GWINNETT YOUNG SINGERS ARTISTIC STAFF
Lynn Urda, Conductor & Music Director
Carol Wyatt, Associate Music Director
Amanda Dodd, Assistant Director
Rebekah Rihner, Reheasal Accompanist
GWINNETT YOUNG SINGERS BIOGRAPHY
Now entering its nineteenth season, the Gwinnett Young Singers are frequent guests of the ASO. Under the direction of Founder and Music Director Lynn Urda, and Associate Director Carol Wyatt, the Gwinnett Young Singers rapidly became a nationally recognized children’s chorus, best noted for its mastery of challenging repertoire and exceptionally high musical standards. The faculty and staff are dedicated to professionalism in music education and strive to share the power and beauty of a wide variety of choral music.
The choir has been nominated for a Grammy Award for their performance in the internationally acclaimed Telarc recording of Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. They have performed for twelve annual holiday seasons with the ASO and Chorus in Christmas With the ASO. Other performances with the ASO include Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem, Bizet’s opera Carmen and John Adams' On the Transmigration of Souls. They are featured on the Telarc recording of La Boheme with the ASO and Chorus. The Young Singers have performed for thousands of Music Educators at the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) conferences in South Carolina and Tennessee and for the Georgia Music Educators Association (GMEA) conference in Savannah, Ga.
The Gwinnett Young Singers offers a program of beginning through advanced choirs for children in second through twelfth grades, including the Treble Choir, the Allegro Choir, the Concert Choir the advanced Hudgens Choir and the Georgia Young Men’s Ensemble.
Gwinnett Young Singers is sponsored in part by the Georgia Council for the Arts through the appropriations of the Georgia General Assembly. The Council is a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts.
For more information, call (770) 935-6657 or visit: www.gwinnettyoungsingers.com.
The Gwinnett Young Singers
Katie Adcock
Kristen Blanda
Kylie Brown
Elizabeth Burns
Emma Crist
Colleen Curlee
Devon Drew
Elizabeth Driver
Whitney Duffie
Sarah Dunham
Nikki Edwards
Natalie Gambrell
Sindhu Giedd
Elizabeth Grogan
Jennifer Grogan
Lauren Hann
Ana Haynes
Chris Honeychurch
Katie Huntington
Molly Huntington
Leigh Johnson
Imani Joseph
Lydia Kelley
Kristy Lay
Nicole Lay
Trent Lopez
Amanda Massey
Paul Massey
Anna Moore
Tanner Moore
Ashley Morgan
Emma Pattillo
Summer Peabody
Amanda Pitts
Keri Pomeroy
Abbey Santulli
Elizabeth Shannon
Kathene Stinson
Helene Treu
Cecilia Trode
Andie Tucker
Maddie Turnbull
Jacqueline Wytanis
Lynn Urda, Conductor & Music Director
Lynn Urda, Conductor & Music Director of the Gwinnett Young Singers maintains an active schedule as a guest clinician, conductor and adjudicator for choral festivals, workshops and Honor's Choruses for youth and their conductors. She has distinguished herself for her unique ways of achieving excellence in choral blend, intonation and sensitive singing. Mrs. Urda holds a degree in Music Education and Voice from Florida State University School of Music. She is a former public school Music Specialist and has spent the majority of her professional life serving as a church musician, directing children's, youth and adult choirs. She currently serves as the Director of Youth and Children's Choirs at Tucker First United Methodist Church.