2018 SAISA Music

​Festival Repertoire

Repertoire for Band

• The Incredibles, Michael Giacchino/arr. Bocook
• Spain, Chick Corea/arr. Murtha
• Oblivion, Astor Piazzolla/arr. Longfield
• A Tribute to Gershwin, George Gershwin/arr. Bullock
• Rain, Brian Balmages
• Metrodance, Randall Standridge

​Repertoire for Choir

• Not While I'm Around - Sondheim, arr. Jamie Cullum, Kerry Marsh
• Summertime - Gershwin, arr. Derek Fawcett
• Birdland - Zawinul, Hendricks, arr. Jerry Nowak
• Fix You / Ishq Bina - Berryman, Martin, Buckland & Champion, arr. Jonathan Wikeley, Penn Masala, David Williamson
• Blue Skies - Irving Berlin, arr. Steve Zegree

Conductors

The SAISA Festival has two guest conductors:

Band Conductor

Allyson Royster is the Director of Bands at Holton Arms School in Bethesda, Maryland. She previously served as Band Director at Hong Kong International School, where her students regularly placed in AMIS Honor Bands and where she built an after-school jazz band of 36 members. Ms. Royster’s primary instrument is flute, and she holds degrees from University of Miami (FL) and University of Michigan.

Choir Conductor

Kate Meininger has taught high school and middle school choir for the past 13 years at Chatfield Senior High School in Colorado, the International School of Panama, the International School of Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, and is currently in her second year at Hong Kong International School. Although she has taught a variety of music classes, vocal jazz is her true passion as a teacher and performer. Kate has been an adjudicator and clinician for festivals in the USA, Costa Rica, and Malaysia. As a vocalist and pianist, Kate also enjoys performing in various capacities within the community.