Festival di Voce
April 23, 2026
The Premier High School Varsity Choir Festival Competition in North Texas
2025 Festival di Voce Program
Professional recordings of Festival di Voce performances have been included in the application of TMEA, ACDA & SWACDA Invited Choirs every year since 2014.
Festival di Voce is designed to be an affordable festival competition experience to highlight varsity choir groups. Participation includes: Performance in the acoustically superior Pilgrim Chapel, option to audience for other exceptional varsity choirs, Digital copy of performance produced by professional choral recording technician, and attendance at the concluding awards ceremony with an exhibition from the Dallas Baptist University Chorale under the direction of Dr. Joshua Brown. The awarded champion each year is invited to showcase a song selection during the exhibition and is invited back the following year to perform as the reigning Grand Champion.
Dallas Baptist University Pilgrim Chapel
Receive a digital copy of your group’s performance recorded by a professional choral recording engineer with over 25 years of experience. Past directors have said the incredible acoustics of Pilgrim Chapel paired with the skill of our recording technician resulted in their groups finest recording to date.
Trophies will be awarded to the Best in Category winners for Mixed Choirs, Treble Choirs and Tenor/Bass Choirs, as selected by the adjudication panel. The overall top five choirs selected by the adjudication panel, regardless of category, will be awarded an Overall Grand Champion, Overall Reserve Grand Champion, and three unranked Honorable Mention trophies.
Past Winners
2025 Midway High School Treble Choir
Director: Jannifer Rice
2024 Timber Creek High School Chamber
Director: Adrian Kirtley
2023 Hebron A Cappella Choir
Director: Alex Carr and Nathan Ratliff
2022 Timber Creek High School Chamber
Director: Adrian Kirtley
2019 Flower Mound High School Jaguar Chorale
Director: Mark Rohwer & Lindsay Swartwood
2018 Grand Prairie Fine Arts Academy Singers
Director: Joel Duarte
2017 Legacy High School Chamber Choir
Director: Josh Powell
2016 Hebron High School A capella Choir
Director: Rachel Forester
2015 Coppell High School A capella Choir
Director: Joshua Brown
2014 Flower Mound High School Varsity Men’s Choir
Director: Mark Rohwer
2013 North Crowley High School Varsity Mixed Choir
Director: Robyn Hollimon
2026 Adjudication Panel
Cheryl Wilson Janasak
Adjudicator
Cheryl Wilson Janasak spent her 37 years of teaching at the elementary,
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Lindy Perez
Adjudicator
Lindy Perez taught Choir in Richardson ISD for 36 years at Richardson HS and Westwood JH, where her choirs consistently earned Sweepstakes awards. Individual singers on each campus were selected annually for the All Region and All State Choirs. Under her direction, the Westwood Chorale performed at the Texas Music Educators Association Convention. She also directed the Richardson All District Choir, a select group of 100 singers districtwide. The chorus performed by invitation at TMEA in 2003 and 2015. Mrs. Perez was selected 4 times as “Most Influential Teacher” by top ten graduates at RHS and was honored to receive the UIL Sponsor of Excellence in Music Award. Mrs. Perez is in her 5th year as a vocal coach at Wylie High School since retiring from RISD.
She serves as a supervisor for music education majors at Texas Tech University and East Texas A&M University and enjoys accompanying solos for annual festivals. As a member of the Texas Music Adjudicators Association, she frequently judges UIL Assessments each spring. Mrs. Perez holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Southern Methodist University.
Debbie Seitter
Adjudicator
Debbie Seitter is Assistant Professor of Vocal Music Education at Tarleton State University and Choir Director at City Point United Methodist Church in North Richland Hills, Texas. She earned the Doctor of Musical Arts in Conducting from Texas Christian University, where she received the 2025 Graduate Research and Creative Activity Award. Debbie also holds degrees from Baylor University (B.M.E.) and Texas Tech University (M.M.) and taught middle and high school choir for ten years in Texas public schools.
She is the founder and artistic director of umanità Chorale, a nonprofit ensemble dedicated to amplifying music by living and historically underrepresented composers. An active clinician, adjudicator, and presenter, Debbie has worked with regional and honor choirs across Texas and has presented sessions at TMEA and TCDA. She is a member of ACDA, TMEA, TMAA, and Pi Kappa Lambda.