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The 2014 Seattle Northwestern chusetts, in 1925. A guides the choral studies program. He is ACDA (NWACDA) Conference’s graduate of Smith national chair of ACDA’s Past-President’s theme is connection. NWACDA Presi- College and the Juil- Council, a member of the Interkultur dent Gary Weidenaar originally set the liard School, she has international advisory board, and music theme as a way to promote sessions on led an active life of director of Schola Cantorum of Texas. balancing career, family, and health—a composing, conduct- He has served as guest conductor/ challenge in the too-busy life of today’s ing, and teaching clinician in thirty-seven states, in addi- choral conductor. As a result, there are focused on melody and on the human tion to serving in guest roles in Austria, multiple sessions on the health of the voice. Her own compositions include China, Cuba, Great Britain, South Korea, conductor. four operas, more than forty-fi ve can- Sweden, Taiwan, and Venezuela. His The NWACDA leadership has also tatas, many choral suites, and hundreds choirs have also sung for the national expanded the idea of connection, which of anthems and settings of folk songs, conferences of numerous organizations is now being utilized in wonderful ways hymns, and spirituals. She has infl uenced and on multiple international stages. well beyond that original idea. many composers and conductors Since McCoy’s arrival at UNT in Here are a few: Headliner Alice through the seminars held at her home. 2000, alumni of the UNT graduate Parker is passionate about community In 1985 she founded Melodious choral studies program have earned singing and involving music in everyday Accord, Inc., which sponsors concerts positions in twenty-fi ve colleges and life. The Canadian groups Elektra and by a professional chamber chorus, edu- universities across the United States, Nathaniel Dett connect two countries cational opportunities, SINGS, and her South Korea, and Mexico. on the international choir night. An personal appearances. She has published He sang and recorded with the Rob- honor choir fl ash mob at a local mall several books, including The Anatomy of ert Shaw Festival Singers in New York is planned—connecting ACDA with Melody, The Melodious Accord Hymnal, City and throughout southern France, the Seattle community. And to connect and over a dozen recordings. She was and with the Banff (Canada) Festival bodies and minds of attendees to a named the fi rst director laureate by Chamber Choir, led by Swedish conduc- relaxed feeling, chair massages will be Chorus America, received the Robert tor Eric Ericson. available in the exhibit area for much of Shaw Award from ACDA, is a Fellow of the conference. the Hymn Society of the United States and Canada, and is the recipient of many honors and awards, including six honor- Nathaniel Dett Chorale Keynote Address ary doctorates.

The Defi nition of Beauty: The Composer and Poet at Work Jerry McCoy Alice Parker will discuss the chal- Jerry McCoy, lenge of fulfi lling the Raymond Brock honored with the Commission; the art of clothing poetry 2013 Texas Choral in music. Emily Dickinson's poems are The Nathaniel Dett Chorale, hailed Directors Associa- the source of the rhythms and melo- as a National Treasure of Canada and tion’s Choirmaster dies in these four brief songs. Ideas for CAPACO 2009 Touring Artist of the Award, is director rehearsal techniques will be shared that Year, is Canada’s fi rst professional choral of choral studies help to communicate both the song and group dedicated to Afrocentric music and regents professor of music at the the words. of all styles, including classical, spiritual, University of North Texas (UNT), where gospel, jazz, folk, and blues. he conducts the A Cappella Choir Alice Parker, composer, conductor and These classically trained, outstanding and Grand Chorus, teaches graduate teacher, was born in Boston, Massa- vocalists have shared the stage with conducting and choral techniques, and

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many internationally recognized artists. Music of The Nathaniel Dett Chorale, a He has also worked as artistic director The Chorale has also performed at documentary celebrating this unique and advisor for the Algoma Festival events honoring Nelson Mandela, Arch- ensemble and their place in Canada’s Choir, the Nova Scotia Mass Choir, and bishop Desmond Tutu, Muhammad Ali, musical spectru. the Chatham-Kent Roots Festival. and the inauguration of president-elect Blyden-Taylor has served as a mem- Barack Obama in January 2009. Brainerd Blyden-Taylor is the founder, ber of the teaching staff of the Faculty The Nathaniel Dett Chorale’s vision artistic director, and conductor of the of Music, University of Toronto, and the is to build bridges of understanding, Nathaniel Dett Chorale, Canada’s fi rst Faculty of Music, Queen’s University. He appreciation, and acceptance between professional chamber choir dedicated is a master teacher with the Toronto communities of people, both Afrocentric to the creation and performance of Board of Education, coaching teachers and other, through the medium of music. Afrocentric music of all styles. Born in and students in conducting and choral Founder Brainerd Blyden-Taylor Trinidad & Tobago, Blyden-Taylor immi- technique, and was recently awarded an named the Chorale after internationally grated to Canada in 1973. He founded honourary doctor of laws degree from renowned African-Canadian composer the Chorale in 1998 in response to a York University in Toronto. R. Nathaniel Dett (1882–1943). musical void in Canada; there had never Blyden-Taylor is also in constant Since its inception in 1998, the Na- before been a professional ensemble demand as a clinician, adjudicator and thaniel Dett Chorale has honored the dedicated to the dissemination of Afro- lecturer both nationally and internation- memory of its namesake, performing centric choral music. ally. In addition, Blyden-Taylor is an active a jubilant and uplifting repertoire ex- Blyden-Taylor has conducted several church musician, serving currently as tensively throughout Ontario and New university, youth, and concert choirs, music director of St Timothy’s Anglican York state and delighting national audi- most notably completing a twenty-fi ve- Church, North Toronto. ences in critically acclaimed extended year tenure with the Orpheus Choir of tours. Toronto. He works frequently as a guest In November 2002, the Nathaniel conductor, having appeared with organi- Dett Chorale released its fi rst CD zations such as the Toronto Symphony (Listen to the Lambs), a historic fi rst Orchestra, Symphony Nova Scotia, Han- commercial recording of the choral naford Street Silver Band, Nova Scotia works of R. Nathaniel Dett. February Youth Choir, Ontario Youth Choir, Cen- 2003 saw the release of Gemini award- tral Manitoba Youth Choir, and the New winning Carry Me Home: The Story and Brunswick Choral Federation Youth Sing.

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works have been heard widely across Gospel Music North America and in Europe. When St. John's Passion he is not on the podium, Chagnard can Worship be found playing gypsy jazz guitar with Saturday After Lunch the TOUCHÉ sextet. He served as Northwest Sinfonietta director of orchestras at the University Steven Newby will lead attendees of Puget Sound from 2001 to 2012. in a gospel music worship experience Founded in Chagnard received his musical training in that is praise-fi lled, participatory, and 1991, North- composition and conducting from Berk- inspirational. Newby will gather a vocal west Sin- lee College of Music and New England ensemble of Seattle’s top gospel singers fonietta is a Conservatory. and a driving rhythm section to lead professional worship. At the end of worship there chamber or- will be a question-and-answer session chestra per- about the joys and challenges of incor- forming a Pacifi c Lutheran University porating gospel music in worship. regular full Choral Union season in Se- Stephen Michael attle, Tacoma, Newby is associate and Puyallup. professor of music Its thirty-fi ve members are the fi nest composition at Seat- professional musicians in the Greater tle Pacifi c University Seattle region, and the ensemble is (SPU) and director widely acclaimed for its remarkable of the Center for blend of power and intimacy. Notable Worship and the SPU Gospel Choir. accomplishments include regional tours, multiple CD recordings, two interna- Worship leader, composer, conductor, The Pacific Lutheran University tional tours to Cuba, and performances and educator, Newby has worked with Choral Union is considered one of the in the United States with their sister- gospel choirs, vocal jazz ensembles, and outstanding community choruses in the orchestra from Cienfuegos, Cuba. Their traditional choral groups for more than United States. The choir was established most recent projects include a profes- thirty years. He served as a worship in 1984 and is comprised of singers from sional recording with pianist Joel Fan for leader/recording artist for Maranatha! the community, PLU faculty and staff, the prestigious Reference Recording Music and Integrity Music. alumni, and students. The Choral Union label (to be released internationally in His award-winning compositions in a has performed for ACDA national and April 2014). variety of styles have been performed regional conferences (2001 and 2002, by such groups as the Seattle Symphony, Christophe Chagnard respectively), and has toured Europe the New World Theater Orchestra, the (2002, 2005, 2008), Scandinavia (2011), has gained a reputa- Cascade Youth Symphony and the New and Italy (2014). Choral Union’s 25th tion as the conduc- Haven Symphony. He received his MM Anniversary Album won the 2011 Ameri- tor who can do it in jazz composition from the University can Prize for outstanding recording by a all. Equally versed of Massachusetts and his DMA in com- community chorus. position from the University of Michigan. in a vast repertoire of chamber, sym- He serves as elder of worship arts at Richard Nance has phonic, operatic, and ballet works of all Antioch Bible Church. worked at Pacific styles and periods, he is music director Lutheran University and cofounder of the highly acclaimed since 1992, where Northwest Sinfonietta and music direc- he is conductor of tor of the Lake Union Civic Orchestra. the Choir of the He is also a prolifi c composer whose

