NICEVILLE, FLORIDA - Niceville High School Choral Director, Michael Dye, has released the names of Niceville's 2008 Florida All-State Chorus members.

Each student participated in a three-part testing and audition process that included a written music theory examination, a melodic sight-reading test and a vocal audition that measured their knowledge of the all-state music, tone quality and artistic effect.

The various exams take place over the period of one month.
Students are required to succeed with each segment before moving to the next. In January the twenty-four students will be participating in the Florida Music Educator's Association's annual conference in Tampa, joining nearly 8,000 other Florida band, orchestra and choral students and their teacher the second week of January.

Rehearsals will be held under the leadership of nationally recognized conductors and concerts will take place at the end of the conference.

Niceville's student participants represents one of the highest numbers from a school state-wide.

The Twin Cities community schools of Niceville High School, Ruckel Middle School and Lewis Middle School will send a total of 50 singers to the FMEA convention.

The 24 Niceville singers who have earned positions in the 2008 Florida All-State Chorus are:

Erin Welch - Reading Chorus
Justin Koch - Reading Chorus
Jarrod Tredway - Reading Chorus
Melissa Whitworth - Reading Chorus
Autumn Francis - Concert Chorus
Edanette Marquez - Concert Chorus
Lauralee Buchanan - Concert Chorus
Mary Alice Teague - Concert Chorus
Caleb Coatsworth - Concert Chorus
Ryan Smith - Concert Chorus
William Kortbein - Concert Chorus
Brad Morse - Concert Chorus
A.J. Patel - Concert Chorus
Jessica Wise - Women's Chorus
Stephanie Moore - Women's Chorus
Deborah Barnette - Women's Chorus
Nick Harvey - Men's Chorus
Garrett Freshwater - Men's Chorus
Colton Schniepp - Men's Chorus
T.J. Van Dam - Men's Chorus
Jordan Francis - Men's Chorus
Brandon Bubel - Men's Chorus
Ben Patel - Men's Chorus
James Theisen - Men's Chorus