Top vocalists from across Chatham conclude their daylong vocal clinic with a free public performance by the #OneChatham middle and high school choruses.

This year’s high school clinician is Laura Sam. artistic director for Women’s Voices Chorus, the premier Triangle-area chorus for sopranos and altos. She has been a choral conductor and music educator for more than 35 years, directing choruses at Meredith College, North Carolina State University, Cary Academy, North Carolina Governor’s School East and Walter M. Williams High School.

Sam was chosen to conduct both the North Carolina High School All-State Women’s Choir and the North Carolina Middle School All-State Mixed Chorus, and frequently conducts festival choruses at the elementary, middle and high school levels. She received the Bachelor of Music in Music Education from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

2023 #ONECHATHAM CHORUS PROGRAM

Middle School Chorus
Kamela Keesor, Conductor
Michael Cohn, Accompanist

Dare to Dream
Mary Lynn Lightfoot

Shine Like Stars
Pink Zebra

High School Chorus
Laura Sam, Conductor
Michael Cohn, Accompanist
David Clark, Percussion

Music Makers
Ruth Morris Gray

Breathe
Ella Latta Suazo, arr. Tracy Wong

The Cuckoo
Traditional, arr. Robert I. Hugh

Hands Are Knockin’
Kyle Pederson

Combined Ensembles

Turn the World Around
Harry Belafonte and Robert Freedman, arr. Mark Hayes

2023 #ONECHAHTAM HIGH SCHOOL CHORUS
JORDAN-MATTHEWS VOCALISTS
Felix Banks
Jacqueline Basilio
Osiris Basilio Saucedo
Yazmin Burnett-Allen
Jayden Butler
Jose Corona Vincente
Saori Cortes Rodriguez
Nancy Cruz Sanchez
Malik Davis
Dayneliz Doñe Batista
Yazmany Hernandez Romero
Armie Kendrick
Sandra Lopez
Maria Lopez Paz
Kanasia McArthur
Yomariz Ordoñez Alonzo
Brenda Paulino
Clara Rojas
Carolina Ruiz
Bella Santos Villatoro
Karsyn Vann
Na'mir Wiley
Francisco Zabaleta Vico