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West and Choral Union and teaches the edifi cation and enjoyment of listen- vast repertoire of sacred and secular courses in choral conducting. Nance has ers; to promote and perpetuate ancient, choral traditions, including choral- served ACDA as president for the state traditional, and contemporary musical orchestral masterworks such as Bach’s of Washington and the Northwestern forms of worship; and to minister to B Minor Mass, Mozart’s Requiem and Division. His choirs have appeared at the spiritual needs of the community. All C Minor Mass, Vaughan Williams’s Dona several ACDA and NAfME regional and members of Choir, including its director, nobis pacem, and Brahms’s Ein deutsches national conferences and have toured are volunteers and freely give of their Requiem. The music program at Univer- in Europe several times. Nance was time and talents to chant the Offi ce of sity Unitarian Church consists of three awarded the 2011 and 2013 American Compline and support its operation. choirs, a seven-person music staff, and Prize for choral conducting and received a concert series that includes national the 2010 ACDA leadership award for Jason A. Anderson and international touring choirs and the state of Washington. He composed has directed the chamber music. the Raymond Brock commission for Compline Choir ACDA in 2002, and his choral works, since July 2009. He Karen P. Thomas, published by Walton Music, Hinshaw joined the choir in composer and con- Music, and Colla Voce Music, are regu- 2004, singing bari- ductor, is the direc- larly performed throughout the United tone and counter- tor of the University States and abroad. tenor. He is a graduate of Butler Unitarian Church University, Portland State University, and Loft Choir and of the University of Washington, where Seattle Pro Musica, he studied with Henry Leck, Bruce with whom she has recorded nine Browne, and Geoffrey Boers. Ander- critically acclaimed CDs and received Music in Worship son is associate for Liturgical Arts and the Margaret Hillis Award for Choral Youth Formation at St. Michael and All Excellence and the ASCAP-Chorus Compline Service Angels Episcopal Church in Issaquah, America Award. Her compositions are Washington, and serves on the Liturgy performed internationally by groups and Arts Commission for the Diocese such as the Hilliard Ensemble and are St. Mark's Compline Choir of Olympia. published by Santa Barbara Music Pub- lishing. Named the 2012 Washington State “Outstanding Choral Director of the Year,” she guest conducts in North World Worship America and Europe, and serves on the Northwestern ACDA Division Board Wake-up and the Seattle Music Commission. Her choirs have performed at ACDA national and division conferences and University Unitarian Loft Choir at international festivals. The Compline Choir , in residence at St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral, Seattle, is a unique community of twenty-one lay- persons with diverse beliefs that seeks to express musically a concern for the nurture and care of the soul—spiritual nourishment. Since inception, the core mission of the Compline Choir has been to perform and record liturgical The University Unitarian Church and religious music for men’s voices for Loft Choir performs works from the

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Ballard High School Michigan, she earned a BM in voice per- 2013 WMEA State Solo and Ensemble Concert Choir formance and choral music education Contest. Pelavin was honored by the 5th from the University of Michigan, and an Avenue 2012 Musical Theatre Awards MM in choral conducting from Michigan with nominations for Best Musical Di- State University. Under her direction, rection and Best Chorus in the state of the Ballard choirs have grown from 36 Washington. She is a past recipient of students to over 120 members strong the Ballard High School Outstanding and consistently receive superior ratings Educator Award (2010). at regional and national choral festivals. Most recently, the BHS Men’s Quartet won fi rst place in their category at the The music program at Ballard High School (BHS) has gained a reputation for excellence throughout the North- west and beyond. Concert Choir is the school’s large mixed voices ensemble, consisting of men in grades 9–12 and women in grades 10–12. The sixty members of Concert Choir are also involved in theatre, band, orchestra, ath- letics, student government, and numer- ous school clubs. Performance highlights include a 2010 concert at New York City’s Lincoln Center and an annual winter masterwork performance with the school’s full orchestra. In addition to Concert Choir, BHS offers two treble choirs, two concert bands, orchestra, percussion ensemble, two jazz bands, vocal jazz, multiple chamber ensembles, and a musical theatre program. Ballard Performing Arts is fortunate to have a very supportive parent community that provides fi nancial and volunteer as- sistance to ensure that students receive the richest arts experience possible. MPulse Vocal Arts Institute Courtney Rowley July 20 - August 2, 2014 Pelavin is in her sev- enth year as director U-M Faculty Director: Eugene Rogers of choirs at Ballard U-M Faculty Instructor: Julie Skadsem High School in Se- Voice Lessons: U-M Voice Faculty attle, Washington, Energized and challenging experiences focused on both choral where she directs and solo vocal training. For students grades 9-12. the Concert Choir, Treble Choir, Vo- cal Jazz, Women’s Chamber Choir, music.umich.edu/mpulse and Men’s Ensemble. Originally from

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Bellevue College Almli directs the BC Concert Chorale, forty-fi ve of the fi nest singer/musicians Celebration teaches music theory, history of jazz, his- on campus, this highly select group tory of rock and roll, and is active as a gives singers and audience members an private voice and piano instructor. uplifting experience with a wide variety Prior to BC, Almli was the director of musical styles. In addition to its many of choral activities at Pierce College on- and off-campus performances, the in Tacoma,Washington. During his fi ve choir tours regularly and has in recent years at Pierce College, he established years visited Brazil, Alaska, Ghana, and acclaimed and award-winning vocal around the United States. The group has jazz ensembles and concert choirs, also performed in sessions of the worldwide giving multiple IAJE and MENC perfor- General Conference of the Church mances. of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Almli attended Pacifi c Lutheran Uni- and makes regular appearances on The Bellevue College vocal jazz en- versity and Luther College for under- Music and the Spoken Word, the weekly semble Celebration was formed in 1972 graduate studies, and the University of television and radio broadcast of the by Harley Brumbaugh. Under the direc- Washington for graduate school. Mormon Tabernacle Choir. The BYU- tion of Thomas Almli, this award-winning, Almli has been involved with mul- Idaho choirs present public concerts internationally acclaimed ensemble has tiple opera companies, including Dorian on campus throughout the year in the performed at the IAJE national confer- Opera Theater and the Seattle Opera Barrus Concert Hall. ence six times and the Jazz Education Company. Almli continues to perform BYU-Idaho is a private, four-year Network in 2011 and 2014. Celebration as a vocal jazz artist and in opera and university affi liated with The Church of was honored to be selected to perform musical theater productions. He is a clini- Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Guided at the ACDA conferences (both national cian, adjudicator, arranger, and composer. by that affi liation, BYU-Idaho seeks to and regional) and MENC conferences. create a wholesome learning environ- The group and the combo have regu- ment in which students can strengthen larly placed fi rst at national college vocal their commitment to their faith and jazz competitions such as the Reno Jazz receive a quality education that prepares Festival and the Lionel Hampton Jazz Brigham Young University-Idaho them for leadership in the home, the Festival. Celebration has shared the Collegiate Singers community, and the workplace. stage with many accomplished musicians, including: M-Pact, Groove for Thought, Randall Kempton Kathy Kosins, John Pizzarelli, Kurt Elling, holds an MM from the Yellow Jackets, and the New York Brigham Young Uni- Voices. The ensemble tours yearly on a versity and a DMA local, regional, and national level. Bellvue from Arizona State College is proud to be a part of the University. He came rich tradition of vocal jazz in the Pacifi c to Brigham Young Northwest. University-Idaho in 1999 and currently

