Caellum Kerr '16 was selected to attend the 54th Biennial National Association for Music Education (NAfME) Eastern Division In-Service Conference, held in Providence on April 9-12. The weekend of music education and performance provided students and teachers the unique opportunity to engage each other in a collaborative effort highlighting the best practices that "serve music education and orchestrate success" for music educators and their students. Those selected to perform in the 2015 All-Eastern Honors Ensembles are more than 800 of the most musically talented high school students in the Eastern region of the United States. Caellum, who sang Bass I, worked prior to the event to prepare a collection of challenging music that he then rehearsed and performed with the 350 members of the All-Eastern Honors Mixed Chorus on Sunday, April 12. Selections included Komm, Susser Tod by J.S. Bach and Blow It Up, Start Again by Jonathan Newman. Caellum was coached and accompanied by Portsmouth Abbey School Music Director Jeff Kerr, who is also Caellum's dad (above, with Caellum).
View the All-Eastern Honors Mixed Chorus performance of April 12, 2015:
All-Eastern Honors Mixed Chorus sings Loch Lomond: view here.