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Urbandale High School Waukee High School

Urbandale Singers A Cappella

Urbandale Singers is the premier choral ensemble at A Cappella is the premiere ensemble at Waukee High

Urbandale High School. Forty-five students in grades School. The choir tours frequently throughout the re-
10-12 have earned their membership in Singers through gion as well as internationally. A Cappella has twice been
a rigorous audition process that includes solo singing, selected to perform at national ACDA conferences in ad-
sight-reading, and tonal memory components. In 2016, dition to performing at multiple regional conferences. A
Urbandale Singers was selected to perform at the North Cappella has been selected for a number of honors and
Central ACDA Conference in Sioux Falls. They were performance opportunities including the Luther Col-
also invited to perform at the inaugural Iowa Choral lege’s Dorian Choral Invitational, the featured choir at
Showcase in 2017 as the large high school division repre- Wartburg’s Meistersinger Honor Choir Festival, and the
sentative. Most recently, the choir performed at the 2019 feature 4A ensemble for ICDA’s Iowa Choral Showcase.
ACDA National Conference in Kansas City.

Jeff Knutson is in his fifth year at Waukee
Theodore Brimeyer is director of choirs High School, where he directs A Cappella,
at Urbandale High School in Urbandale, two bass clef ensembles, Millennium (the
Iowa. He is part of an active vocal music varsity show choir), Avenue Jazz (the var-
program at UHS enrolling 315 students in sity jazz choir), and oversees the logistical
six performing ensembles. His curricular aspects of a large high school choral program. Knutson
duties include leading Urbandale Singers and Concert received his bachelor’s degree from Luther College and
Choir. Brimeyer’s professional training includes an MM his master’s degree in choral conducting from Michi-
from Michigan State University and a BM in Vocal Mu- gan State University. Knutson serves as the High School
sic Education and German from Iowa State University. R&R Chair for the Iowa Choral Directors Association.

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