serves as director of choral activities and Thomas Almli has conductor of the Collegiate Singers. He been director of has taught private voice, diction, con- choral music activi- ducting, arranging, and choral methods ties at Bellevue Col- courses, and has directed the Univer- lege (BC) since 2002 The Collegiate Singers, conducted by sity Choir, Men’s Choir, and Women’s and is the current Randall Kempton, is one of seven vocal Choir. Prior to his arrival in Rexburg, he chairman of the mu- ensembles at Brigham Young University- conducted ensembles at Arizona State sic department. In addition to directing Idaho (BYU). Comprised of forty to University, BYU (Provo), Utah Valley Uni- the vocal jazz ensemble Celebration, versity, and the Meridian School in Provo,

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Utah. His experience includes work as a original notation. She has performed and While Latin scholars might quarrel with pianist, vocal coach, and vocalist in classi- studied throughout the United States the exact translation, Meharg suggested cal, jazz, barbershop, and musical theater and Europe with such notable conduc- the name Chor Anno or the “annual settings. He studied conducting and tors as Andrew Carwood, Peter Phillips, choir.” This begins its sixth year…with arranging with Mack Wilberg, Ronald Jeremy Summerly, Janjoost van Elburg, almost all the same members. Staheli, and David Stocker. and Ignace Thevelein. Lyman has been recognized for her scholarly achieve- Howard Meharg ments by the Fulbright Foundation, the taught in the schools Belgian American Educational Founda- of Castle Rock, Kel- Canonici: Consort of Voices tion, and the Society of Seventeenth so, and Longview, Century Music. She has been recently Washington, toured published in the American Choral Review twice with the Nor- and has a chapter on composer Peter man Luboff Choir, Philips forthcoming in Networks of Mu- sic and Culture in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries by Ashgate Publishing. Lyman was recently appointed as director of choral activities at Tacoma Canonici: Consort of Voices is a pro- Community College. She has conducted fessional early music ensemble founded choirs at the University of Puget Sound, by Anne Lyman in 2010 in Tacoma, Pacific Lutheran University, Cornell Washington. In its short history, Canonici College, and the University of Iowa. She has performed a variety of programs made her fi rst convention appearance throughout the Puget Sound region. at the 2012 Northwest ACDA Con- They have appeared as part of the Early ference with the Dorian Singers from Music Guild community concert calen- the University of Puget Sound. Lyman dar and on the Jacobsen Artist Series at serves as artistic director of the Seattle the University of Puget Sound. In 2012, Bach Choir. Canonici performed a free, collabora- tive concert funded by the Tacoma Arts Commission. Canonici performs music from the medieval and renaissance eras, Chor Anno focusing primarily on music composed from 1350–1600. Canonici is named after an ancient music manuscript that is an important source of music from this period.

Anne Lyman is pas- Chor Anno was organized in 2009 sionate about per- by music director, Howard Meharg. A forming and studying longtime member of ACDA, he was early choral music. able to call on many of his colleagues She has founded and to form this ensemble. “They’re busy directed numerous people. Limiting the performances to early music ensem- one weekend per year seemed a logical bles, including Tempus Imperfectum, Bel- way to accommodate schedules,” he gium’s fi rst vocal ensemble to read from says. It led to the naming the group!

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founded (with the help of colleagues Dave Cazier is the women’s choir movement. The choir is Bruce Browne and Larry Marsh) Male director of choral known for its adventurous programming, Ensemble Northwest, and has had instruction at Co- seeking out music written specifi cally choirs sing at several ACDA and WMEA lumbia Basin College for women, and frequently commis- conferences. (CBC). There he di- sioning new works. Elektra is a multiple He has served as editor of the rects the Concert/ fi rst-place winner in Canada’s national Northwest ACDA newsletter and Chamber Choirs, choral competition for women’s and Washington’s Unison newsletter. How- vocal jazz, and teaches history of jazz contemporary repertoire. ard built and maintains nine ACDA and private voice. Cazier is known as an Elektra has commissioned nearly sixy websites…seven for the NW area, one outstanding vocal arranger and com- compositions and arrangements in its for the state of Arkansas, and one for the poser and publishes many of these songs twenty-six-year history. Through eleven seven-state Southwestern division. He through his own company. recordings the choir has become a val- was the recipient of the 2008 Leader- Cazier began his college studies at ued resource for conductors the world ship Award for NWACDA. CBC and completed his BA and MA over looking to program the best of at Central Washington University. His Canadian and international repertoire public teaching career began in Quincy, for treble voices In addition to its con- Washington, and then Rogers High cert season of three unique productions, Columbia Basin College School in Spokane, where he was rec- outreach programs for young singers FreeForm ognized as Teacher of the Year in 1993. and conductors are a priority for Elektra. Cazier frequently serves as a choral/ vocal clinician at a variety of large group, Morna Edmundson solo/ensemble, all-state, and jazz festivals is one of Canada’s throughout the western United States. best-known choral conductors with a strong reputation for excellence. She Elektra Women's Choir holds degrees and diplomas in vocal music in Vancouver, Bellingham, and Stockholm, where her teachers included Eric Ericson. In FreeForm, directed by Dave Cazier, is 1987, she cofounded Elektra Women’s the vocal jazz ensemble from Columbia Choir with Diane Loomer, a treasured Basin College (CBC). Now in its twenty- twenty-two-year partnership. In 2009, fi rst year, FreeForm continues to set high Edmundson became Elektra’s sole artis- standards in the vocal jazz idiom, holding tic director, continuing the choir’s strong to its “Big Band for Singers” philosophy. leadership role internationally. FreeForm has won the Lionel Hamp- For fourteen years Edmundsun ton Jazz Festival many times, 2001 and shared her love of quality repertoire in 2002 Downbeat Awards, the 2010 Reno her role as associate artistic director of Jazz Festival, and performed at the 2013 Coastal Sound Music Academy, where JEN Conference. FreeForm performs she was music director of the mixed- With a mandate to inspire and lead extensively throughout the Pacific voice Youth Chamber Choir. She has in the choral art form through excel- Northwest on tours, conventions, and adjudicated in North America and Asia, lence in performance and through the as festival guest artists. They have also conducted honor choirs in several states, creation, exploration, and celebration of traveled to New York, Chicago, New codirected the ACDA National Wom- women’s repertoire, Vancouver’s Elektra Orleans, Dallas, Anchorage, Los Angeles, en’s Honor Choir, and gives workshops Women’s Choir has long held a leader- Reno, and Atlanta. with choirs of all ages. Edmunson is the ship role in the international classical

