Elementary Festival Honor Choir
The Elementary Festival Honor Choir is an independent honor choir of approximately 180 fourth, fifth and sixth grade students who are selected by recorded audition. The choir meets and performs each year during the annual SDSU Choral Day event.
Doors open at 4:30 p.m.
Concert begins at 4:45 p.m.
Not a ticketed event. Event will not be livestreamed.
Nomination form will open fall 2025.
- Students must be in the fourth, fifth or sixth grade at the time of audition.
- Students must be recommended by their school music teacher, director or private instructor.*
- Teachers and students must work together to submit an audition form and upload an audio file.
- A $5 registration fee is required of each student who auditions.
- Students chosen to be part of the Elementary Honor Choir must be accompanied by their music teacher on the day of the festival.
- Audio files must be uploaded to the link provided at registration.
Students selected for the Elementary Honor Choir will practice in Brookings during the day and end with a concert in the Oscar Larson Performing Arts Center. An additional charge of $35 per student is assessed once a student receives notification of acceptance. The charge covers the cost of a T-shirt (worn during the performance), lunch, snack breaks and music. An additional set of music will be provided to each teacher who has students selected.
*Parents are not allowed to submit. Schools of any size (private or public) are able to submit auditions.
Angela Kasper has 32 years of experience serving as director of choral activities at the university level, where she conducted choirs and taught undergraduate and graduate courses in conducting, choral methods, global choral traditions and choral literature. Kasper presents for state, regional and national chapters of the American Choral Directors Association, National Association for Music Education, Organization of American Kodály Educators and American Orff-Schulwerk Association. Guest conducting engagements include children’s honor choirs for the Eastern, Southwestern, North Central, Central and Northwestern ACDA Division Conferences, the ACDA National Conference in Salt Lake City, numerous engagements in Asia, South America and the Middle East, and all-state choirs in many states. Kasper is passionate about sharing what she has learned over the course of her career with other practicing choral teachers. She is rediscovering and redefining for herself what makes a meaningful choral experience and how best to place this evolving view at the center of her work with her own choirs and her professional development work. The book she wrote with Mary Goetze and Ruth Boshkoff, "Educating Young Singers," is published by GIA.
