Choral Arts Adult Choir
Highland Choral Arts was founded in 2016 as Highland’s community choir. The choir is composed of participants from Highland and surrounding communities. We average 65 members ages 16 and above who get together to rehearse once per week. Each choir member is an excellent musician and has a passion to sing beautiful music of the highest quality. They are directed by Cathy Jolley and accompanied by Annalise Eccles, both longtime residents of Highland.
Vision: Highland Choral Arts seeks to become the premiere choir in our region and beyond. We envision a lasting bond with our community built upon the promotion and production of the highest quality choral music.
Mission: The mission of Highland Choral Arts is to enrich and broaden the human experience through vocal music mastery, impassioned delivery, and harmonic perfection.
CLASS SCHEDULE
AUDITIONS
Click on the Highland Choral Arts website page if you would like to audition and we will contact you about our next auditions!
Auditions will consist of sight reading, pitch memory, range, and basic music symbols and terms. You do NOT need to come with a prepared piece.
FEES
We are a non-profit choir with yearly dues of $100 to offset music, venue rental, accompaniment, and conducting costs, as well as a $30 refundable music deposit. Annual dues are $50 for each additional household member. Scholarships may be offered to high school students. Concert attire will be an additional purchase.
Cathy Jolly
Our Director
Cathy has taught junior high choral music for 31 years and for the last two years has been the performing arts content specialist for Alpine school District, working with all of the dance, drama, choir, band and orchestra teachers!
She has been the conductor of Highland coral arts since 2016.
She is active as an adjudicator and guest conductor in Utah and Wyoming. She has also conducted the choirs for the General Young Women and General Relief Society meetings for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Cathy was recognized in 1997 as a runner-up of Teacher of the Year for Alpine School District, 2003 Teacher of the Year for Alpine school District, 2003 first Runner-up Teacher of the Year for the state of Utah, 2004 Superior Accomplishment Award (Utah Music Educators Association), 2008 Accent on Excellence Award (Alpine school District), 2013 Outstanding Junior High/Middle School Educator (Utah music Educator’s Association). Also in 2013 she was awarded the Outstanding Arts Educator by the Sorenson Legacy Foundation and in 2015 recognized by the American Choral Directors Association with their Award of Excellence. She and her husband Doug have five children, 13 grandchildren, and three great grandchildren.
Annalise Eccles
Our Accompanist
Annalise grew up on a farm in Idaho far from just about everything. Fortunately, her parents were willing to drive long distances for piano lessons, and she traveled 2 1/2 hours each way to lessons throughout junior high and high school. She later received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Music-Piano from BYU, where Dr. Paul Pollei was her principal professor.
Annalise began teaching piano at age 14 at the request of neighbors and with encouragement from her teacher, a new love was born! She’s been teaching ever since. She now runs a full piano studio out of her home in Highland and is an active accompanist for both Solo and coral musicians. She has accompanied choirs directed by Cathy Jolly for over a decade. She enjoys keeping current in the world a piano pedagogy, and is an active member of the Music Teachers National Association, Utah Music Teachers Association, the National Federation of Music Clubs, and the Collaborative Pianist Guild of Utah. Annalise has a SASR (National Sight Reading) score of 1812 and is ranked #9 in Utah.
She and her husband, Brandon, have six boys when not at the piano, she enjoys reading traveling and scuba diving.