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  South Dakota Music Educators Association
Regional Festival Choruses
Registration Information
Deadline December 19, 2011
Beresford, Mobridge, Sturgis, Sisseton March 5, 2012
Cost per student: $35 (Includes music, food, T-shirt)
Include one check per school made payable to SDMEA
Criteria for SDMEA FC:
- Music teacher recommending students must be a member of SDMEA.
(If you are not a member, go to www.menc.org and click on “Join MENC Now.”)
- Music teachers are expected to accompany their students and provide one chaperone for every 10 students.
- Each teacher may bring 10 students meeting the following criteria:
- Presently in grades 4, 5, or 6.
- Sing on pitch consistently.
- Maintain musical part independently.
- Spend extra time LEARNING and MEMORIZING MUSIC BEFORE THE FESTIVAL.
- Exhibit SELF-DISCIPLINE and appropriate behavior in rehearsals and concerts.
- Sing in the treble vocal range with pleasing vocal qualities that blend well with others.
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 Mobridge Guest Director
Rebecca Petrik
Rebecca Petrik instructs students in Music Education, Guitar, and Private Voice at Minot State University. She also directs MSU Singers and is an active professor within the Minot State Master of Music Education Program.
Mrs. Petrik holds a Masters Degree from St.Thomas University, St. Paul, MN and a Bachelor’s degree from Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI. She is an active member of American Choral Directors of America, MENC, American Orff Schulwerk Association, and the State Chapter of AOSA: Prairie Winds Orff.
Before joining the faculty at MSU Music Division, Mrs. Petrik enjoyed 29 years working with young people and music. She taught music and directed choirs of all ages from preschool to high school. She continues her work with young singers through adjudicating North Dakota’s regional and state music festivals. Mrs. Petrik has served as a choral clinician throughout North Dakota, including the Surround the State In Song Choirs in Dickinson, Minot, Bismarck, Bottineau, and Grand Forks, the Bismarck All City Chorus, the Celebration of Music, and the All Northwest Women’s Choir and Nova Choir. Mrs. Petrik also served for many years on the voice faculty at International Music Camp.
Mrs. Petrik is the Artistic Director of The Western Plains Children’s Choirs here in Minot, North Dakota. She directs the Western Plains Junior Choir and the Western Plains Children’s Choir. The children’s choirs rehearse on the MSU campus allowing pre-service music educators the opportunity to engage in working with the choirs.
 Sisseton Guest Director
Charlette Moe
Charlette Moe joined the NDSU Music faculty in the fall of 2008. She serves as a coordinator for the Mastersof Music in Music Education degree and teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in music education. Dr. Moe is also the conductor of Cantemus, the NDSU women's choir.
Dr. Moe received a Bachelor of Music degree in music education magna cum laude from Concordia College, a Master of Science degree in music education from Minnesota State University Moorhead and a Doctorate of Music in conducting from North Dakota State University.
As a choral teacher and classroom music teacher for over 15 years in the Minnesota Public School System, Dr. Moe has had experience teaching all grade levels. She was nominated for Minnesota Teacher of the Year in 1999 and 2004. Dr. Moe’s past guest conducting engagements were at regional high school, elementary and middle-level choral festivals. She has presented at music conventions in North Dakota and Minnesota.
Dr. Moe has served as a section-coach for the Minnesota All-State Choir, a judge for vocal solo and ensemble contests, a member of the planning committe for the 2008 ACDA North Central Convention and is a member of ACDA and OAKE. Presently, she is past-president for the Northern Plains Kodály Chapter and R&S chair for women's literature for NDACDA. Dr. Moe, her husband Gordon, and two boys live in Hawley, MN.
 Beresford Guest Director
Leah Ries
Leah Ries is the artistic director of the Mankato Children’s Chorus and currently directs the fourth and fifth grade Youth Choir and high school Melodia Choir. She joined MCC in 2000 developing the curriculum for the two youngest training choirs. Leah received a Bachelor of Music Education degree from Oklahoma Christian University of Science and Arts, Oklahoma City, and a Kodály Certification with emphasis in choral conducting at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma. While teaching in Oklahoma, she worked with Robert J. Ward and the Stillwater Boys Choir.
Ms. Ries’ choirs have been invited to sing at the Oklahoma Music Educators Association Conference, Minnesota Educators Association Mid Winter Workshops, Festival of the States in Washington D.C. and most recently at the annual state American Choral Directors Association, MN convention. In addition to her work with MCC, Leah is an elementary music specialist in the Mankato, Minnesota Public Schools, and is active as a festival director, clinician and adjudicator.
 Sturgis Guest Director
Barb Newman
Barb Newman has taught general music and beginner’s band for over 34 years in the Pierre and Brookings School districts. She now teaches privately and is founder and director of Capital City
Children’s Chorus, a non-profit organization that services unchanged voices in the Pierre and surrounding area. She has judged regional music contests throughout the State of South Dakota, and has directed high school music festivals, IMC, community choruses, theatre musicals, Episcopal church choirs and is a featured clarinet soloist.
Mrs. Newman is a graduate of SDSU, and has her Level Three Orff-Schulwerk certification from the University of St. Thomas. She is past president of South Dakota Music Educators Association and has served as an Elementary Chair, Membership Chair, and currently Government and Relations Chair. She is also a member of ACDA, National Orff-Schulwerk Association, and National Kodaly Association and is on the advisory board for SD Alliance for Arts Education (SDAAE).
Mrs. Newman and her husband Rick are owners of the Zesto Ice Cream Shoppe in Pierre and have two children, a daughter Jocelyn 30, who is a dermatology resident at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, and a son Brendan 24, audio engineer and guitarist in Manhattan, New York.
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