2009 Handbell Festival
(Please note that Brochures/Registration forms are no longer mailed)
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Registration Closes - February 20, 2009 or 30 choir maximum, whichever comes first.
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Contact for Further Information
Cathy Moklebust
Handbell Clinician, Composer and Conductor
Cathy Moklebust (b. 1958) has developed and directed handbell music programs since 1983, and has played bells since childhood. With her dynamic, positive approach and skilled, expressive conducting, she is in great demand as a handbell clinician and festival conductor. As one of today’s most popular handbell music composers, she has numerous published compositions and arrangements to her credit, many of them reaching bestseller status. She has been commissioned to write music for many festivals and other events, as well as for numerous individual handbell ensembles, including six for the Raleigh Ringers. Cathy has been the recipient of the Donald E. Allured Composition Award, the 2005 “Composer of the Year” award from Jeffers Handbell Supply, and has won an ASCAP Writer’s Award every year since 2001. In 2007 she was a guest conductor for the National Residential Ringing Week at Kingston University, Kingston-upon-Thames, UK.
Ms. Moklebust began her musical career as a public school instrumental music instructor in South Dakota. She is an active percussionist, and has performed as principal or section percussionist with several professional bands and orchestras throughout the upper Midwest. Cathy has played in and conducted church and community handbell ensembles in South Dakota, Minnesota, and Iowa. She has worked for the past 20 years in the music retail and publishing industry, and currently operates a music editing and engraving service with her husband.
Cathy earned both her B.A. (Music/Percussion, 1982) and M.Ed. (Teacher Education/Music, 1988) at South Dakota State University, in her hometown of Brookings, SD. Her handbell education began in middle school with the Towers Handbell Choir at First Lutheran Church, Brookings, under the direction of Mrs. Barbara Berntson.
Ms. Moklebust and her family reside in rural Eagle Grove, Iowa, on her husband’s 113 year-old family farm.
Massed Repertoire:
Meditation on Beautiful Savior (L3) (arr. Moklebust)
Choristers Guild CGB175
Le P'ing (arr. Betty Garee)
Harold Flammer
Handbell Part HP-5148
Instrumental Parts HP-5149
Come, Thou Fount of Ev'ry Blessing (L3) (arr. Moklebust)
Concordia 97-6925
Bwana Asifiwe (Cathy Moklebust) (L3) Choristers Guild
CGB367 (Handbell Part)
CGB366 (Full Score)
Laudamus (L3) (Arnold Sherman)
Lorenz 20/1309L
Optional Bronze Piece:
Resonances and Alleluias (L4) (Cathy Moklebust)
Choristers Guild CGB516
All choirs are to learn the repertoire prior to the festival. Jeffers Handbell Supply (1-800-547-2355) and Burrage Music Company (1-800-662-7318) will have the repertoire in stock. Be sure to mention the United Methodist Handbell Festival when ordering.
The
North Carolina Conference Handbell Festival supports the copyright law.
NO XEROXED MUSIC WILL BE ALLOWED.
TENTATIVE (subject to change)
(2009 Schedule)
Friday, March 6
5:00 - 6:45 Registration & Set-up
7:00 - 8:15 Welcome & Rehearsal
8:15 - 8:30 Break
8:30 - 9:30 Rehearsal
9:30 – 10:00 Bronze Rehearsal
10:00 Solo Rehearsals
(If needed)
Saturday, March 7
Breakfast on your own
8:30 - 9:15 Solo Rehearsals
9:15 - 10:30 Rehearsal
10:30 - 10:45 Break
10:45 - 11:45 Rehearsal
11:45 - 12:15 Bronze Rehearsal
11:45 - 1:00 Lunch/Display Browsing/Solo Rehearsals
1:00 - 2:15 Rehearsal
2:15 - 2:30 Break
2:30 - 3:20 Rehearsal
3:20 - 3:40 Bronze Rehearsal
3:40 - 3:55 Break & Prepare for Concert
4:00 Concert
FESTIVAL LOCATION will be the Riddle Center on the Campus of Methodist University in Fayetteville. Driving directions may be found on the Methodist University Website: http://www.methodist.edu/, A confirmation email will be sent upon receipt of registration. The format is a Friday Night/Saturday Festival of Massed Ringing.
$30 per individual (Ringers and Directors). The Chaperone/Non-Ringer Fee is $15. All registration fees include lunch on Saturday.
Attire: Casual attire with comfortable shoes is suggested. Individual Choirs may prefer a more uniformed appearance for the final concert. Changing facility space is limited and there is not access to locker rooms. Please keep changing requirements to a minimum.
Exhibitors: Jeffers Handbell Supply, and The Raleigh Ringers will have displays with a large selection of music and handbell accessories, gifts, CDs & videos from which you may browse during the festival. Please support our Exhibitors!
Equipment: Tables will be provided for those who request them. You must bring your own padding and all other equipment. On the form: Please indicate the amount of space requested if you are bringing your own tables or the number of tables requested. We reserve the right to limit table space based on the number of octaves of bells and the number of ringers in a choir. Five-octave choirs will be limited to 30 feet. For registrations accepted after the registration deadline, we unfortunately CANNOT provide tables.
Partial Choirs and individuals are welcome. You need only to bring the equipment needed for those ringers. Please indicate if you are a partial choir. Often, Choirs have missing ringers. If you wish to be connected with a choir having a vacancy, please indicate on Registration form.
Solo Performances: Choirs are welcome to play a solo selection in the final concert. The number of solo choirs is limited to five and a maximum of 5 minutes in length. Solo choirs will be chosen on a first-come basis. If there is a duplication of solo selections, the first choir that registered will be given preference. Indicate on the registration form if you would like to play a solo. Solo information needed to be completed on registration form: Composer/Arranger, Publisher, Code Number, and the Number of Octaves. Please indicate if unpublished. If you are playing a solo piece from manuscript that is an arrangement of another piece, you must have permission in writing from the copyright holder.
Hotels: It is your responsibility to make your own hotel arrangements. Hotels fill up quickly due to military events in the area; therefore it is advisable to make your hotel arrangements as early as possible.
Local hotels that are recommended by Methodist University may be found at the University Website. These hotels offer a Methodist University rate. Be sure to ask for the Methodist University rate when making reservations. For information concerning suggested hotels, visit the Methodist University Website: http://www.methodist.edu/Home/find_hotel.htm
Mark Gourley, Chair, First Presbyterian Church, Fayetteville
Andrew Wheeler, Centenary UMC, Smithfield
Sherry McCulloch, Savannah, GA
Jo Carol Thomason, Hickory, NC
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Contact for further information:
Mark Gourley, Festival Chair
275-3 Waterdown Dr.
Fayetteville, NC 28314
Phone: 910-483-0121 (Church)
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The NC Conference Annual Handbell Festival is sponsored by
The NC Conference Chapter of
The Fellowship of United Methodists in Music & Worship Arts
Updated 28 November 2008