Middle School Honor Chorus
Middle School Honor Chorus
Fairview Performing Arts Center
This event includes a FREE concert
conducted by Ms. Caitlin Boyd
September 30, 2023 at 3:00 PM
(This is a clear bag event)
Each year, middle school chorus teachers send students to represent their schools and our county in the Middle School Honor Chorus. The event includes a weekend of rehearsals and workshops with guest clinicians who help prepare them for a culminating concert. The HCS Middle School Honor Chorus is open to all middle school students and narrowed down to only a few select students from each school who exhibit excellence in choral music education.
Our guest clinician for the annual Henry County Middle School Honor Chorus is Mrs. Caitlin Boyd. We are honored to have Mrs. Boyd, a HCS chorus and theatre teacher at Luella Middle School, work with our talented young singers.
We are fortunate to have Ms. Kasey Hawkins as the pianist for all of our honor choruses for the 2023-2024 school year.
Caitlin Boyd, conductor
Mrs. Boyd is a native of Atlanta, Georgia. She began her teaching career in 2016 in Charlottesville, Virginia. Prior to this, she taught private voice at Athens School of Music and conducted several college choirs as a student director and church choirs as the youth choir director. After returning home in 2018, she began teaching at Luella Middle School in Locust Grove, Georgia. She has worked to build and foster the choral program in the Luella cluster. Her groups have received superior ratings for Large Group Performance Evaluation. Mrs. Boyd has traveled with students to Washington, DC and is preparing to take them to New York in the spring.
Mrs. Boyd earned her Bachelor's in Music Education with a concentration in voice from the University of Georgia in December 2014 and her Master's in Educational Leadership in December 2022. She is currently a member of the National Association for Music Education, the Georgia Music Educators Association, and Sigma Alpha Iota.
Kasey Hawkins, pianist
Kasey Hawkins is a native of Colorado, but now resides in Thomaston, Georgia. She has played piano since she was 4 and accompanied various choral programs since she was 10. Since then, she has been a Collaborative Pianist for numerous community theatre and school productions, middle and high school choirs, college voice lessons, and solo and ensemble performance evaluations as well as multiple District and County Honor Choruses. She has played the role as Music Director and Assistant Director for various musical theatre productions and has twice won Best Music Direction for the Metropolitan Atlanta Theater Awards.
She received her Bachelor’s Degree in Music Education with a minor in church music and piano pedagogy from MidAmerica Nazarene University in Kansas City, KS and her Master’s Degree in Curriculum, Instruction, and Development from Walden University. Kasey has been married to James Hawkins for 19 years, taught elementary general music in Henry County for 14 years, and now stays home with and is a proud parent of their beautiful 5-year old daughter, Hannah.