Show Cards
The Colerain High School Show Cards
are a competition show choir whose performances feature singing, dancing,
backdrops, costume changes, and a live band. In recent years the nationally
acclaimed Show Cards have emerged as one of the premier choral groups
in North America, routinely turning in dazzling performances before
thousands of delighted audience members each season. Consistent finalists and grand
champions in both regional and national competitions, the Show Cards
enjoy a well-deserved reputation as a talented and highly entertaining
ensemble.
Show Card auditions, consisting of
vocal and dance segments, as well as a personal interview, are held each
spring for the coming school year.
Show Card Band
The Show Card Band travels
with and accompanies the singers as an important part of the competition
program. In recent years this elite group of musicians has been awarded the
“Best Instrumentals” trophy at numerous competition sites, and has been a
primary force in the national success of the Show Card organization.
The Show Card Band typically consists of wind instruments and
a rhythm section. Auditions are held each spring for the coming school
year.
Show Card Tech Crew
The heart and soul of the group, the
Show Card Tech Crew is responsible for the sound, lighting, costumes,
props, and stagecraft for the live performances. The first to arrive at and
the last to depart from any performance venue, these hard-working folks have
an enormous influence on the success of the presentation. Having won
several “Best Stage Crew” awards in competition, they conduct themselves
with pride and dignity. Nobody does it better than the Show Card Tech
Crew!
Vocé
Vocé (Voices of Choral
Education) is the Show Card parent booster organization.
Pronounced VO-chay (the Italian word for VOICE), this group promotes the
Show Card agenda through fundraising, advertising, account managing,
social events, school service projects, spirit wear, costume care, set
building and cartage, travel accommodations, banquets, competition and
performance support, and myriad other programs, all of which enrich student
lives and development.
Vocé meets the first Tuesday of each month, 7:00
PM, in the CHS vocal music room. All Show Card parents and
supporters are invited to attend the meetings and become members. Vocé
belongs to the Colerain High School Boosters and coordinates its work with
this community-wide organization. Click
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officers, as well as contact information on the CHS Boosters.
Meet Our Directors
Michael Parks
Michael Parks has been a
composer for thirty-four years and a church musician for twenty-five of
those. With over three hundred published works to his credit, he has
kept a busy schedule of appearances as a conductor, lecturer,
adjudicator, and clinician.
Michael Parks’ choral
music has gone into churches, schools, and universities around the world
and his orchestral works have found their way into symphony halls and
recital programs throughout the United States. He is a veteran
arranger/conductor for countless recording sessions in Nashville,
Cincinnati, and Indianapolis, and served as conductor for the renowned
Sounds for Hope concert
series at Cincinnati’s famed Music Hall. In recent years he has worked
with such luminaries as Erich Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra,
and has been commissioned by the Helen Steiner Rice Foundation, as well
as many secondary school band and choral programs. His writings on
learning theories have been published by leading research universities,
and his compositions have garnered several ASCAP awards. He was honored
to serve on the 2007-08 Ohio All-State Choir adjudication committee.
Mr. Parks holds a Bachelor
of Music degree from Mercer University in Macon, GA and a Master of
Music degree from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of
Music. He and his wife, Randie, are enjoying their seventh year of
co-teaching on the Colerain High School music faculty.
Randie Parks
Randie
Parks holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the Belmont University
School of Music in Nashville, TN. She has long been a featured soloist
for professional conventions, educator conferences, and churches. Her
work as a session singer has placed her on a variety of recordings for
numerous publishing houses and theme parks across the country. As a
private voice teacher she maintained a talent-laden studio, helping to
place many students in prestigious university and conservatory programs
and onto professional stages.
A music educator
for most of the year, Randie performs frequently in summer theater, most
recently in The Music Man
and as “Anna” in The King and I.
A veteran judge of mid-western show choir competitions, she also served
on the 2007-08 Ohio All-State Choir adjudication committee. Currently
she chairs the music department at Colerain High School while
co-teaching curricular and extra-curricular vocal music with her
husband.
Kylie
Parks - Vocal Coach & Performance Consultant
As a performer, Kylie has appeared
in productions of The Music Man, My Fair Lady, Our Town,
and was co-director of The Miracle Worker. While a student at the
Belmont University School of Music, where she received her Bachelor of Music
degree, Kylie served as assistant director for the renowned show choir
Company, as well as the Belmont University Pops Choir. She studied
voice with Jennifer Coleman, a veteran of the New York Metropolitan Opera,
and with Elizabeth Montgomery who, in addition to being a well known
educator, songwriter, and Nashville session singer, studied and performed
with Tony Award-winning actress Kristin Chenoweth. Currently
she teaches choral and general music at the E.H. Greene Intermediate School
in Cincinnati. In addition to her
musical pursuits, Kylie has become a noted conference speaker, focusing on
issues of health, self-image, and related women’s topics.
Jason Johnson -
Choreographer
A professional
singer, dancer, and choreographer, Jason has been seen in national and
international tours of the Broadway musicals
Thoroughly Modern Millie and
Fosse. He has also worked as a
performer/choreographer for Opryland Productions, Busch Gardens, Cedar
Point, and the Holland America and Radisson Cruise Lines. In addition to
his work with regional musical theaters across the country, Jason has
choreographed for and performed with country acts Steve Gatlin and Kenny
Rogers. An eighteen year veteran of competitive show choir work, Jason
graduated from Ball State University with a Bachelor’s Degree in both Choral
and Instrumental Music Education.
