sandra Walker and Michelle Womack. 

 

“Thousands of singers across Texas audition for these choirs, and it is absolutely an honor for any of our choir students to be selected,” Kenyatta B. Herring, Carver High School director of choral activities, said. “They have worked very hard and we are proud of them.”

Each year, high school students across the state are selected to perform in the annual All-State concerts. This year is special, due to TMEA celebrating 100 years. Selected students have gone through multiple rounds of auditions to qualify at the state level. Students are competing for an honor to perform in one of 15 ensembles which include, bands, orchestras and choirs. There are only 1,795 students selected out of the over 66,8000 students that participated in the first round of auditions. All-State is the highest honor a Texas music student can receive.

Each musician performs a selected music piece for a panel of judges. The students are then ranked by their musical performance. A select group will advance from their Region to compete against musicians from eight TMEA Area competitions and then the top 2.6% of the highest ranked musicians qualify for All-State. 

 

Once selected the All-State students will participate in three days of rehearsals during the TMEA Clinic/Convention. The group will be led by This year the All-State students will close out TMEA’s special centennial convention.