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recipient of the Healey Willan Award, for Washington ACDA. His choirs have University. a BC Community Achievement Award, been featured at Northwest ACDA and Anderson received a BM from Whit- and a Vancouver YWCA Woman of WMEA Conferences. worth College, an MM from Westmin- Distinction award. In 2013 she joined ster Choir College, and a DMA from the the board of Chorus America. Conservatory of Music at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He has studied Idaho State University conducting with names such as Eph Chamber Choir Ehly, Joseph Flummerfelt, Allen Crowell, Heritage High School Frauke Hassemann, Wilhelm Ehmann, Heritage Women's Ensemble and Robert Shaw. He serves as the artistic director of the Idaho International Choral Festival and has conducted more than one hun- dred choral festivals, including all-state festivals and regional MENC or ACDA honor choirs in sixteen states and Canada. Anderson has served ACDA in The Idaho State University (ISU) state, divisional, and national offi ces and Chamber Choir is a select undergradu- has been featured as guest conductor, ate collegiate choral ensemble open to lecturer, and teacher throughout the The Heritage Women’s Ensemble all students of the university by audition. United States and abroad. is a select group of thirty-two singers, Chamber Choir members rehearse grades 9–12. They rehearse once a twice per week and are selected based day as a class during school. They have upon exemplary levels of musicianship won awards at choral festivals around and artistic commitment. Representative Illumni Men's Chorale the country, including a few fi rst place choral literature from the early Renais- awards at the WMEA State Solo En- sance through the twenty-fi rst century semble Contest. The Heritage Women’s may be studied during the course of a Ensemble seeks to uphold their mission semester. statement at every rehearsal and perfor- The Choir began a tradition of inter- mance: “United, we strive for excellence, national travel in 1996 and has toured communicating through expressive more than twenty-two countries over music.” the past eighteen years. In May 2012, the ensemble toured Italy and Austria, Joel Karn is director where they performed at the main altar of choirs at Heritage of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, the Duo- Illumni Men’s Chorale was founded High School in Van- mos in Lucca and Sienna, San Marco in in 2009 by a bunch of guys who like to couver, Washington. Venice, and St. Jakob’s Cathedral in Inns- “Just sing!” Their mission is to expand the He received his BM bruck. The ISU Chamber Choir is hon- audience for choral music through inno- and ME from Port- ored to perform at the 2014 Northwest vative programming and fundraising. Last land State University. ACDA Division Conference in Seattle. year, their fundraising campaign landed He received his National Board Certi- the group an interview on CNN/Head- fi cation in 2008 and has been an active Scott Eric Anderson lines News; and in 2011 the group’s member of the Lower Columbia Re- is in his twentieth innovative approach to programming gional Music Educators for the past six- year as the director earned them a spot on NBC’s America’s teen years, serving as president in 2006. of choral activities Got Talent. The group is a mix of profes- He is currently serving as Repertoire and professor of sional musicians, choral hobbyists, and & Standards chair for women’s choirs music at Idaho State

CHORAL JOURNAL Volume 54 Number 6 117 IInvitedNorthwesternnvited CChoirshoirs Division full-time singers. They range in age where he studied vocal performance Oregon State University from twenty to seventy-four and have with Marcia Baldwin and conducting a strong tradition of composers within with Richard Sparks. McCafferty served Chamber Choir the group conducting their own pieces. as the fi rst tenor vocal coach for the Oregon State University (OSU) Seattle Men’s Chorus, the resident has become a center for excellence Christopher J McCaf- tenor soloist and men’s vocal coach for in choral music. As the premier choral ferty, the founder the Seattle Choral Company, and has ensemble at OSU, the Chamber Choir and artistic direc- appeared with many of Seattle’s fi nest has garnered national attention and in- tor of Illumni Men’s choirs, including Choral Arts, Seattle Pro ternational awards under the direction Chorale, is a well- Musica, and the Tudor Choir. In addition of Steven Zielke. known tenor soloist to a busy solo schedule, McCafferty The auditioned choir is comprised and vocal coach. He maintains a private voice studio. of forty to forty-fi ve carefully selected attended Pacifi c Lutheran University, students who perform the fi nest in

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Oregon State University ning nine championships. In 2000, the Sprague music department was chosen Meistersingers as the National Grammy Signature School by the Grammy foundation. Christensen was named Oregon Music Educator of the Year for 2007 by the Oregon MEA. In 2004, the Oregon Symphony Association in Salem rec- ognized him as Music Educator of the Year. He is also the fi rst recipient of the Western Oregon University Alumni Ex- cellence Award in Music. Christensen is a member of ACDA, OMEA, and MENC and has held various offi ces within these professional organizations.

Oregon State University (OSU) choral music repertoire. Chamber Choir Meistersingers, directed by Russ Chris- Pacifi c Youth Choir performs each term and tours regionally tensen, is a forty- to fifty-member or internationally each spring. The choir men’s chorus. This auditioned ensemble Coro Pacifi ca has frequently performed before state, performs each term, tours regionally, regional, and national music conferences. and frequently entertains at community, In March 2013, the choir presented, university, and sporting events. In May in collaboration with the Corvallis-OSU 2013, the Meistersingers, along with the Symphony, Bach’s seminal masterwork, OSU Chamber Choir and Bella Voce St. Matthew Passion. Women’s Choir, presented a concert in In May 2013, the choir traveled to Alice Tully Hall of the Lincoln Center for New York with the OSU Meistersingers the Performing Arts in New York. and the Bella Voce women’s choir, where Russell Christensen they presented concerts at the Church Founded in 2003 by Artistic Director completed his six- of St. Paul the Apostle and in Alice Tully Mia Hall (Savage) Miller, Pacifi c Youth teenth year as choral Hall at the Lincoln Center for the Per- Choir (PYC) has in its short history director at Sprague forming Arts. established a reputation for quality that High School in Sa- While many of the singers in the has led to continuing collaborations lem in 2009 and OSU Chamber Choir are preparing for with Oregon’s top musical organiza- became the choral careers in music education and vocal tions, including the Oregon Symphony director for the OSU Meistersingers performance, members also come from Orchestra, Pink Martini, Portland Youth men’s chorus. Christensen holds a BME academic disciplines from throughout Philharmonic, Eugene Symphony, Or- from the University of Oregon and an the university. These singers share a egon Ballet Theater, Whitebird Dance, MME from Western Oregon University. desire for expressive and artistic per- Portland Chamber Orchestra, and Choirs under his direction have been formances of signifi cant and meaningful Trinity Choir. The choir is made up of selected to perform at national, regional, choral music literature. 280 singers in eleven different choirs and state conventions of ACDA and serving singers ages 5–19 from all over MENC. During Christensen’s tenure at Steven M. Zielke is the conductor of the Portland metropolitan area. This year Sprague, the school’s Concert Choir the Oregon State University Chamber marks their fourth performance at an placed at the ACDA/OSAA State Choir Choir. His photo and bio can be found ACDA regional and national conference. on page 106. Competition every year, including win-

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Mia Hall Miller has competition’s fi fty-two-year history. The ditioned from the 360 students that are more than twenty- Chamber Choir has recorded on the enrolled in the six choirs at Sacajawea. fi ve years of choral Albany Label and Hildegard Labels, and education experi- their latest CD, A Drop in the Ocean, was Charlotte Colliver is ence. Her dedication a fi nalist for the 2013 American Prize. in her sixteenth year and enthusiasm for as choir director at working with young Ethan Sperry is di- Sacajawea Middle people is widely recognized. In addition rector of choral ac- School in Bozeman, to PYC, Miller is a popular adjudicator tivities at Portland Montana, where she and clinician conducting in workshops, State University, ar- teaches six of the festivals, and two OMEA all-state choirs. tistic director and seven choirs. Colliver holds a BME Miller holds bachelor’s and master’s conductor of the from the University of Missouri-Kansas degrees in music from the University Oregon Repertory City Conservatory of Music. She also of Oregon. She studied in Stuttgart, Singers, and editor of the Global Rhythms holds an MM in piano performance from Germany, while singing with outstand- series for earthsongs music, one of the Truman State University in Kirksville, ing choral directors Helmuth Rilling and best-selling choral series in the country. Missouri. She is a member of ACDA Frieder Bernius. She continues conduct- Choirs under his direction have per- and NAfME and has been recently ap- ing studies in workshops with Rodney formed at over a dozen ACDA and pointed the Northwest ACDA Reper- Eichenberger. Miller is a member of NAfME conferences, toured almost toire & Standards chair for junior high/ ACDA and has served as membership twenty foreign countries, and sung at the middle school choirs. chair for Oregon and cochair of the Hollywood Bowl, the Kennedy Center, Colliver has presented sessions at the middle school honor choir. and the United Nations. Sperry also 2011 Northwest MENC Convention serves as a consultant for the KM Music and at two Montana MEA conventions. Conservatory in Chennai, the fi rst clas- In her career, she has been a church Portland State University sical music school in India, which opened organist and pianist, private voice/piano in 2009. teacher, church choir director, and com- Chamber Choir munity children’s choir director.

