{"id":684,"date":"2015-06-25T01:12:33","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T01:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flacda.org\/?page_id=684"},"modified":"2017-08-06T18:34:47","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T18:34:47","slug":"dale-choate","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.flacda.org\/?page_id=684","title":{"rendered":"Dale Choate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flacda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/dale-choate-e1497966361106.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-942\" alt=\"dale choate\" src=\"http:\/\/www.flacda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/dale-choate-e1497966361106-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dale Choate is choral music specialist for Duval County Public Schools, where he assists administrators and teachers to improve instruction in the arts by coaching, training, and supporting the district-wide implementation of standards-based instruction; and participates in the development and teaching of in-service courses in relation to Music content, methods, and strategies.\u00a0 Prior to his current position, for twenty-seven years he was choral director of Terry Parker High School in Jacksonville, where his choral ensembles earned a distinguished reputation, having performed for ACDA\u2019s 1992 Southern Division Convention, the 1995 FMEA Clinic, and the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra (1993, 1995).<\/p>\n<p>Dale graduated from The Florida State University with a bachelor\u2019s degree in music education in 1980, and with a master\u2019s degree in choral conducting in 1985, where he studied with Colleen Kirk and Clayton Krehbiel.\u00a0 He has studied extensively with Robert Shaw as a singer with the Robert Shaw Festival Singers (1996), and with Mr. Shaw in the Carnegie Hall Workshops (1995-1998).\u00a0 He has also performed with conductors James Conlon, Charles Dutoit, Peter Schreier, and Vance George in Carnegie Hall.\u00a0 He is a life member of ACDA, and served as Local Arrangements Chair for the Southern Division Convention in Jacksonville in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Dale Choate is a past president of the Florida Vocal Association, is an active guest conductor, adjudicator, and clinician, and conducted the FVA All-State Women\u2019s Chorus in 1997. \u00a0He currently serves FVA as Adjudication Chair.\u00a0 He is a National Board Certified Teacher, and also serves as Director of traditional worship at St. Paul United Methodist Church in Jacksonville.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Dale Choate is choral music specialist for Duval County Public Schools, where he assists administrators and teachers to improve instruction in the arts by coaching, training, and supporting the district-wide implementation of standards-based instruction; and participates in the development and teaching of in-service courses in relation to Music content, methods, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><p><a class=\"btn btn-mini btn-primary pull-right\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flacda.org\/?page_id=684\">Read More<\/a><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-684","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.flacda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.flacda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.flacda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.flacda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.flacda.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=684"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.flacda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1157,"href":"http:\/\/www.flacda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/684\/revisions\/1157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.flacda.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}