ChoirMix

Firstly thanks for your interest in learning about ChoirMix. We are a community of composers dedicated to writing and arranging high quality, multi-part vocal music specifically for middle school choirs. We understand the particular challenges of writing appropriate and accessible music for this age group and their changing voices. All of our tunes... come with part predominant recordings. Since inception, ChoirMix has offered these rehearsal tracks for faster learning. ChoirMix tunes fill a specific need. Education these days is all about outcomes and results. While nobody can argue the importance of learning to site-read for a complete music education, we know that sometimes you are pressured to teach something FAST. As choir teachers, your concerts are often your greatest show piece. Being able to teach a few songs quickly to fill a concert program will save time for more complicated tunes and teaching points. Please keep reading if you would like to learn more about ChoirMix composers. We are currently putting together a fantastic team so please stay tuned. Ken Kraintz is the originator of ChoirMix. Ken started his musical training as a young trumpet player in elementary school, then in high school and college played jazz in night clubs, country clubs and society bands. He began writing and arranging instrumental music in college while working on his PhD and continued instrumental writing through his early teaching career as a high school band director. Focusing on vocal music, Ken began developing the early stages of jazz choir at the high school level. He worked with contemporaries such as Kirby Shaw, Roger Emerson, Jack Kunz, Frank DeMiero and many others to create materials for the early jazz choir movement. During those years he wrote extensively for Hal Leonard, Alfred, Warner Brothers, Jenson and Shawnee Press establishing what is now our jazz choir library. Ken is a member of ASCAP and was also a founding partner of Sound Music Publications (SMP) that to date is the largest publisher of vocal jazz ...Read More