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2024 ACDA Southwestern Region Conference February 27 - March 2, 2024 Denver, Colorado

Liberty North High School MacArthur High School
Chamber Choir A Cappella Treble Choir

Established in 2019 and consisting of twenty singers
in grades 9-12, the A Cappella Treble Choir is a select
The Liberty North High School Chamber Choir is varsity treble group comprising members from MacAr-
an auditioned, non-curricular ensemble that meets two thur High School’s A Cappella Choir, the varsity mixed
hours per week. Each student must first audition for the ensemble. The ensemble’s first year in existence was
Concert Choir and then complete the rigorous audi- during hybrid instruction at Irving ISD. In addition to
tion process to be accepted into the Chamber Choir. their mixed ensemble rehearsals, members attended
There are strict guidelines that hold each member virtual and outdoor rehearsals throughout the year and
accountable for attendance and active participation. ended the contest season by receiving their first of four
These students represent the best and brightest, most sweepstakes, the highest accolade from Texas’s Univer-
well-rounded, and most involved students that Liberty sity Interscholastic League (UIL) contest.
North has to offer. More importantly, these students
express their humanity through music and explore the Lauren Davis has worked in music edu-
depths of emotions that music helps to define. cation for fourteen years. She began her

career in Del Rio Middle School before
Brian Hartman has served as a choral moving to Huntsville High School and
music educator for twenty-three years, returning to Dallas six years ago to di-
currently enjoying his fourteenth at Lib- rect at MacArthur High School in Irving ISD. Choirs
erty North High School in Liberty, Mis- under her direction regularly receive sweepstakes at
souri. Throughout his tenure, Hartman University Interscholastic League (UIL) competitions,
has enjoyed performances as a singer, conductor, and have singers perform in Texas All-State choirs, excel
adjudicator across the United States and abroad. Hart- at regional and state level solo and ensemble contest,
man is active in music education organizations, having boast members in the ACDA National Honor Choir,
served in numerous roles with the Kansas City Metro and are active performers in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area.
District, MCDA, SWACDA, and Missouri MEA, serv- Davis earned her BME from Texas A&M University-
ing as president for the 2022-2024 term. He holds de- Commerce. She performs with various community
grees from Wichita State University (BME), University choirs, opera groups, and churches across the Dallas-
of Missouri-Columbia (MM), and Northwest Missouri Ft. Worth Metroplex.
State University (EdS).

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