Hilliard Darby High School Choral Program

12/13/2025

10/26/2025

Thank you for a life-changing experience, Voces8! We will never forget this. Thank you for sharing your musicality, mastery, and most importantly, your humanity with us. ❤️🎶

We wish you safe travels on the rest of your tour!

10/21/2025

We are excited that this incredible opportunity is just days away!

Under the direction of Conductor, Dr. Michael G. Martin, and assisted by Assistant Conductor, Mrs. Hannah Sterman-Wilson, the Hilliard Darby Symphonic Choir was honored to be chosen for a workshop and preview performance from the GRAMMY-nominated, world-renowned ensemble, VOCES8. The group will then go on to perform a sold-out concert at the Southern Theatre in downtown Columbus!

Please note that there is a new start time. The event now begin at 1:30 pm in the Hilliard Darby Performing Arts Center.

A special thank you to Dr. David Hedgecoth and Chamber Music Columbus for the invitation, and to Mr. Coshel Caudill for accompanying Symphonic Choir during the workshop!

More about VOCES8-
2023 Grammy-nominated British vocal ensemble VOCES8 seamlessly integrates tone, balance, and expression in a radiant musical experience unlike any other. Formed in 2005, the ensemble represents the highest caliber of a capella through their performances and collaborations with leading musicians, orchestras, conductors, and soloists around the globe. Put best by CD Review, BBC Radio 3, “The slickest of the lot…fans of a ca****la ought to hear this.” Join Chamber Music Columbus in witnessing these eight soaring voices grace the Southern Theatre on October 25th at 7:00 pm.

10/15/2025

10/15/2025

What a wonderful experience it was to sing alongside The New Albany Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, International Children's Choir, and professional soloists for Carmina Burana! Congratulations to the Hilliard Darby Symphonic Choir for their hard work and artistry in learning and presenting this remarkable work in its entirety.

03/12/2025

The Hilliard Darby Symphonic Choir was one of only two high school choirs in Ohio selected to perform at the OMEA Convention!

Under the direction of Dr. Michael G. Martin & Mrs. Hannah Sterman-Wilson, they took the stage in Cleveland with a professional orchestra, sharing When Hope Sings—a powerful program celebrating music’s ability to uplift and inspire.

03/12/2025

We're looking forward to our concert this Sunday at 3:00 pm! The concert will showcase all of our choir students and feature music from Haydn, Mendelssohn, LaBarr, Jensen, Elder, and more. Please join us if you are able!

01/24/2025

Symphonic Choir's prestigious performance at the Ohio Music Education Association Convention in Cleveland is now less than two weeks away! The students have been working hard and will represent our choir program and the school with pride.

Fundraising has become increasingly difficult over the past years, and we aim to avoid placing the burden of these exciting choral opportunities on the students through fees. If you are able to, please consider a donation or sharing this link with someone who might be interested in supporting our program.

Any contribution will help cover not only the costs of this performance but will also support all of our choirs for this year and future years.

All of the choirs have been doing well, with auditions for next year underway and making great strides being made as we head into 2025. We're looking forward to what the rest of the year holds.

Thank you for your consideration and support!

Please see the link below to hear from the students about what this program and music mean to them. If you'd like to go directly to the donation page, please see the following link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gw8dZ_Oiag

https://hilliard-music-boosters.square.site/

10/10/2024

Friends: Ticket sales have been brisk but we would love to sell out on both nights for our Annual "Supper With the Singers" at Der Dutchman Restaurant, Plain City. You can still order tickets for a great meal and great music. Feel free to message me if you have any questions.

08/07/2024

A huge congratulations to the Hilliard Darby Symphonic Choir on being selected to perform at the 2025 Ohio Music Education Association Professional Conference in February! They underwent a "rigorous blind audition process" with an "overwhelming number of outstanding applications" in order to be chosen. Symphonic Choir will perform for an audience of music educators in Cleveland, OH, and the concert will be free and open to the public. Congratulations to all on this honor and opportunity!

07/31/2024

We're gearing up for our 2024-2025 school year and excited for what is on the horizon! The school year will end with a trip to Washington D.C., where Darby Choir will join hundreds of other voices and a professional orchestra for the National Memorial Day Choral Festival and perform at the Kennedy Center. We're thrilled to work with Dr. Craig Jessop again and continue a long-standing relationship of learning and musicianship under his impeccable direction while in D.C. We're also incredibly excited and proud that our own Dr. Michael G. Martin was asked by Dr. Jessop and the festival directors to conduct the nationally televised Memorial Day Parade performance!

05/27/2024

Dear Graduates of 2024! Congratulations on finishing your high school career. You have all made a very substantial contribution to the choral program at Darby.

With that said, I wanted to personally invite you to join me in extending your love for singing this fall in the New Albany Symphony Chorus. No audition required as long as you have participated in Darby Choir.

We have a tour of France slated for next summer, a Holiday Pops with the Orchestra and Amphetheater concerts in store next year.

I’d love to keep our connection as you join other Darby grads who are part of our family.

Much love to you all and congrats again!

Dr. Martin