Southern Stars Music
Tomball, Texas
Southern Stars Music
24519 Rolling Meadow Drive
Tomball, TX 77375
ph: (two eight one) 255-4159
debbie
About Us
Southern Stars programs provide a musical environment that allow students the advantages of musical training while providing opportunities to learn leadership, cooperation, and loyalty during the formative elementary and middle school years. Choir programs emphasize choral and tonal production, movement, sight singing, ear training, and performance skills. Summer day camp offerings vary from year to year and include camps with the following themes: girls choir, general music, musicals, Orff skills, and drumming.
southern Stars girls choir
Founded in 1996 in Tomball, Texas for girls in grades 2 through 8, the Southern Stars Girls Choir has performed at numerous community and special events in the Greater Houston area. Three members of the choir were selected to the Texas Choral Directors Association’s “Youth Chorus 2000.” Choir trips away from the area have included Disney World (Orlando - June 2000), the America Sings! charitable youth choir festival (San Antonio - April 2001), and the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade (New York - November 2001). Performance repertoire is varied; sacred, patriotic, and popular styles are combined to best meet the needs of specific audiences.about the director
1. CHOIRS
Debbie Kinzel has participated extensively in every capacity with childrens choirs since the mid-seventies, including (chronologically): Central Texas Girls Choir (member), Killeen Girls Choir (member, asst. director), Faith Methodist Childrens Choir (director), Hope Lutheran Childrens Choir (director), Bay Area Girls Choir (director), Ragazzi Boys Chorus (camp director), Schultz Elementary Shining Star Choir (director), Woodlands Prep Show Choir (director), Southern Stars Girls Choir (present director), and WAM choir - Memorial Baptist Church (present director). Mrs. Kinzel has also directed all church choir and handbell levels, serving as music director for Faith United Methodist Church, Austin, Texas (1984-1985) and as choir director for Hope Evangelical Lutheran Church, San Mateo, California (1987-1989).
2. EDUCATION
Mrs. Kinzel received her Bachelor of Music Education from the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor, Belton, Texas (1984). She performed post-graduate work in music education at Holy Names College, Oakland (Kodaly level I) and at the University of Houston (Orff levels I and II). During college, she founded and directed the music department variety show at UMHB (now an annual event), was entertainment coordinator for the 1984 Miss Mary Hardin-Baylor Pageant (also 1983 finalist), performed major parts in two musicals, and performed with praise team “Selah.” College honors included: Outstanding Leadership Award, Master Choir (1982); Outstanding Choir Member, Master Choir (1983); and Outstanding Young Women of America (1984). She also was personally selected by the President of the University to sing at commencement (1984).
3. TEACHING
Mrs. Kinzel is a certified teacher (Texas) and taught elementary music in the Killeen Independent School District (1985-1987); at Co-Stars School of Music and Performing Arts, San Francisco (1990-1992); and in the Klein Independent School District (1993-2000). Mrs. Kinzel also founded and directed the Schultz Elementary Puppet Troupe (1997-2000), for which she received national recognition for innovative teaching as a recipient of Eduction’s Unsung Heroes Award (1997). She was nominated by Schultz as a Teacher of the Year five times, and was recognized by the Klein School Board as an Outstanding Teacher (1998). Mrs. Kinzel’s 1998-99 “Orffestra” at Schultz Elementary was selected as the Texas Orff Honor Group, performing at the 1999 TMEA Convention in San Antonio. She has written performance pieces for "household" instruments in the tradition of "STOMP", such as "Kitchen Chaos" (kitchen utensils, pots, pans, cups) and "Metal Madness" (trash cans, lids, foot cans, graters, spatulas, etc.), and performed these with elementary students.
4. CLINICS
Mrs. Kinzel presented a teacher's clinic on listening and movement at the 1998 Texas Music Educators Association Convention, and also presented the clinic for the elementary music teachers of the Spring Independent School District. She presented a clinic on music and puppets at the 1999 Houston Puppetry Festival held at Tomball Community College. Mrs. Kinzel particularly enjoys combining music with movement, and has conducted choreography and performance workshops for children for many years.
5. ASSOCIATIONS
Mrs. Kinzel's professional associations include: TCDA, TMEA, AOSA, Gulf Coast Orff Association (holding previous posts as president, secretary and festival chairperson), and the Houston Puppetry Guild.
Southern Stars Music
24519 Rolling Meadow Drive
Tomball, TX 77375
ph: (two eight one) 255-4159
debbie
