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MEET YOUR NEW CHORUS TEACHER, MRS. JULIE FOSTER!
Julie Foster is an alumni graduate student of
Georgia Southern University, receiving her
M.M. in Composition. She is also an alumni of
Kennesaw State University, receiving both
her B.A. in Music (Composition) and her B.M.
in Music Education (Choral Concentration).
Julie studied with Assistant Professor of
Composition and Music Theory, Martin
Gendelman at GSU and began her Master's
Degree in fall of 2016. She is the former
chorus teacher at Statesboro High School.
Her compositional debut in Statesboro
occurred in fall of 2016 during the ArgUs
2016 New Music International Collaboration
Project at Georgia Southern with her
chamber orchestra piece, CheckMate.
As a high school student, she was highly
involved in performances outside of school,
including All State Chorus, District Honor
Chorus, and Governor’s Honors Program.
While pursuing her undergraduate degree,
Julie was an active participant in KSU’s
performance ensembles, including KSU’s
Chamber Singers, Opera Theater, and Jazz
Combos. Upon her entrance to KSU in 2010,
she was chosen to be in the elite choir.
During her time at KSU, she worked with
Composer-in-Residence, Dr. Laurence Sherr
and studied voice with mezzo-soprano,
Valerie Walters. Since then, she has
continued to pursue performance
opportunities. She also has acquired a vast
amount of teaching experience through her
work as a Student Assistant and Lab
Assistant at KSU, teaching at SHS, along
with the semester she spent student
teaching in Cobb County public schools.
Her compositional debut at KSU occurred in
2011 during the Festival of New Music with
her SSA piece, Je T’adore pour Éternité. In this
recital, she was both the only female
composer from KSU and the youngest
student. In fall of 2013, she was the winner of
KSU’s Concerto Competition, having the
opportunity to hear her piece performed by
KSU’s Chamber Singers for their 2014 Spring
Concert, under the direction of Dr. Leslie
Blackwell. For the KSU Student Composition
Recital held on April 14th, 2015, she
premiered her 6-movement cantata
entitled Psalm 139. This was the largest
student-led work to be featured at Kennesaw
State University, including an ensemble of
approximately 70 performers.
On April 29th, 2018, she held her graduate
recital, including her commissioned work for
the Georgia Southern Chorale under the
direction of Dr. Shannon Jeffreys, We Will
Not Be Broken, text written by Julie's sister,
Jordan N. Jordan.
In the spring of 2016, she received Honorable
Mention for the Treefalls & SPO Call for
Scores with her piece for brass quintet,
Vérfürdő, and was recognized on their March
4th concert in Spartanburg, SC, along with
her participation with 6 other composers at
the Composer Roundtable Discussion at
Upstate University of South Carolina. In
spring of 2016, she was selected as an
alternate composer in the 24-Hour Opera
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Project, presented by the Atlanta Opera. In
the summer of 2016, her SATB piece, Sonnet
116, was chosen 1 of 4 as part of the Vox
Nova Chorale Call for Scores for Emerging
Women Composers, out of 94 submissions.
The piece was premiered during the
group's Celebrating Great Composers (Who
Happen to be Women) concert at St. Mary's
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Chapel in St. Paul, Minnesota on the St. Paul
Seminary Campus.
On January 13th, 2017, she was selected as
Society of Composers, Inc.'s Member of the
Day. She was selected as a participant of the
2017 Charlotte New Music Festival and
Composers Workshop. Her works, All's Well
That Ends Well for flute and dizi
and Phantasm for violin and cello were
premiered by Duo Zonda (Orlando Cela, dizi,
Wei Zhao, flute) and Beo String Quartet
respectively during the workshop. This
summer, she was chosen to participate as a
Composer Resident during the CORO
Institute for Choral Composers.
She is working on a number of large projects
and hopes to premiere them through the
progression of her studies and career.
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What to Expect
I teach 3 courses:
 Advanced Women’s Chorus
 Beginning Chorus
 Music Appreciation
By the end of the year, you can expect to do
the following standards if you are a chorus
singer:
 Generate and conceptualize
musical ideas and works.
 Organize, develop, and revise
musical ideas and works.
 Analyze, interpret, and select
musical works for presentation.
 Develop and refine musical
techniques and works for
presentation.
 Convey meaning through the
presentation of musical works.
 Perceive, analyze, and interpret
meaning in musical works.
 Apply criteria to evaluate musical
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 Understand relationships
between music, the other arts,
and disciplines outside the
works. arts.
 Synthesize and relate knowledge  Understand music in relation
and personal experiences to make to history and culture.
music.
 Relate musical ideas and works
with societal, cultural, and
historical context to deepen
understanding.
Music Appreciation students are
expected to complete the following
standards:
 Read and notate music.
 Improvise melodies,
variations, and
accompaniments.
 Compose and arrange music
within specific guidelines.
 Evaluate and refine musical
ideas.
 Sing a varied repertoire of
music, alone and with others.
 Perform a varied repertoire of
music on instruments, alone
and with others.
 Listen to, analyze, and
describe music.
 Evaluate music and music
performances.
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OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS AND
PARENTS/GUARDIANS
Leadership Team
Forms will be available with Mrs. Foster to help
contribute to the community, help with chorus
recruitment, and create a more fulfilling environment
for the students based on the spoken needs of students
themselves.
Booster Club
A sign up was available during Open House, but if you
were unavailable, I am working to form a Booster Club
to help finance choral resources including, but not
limited to, uniforms, travel, polos for casual
performances, accompanists, etc. Please email me at
julie.foster@sccpss.com if you are interested in
becoming involved.
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What Are We Doing This Week?
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Thursday, August 2 , 2018: Introduce the
Choral Handbook and expectations of the
classroom. Items within the handbook are
subject to change based on upcoming
information.
Chorus classes will likely learn some music by
rote, introductions to music theory, and
possibly learning music for upcoming
performances.
Music Appreciation will begin theory lessons
as well as some singing by rote possibly,
along with the basics of music history.
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Friday, August 3 , 2018: Reiteration of
classroom rules and regulations.
Chorus classes will be voiced and put into
proper sections. They will begin basic sight-
reading examples and delve more into
upcoming music.
Music Appreciation will review theory
information and basics of music history,
along with more elaboration of both
subjects.
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Windsor
Forest
High
School
Chorus/Music
Appreciation

12419 Largo Drive

Savannah, GA 31419

Julie Foster
julie.foster@sccpss.com
(912) 395-3400, ext. 760903