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Performing Choirsorming Choirs

Coral Reef High School Cordova High School

Rose Singers Concert Singers

The Rose Singers, named in memory of the fi rst
director John Rose, is the top vocal ensemble at Coral The award-winning Concert Singers is the advanced
Reef Senior High. Shanpatrick Davis took over the pro- auditioned ensemble of the choral program at Cordova
gram in 2015, continuing the rich choral tradition. The High School. Each student must maintain a C average
choir has excelled, earning superior ratings on the Dis- in all classes in order to perform with this ensemble. The
trict and State levels since 1997 and performed at South- singers continuously receive excellent and superior rat-
ern ACDA (2004). The Rose Singers performs various ings at local and national festivals. The singers reached
styles of music ranging from Classical to African Amer- national acclaim with over 7 million views for their Face-
ican spirituals. The chorus program at Coral Reef High book tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., performing
is unique, having performed full productions of operas, Nathan Carter’s arrangement of “If I Can Help Some-
musical, and large classical works. body.” The singers are continuously in demand for per-
formance; they made their Carnegie Hall debut in 2018.
Shanpatrick Davis is the director of the
choral activities at Coral Reef Senior High Adrian L. Maclin earned his BM at Philan-
School. He has taught for 20 years, gaining der Smith College. Maclin began his teach-
credibility as a choral director, clinician, ing career in 2007, and for the last eight
and adjudicator. His choirs have consis- years has served the students at Cordova
tently received Superior ratings on both the District and High in the Shelby County School district.
State level; they have been highly requested to sing in He serves on the district’s music leadership team, is the
the community, performing with Gloria Estefan, John president-elect for the West Tennessee Vocal MEA, and
Secada, King Singers, and Seraphic Fire. Davis’s choirs is the Youth R&R Coordinator for the Tennessee Chap-
have won National awards and have been featured per- ter of ACDA. For the last 20 years, Maclin has served as
formances at the FMEA Conference (2007, 2015) and the minister of music for the Mount Moriah-East Bap-
FLACDA Conference (2016). He holds degrees from tist Church. Maclin was recognized by the Country Mu-
Palm Beach Atlantic University (BA) and the Florida sic Association Foundation as one of their 2020 Music
State University (MME). Teachers of Excellence.

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