Heritage High School Singers
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building a rich choral legacy and
celebrating our diverse musical heritage through a tradition of excellence! |
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***** Important Information regarding COVID19 and Vocal Music *****
The current pandemic has changed our world! This invisible virus has changed how we go to school, and yes how we sing! We have now become "super spreaders" of a serious illness in a choral setting, and therefore, we have to reinvent our approach to making music for a while until there is a vaccine.
I am currently revising my entire curriculum for the year to best serve you. My first goal is to KEEP us SAFE! My second goal is to provide you the best education in vocal music I possibly can under the circumstances. I know you have a number of questions of how this will affect our class for the year and what we will be able to accomplish. Please feel free to email me you questions and I will start a FAQ page on the website to keep everyone updated as I receive important information from the county and the state. I am also reading information from NC Music Educations Association (NCMEA), American Choral Director Association (ACDA) and National Teachers of Singing (NATS) for the most current information we have nationally. I am committed to ensuring that Vocal Music remains relevant to you my singers and continue to sing in some form. One thing is certain, we will not be singing together for a while. However, we may be able to sing safely individually. I will discuss this in more detail once I have ironed out all the details. What will we learn? We will continue to learn the following:
1. Vocal Pedagogy / Phases of Singing
2. The Anatomy and Physiology of the Voice
3. Vocal and Hearing Health
4. Music Literacy - Sight Singing and Ear Training
5. Terminology and Technical Language
6. Diction and International Phonetic Alphabet
7. Music Theory, Composition and Song Writing
8. Classification of Voice and Range
9. Peer and Self Observation
10. Listening and Critical Analysis
REMEMBER - YOUR VOICE STILL MATTERS AND WE WILL GET THROUGH THIS TOGETHER!
Please visit the "Students" page for more information
The current pandemic has changed our world! This invisible virus has changed how we go to school, and yes how we sing! We have now become "super spreaders" of a serious illness in a choral setting, and therefore, we have to reinvent our approach to making music for a while until there is a vaccine.
I am currently revising my entire curriculum for the year to best serve you. My first goal is to KEEP us SAFE! My second goal is to provide you the best education in vocal music I possibly can under the circumstances. I know you have a number of questions of how this will affect our class for the year and what we will be able to accomplish. Please feel free to email me you questions and I will start a FAQ page on the website to keep everyone updated as I receive important information from the county and the state. I am also reading information from NC Music Educations Association (NCMEA), American Choral Director Association (ACDA) and National Teachers of Singing (NATS) for the most current information we have nationally. I am committed to ensuring that Vocal Music remains relevant to you my singers and continue to sing in some form. One thing is certain, we will not be singing together for a while. However, we may be able to sing safely individually. I will discuss this in more detail once I have ironed out all the details. What will we learn? We will continue to learn the following:
1. Vocal Pedagogy / Phases of Singing
2. The Anatomy and Physiology of the Voice
3. Vocal and Hearing Health
4. Music Literacy - Sight Singing and Ear Training
5. Terminology and Technical Language
6. Diction and International Phonetic Alphabet
7. Music Theory, Composition and Song Writing
8. Classification of Voice and Range
9. Peer and Self Observation
10. Listening and Critical Analysis
REMEMBER - YOUR VOICE STILL MATTERS AND WE WILL GET THROUGH THIS TOGETHER!
Please visit the "Students" page for more information
HERITAGE CHOIRS 2019 - 2020 PRE-REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Preregistration for Vocal Music can be a bit confusing, but it is really quite simple.
However, you do have a couple of decisions to make before you register.
Do you want to want honors credit for your time in this course? - (How much time and effort are you willing to devote?)
Do you want to be in chorus for only one semester or for both semesters? - (How much do you want to learn / do?)
That's it. Pretty easy huh?
Fall 2019 - Choose either Vocal Music / Proficient (Honors) OR Vocal Music / Beginning (Non-honors)
Spring 2020 - Choose either Vocal Music / Advanced (Honors) OR Vocal Music / Intermediate (Non-honors)
If you select only one semester, then you will be placed in the ensemble that is best works with your schedule of classes and
is best suited to your musical experience and vocal ability; regardless of whether that ensemble is offered in the Fall or Spring semester.
Please visit our class page for more information about course selection.
* Students must be enrolled in a choral class in order to participate in extra-curricular choral activities.
