CHILDREN'S CHOIR DIRECTOR MOVES TO HAWAII.Byline: Daily News Wayne ``Doc'' Wilson, music director of the Antelope Valley Children's Choir and conductor of the Palmdale Youth and Community Choir, is leaving the Antelope Valley for Hawaii. He will join the Hawaii Choral Director's Association in Honolulu, working first with the Pacific Rim Children's Choral Festival. Wilson, an adjunct faculty member at Antelope Valley College Antelope Valley College is a comprehensive community college located in Lancaster, California, USA. It is operated by the Antelope Valley Community College District, with a primary service area of 1,945 square miles covering portions of Los Angeles and Kern counties. , founded in 1995 the Antelope Valley Children's Choir, a nonprofit group that has grown to more than 100 members. He also was the first conductor of the Palmdale Youth and Community Choir, a city program. Wilson has been a resident of the Antelope Valley since 1991. He began singing with the Antelope Valley Master Chorale chorale (kōrăl`, –räl`), any of the traditional hymns of the German Protestant Church. The form was developed after the Reformation to replace the plainsong of the earlier service and as a means of congregational participation in . He was appointed tenor section leader and asked to form a children's choir for a performance of ``Britten's War Requiem.'' He has served as the music director for the Wortham School of Performing Arts, various churches in the Antelope Valley, and has conducted workshops at Canyon Meadows Conference Center and the GATE program at the Hughes/Elizabeth Lakes Unified School District A unified school district is a school district which includes both primary school (kindergarten through middle school or junior high) and high school (grades 9-12). In Illinois, these districts are called unit school districts. . He was recently named guest artist for the Winners Grant program, an arts grant funded by the state of California, Los Angeles Unified School District The Los Angeles Unified School District (the "LAUSD") is the largest (in terms of number of students) public school system in California and the second-largest in the United States. Only the New York City Department of Education has a larger student population. and California State University, Northridge CSUN offers a variety of programs leading to bachelor's degrees in 61 fields and master's degrees in 42 fields. The university has over 150,000 alumni. It's also home to a summer musical theater/theater program known as TADW (TeenAge Drama Workshop) that leads teenagers through an . Wilson's involvement in music began at age 5, singing at the First Mennonite Church in Upland. In high school he studied in London. During his travels in Europe, he had the opportunity to hear the Vienna Boys Choir perform High Mass in the Hofberg Chapel. His father, Bruce Wilson, was a Haydn musicologist mu·si·col·o·gy n. The historical and scientific study of music. mu  si·co·log and encouraged his son to sing and play the guitar. Wilson is a graduate of Mount San Antonio Mount San Antonio, better known to most in Los Angeles as Old Baldy or Mount Baldy, is the highest peak in the San Gabriel Mountains of Southern California, USA and the highest point in Los Angeles County. Mount San Antonio has two summits. College where he majored in voice and minored in piano and guitar, and he holds a bachelor's degree in communications from California Polytechnic University, Pomona. His family includes his wife, Kasey; son, Kennedy, 7; and daughter, Karina, 18. |
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