JANIE BROKENICKY
Co-founder, Executive Director, and Artistic Director of the Konza Choir
Janie Brokenicky is in her 19th year as a music educator. In addition to being the Co-Founder and Executive Director of FHYC, she is Director of Choirs and Musical Theater at Rock Creek High School.
She began her music teaching career in 2007 at Riley County High School before moving to Tabor College in 2012. She returned to her alma mater, K-State, in 2015 as a voice and music theory instructor. Amidst the COVID pandemic, Brokenicky returned to public education, spending a year directing the choirs at USD 320 Wamego before moving to Rock Creek in 2021. She is a frequent guest clinician and adjudicator in Missouri and Kansas and serves on the Kansas Choral Directors Association board as treasurer. Brokenicky holds degrees in music education, mathematics, choral conducting and vocal performance, and is an accomplished oboist.
Ms. Brokenicky is also an active soprano soloist. She has been featured at the Meyerson Symphony Hall (Dallas), Kauffman Center, and Folly Theater (Kansas City), and has been a guest artist with the Wichita Grand Opera, Wichita Chamber Chorale, Hays Symphony Orchestra, Flint Hills Masterworks Chorale, Kansas State University Orchestra, and served eight summers as artist-in-residence for the Ad Astra Summer Music Festival. Most recently she performed as soprano soloist for the Brahms' German Requiem with the Topeka and Lawrence Civic Choirs and Kurt Weill’s The Seven Deadly Sins with the Salina Symphony and conductor Yaniv Segal. None of this would be possible without the unwavering support of her husband Cole and two children, Ava and Ethan.