ASO Children's Chorus
Auditions will be held on Monday, September 14, 2026, from 5 - 8 pm for ASO’s first vocal music education program, the ASO Children’s Chorus! Intended for treble singers ages 9-13, this Choir will perform on the main stage as part of ASO’s Home for the Holidays concerts in December 2026 as well as other performances throughout the concert season.
*Audition time slots will be emailed out the week of September 7-11.
Information on Tuition Scholarships
Through the generosity of donors, Tuition Scholarships are available. Please complete your online application prior to registering for the Children's Chorus and wait for further instruction. Scholarships do not carry over from year to year. A new application must be completed each year.
Children's Chorus Performance From May 18, 2026
Meet The Co-Directors!
Satia Spencer
Spencer is a multidisciplinary arts educator with more than 20 years of teaching and leadership experience. She is a certified PreK-12 music specialist with a BA in Music Education from the University of Arkansas–Little Rock. She currently serves as an elementary music specialist at Forest Heights STEM Academy, where she founded the FHSA Treble Choir and Music Club and co-directed the LRSD Honor Choir, Voices Without Borders.
Spencer has held leadership roles with arts organizations, including Wildwood Academy of Music and the Arts, MT Stage, and the Arkansas Repertory Theater. A sought-after performer, Satia is recognized regionally and internationally for her versatility across opera, gospel, jazz, and musical theater, including performances with the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra.
Shea Barham
A multidisciplinary teaching artist with over two decades of experience performing, guiding, and creating with young artists, Barham is a certified PK-12 music teacher with a master’s of music in opera performance from Oklahoma City University’s Wanda L. Bass School of Music and a background in piano instruction.
Barham teaches at Pulaski Academy, where she will continue to work full-time. She directs the sixth-
grade choir and serves as both a middle school music teacher and an upper school piano lab instructor. An
active performer in local theater, she has appeared in productions at Wildwood Park for the Arts,
Argenta Contemporary Theatre and Actors Theatre of Little Rock.
