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Choir

Overview

The Bishop Carroll Catholic High School Choirs perform for and participate in many activities during the school year, including All School Masses, Fall and Christmas Concerts, the Kansas State High School Regional and State Solo and Ensemble Festival and our annual Golden Review Concert.

Click HERE to view our calendar and learn more about our upcoming performances.

See below for more information about our four choirs: Carrolleers Choir, Chanterelles, Concert Choir, and Madrigals.

Carrolleers Choir

Carrolleers is the freshman women’s ensemble at BCCHS, open to any freshman woman who wants to sing. This ensemble performs women’s mixed music in a variety of styles and compositional periods.

Chanterelles

Chanterelles is our advanced upper class women’s ensemble. This choir is selected by audition only. Auditions are held in the Spring for the following year - all candidates must be able to read music well, have outstanding attitudes, attendance and work ethics as well as completion of the basic theory. This ensemble not only performs many pieces throughout the year, but also has the opportunity to go on tour in the fall.

Concert Choir

Concert Choir is our intermediate level mixed ensemble. This ensemble is open to any freshman male, as well as any sophomore, junior, or senior who is interested in singing with a mixed ensemble. This choir takes the basics of reading music and sight singing, and enhances it with music and performance.

Madrigals

Madrigals is our advanced upper class mixed ensemble. This choir is selected by audition only. Auditions are held in the Spring for the following year - all candidates must be able to read music well, have outstanding attitudes, attendance and work ethics as well as completion of the basic theory. This group learns music fast, and works quickly, as they sing many times in the community, as well as on tour in the fall.

Choir Director Melissa Seiler

Melissa Seiler grew up in Hutchinson, attended Trinity Catholic Jr./Sr. High School and was a member of the Celtic Singers. She then attended William Jewell College, in Liberty, MO, earning a Bachelor of Science in Music Education and a Bachelor of Science in Church Music, graduating with honors.

While in college, Melissa was a member of the Chapel Choir for four years, Chamber Singers for one year and Concert Choir for three years. She also had the opportunity to tour with the WJC choirs throughout the Midwest as well as England and Scotland. Mrs. Seiler then returned to Wichita, where she began teaching at Bishop Carroll. She received her Masters in Music Education from WSU in 2010.