NPHS Choir


	NEWBURY PARK HIGH SCHOOL CHORAL MUSIC Concert Choir is a large, select mixed choir that learns and performs medium to difficult level choral music of varying styles throughout the school year. The newest performing ensemble at NPHS, the Women's Ensemble, performs traditional treble choir music and some women's barbershop. Performance venues are not only at Newbury Park High School, but also at other sites both locally and throughout the country. The NPHS Panther Chamber Singers is an elite performing choir of 20-30 singers, chosen by audition from the ranks of the Concert Choir and Women's Ensemble. The Chamber Singers perform throughout the year for school and local community events. All three performance ensembles also sing in adjudicated festivals sponsored by the American Choral Director's Association and the Southern California Vocal Association. Last Spring, they traveled to New York City for a four day festival where our 90+ Women's Ensemble, Concert Choir and Chamber singers participated in a weekend of fun and exciting competition, including site seeing and lots of attractions. Both the Chamber Singers and the Concert Choir received First Place Gold ratings (90% or above) at this festival. Our first-year Women's Ensemble received a Silver rating; a very impressive accomplishment for a first-year ensemble. This year, they will travel to San Francisco in April to participate in the prestigious Heritage Festival. At this event they will work with some of the most highly regarded adjudicators and clinicians in the country.

	JOHN K. SARGENT John is Choral Music Director at Newbury Park High School where he conducts the Concert Choir, Panther Chamber Singers and Chorus. He also teaches Music Theory Advanced Placement, Music Appreciation and serves as music director in the fall or spring musical. John graduated from California State University, Northridge with a Bachelor of Music Degree in voice and music education where he sang in major opera productions and studied under the tutelage of John Alexander. At Littlerock High School in the Antelope Valley, he initiated a choral program from the ground up with an enrollment of over 120 singers in three choirs. From 1990-1993 he served as Assistant Conductor of the Antelope Valley Master Chorale at Antelope Valley College. John earned his Master of Music degree in choral conducting at California State University, Los Angeles, where he studied with Dr. William Belan and Donald Brinegar. Also known as "Sarge" this is his eighth year at Newbury Park.
	ROSA LOGIUDICE Rosa LoGiudice has been staff accompanist and assistant director for the Newbury Park High School Choirs since 2005. Rosa studied music at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and Portland State University in Oregon and graduated summa cum laude from Hunter College in New York City with Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Music. A resident of Newbury Park since 2003, Rosa frequently performs with instrumentalists and singers in addition to solo piano recitals. She is a performing member of the Santa Barbara Music Club and performs chamber music with strings frequently in the Glendale Noon Concert series. Rosa also enjoys singing and has been a soprano with the acclaimed local ensemble Oaks Camerata since 2005. Rosa is an active member of the Music Teacher's Association of California and a certified Level 7 Suzuki piano instructor. Her students participate in the Certificate of Merit and Southern California Junior Bach Festival and frequently receive honors and awards. Rosa has also been the rehearsal pianist and keyboardist for the musicals at NPHS for the past three years.