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| Ron Carpenter RON CARPENTER, the Artistic Director of the Phoenix Children's Chorus, is a native of Arizona. He began his musical training as a child in the Phoenix Boys Choir and was fortunate to be a student of Bart Evans at Dobson High School. He studied Conducting with Dr. Jo-Michael Scheibe at Northern Arizona University where he earned a Bachelor of Music Education and a Master of Educational Administration. Mr. Carpenter has taught choral music in the Mesa Public Schools since 1993. For 18 years he was the Director of Choirs at Hendrix and Poston Junior High Schools. In 2011 he became the Director of Choirs at Dobson High School. He has served as the Director of the Phoenix Children’s Chorus Concert Choir since 1993 and held the post of Artistic Director since 2002. In addition, he was a faculty member of the University of Miami Annual Choral Camp for seven years and has served as a clinician in Arizona, California, Nevada and Florida. Mr. Carpenter's biography has been published in the 2000 and 2004 edition of "Who's Who Among America's Teachers" and the 2003 edition of "Who's Who in America". Mr. Carpenter is an active member of the American Choral Directors Association and the Music Educators National Conference. He has presented on the topics of junior high vocal warm-ups, junior high choral literature and managing the choral classroom at Arizona Music Educators Conferences and has held offices in both organizations. Throughout his career, Mr. Carpenter's choirs have consistently earned superior ratings at festivals. His choirs have been selected to perform for the Arizona Music Educators on nine separate occasions. In 1997, the Hendrix Junior High School Concert Choir was selected to perform for the Western Division of the American Choral Directors Association. Under his direction the Phoenix Children's Chorus Concert Choir earned a bronze certificate at the 2000 World Choral Olympics in Linz, Austria and a silver Certificate at the 2004 World Choral Olympics in Bremen, Germany. |
