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Elementary Choir
4th, 5th, 6th Grade
Ben Torres
2026 Elementary Choir Director

Ben Torres teaches in Richardson, TX, school district. He also is the K-6 music specialist at Brentfield Elementary in Dallas, where he also directs the Brentfield Singers, the Rhythm Cats Orff Ensemble and serves as the JJ Pearce Area Team Leader. Prior to this, he was the K-6 music specialist at Richland Elementary, where he also directed a choir and an Orff ensemble, the latter of which was selected to perform at the 2011 TMEA Convention.
Torres received his bachelor’s degree in music education from West Texas A&M University in Canyon. He teaches movement in the Orff Schulwerk training course at Trinity University in San Antonio, movement and recorder in the Orff Schulwerk course at the University of Central Arkansas in Conway, and other courses across the country. He is currently the president of the North Texas Chapter of the American Orff-Schulwerk Association.
2026 Elementary Choir Participants
TBD
Repertoire List
Over the Rainbow – arr. Audrey Snyder 2-pt
*Follow the Drinking Gourd – arr. Rollo A. Dilworth 2-pt (Elementary Audition mm. 31-47)
Risseldy Rosseldy – arr. Jay Broker SA
I See the Moon – Douglas Beam 2-pt
Liza (Water Come a Me Eye) – arr. Steven Burnett SA
Al Shlosha D’Varim – Allan E. Naplan SA
I’se the B’y – arr. John E. Govedas SA
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