Our Story |
Our Director |
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The Heritage High School Vocal Music program is a place where your voice matters! We are evolving as performing artists and growing into a vibrant and recognizable part of the Wake Forest and Wake County community. Heritage Choirs regularly perform for community and school events.
We believe that everyone has a voice and that it works just beautifully when we learn to get out of the way and allow it to do what it designed to do. With regular exercise (practice), our voices will grow strong. When united, our collective voices are able to create sounds that are quite different and even more beautiful than when we sing alone. Heritage offers several choral opportunities broken into two basic categories - Honors and Non-honors. {lease take a look our student page for registration information. All ensembles are multi-level and configuration of ensembles are based upon student registration. This year, students may participate in Heritage Chorale, Women's Choir or Heritage Singers. There is also an extra-curricular ensemble available to students enrolled in one of the above ensembles called UNISON Consort Singers. In October, Hertitage Chorale participated in the first Northern Wake County Choral Festival along with choirs from Wakefield, Wake Forest and Rolesville high schools. Students in our program regularly participate in NC All-State Chorus and NCMEA Annual Music Performance Assessments. The choir does travel and has performed in New York City and for Disney's Candlelight processional in Orland Florida. This fall, our Winter Concert was held in December at the St. Marks UMC in Raleigh to a packed audience. This March we will perform with Heritage Elementary and Heritage Middle School choirs on March 19. We are also very pleased to announce the venue for our May concert will be held at the beautiful, historic Wakefield Barn. (YES! we are singing in a barn! ) This will be a community outreach concert sponsored by the Wakefield Choral Booster Organization and funded in part by the Heritage HS PTSA and Wakefield HS PTSA. The concert will be titled "Our World, Our Time, Our Song" and will reflect upon many of the challenges that confront us and those whom we love in a conflicted world. The literature is chosen to enlighten, inspire and challenge each of us to create a world as we dream it to be, rather than accepting the world for what it is. Please plan to join us for this exciting community outreach concert on Thursday, May 16 at the Wakefield Barn located on Falls of Neuse Road in North Raleigh. Light reception to follow downstairs in Stables. |
A graduate of Union Pines High School (’82) in Moore County, John-Philip Mullinax received his formal training at Mars Hill College (B.M.E-‘86), studying voice with Dr. William Thomas and Dr. Susan Hensley. He earned his Master of Music in Conducting Performance (‘98) from the University of North Texas, in Denton, TX, studying with Dr. Hal Gibbons and Dr. Mel Ivy. In addition, he studied Vocal Performance at Converse College with Ms. Jane Rolandi, and Conducting Performance at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, TX, with Dr. Robert Burton and Dr. David Keith. He has performed professionally with Fort Worth Opera, Fort Worth Symphony, and Oklahoma Lyric Theatre. His solo appearances include Faure Requeim, Handel Messiah, Bach Magnificat, Schubert Mass in G, and Haydn Creation.
Mr. Mullinax, a National Board Certified teacher, has held choral and keyboard instructional positions at the Performing Arts High School in Fort Worth, Texas; Pinellas County Center for the Performing Arts at Gibbs High School in St. Petersburg, Florida; and the Academy for the Visual and Performing Arts at Einstein High School, in Kensington, Maryland. Mr. Mullinax was the 2003 Clinician for the Pinellas All-County Middle School Chorus. He is currently the Director of Choral Activities at Wakefield High School in Raleigh NC. In the spring of 2016 he was adjunct faculty at NC State University as Conductor of the NCSU Singing Statesmen. From 2010-2014 he served as the Fine Arts Department Chair at Wakefield High School and from 2010 to 2012, he served as the Co-Staff Development Coordinator for the High School Choral Staff in Wake County, NC. Mr. Mullinax has been a presenter at NCMEA Convention and regularly serves as mentor to student teachers and to new teachers in our county and state. Mr. Mullinax has held various church choral director positions in Texas, SC and NC. He currently serves as Director of Music Ministries at St. Marks United Methodist Church in North Raleigh. In addition, Mr. Mullinax has served on the board of NC Music Educators Association as the District 11 president. In the spring semester of 2017, Mr. Mullinax was invited by the choral director at NC State University (Dr. Nathan Leaf) to serve in an adjunct capacity during his sabbatical, teaching and conducting the NC Singing Statesmen. Mr. Mullinax's choirs have been performed at the NC ACDA conference in Greensboro, NC and at the NCMEA Music Teachers Convention in Winston-Salem, NC. |
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