Sacajawea Middle School Select Choir Seattle Children's Chorus Arioso

Hailed by Fanfare magazine as “one of the most interesting choral groups in the United States,” the Portland State Chamber Choir has performed at many prestigious venues, touring internation- The Sacajawea Middle School Select ally and making multiple appearances at Choir is an auditioned group of boys ACDA and NAfME conferences. Last Arioso is the premier treble choir and girls grades 6– 8. Sacajawea Middle summer the Chamber Choir competed of Seattle Children’s Chorus for girls School has a student body of 651 at the Seghizzi International Compe- and boys, ages 12–18. Arioso has been students. The school supports seven tition for Choral Singing in Gorizia, honored to receive four invitations to choirs (two at each grade level and the Italy, where they earned fi fteen separate perform for Northwestern ACDA divi- select choir), six bands, fi ve orchestras, awards and became the fi rst American sion conferences and one invitation to and eleven sections of world music. The Choir ever to win the Grand Prize in the the 2005 ACDA National Conference Select Choir members are rigorously au- in Los Angeles. Arioso tours regionally,

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nationally, and internationally. This year a diverse community of girls across fi ve in seven choirs. The Chamber Choir marks the twenty-fi fth anniversary of choir levels from grades 1–12. Prime is composed of singers in grades 6– 8. the Seattle Children’s Chorus, and the Voci is a senior-level choir that regularly The educational experience emphasizes choir will honor this legacy at its twenty- collaborates with other Seattle area arts collaborative performances with com- fi fth anniversary celebration concert, organizations and performs both nation- munity musicians and performing arts “Sing your Way Home,” June 22, 2014, ally and internationally. organizations. It hosts six major concerts at Benaroya Hall in Seattle. throughout the season, and additional Jacob Winkler grew concerts and programs are performed Kris Mason founded up singing in the in collaboration with other groups and the Seattle Chil- Northwest Boychoir. by invitation. dren’s Chorus in He attended the 1989. She con- University of Wash- Judith Herrington ducts Arioso and ington, where he is the founder and Intermezzo, the studied piano with artistic director of upper-level and Holly Herrmann and Marc Seales, ulti- the Tacoma Youth intermediate-level treble choirs. Her mately earning his MM in orchestral con- Chorus (TYC). She choirs have been privileged to travel ducting under Peter Erös. Winkler has brings more than throughout Great Britain, Scandinavia, served on the staff of the Northwest thirty-fi ve years of Central Europe, Canada, and Brazil. Ma- Choirs for twenty years, advancing to teaching and conducting experience to son has served as a past president for the position of associate music director her work at TYC and Charles Wright Washington State Choristers Guild and before joining the Seattle Girls’ Choir in Academy in Tacoma, Washington, and as the ACDA Repertoire & Standards the fall of 2009. An active member of has received numerous awards and chair of children’s choirs for the state Seattle’s recording industry, Winkler has recognitions throughout her career. of Washington. In 2012, Mason was the appeared on the soundtracks to count- Herrington is a guest conductor recipient of the ACDA Leadership and less fi lms, trailers, and video games. and choral clinician and has conducted Service Award for the state of Wash- all-state and regional honor choirs and ington. She holds a BME from Seattle festivals, both nationally and interna- Pacifi c University. tionally. A composer and arranger, she Tacoma Youth Chorus has published choral compositions, Chamber Choir arrangements, and coauthored choral teaching texts through Pavane Publish- Seattle Girls' Choir ing, Hal Leonard Publishing, and Colla Prime Voci Voce Publishing.

Tahoma High School Chamber Choir Tacoma Youth Chorus is a select, au- ditioned choral arts education program committed to the artistic development Founded in 1982 and currently of musically talented youth from Pierce, under the artistic direction of Jacob Thurston, King, and Kitsap counties, Winkler, Seattle Girls’ Choir provides through disciplined vocal training and a progressive choral education with an the performance of quality choral The Tacoma High School Chamber emphasis on classical music, ensemble literature. It currently serves 230 musi- Choir is the most advanced of the four performance, and music theory. It serves cally gifted boys and girls grades 1–12 choirs at Tahoma High School. This

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twenty-four-voice auditioned ensemble invited choir at this conference. Their University of Washington is made up of experienced singers in photo and bio can be found on page 54. grades 10–12. The Chamber Choir Chamber Singers performs challenging music from all eras, including one extended work each year. They have premiered a number of new University of Puget Sound works and are recognized throughout Adelphian Concert Choir the area for their commitment to musi- cal excellence.

Ken Riggs began teaching in 1992 and has spent the The University of Washington (UW) past eighteen years Chamber Singers, formerly known as as the choral direc- the Madrigal Singers, is a long-standing tor at Tahoma High Founded in 1932, the Adelphian choral organization that was formed in School. He also di- Concert Choir is one of the signature the early 1930s. The group gained wide rects three choirs at Tahoma Junior High, musical ensembles of the University of recognition through its conductors, Ger- serves as district music coordinator, and Puget Sound and is recognized as one ald Kechley, Rodney Eichenberger, and is the music director at Shepherd of the of the Northwest’s most acclaimed en- Joan Conlon. They have been featured at Valley Lutheran Church. Riggs earned sembles. For more than eighty years this state, regional, and national conventions his BME and MM in choral conducting auditioned choir has sustained a level of the National Kodály Conference, Na- from Central Washington University. of choral excellence that has brought tional Association of Schools of Music, He is an active composer, clinician, and accolades from audiences in Canada, American Musicological Society, GALA, performer. Europe, and on the West Coast. It has and Musicfest Canada, and Canada’s appeared at state, regional, and national national music festival. conventions of ACDA and MENC. The Chamber Singers tours interna- tionally, performs with regional orches- Tucson Arizona Steven Zopfi serves tras, and is involved with composers Boys Chorus as director of cho- in premiering and commissioning new ral activities at the works, most recently works for choir University of Puget and digitally processed sound. The Tucson Arizona Boys Chorus is an Sound and artis- tic director of the Geoffrey Boers has Portland Symphonic become recognized Choir, the offi cial choir of the Oregon as one of the fore- Symphony. Critics have hailed his work most choral conduc- as “magical” and “superb,” and choirs tors and pedagogues under his direction have been invited in the Unites States. to sing at local and regional ACDA, He maintains an ac- and NAfME conferences. Zopfi was tive conducting, teaching, workshop, and recently invited to conduct the Oregon clinic schedule. His recent engagements Symphony in performances of Mozart’s have included conducting concerts in Mass in C Minor, Stravinsky’s Symphony of major halls across the country. Last sea- Psalms, and works by Beethoven, Bach, son he served as artist-in-residence in and Wagner. Toronto, Ontario, Mainz, Germany, and Seoul, Korea, with the world-renown

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Incheon City Chorale. ences in New Orleans and Boston, and Workshop that focuses on developing He is the director of choral activities ACDA National Conferences in New student leaders to partner with teachers at the University of Washington. Under York, Chicago, and Dallas. The Willa- in fostering choral excellence. his direction, the graduate choral pro- mette Singers take a regional tour yearly Choirs under his direction have gram with its mission to nurture the and has performed in Hawaii and taken performed for state conferences of whole student as conductor-teacher- two tours of Japan. OMEA, Northwest ACDA Division servant-leader-scholar has become one The Singers’ sixteenth CD, I’ll Sing Conferences, ACDA National Confer- of the most vibrant and innovative in for You, was released in 2013. The CD ences, IAJE and MENC conventions, and the country. was recorded in the famous Studio X in 2003, toured to South Africa at the in Seattle, Washington. The members request of Archbishop Desmond Tutu. of the Willamette Singers are honored Long sings with Male Ensemble Willamette University to be selected to perform at the 2014 Northwest, performing in several ACDA Northwest ACDA Division Conference division conferences and ACDA Nation- Willamette Singers in Seattle. al Conferences in Washington DC and San Antonio. As a member of the Rob- Wallace Long has ert Shaw Festival Singers, he performed been the director of at Carnegie Hall, the Cathedral of St. choral activities at John the Divine, and recorded in France. Willamette Univer- In 2006, Long conducted Haydn’s Mass sity since 1983. Long in the Time of War in Carnegie Hall. holds master and doctorate degrees from the University of Arizona and is a The Willamette Singers vocal jazz past president of Oregon ACDA. ensemble joins the extensive choral A frequent vocal/choral adjudica- and dramatic vocal arts program at Wil- tor, clinician, and guest conductor of lamette University. numerous honor choirs throughout the The Willamette Singers have been Northwest. He has conducted all-state invited to perform for MENC National choirs in Kansas and Wyoming. Long is Convention in Indianapolis, IAJE confer- the creator of the Choral Leadership

