MIDDLE SCHOOL | ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL
Junior Finalist Music
Your repertoire, Conductor's notes, and sheet music will be posted here when available. We will send you an email update whenever items are uploaded to this page.
Program Repertoire
Coming Soon! The repertoire for the 2020 Middle School Ensembles at Royal Festival will be announced in the coming weeks.
Your Conductors are looking forward to making beautiful music with you this summer and have selected a number of pieces to highlight your talent and range. Sheet music and part assignments will be shared in June; we encourage you to begin familiarizing yourself with online recordings of each piece so you are familiar with the repertoire when the sheet music is sent out.
Tickets to the Honors Junior Performance at Royal Festival Hall
Please note that the Junior Finalist package does not include a ticket to the Honors Junior Performance for friends or family members. While each loved one participating in an Honors Family Program receives one Priority Seating ticket to the performance, we recognize that other family and friends may want to purchase individual tickets or sit elsewhere in the hall. Individual, non-priority tickets may be purchased through the Royal Festival Hall Box Office. Tickets (as available) will go on sale 60 days before the performance at https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on. We are unable to accommodate requests for individually purchased tickets to be seated in the Priority Seating section.
Instrument Rental Information
Finalists are expected to bring their instruments with them (exclusions: pianos and percussion will be provided). If two instruments are listed on your acceptance letter, please bring both. Music stands and sheet music will be provided. The Honors Performance Series encourages instrumentalists to bring their own instruments to London. We have found that students perform their best when playing the instrument that they practice with year-round, which helps ensure the quality of the performance. For additional information about traveling with your instrument, as well as a list of instrument rental companies recommended by the Series, please visit www.honorsperformance.org/instruments.
About Your Conductors
Rollo Dilworth
Conductor, Middle School Honors Junior Choir
Dr. Rollo Dilworth is Professor of Choral Music Education and Chair of the Department of Music Education and Therapy at Temple University’s Boyer College of Music and Dance in Philadelphia, PA. He has conducted 50 all-state choirs, 6 regional honor choirs, and 5 national honor choirs.
Prior to his appointment at Boyer College in 2009, he taught at the collegiate and middle school levels. Dilworth holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Music Education from Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, OH), a Master of Education degree in Secondary Education and Music from the University of Missouri-St. Louis and a Doctor of Music degree in Conducting Performance from Northwestern University.
During his doctoral program, Dilworth was accepted into the composition studios of Robert Harris, Pauline Oliveros, and Marta Ptaszynska. Throughout his career, he has written or arranged African American spirituals, gospel songs, Broadway selections, art songs, vocal exercises, and a musical—all of which are frequently performed by school, church, community, university, and professional choirs across the world. He has published more than 200 compositions and arrangements and is an established author, having published and contributed to numerous textbooks.
Curt Ebersole
Conductor, Middle School Honors Junior Orchestra
Curt Ebersole has served as the Conductor/Music Director (John P. Paynter Memorial Chair) of the Westchester Symphonic Winds since 2008, fostering its exponential growth over the past ten years. He retired from Northern Valley Regional High School (Old Tappan, New Jersey) in 2013 after serving as Director of Instrumental Music for 31 years, and now teaches at The Masters School, in Dobbs Ferry, New York. He earned a Bachelor of Music Education degree and a Master of Music in Conducting degree from Northwestern University, where he studied conducting with John P. Paynter and clarinet with Larry Combs, and earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in Clarinet Performance from SUNY-Purchase, where he studied with Ben Armato. He has served as a guest conductor and clinician for numerous county, regional, and all-state student ensembles, and adult community ensembles across the nation, including performances at Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, and Symphony Space, and in Las Vegas, South Korea and Australia. His achievements include multiple teaching awards, ensemble and solo performances as a clarinetist and basset hornist, and speaking/clinic engagements with the Midwest Clinic, TEDxOneonta, and several state music education conventions and conducting symposia.
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