The Texas Music Educators Association (TMEA) has selected the chorale women’s choir as a Texas honor choir, and the women will perform in San Antonio next February for the entire music community of Texas at the TMEA state convention.

 Two women’s choirs are selected from approximately 275 applicants from Texas schools ranging from 1A to 5A in classification. This is the second time TMEA has selected a choir directed by Brandon Farren; the last time was in 2007.

 “I was very excited but also it put me into a work mode because I knew we had a lot of work to do,” Farren said. “It’s going to be much more intense. We’re going to have to get into ‘contest mode’ from the first day of school.”

Farren submitted recordings from the past three years although next year’s women’s choir will be the choir that performs. Senior Erica Hinders has spent four years in the choir program.

“It’s a little bittersweet because we’ve worked so hard over the past three years and been so close to making it quite a few times but it’s definitely exciting knowing that my class was a part of every recording submitted,” Hinders said.

Sophomore Tasneem Alvi will be performing with the choir next year in her third year of choir.

“I was so excited, but not as excited as the juniors,” Alvi said. “I didn’t know why, but now I do, because it’s a huge honor. We’re one of the top two women’s choirs in the whole entire state of Texas. The fact that I get to be a part of it is really exciting because I get to be a part of history for the town of Canyon, Texas.”

Listen to Canyon High’s choirs singing.