About the Director
About The Director
— Kenneth Haro —
Mr. Kenneth Haro is the director of vocal and choral music at Trabuco Hills High School. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Irvine in vocal performance and a California Teaching Credential from California State University, Fullerton. As a professional vocalist, chorister, and conductor, Mr. Haro has had the opportunity to sing and compete worldwide, representing the United States in Wales, London, Bratislava, Slovakia, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Xiaoxing, and throughout the country. His participation at the Llangollen Eisteddfod, the International Youth Music Festival of Bratislava, and the World Choir Games has earned him earned high honors and world-recognition for the USA. Mr. Haro is an active member of the American Choral Directors Association, Southern California Vocal Association, California Music Educators Association, and is an accomplished composer, pianist, and percussionist. He has past served as Ensemble director for the Southern California Children’s Chorus, director and founder of Harmonium Women’s Chorus of Orange County, and has had the opportunity to sing with the world-renowned men’s chorus, Men In Blaque. He currently serves as elected Vice President 1 of festivals for the Southern California Vocal Association, and is the music director for Christ Lutheran Church of San Clemente, California. As an educator, he is passionate to promote the importance and value of a musical education among our youth, and he looks forward to continually expand and support the arts within our local community.
Email: harok@svusd.org
Class Schedule
Period 1: VAPA Unified Period 2: Chamber Choir Period 3: Nightingales Period 4: Concert Choir Period 5: AP Music Theory Period 6: Concert Choir
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Music Philosophy
Music is the emotional connection both shared and uniquely identified with ourselves and with those around us. Music is the collaboration of pleasurable harmonics, rhythm, energy, and direction. It is an indescribable phenomenon which inspires creativity, balances emotion, and relates to the soul. Music is interpretive, unique, and different towards each individual that creates, listens, and experiences tone and triggers an emotion of expression. Music is a natural occurrence and thereby simplistic in life in its truest form.
Music should be taught within the schooling system because it helps broaden the mind of creativity and helps us harness and control our emotional state of well-being. There is culture and history within music which is vital to our youth in both the public and private school system. Music is a collaborative art which entitles perspectives from all areas of life. Students can come into a music classroom wanting to be doctors, lawyers, businessmen, biologists, or anything their imagination grasps. What is most important is that music is relatable to all subjects of life which will make us better human beings towards our future careers and our lifestyle choices.
Every individual had the right to a quality, musical education, regardless of their social class or personal financial situation. If a student is willing to learn, and if they have the passion or creative intuition to broaden their musical insight, they should not be denied even a basic education of a selective instrument, musicianship, music history, and an eclectic beginners repertoire.
Music in the public, private, state, and university level should be taught by educated and accomplished scholars who are accredited through their musical talents and abilities from recognized institutions of study. They should be well-centered and supportive individuals who are patient and open to teaching students of all levels, ages, and backgrounds. Outside of the school system, all those with the intellect and creative passion of music should be encouraged to share their experiences with those around them. We all are teachers of creativity, be it professional or amateaure, music is a collaborative art form that becomes more and more beautiful with each new emotional perspective.
All students should have a well-rounded knowledge and experience with western-classical music, as well as multicultural music throughout the world from past to present. It is important to give new and experienced music students insight to cultures and traditions foreign to their own and expose them to a society where music may be interpreted differently and used to express or portray different ideals and emotions in contrast from one country to the next. As a music teacher, it is essential that all students are constantly challenged in their repertoire selections while pursuing respectable and educational music that has lasted the test of time.
The purpose of performance in the choral program should be to showcase the accomplished works throughout the quarter/semester/year to close family and friends. It is a time to share the emotional experiences that music has brought to the students and share those expressions throughout the concert space. There is a thought and emotion expressed solely by the poet and then interpreted through music by the composer. Then, the choral director analyses the work and portrays his thoughts and emotions to the choir. As the choir sings, they connect to the music both on a personal level and as a core unit that expresses unified ideals together. The audience members share these thoughts and expressions and create their own connections to the music. Within one bar of music, there is a collaboration of emotion and color that is indescribably unique. The performance of music within the choral program is to create a memorable educational experience which can be looked back upon through a series of specific emotions, feelings, and colors.
Music is a free form of collaborative art that every student and individual has a right to experience and express independently and with one another. The expression of music and emotion is one major aspect which makes us human and thereby should not be denied from any school curriculum. In order to create great individuals and idealists for a better tomorrow, inspiration always starts within the classroom. Through music, inspiration and purpose lies between each and every notation, breathe, and harmonic.