Arrowhead High School

Choir Department

 
 
ANNOUNCEMENTS State Solo and Ensemble Saturday May 5 Schedule - Click Here Other Information - Click Here  SUPPORT THE ARROWHEAD CENTER FOR THE ARTS The goal of the Arrowhead Center for the Arts Task Force (ACA) is two fold. First, the ACA is working with the School Board to address space issues at the high school which today negatively impact the arts program. Second, the ACA is working with the school to educate and enlighten the Lake Country Community on the value Arts based programs bring to a child’s education. Our motto is, “It Starts with the Arts” because we believe the Arts are a critical component of every child’s education, not just those pursing an Arts based career. To help the School District address these serious needs, the ACA is chartered to raise private donations as a means to offset some of the cost while building community support for an improved school fine arts program. Arrowhead Union High School has a strong history of privately supported facilities development. Several Athletic and Academic programs have leveraged private funds to enhance students experience at Arrowhead. Its time for the Art programs to do the same. To make a tax deductible donation, please go to www.arrowheadcenterforthearts.com, e-mail info@arrowheadcenterforthearts.com  or contact us at Tel: (262)370-1805. Together we can work to ensure the arts remain a component of our children’s education, now and in the future. Remember, “It Starts with the Arts”. Click here to see videos from previous One Night Only concerts  Click here to see the AHS Holiday Choir Concert  The Cast of All Shook Up - October 2011 THANK YOU Wisconsin Governor’s Mansion Performance by South Select - June , 2010 “It was a real pleasure to meet you last night and to hear your   wonderful group perform. I heard more comments about the choir than I  did anything else at the reception! It was a fabulous highlight for   the evening, and I hope you and the students enjoyed your performance there, as well.” Andrea Mauch Director of Development Wisconsin Foundation for School Music CONGRATULATIONS! 6 AHS Choir Students in Wisconsin Honors Choir  Based on state-wide auditions in February, six Arrowhead High School choir students will join the 2012 Wisconsin State Honors Choir.  Students from around the state audition to be part of the Wisconsin State Honors Music Project.  Only 25 students per voice part are chosen to sing with the prestigious Wisconsin Honors Choir. The students will spend three days in June working with a renowned conductor. They reconvene in October to present a concert at the Wisconsin State Music Teachers’ Convention in Madison.  Students chosen to participate are: 
Amanda Bruening Joey Ferrito Anna Kolokoski Emily Landry Noah Nethery Ciera Schmidt   Alternates: Shaina Clemens, Nolan Jensen   Click here to read about CATS in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel  Steinway to Heaven   Thank you to the Arrowhead High School community for their generosity in our drive to acquire a concert grand piano for the Arrowhead High School music department. Special thanks to Rich and Lisa Conley, Maria Hansen, Sarah Bevington, Leslie Salick, Jody Sattler, Cathy Paquette, Roger and Ginny Thorson, the Giuffre family, and Tony and Patty Antony.  The new Steinway B will be featured this year on our Choir Concerts. Choir_Home_Page_files/state%20solo.ens%2012%20schedule.pdfChoir_Home_Page_files/state%20soloensemble%2012%20info.pdfhttp://www.arrowheadcenterforthearts.com/mailto:info@arrowheadcenterforthearts.comhttp://www.youtube.com/user/AHSAlumnihttp://www.viddler.com/explore/mattluebke/videos/112/http://www.viddler.com/explore/mattluebke/videos/112/http://www.jsonline.com/news/education/32471774.htmlhttp://www.jsonline.com/news/education/32471774.htmlshapeimage_1_link_0shapeimage_1_link_1shapeimage_1_link_2shapeimage_1_link_3shapeimage_1_link_4shapeimage_1_link_5shapeimage_1_link_6shapeimage_1_link_7shapeimage_1_link_8

Moodle

Students and Parents:  Use Moodle to complete extra credit, find the choir calendar, ask questions, and access other choir information.

To login to Moodle go to:

moodle.arrowheadschools.org

•Login using your Novell(computer) login.

•Your password is your student ID number.

•Under "Course Categories" click on Music and then AHS Choir

•Enter the enrollment key: choir

•Parents:  login as a guest; use the enrollment key:  choir

Links

Choir Blog


Arrowhead High School Home Page


Arrowhead Moodle


Arrowhead Center for the Arts

The Arrowhead Choirs


Over 450 students participate in the choral music program at Arrowhead High School. The five choirs at Arrowhead include Treble Choir, Baritone Chorale, Select Ensemble, North Concert Choir, and a music theater troupe called The Broadway Company.


Students in the choral program perform a wide variety of choral music styles, and participate in madrigal ensembles, barbershop quartets and men's and women's octets. Arrowhead High School students appear frequently with the Wisconsin State Honors Choir.


Selected by The Lorenz Corporation to participate in a music theater project, the choir produced several professional recordings for Lorenz. The Arrowhead High School Choir  performed for the opening of Miller Park, Tommy Thompson's induction as the cabinet secretary for Health and Human Services, and for a Milwaukee appearance by President George W. Bush.

The Arrowhead Directors


Grace Bielski is a 2005 graduate of UW-Milwaukee.   Her college experience gave her many wonderful opportunities to perform and develop her understanding and knowledge of the art of singing and teaching. Upon her December graduation she was hired at South Milwaukee Middle School where she taught for three and a half years.  Grace is excited to be a new addition to the Arrowhead faculty for the upcoming 2009-2010 school year.  She and her husband, Chris, currently reside in Milwaukee.


Nancy Smirl Jorgensen earned a Bachelor of Music from Alverno College and a Master of Music from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. An Arrowhead High School choir director since 1984, she is the co-author of two books, Things They Never Taught You in Choral Methods and From the Trenches: Real Insights from Real Choral Educators. Nancy and her husband, Joel, have two daughters.  Older daughter, Elizabeth Jorgensen, teaches Creative Writing and Advanced Composition at Arrowhead High School. Younger daughter, Gwen Jorgensen, is an All-American runner, triathlete, and CPA.