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The Answering Voice way to the musical development of a Beyond Salmo 150: melody. It is a new approach to this fi eld, The A Cappella Choral Music Alice Parker’s soon-to-be-released one that Parker has been developing textbook on teaching music theory is and teaching for fi fty years. of Ernani Aguiar the successor to The Anatomy of Melody. Brazilian composer Ernani Aguiar has It is based on the idea that improvising Alice Parker will be the clinician for this established himself as one of the most on a given melody is the pathway to session. Her photo and bio can be found infl uential names on the contemporary composition, and the creation of one on page 109. Latin American scene. Although his good line of counterpoint opens the

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compositions continue to gain inter- necessary to be a successful collabora- Singers. She spends her summers em- national visibility, his name is mainly tor in the rehearsal room and perfor- ployed as a staff pianist at the American associated with his famous setting of mance space. What are mistakes that Institute of Musical Studies (AIMS) in Psalm 150. Salmo 150 remains among conductors make when addressing Graz, Austria. Loehnig received her BA the most frequently performed Brazilian pianists? What are realistic expectations in piano performance from Whitman compositions in the United States, yet that can be set when working together? College. She holds an MM and DMA in conductors have limited understanding Jeremy Mims, conductor and pianist, collaborative piano from Florida State of Aguiar’s output and musical language. and Melissa Loehnig, pianist, will present University. This session will explore Aguiar’s unac- commentary regarding communica- companied choral works and also pro- tion between conductors and pianists, vide an overview of his life and famous thereby enabling a discussion of effective psalm. Ultimately, this session will intro- rehearsal processes. The Conductor's Connection duce new pieces to the American choral to Better Mental Health repertoire and discuss performance Jeremy Mims, a di- considerations. The purpose of this session is to verse musician, is a suggest ways we might use connection conductor, pianist, through relation and communication Mariana Farah is the violinist, and vocalist. to reduce stress, seek balance, increase associate director Currently, he con- our overall effectiveness, and fi nd ways of choral activities ducts the choirs at to refocus and better our overall mental at the University of Whitman College. and physical health while doing what we Kansas, where she Mims taught public school choir and love to do. This interactive session will teaches graduate orchestra in El Paso, Texas. An ac- focus on strategies we can bring to our choral literature and tive performer, he has served as ac- professional lives as conductor teachers, conducting, directs the KU Concert companist for numerous high school including interactions with ensemble Choir and Women’s Chorale, and helps honor choirs, choirs at the University members and colleagues, planning, re- oversee all aspects of the choral pro- of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) and hearsals, and performance. gram. Born in Brazil, Farah received her Hardin-Simmons University, and the BME from the Universidade Estadual de Texas MEA All-State Men’s Choir. He has Sarah J. Graham is Campinas prior to moving to the United also served as clinician for honor choirs the assistant profes- States for her graduate work. Her re- regionally. Mims received two degrees sor of choral music search focuses on Brazilian choral music, from Hardin-Simmons University and a at Kaskaskia College particularly the works of Ernani Aguiar. DMA in conducting from UMKC. He is in Centralia, Illinois. Her edition of Aguiar’s Três Motetinos actively researching the works of Mexi- She has worked in No.2 has been published by Earthsongs. can Baroque composer Miguel Mateo higher education for Dallo y Lana. twelve years and taught high school in Washington State for seven years. Gra- Building Connections: Melissa Loehnig is ham received her BA from Whitworth assistant professor University, her MA from Pacifi c Lutheran Bridging the Gap between of music in piano University, and her MM and DMA from Conductors and Pianists and theory at Cen- Michigan State University. She frequently tral Methodist Uni- Often conductors and pianists have guest conducts honor choirs and serves versity in Fayette, a diffi cult time communicating due to a as an adjudicator. Missouri. Loehnig myriad of misinformation and misunder- has performed throughout the United standing, resulting in a frustrating situa- Cliff Jourdan is the fi ne arts department States, including recently with Choral tion for both the choristers and leaders. chair and professor of instrumental Arts in Seattle and with the University This session will explore the skills music at Kaskaskia College, where he of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory has been since 2002. He previously

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had a successful ca- Porter held choral conducting positions son Endowed Chair for Elementary Arts reer teaching band at Brevard College in Brevard, North Education. Active as a clinician from re- in both Sandoval Carolina, and Bloomsburg University gional to national and international ven- and Vandalia, Illinois. in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania. Porter re- ues, she has conducted forty-fi ve festival Jourdan received his ceived his DMA in choral conducting and honor choirs, including all-states and BME from Southern and pedagogy from the University of festivals in Carnegie Hall and Brazil; she Illinois University at Iowa, under the tutelage of Timothy has conducted children’s choir demon- Carbondale and his MME from Vander- Stalter, and his bachelor’s and master’s stration sessions and master classes with Cook College of Music in Chicago. He is from Truman State University, where he children’s choirs in Canada, China, the an accomplished performer, conductor, studied with R. Paul Crabb. Porter re- Czech Republic, Norway, and through- and teacher and is frequently sought ceived further conducting training at the out the United States. Most recently as a clinician, guest conductor, and 2009 Oregon Bach Festival Conducting she was the founder and conductor of adjudicator throughout Illinois and the Master Class with Helmut Rilling. the Ames Children's Choirs program; Midwest. Jourdan is a cancer survivor the Concert Choir performed twice and a seventh-degree black belt in Goju for the North Central ACDA Division Ryu Karate. Conference and for national Orff and Developing Expressive Singing Kodály conferences. That choir toured in Norway, the Czech Republic, Canada, This session will present strategies for and throughout the United States. Mun- Connecting the Dots: developing expressive singing and inde- sen has published choral arrangements Creating Warm-Ups to pendent musicianship skills throughout through Kjos and Santa Barbara. Match Your Repertoire the rehearsal, especially focusing on the vocal preparation period. Connections Conductors agree that a produc- between vocal preparation and rehears- tive choral warm-up often results in an al of literature will be emphasized with Exploring Bach’s Choir: equally productive rehearsal. However, primary focus on the musical phrase as Connecting Vocal Pedagogy, an exhaustive warm-up that address the foundation of musical experience Leadership, and every technical aspect can be time con- and understanding. A variety of musi- suming. How can conductors make ef- cal devices and techniques utilizing the Performance Practice fi cient use of the choral warm-up while whole body will demonstrate how to A voice instructor and conductor- ensuring these concepts are effectively achieve: breath management, dynam- keyboardist present a collaborative applied to their repertoire? ics, legato/staccato, in-tune singing using performance of J.S. Bach’s cantata Christ This session will identify ways to solfege, production of vowels and con- lag in Todesbanden. With students from include elements from the literature sonants, and expressive phrasing. Strat- two universities, they explore an alterna- being rehearsed into creative warm-ups. egies will be shared for self-evaluation/ tive model of performing Bach’s cantatas Ultimately, the conductor will achieve a assessment skills of the singers with with soloists inspired by musicologists successful transfer of knowledge from suggestions for guiding singers to make such as Joshua Rifkin and Andrew the warm-up period to the selected lit- aesthetic choices. Parrott. Christ lag in Todesbanden is an erature and will aid the choir in learning exemplary cantata for exploring alterna- repertoire more quickly. Sylvia Munsen is the tive possibilities in performance: Bach’s artistic director and position as organist—not Kantor—in is C. Michael Porter conductor of Cache Mühlhausen, the cantata’s vocal writing, an assistant profes- Children’s Choir. and its multiple performances through- sor of music and the She conducts the out Bach’s life. Issues include vocal director of choral ac- Women’s Choir at pedagogy with Bach and young singers, tivities at Boise State Utah State Univer- leading from the continuo keyboard, University. Prior to sity, where she is a professor and Soren- performance practice, and collaboration this appointment,

