Kara Duval-Fowler, 17, from Redmond has been selected as a soprano for the 2013 All-National Honor Choir sponsored by the National Association for Music Education (NAfME).

She will be one of about 670 music students from across the country performing at NAfME’s Oct. 30 gala concert in Nashville, Tenn. A concert band, symphony orchestra and a jazz ensemble will join the mixed choir at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel’s Presidential Ballroom. The audience figures to number in the thousands.

Before the performance, the students will spend three days immersed in rehearsals perfecting very challenging music. They’ll work with some of the top instructors in the country, including Dr. Peter Boonshaft, an instrumental professor at Hofstra University in New York; Miriam Burns, music director and conductor of the McLean (Va.) Orchestra; Dr. Rollo Dilworth, a choral director at Temple University in Philadelphia; and Rodney Whitaker, a highly-regarded recording artist and jazz instructor at Michigan State University.

Duval-Fowler has been singing in various choirs since she was 6 years old.