Built in the choir room, for the people who run it.
MFR Holdings builds and supports two platforms for the choral community. TheDirectorsRoom.com runs honors-choir auditions from registration to results. ChoirTrends.com shows directors what their colleagues are really programming.
For organizations & event managers
Running an honors-choir audition?
Registration, recordings, online adjudication and results on one verified student record.
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For choral directors · Free
Looking for your next great piece?
Search real concert programs from active directors and see which repertoire is trending now.
Explore ChoirTrends.com
TheDirectorsRoom.com
Audition management for honors choirs.
Regional and state honors choirs run on volunteers, spreadsheets and Google Forms. TheDirectorsRoom.com replaces that patchwork with one platform. Every recording, score and result stays tied to the right student from the first registration to the final roster.
- No file-naming rules for directors to get wrong, and nothing to re-sort before judging day.
- No re-typed names on scoring sheets, so no swapped or misspelled students at results time.
- Clone last year's event and change only what's new.
Directors register once, keep a lasting student roster and enroll candidates into each year's audition with membership verification built in.
Audition recordings upload directly against a specific, pre-identified candidate, and pitch files go out to everyone automatically.
Judges score in assigned rooms against your rubric, and every score lands on the verified candidate record.
Track adjudication live, rank by score and build balanced ensembles automatically, including alternating Mixed/Treble cut-offs.
Set per-candidate fees, accept online payments and handle fee waivers without chasing paper checks.
Assign Event, Registration, Tab Room and Rehearsal Managers per season, so everyone sees exactly what their job needs.
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Configure
Dates, fees, requirements & rubric
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Invite
Teachers request & accept invitations
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Register
Rosters, recordings & payments
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Adjudicate
Judges score online, by room
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Results
Cut-offs, rosters & reports
Students and families get their own home. They connect to their school and teachers, keep profiles and emergency contacts current, and follow every event they're auditioning for.
Visit StudentFolder.info →A per-candidate registration fee plus secure audio storage for the months your audition is active. One invoice after results are final. Nonprofit and association rates are available.
Get a quote for your event →
ChoirTrends.com
See what choirs are actually singing.
Most directors can't get to concerts outside their own district. ChoirTrends brings those concerts to you. It's a crowd-sourced library of real programs from active choir directors, so you can find music that has already worked in real classrooms and on real stages.
- 135
- Concert programs
- 1,556
- Songs
- 1,122
- Composers & arrangers
- 102
- Schools
Live from ChoirTrends.com, and growing with every upload.
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Upload a program
Drop in the PDF or photo of a concert program you already made.
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AI extracts the data
Titles, composers, arrangers and ensembles are pulled out for you to review and approve.
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Explore the trends
Search by song, composer, school or season, and see what your colleagues are choosing.
Ask in plain language, e.g. "an upbeat SSA opener for a spring concert," and get answers from real programs.
Who is being performed, where and how often, enriched with recordings and background.
Publish a mobile-friendly concert program your audience opens from a QR code.
Historical NJ All-State programs, with room for your state's archives too.
2025–26 season at a glance
Why is everyone singing Gjeilo?
We looked at 933 performances from 81 concerts at 51 schools. A few patterns stood out.
Read the 2025–26 report-
1 in 6
programs featured the Nordic/Baltic sound of Gjeilo, Uusberg or Ešenvalds.
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8 schools
sang Time by Jennifer Lucy Cook, the most-performed piece of the year.
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13 programs
included Elaine Hagenberg, the season's most-programmed composer.
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861 titles
across 933 performances. Directors are barely repeating each other.
Free to use. All we ask is that you share at least two of your own programs each year.
About MFR Holdings
"Choir-adjacent" since 1988.
MFR Holdings, LLC is the home of tools that support teachers of music. Each one starts from a real problem that real directors face, and each one stays in service of that community.
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High School Choral Resources
Barbara's library from 40+ years as a choral music educator: lesson ideas, music theory, assessments, classroom management, sub plans, concert prep and programming, free for any teacher to use.
"Look for the helpers." — Fred Rogers
My wife, Barbara, is a highly respected choral director: NJ All-State Chorus, CJMEA Region II, All-Eastern co-director, and conductor of multiple international choirs. When we married in 1988, I became "choir-adjacent" in nearly every part of life.
That led me to build TheDirectorsRoom.com to support Barbara's audition registration work for NJMEA and CJMEA, and then to help other regional nonprofit choral organizations with the same needs. Along the way, over long car rides with countless JW Pepper CDs and many dinners with choral directors, I came to appreciate a second problem: finding great music that can really succeed in the classroom. ChoirTrends.com is my answer to that one.
Why is ChoirTrends free? Because the choral community has given my family enormous value and support over the years. And honestly, don't you already pay more than your share?
Rick Retzko
Founder, MFR Holdings, LLC · TheDirectorsRoom.com · ChoirTrends.com
TheDirectorsRoom.com
Bring your audition onto TheDirectorsRoom.com.
Tell us about your event: ensembles, roughly how many students audition, and when your season starts. We'll send a proposal covering scope, timeline and pricing, and we'll set up your first season for your review before go-live.
- Configured for you ahead of go-live
- One invoice, after results are final
- Direct support from the people who built it