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between vocal and choral colleagues. If it’s Baroque, Fix it! motion for conductor and choir mem- ber. Participants will leave the workshop Timothy Wester- with a heightened personal kinesthetic There is much conversation about haus serves as the awareness and an understanding of how period performance practice these director of choirs to integrate movement to create more days. What is correct? What isn’t? What and vocal studies at effective rehearsals. is too much? Is there really a need for Gonzaga University this discussion? in Spokane, Wash- Lisa A. Billingham The answer to the last question is a ington, and he is is associate profes- resounding, “Yes!” Through the mastery active as a conductor, educator, tenor, sor of choral music of a few fundamental performance con- and pianist. He serves as the Washington education at George cepts, we can reinvigorate period music ACDA Repertoire & Standards chair for Mason University, in a manner that keeps it relevant to our university choirs. He has served as assis- where she conducts time and restores the fundamental ele- tant chorus master for the Oregon Bach the University Cho- ments of its original character. Using two Festival, where he has sung as tenor rale and teaches courses in choral music staples of the period (Vivaldi’s Domine soloist in master classes with Helmuth education. Currently the Virginia ACDA Fili Unigenite and Marenzio’s Io Piango) as Rilling. Westerhaus adjudicates choral president, she is also a planning com- guides for discussion, If it’s Baroque, Fix it! festivals and teaches courses in under- mittee member for the Annual Voices will focus on the fundamentals of shap- graduate conducting, music education, United Conference held in Fairfax, ing Baroque choral music as infl uenced and music humanities. He received his Virginia. by: (1) metric/rhythmic considerations, master’s and doctorate in choral con- A certifi ed laban movement analyst, (2) dramatic/expressive implications ducting from Boston University. Billingham is active as a clinician through- of text, and (3) defi nition of the sonic out the United States and Europe. She mosaic. Kyle Ferrill, baritone, has presented for VMEA, ACDA division performs repertoire conferences, HICAH, and ISME. Her text Jerry McCoy will be the clinician for this from Monteverdi to The Complete Conductors Guide to Laban session. His photo and bio can be found modern works, and Movement Theory is available from GIA on page 109. his special interests Publications. include baroque mu- sic, German Lieder, and contemporary music. Ferrill has sung on fi ve continents and worked Laban Movement Theory: with conductors such as Stefan Asbury, Body and Shape Concepts Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Keith Lockhart, Helmuth Rilling, Gil Rose, Robert Spano, for the Choral Rehearsal and John Williams. Ferrill received his un- dergraduate training at Butler Universty Laban Movement Theory (LMT) and his master’s and doctorate from is a process for labeling and recalling Cascade High School Vivace is the select Florida State University. Equally devoted human movement in four component women’s ensemble at Cascade High to teaching, Ferrill is assistant professor areas: body, effort, shape, and space. School in Everett, Washington. The of voice at the University of Idaho. This workshop will use a choir to spirit of this ensemble is based upon the demonstrate a series of effective and quote, “If music be the food of love, sing Portland State University Chamber Choir creative physical and vocal exercises for on.” The members of this award-winning will be the demonstration choir for this an inspirational rehearsal followed by a ensemble—all of whom enjoy the chal- session. Their photos and bios can be brief application of LMT to the choral lenge of exploring and performing wom- found on page 120. score. A movement sequence will be en’s choral music from many styles and introduced to create a wide range of periods—continue the tradition by the many young women who have paved

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the path. Viváce performs throughout the musicians and those who hear their good things we accomplish have come the year at concerts, contests, festivals, music. The clinician will share how her from making mistakes, learning from and community events. own life experiences as a choral conduc- them, and ensuring they never hap- Many members of Viváce have gone tor led her to become a certifi ed music pened again. on to be music educators and profes- practitioner for hospice and hospital pa- This session deals with the actions sional performers in their own right. tients. Topics include stories of patients, we take that undermine our ability to They honor the vision of Dave Cross, the difference between healing and cur- be effective, musical, engaging, profes- who formed Viváce more than thirty ing, the difference between performance sional, or sane. This topic is purposefully years ago, and proudly carry the torch and service, how intention might affect addressed from the negative standpoint he so passionately lit in 1984. stress and stage fright, the use of appro- in order to move toward the positive priate texts, the healing qualities of music approach in our work with choirs. Laurie Cappello is elements, and therapeutic music training It will be interactive and provide at- the director of vocal organizations in the United States. tendees opportunities to examine their music at Cascade current practices for areas of needed growth. High School in Ev- Carole Glenn taught erett, Washington. junior high choral Kurt McKee, a na- Her concert and music for thirty-fi ve tive Washingtonian, jazz groups have years in Modesto, holds music degrees performed at state and regional music California, and Sil- from Biola Univer- conferences. Cappello is currently com- verdale, Washington. sity and Central pleting her DMA in choral conducting In 2000 she resigned Washington Univer- at the University of Washington with her teaching position to take a trip to sity. He has taught Geoffrey Boers. Tibet. Upon returning, she has served choral music for twenty-one years in She has presented sessions at two as certifi ed music practitioner for Fran- Washington and abroad. ACDA national conferences and is the ciscan Hospice and Hospice of Kitsap McKee has been active in ACDA and Washington All-State Treble Choir man- County in Washington. Glenn received NAfME for twenty-three years, serving ager. In 2013 she was manager for the her BA from the University of the Pa- on the Northwestern ACDA division ACDA National Treble Choir. cifi c, her MA from Occidental College, board of directors for the past ten Cappello works as a clinician and and her DSS from the Alohem Center years. McKee has presented sessions for adjudicator at choral and jazz festivals for Transformational Studies. She was NWACDA’s division and Missouri MEA. throughout the region and has con- Northern California ACDA president His choirs have performed throughout ducted honor choirs in Washington, 1988–1990, authored In Quest of An- North America, including the WMEA Idaho, and Alaska. swers: Interviews with American Choral State Conference. He is national board She was the 2010 MPMEA Out- Conductors, sang with San Francisco certifi ed and directs a Swiss Men’s Choir. standing Music Educator of the year. An Symphony Chorus, and received the arranger of vocal jazz and choral music, 2010 Howard Swan Award. Cappello is published through Sound Music Publications. The Senses Collide: Musical Malpractice: Connecting Artful Movement Music as a Dumb Things We Do and How to and Dynamic Formation Powerful Force for Healing Avoid Repeating Our Failures in Performance Kinesthetic connections activate the Participants will explore the subtle Failure is a part of life and part of spirit, mind, and body, enhancing both aspects of live music that may bring being a choir director. Failure can either technical and expressive pathways. This comfort and a sense of well-being to be instructive or destructive—and many session will present movement principles

