High School Choir

2026-27

Clinician Larry Annable

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Larry Annable

Larry Annable is excited to be returning to Kansas as the Clinician of the 2026 SE Kansas Honor Choir. Larry Annable retired in 2017 after 40 years of teaching in Kansas. He spent the last 20 of those years as choral director at Independence High School. Ensembles under his leadership consistently received I ratings at music contests.

Larry received his BA from Ottawa University and he holds a MS in Music Education from the University of Southern Mississippi. He was honored to be able to attend the Rene Clausen Choral School for extended studies in directing choral music. While at the choral school he was able to attend master classes taught by Rene Clausen, Anton Armstrong, and Eric Whitacre.

Larry has received such Honors as Kansas Federation of Music Club's Educator of the Year, KMEA SE Kansas Secondary High School Music Educator of the Year, and the Master Teacher Award for INEA. He also held memberships in the American Choral Directors Association, Kansas Music Educators Association, and Independence National Education Association.

• Students will audition on the required state literature.
• Students meet in the auditorium/gym for instructions. They will go through the audition passages for each voice part.
• Students names and numbers are posted at their respective audition rooms.
• Auditions are to be blind with the student behind a screen
• The door monitor will announce the student' number to the judges.
• There will be a person designated to start the CD The student performs their audition without director and without stopping or re-starting the CD.
• There will be 3 judges per room and will score the student's audition on a rubric which will be stapled together and sent to the tabulation room where the scores are totaled by one director and double-checked by another director for accuracy.
• Results will be posted on the district website as soon as they are available.
• Every school with students auditioning for band or choir will be guaranteed at least one student placed in either the band or choir.
• Auditions for SEKMEA High School Honor Ensembles will be live auditions with the following exception: The only allowable exception is for students unable to attend district auditions due to participation in NAfME All-National Ensembles. The procedure for a recorded audition will be as follows:
  1. Teacher will take a video recording of the student performing the entire audition material in one take.
  2. Submit to the district President no later than 7 days before auditions.
  3. The district President will review the audition to ensure the correct person auditioned and done in one take.
  4. The President will then forward an audio-only copy to the appropriate ensemble chair who will be responsible for playing the appropriate cut of the audition for judges on audition day.

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