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P er f orming C hoirs
Performing Choirs

Trinity Springs Middle School Trinity University
Chamber Mixed Choir Chamber Singers

The Trinity Springs Middle School Chamber
Mixed Choir is a distinguished, non-auditioned en-
semble comprising dedicated students from all choirs The Chamber Singers have performed for NCCO,
across our campus. Meeting once a week after school, TMEA, and at the CMS national conference. In 2018
these students exemplify commitment, musical excel- they were ensemble-in-residence at the Eisenstadt Clas-
lence, and a love for choral artistry. Despite its informal sical Music Festival in Austria. In 2021 they collaborat-
structure, the ensemble has achieved national recog- ed with Sinfonia Spirituosa on French Baroque works,
nition, being named the national winner of the Mark including Delalande’s De profundis. Their Carnegie Hall
of Excellence Award from the Foundation for Music debut came in June 2022 as the featured ensemble in
Education in 2024, 2022, 2021, and 2020. They also Mozart’s Requiem. In 2024 they performed Fauré’s Re-
consistently earn UIL sweepstakes awards at the an- quiem at L’église de la Madeleine in Paris. They earned
nual concert and sight-reading evaluation, showcasing third place in the 2022 American Prize as the smallest
their musical artistry. Above all, the Trinity Springs school among the cohort of national finalists.
Choir Program is committed to cultivating humanity
through music—empowering students to become kind, Gary Seighman is a professor, director of
resilient, and compassionate individuals while creating choral activities, and chair of the Music
memories that will resonate throughout their lives. Department at Trinity University in San
Antonio. Under his direction, Trinity’s
Clinton Hardy Ferrie is the head choir di- choral ensembles have garnered many
rector at Trinity Springs Middle School accolades with invited conference performances, tours
and is in his seventeenth year of teach- throughout the United States and abroad, commercial
ing. He received his bachelor’s degree recordings, and third prize for The American Prize.
from TCU and his master’s degree from Seighman has traveled to East Asia six times, where
UNT. His Varsity Treble Choir was invited to per- he conducted the Peking University Summer Opera
form at the 2025 National ACDA Conference, 2023 Program and led graduate masterclasses in Taiwan.
TMEA Conference, 2022 SWACDA Conference, and He holds degrees from Westminster Choir College, the
the 2019 TMEA Conference. He also conducted his University of Oklahoma, and the University of Mary-
Varsity Tenor-Bass Choir at the 2021 National ACDA land. Seighman will conduct the 2025–2026 Texas Pri-
Conference. vate School All-State Choir.

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