Dr. Shannon Jeffreys, director of Choral Activities and assistant professor at Georgia Southern UniversityJoin the Delta State University choirs on Sunday, Feb. 14 at 2 p.m. in the Bologna Performing Arts Center for this year’s Honor Choir concert.
DSU will host approximately 140 high school students from more than 15 schools in Mississippi and Tennessee. These students were selected through competitive on-site auditions in October and will visit the Delta State campus for the weekend to celebrate their achievements in choral music.
The concert will also feature the Delta State Chorale performing several selections including the Kentucky Appalachian tune “Bright Morning Star,” Beethoven’s “Hallelujah Chorus,” and Dan Forrest’s “Lead, Kindly Light,” as well the Delta State University Chamber Singers performing Stan Wagnon’s “The Least of These” with faculty member Dr. Laurissa Backlin as a soloist.
The guest conductor for the Honor Choir is Dr. Shannon Jeffreys, who is the director of Choral Activities and assistant professor at Georgia Southern University, where she conducts Southern Chorale, Fermata the Blue, and Southern Gentlemen and teaches undergraduate and graduate conducting and literature courses.
She has led Southern Chorale in two international choral competitions where the choir won significant awards earning the highest overall score in Sing ‘N’ Joy, Louisville in 2013. Dr. Jeffreys’ choirs have also been invited to perform in state conferences of the American Choral Directors Association and the national conference of the National Association for Music Education. Last spring, she was awarded the “CLASS Award of Distinction in Teaching” from the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences.
Dr. Jeffreys holds degrees in music performance and conducting from Birmingham Southern College, the University of Mississippi, and the University of South Carolina. Dr. Jeffreys is an active adjudicator and clinician and a member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, American Choral Directors Association, and National Association for Music Education.
