Grissom Choir
is a well established, diverse choral music program at Virgil I. Grissom High School in the southwest area of Huntsville, Alabama.
WHO WE ARE.Upwards of 120 Grissom High School students are current members of one or more of our 4 curricular choirs: The Women's Choir, The Men's Choir, The Concert Choir, and premier ensemble: The Chamber Choir.
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OUR MISSION.As part of the Huntsville City School's School System, our mission is to provide an all-inclusive choral music education, and provide it's stakeholders with choral music opportunities of the highest calibre.
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WHAT WE DO.
Grissom Choir has held a standard of excellence for the vast majority of its active years at Grissom High School. The program is consistently known for its dedication to classical choral singing, as well as its inclusion of vocal jazz/pop repertoire. Every year, each choir in the department is consistently awarded overall Superior & Excellent ratings at State Choral Performance Assessment, as well as individual Superior & Excellent Ratings at the Alabama Solo & Ensemble Festival. Most of our students are involved in Huntsville's All-City Choral Festival, and many audition and are selected Alabama's All-State Choral Festival each year.
During the 2020-2021 School Year, Grissom Choir and its students persevered through challenges and limitations, resulting in performance opportunities that were not achieved by other choral departments across the state: an outdoors Fall Concert, an indoors socially distant Winter Concert, as well as a traditional Spring Concert.
Over the past 6 years, Grissom Choir has risen to be one of Alabama's premier high-school choral programs, receiving invitations to perform across the state, nation, and world. Under Mr. Ratcliff's direction, have performed alongside the Huntsville Symphony Orchestra ('19), on the Carnegie Hall Stage ('18), in the Alabama Music Educators Association In-Service Conference ('22), and at the State Capitol ('23). After years of preparation, Grissom Choir will make make its international, Costa-Rican debut in the Summer of 2023, sharing music with the citizens of San José and Arenal.
Sincerely,
Tucker Ratcliff
Choral Director | Grissom Choir
Webmaster & Editor | Alabama ACDA
Treasurer | Huntsville Choral Directors Association
(256) 428-8000 ext. 2271 | tucker.ratcliff@hsv-k12.org
During the 2020-2021 School Year, Grissom Choir and its students persevered through challenges and limitations, resulting in performance opportunities that were not achieved by other choral departments across the state: an outdoors Fall Concert, an indoors socially distant Winter Concert, as well as a traditional Spring Concert.
Over the past 6 years, Grissom Choir has risen to be one of Alabama's premier high-school choral programs, receiving invitations to perform across the state, nation, and world. Under Mr. Ratcliff's direction, have performed alongside the Huntsville Symphony Orchestra ('19), on the Carnegie Hall Stage ('18), in the Alabama Music Educators Association In-Service Conference ('22), and at the State Capitol ('23). After years of preparation, Grissom Choir will make make its international, Costa-Rican debut in the Summer of 2023, sharing music with the citizens of San José and Arenal.
Sincerely,
Tucker Ratcliff
Choral Director | Grissom Choir
Webmaster & Editor | Alabama ACDA
Treasurer | Huntsville Choral Directors Association
(256) 428-8000 ext. 2271 | tucker.ratcliff@hsv-k12.org
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