Choir
2024-2025 Madrigal and Chanterelle Audition Information
The 2024-2025 Madrigal and Chanterelle auditions are the week of April 2nd. Students can come to the choir room and sign up for a 5-minute time slot to audition. The audition will be one one-on-one with me, during which we will do some basic warm-ups, sing a section of a hymn that we sing at Mass, and sight-sing.
Please go to https://forms.gle/jZqZ2dxnUhkHQfZu9 to complete the Google informational form before auditions.
Please see Mrs. Seiler for any questions!
Overview
The Bishop Carroll Catholic High School Choirs perform for and participate in many activities during the school year, including All School Masses, Fall and Christmas Concerts, the Kansas State High School Regional and State Solo and Ensemble Festival and our annual Golden Review Concert.
Click HERE to view our calendar and learn more about our upcoming performances.
See below for more information about our four choirs: Carrolleers Choir, Chanterelles, Concert Choir, and Madrigals.
Carrolleers Choir
Carrolleers is the freshman women’s ensemble at BCCHS, open to any freshman woman who wants to sing. This ensemble performs women’s mixed music in a variety of styles and compositional periods.
Chanterelles
Chanterelles is our advanced upper class women’s ensemble. This choir is selected by audition only. Auditions are held in the Spring for the following year - all candidates must be able to read music well, have outstanding attitudes, attendance and work ethics as well as completion of the basic theory. This ensemble not only performs many pieces throughout the year, but also has the opportunity to go on tour in the fall.
Concert Choir
Concert Choir is our intermediate level mixed ensemble. This ensemble is open to any freshman male, as well as any sophomore, junior, or senior who is interested in singing with a mixed ensemble. This choir takes the basics of reading music and sight singing, and enhances it with music and performance.
Madrigals
Madrigals is our advanced upper class mixed ensemble. This choir is selected by audition only. Auditions are held in the Spring for the following year - all candidates must be able to read music well, have outstanding attitudes, attendance and work ethics as well as completion of the basic theory. This group learns music fast, and works quickly, as they sing many times in the community, as well as on tour in the fall.
Choir Director Melissa Seiler
Melissa Seiler grew up in Hutchinson, attended Trinity Catholic Jr./Sr. High School and was a member of the Celtic Singers. She then attended William Jewell College, in Liberty, MO, earning a Bachelor of Science in Music Education and a Bachelor of Science in Church Music, graduating with honors.
While in college, Melissa was a member of the Chapel Choir for four years, Chamber Singers for one year and Concert Choir for three years. She also had the opportunity to tour with the WJC choirs throughout the Midwest as well as England and Scotland. Mrs. Seiler then returned to Wichita, where she began teaching at Bishop Carroll. She received her Masters in Music Education from WSU in 2010.