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partnered with art music in the context singing and choir at Studio 58, Langara guest professor at University of Iowa, of traditional choral performance. The College’s professional theatre school, Boise State University, Oklahoma State models explored in this session seek to and sings and plays with TriVo, a world University, College of London and Uni- augment the meaning and potency of music unaccoummed vocal trio. Brian versity of Guadalajara. He has worked the repertoire performed. Topics include has had a lifelong interest in music of closely with Eric Ericson, Frieder Bernius, the connection of body and mind, the the African Diaspora and has performed Robert Shaw, Andrew Parrott, Helmut role of singer formation and formation and studied in Cuba and West Africa. He Rilling, and James DePreist. changes in expressing an extra-musical frequently gives choir workshops and Browne has served on national end, visual impact, physical improvisation clinics internationally, and many of his committees of National Endowment in the context of performance, and the choral works are published. for the Arts and ACDA, where he was critical role of program conception as Northwest regional president for two it relates to movement and formation. years. In 2000 he was chosen as one of the Music Educators of the Year by Stretching a Point Here and There: MENC. Browne was honored with the Kristina Caswell MacMullen will be the award from ACDA for leadership and clinician for this session. Her photo and Preparing Your Body for a Lifetime service to the Northwest in choral mu- bio can be found on page 100. of Physical Activity sic. In 2012 he founded Coro in Scuola, a workshop choir that visits Portland area Since Harriet Simon’s survey in the high schools to help promote choral/ Singing in the Groove: Choral Journal revealed that over 75 vocal interest and artistry. Browne has Connecting with Our percent of the conductors surveyed ex- recorded on the labels of Freshwater perienced a wide assortment of debilita- Records, Telarc, Clarion, and Albany Rhythmic Roots tion or physical limitations, it has been Records. In 2013–2014 he will guest well known that a career in conducting conduct at UTSM, NTSU, and in New Gospel, spirituals, music of Africa and can induce a wide variety of short- and York, Washington, and Rhode Island. Latin America: choirs and audiences can- long-term impingements, especially in not seem to get enough of music with the back, neck, and shoulders of the Jenelle Andrews is a rhythmic roots. How can we best help conductor. physical therapist at our choirs connect to their natural sense In this session you’ll learn how to take Progressive Reha- of rhythm? This session gives participants proactive steps to make certain your bilitation Associates an experience of the many facets of body is able to remain healthy during, in Portland, Oregon. rhythm, including movement, clapping, and recover after, demanding rehearsals She received her and singing a variety of rhythmic styles and performances. Andrews will work doctorate of physi- of music. We will connect the body to with audience members to demonstrate cal therapy from Pacifi c University in the beat, the beat to the groove, and the direct application of an array of positive 2007. Her clinical expertise includes groove to the song. You will also learn techniques. working with individuals living with orally a variety of easy-to-learn (and chronic pain and traumatic brain injury. teach) funky rounds, spirituals, gospel, Bruce Browne is Her approach is client focused, and and African songs. emeritus professor emphasizes wellness and injury preven- of choral and vocal tion. She sees her role as an educator Brian Tate is a well- music at Portland and strives to instill in her clients the known Vancouver State University. He knowledge and skill to self-manage choral director, com- was artistic director their symptoms and maximize their poser, arranger, and and founder of Cho- quality of life. In addition to physical percussionist. He ral Cross Ties, artistic director of Port- therapy, Andrews is an adjunct profes- is music director land Symphonic Choir, and cofounder of sor of anatomy at Pacifi c University. She of Vancouver’s one Male Ensemble Northwest. He has been is intrigued and passionate about the hundred-voice City Soul Choir, teaches complexity of the human body, and she

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is grateful for the opportunity to teach works have been recorded commercial- rials (Cengage, 2013) and is the author for the past six years. ly. Muehleisen won Louisville Orchestra’s of Building Choral Excellence (Oxford 1988 Composition Competition, and University Press, 2001). He received his works have been performed in the the Weston Noble award for outstand- TTakingaking tthehe MMysteryystery United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia. ing contributions to choral music from Luther College, his alma mater. OutOut ooff CCommissioningommissioning Karen P. Thomas will be a clinician for this NNewew CChoralhoral WWorksorks session. Her photo and bio can be found on page 112. This session will answer common Vocal Jazz 101: questions about how to commission An Instructor’s Kit with 10 Easy new choral works, including, “How do I Tone Deafness Steps for Starting Your approach a composer to initiate a com- and Other Myths mission?” and “How do we justify spend- Vocal Jazz Ensemble ing money on a commission?” Topics Singing is one of the earliest devel- will include engaging and collaborating oping and most fundamental musical Paricipants will be led by discussion with composers, commissioning costs, skills, but we don’t know as much as and hands-on involvement through the funding models and sources, contracts, we should about how accurate singing following topics: audition process, music non-commission collaboration options, develops and why it never develops for selection, programming suggestions, and composer residencies. There will some children. Recently, a number of rehearsals, festivals, and the rhythm sec- also be two brief case studies featuring a researchers from music education, psy- tion, with specifi c tools helpful when conductor/ensemble experienced with chology, and neuroscience have begun developing the individual rhythm section commissioning big-name composers to explore systematically the prevalence instrumentalists. Every participant will and a conductor/ensemble who recently of accurate singing in the general popu- receive a bound booklet that includes commissioned their fi rst new choral lation. They have also started to identify specifi c information on the following work. Attendees will receive additional possible perceptual, motor, and neu- areas: resources, including links to a directory rological causes for inaccurate singing. of Pacifi c Northwest composers and to This session reviews the latest research • Auditions - Selecting the voices and commissioning guidelines. on singing accuracy and what it tells us instrumentalists about how teachers can better identify John Muehleisen and remedy inaccurate singing. • Rhythm section techniques is in demand for Steven M. Demorest commissions and • Jazz choir workshops, clinics, and is the Ruth Sutton performances, par- festivals ticularly from choral Waters endowed ensembles. John has professor of music served as Opus 7 at the University of Vocal Ensemble’s composer-in-residence Washington, where almost continuously since 1996, and for he codirects the Follow the Dale Warland Singers (2003–2004), Laboratory for Music Cognition, Culture, and Choral Arts (2011–2012). He also and Learning. In September of 2014 he @TimothySharp received commissions from Conspirare, will begin an appointment as professor the Esoterics, Northwest Girlchoir, of music education at Northwestern Seattle Girl’s Choir, Seattle Pro Musica, University. In addition to numerous Like ACDA clinics and NAfME conferences, South Bend Chamber Singers, Volti, and American Choral Directors Association schools from elementary through uni- Demorest coauthored the second edi- versity. More than forty of his choral tion of Choral Music Methods and Mate-

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• Rehearsal techniques, methods, and Dave Cross is in his forty-sixth year of recently retired as director of vocal jazz materials music education. Throughout his career at the University of Washington Seattle, he has earned the respect of music Washington. Many of his vocal jazz ar- • Recommended listening educators for his integrity, sincerity, rangements are available through Sound and for the extent and quality of his Music Publications and UNC Jazz Press. • Microphones; sound reinforcement contributions to music education. He made easy has conducted numerous all-state jazz choirs and honor choirs across the • Where to go for help United States and Canada. He is a mem- ber of ACDA, NAFME, a past president • Reference Listening of the Washington Music Educators, and a member of the Washington Music Educators Hall of Fame. He has

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Children's director of the Fort Wayne Children’s he was the recipient of several scholar- Choir (FWCC), where he helped ex- ships. He was selected as a participant in pand the membership and choirs levels master classes for Chorus America and Fred Meads is en- of the organization. He led the FWCC the Toronto Children’s Chorus. Meads joying his fi fth year on numerous national and international was a recipient of the Excellence in Arts as director of vo- tours. Meads has directed honor choirs Award by Arts United in Fort Wayne. cal studies at the in Indiana, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, New American Boychoir York, and Virginia. In 2011 he conducted School in Princeton, the OAKE National Children’s Honor Jazz New Jersey. His duties include teaching Choir in Phoenix, Arizona. He has pre- private voice lessons to all boys in the sented workshops for conferences of school, coordinating the theory pro- the Indiana MEA, ACDA, OAKE, and KKirkirk MarcyMarcy will be the conductor of this gram, leading ear-training classes, and for music educators in Hong Kong. choir. His photo and bio can be found conducting daily rehearsals of the Train- Meads has served on the Indiana Cho- on page 135. ing Choir. During the summer, he serves ral Directors Association and the New as music director for Camp Albemarle, Jersey Choral Directors Association as the famed summer music camp at ABS, a Repertoire & Standards chair. He is and music assistant for the American an associate director of the Princeton Men's Boychoir Experience, an auditioned Girlchoir. camp for boys interested in attending Meads received a BME from Ithaca Nicole Lamartine is the year-round school. College, New York, and an MM in director of choral Meads has been director of choirs in choral conducting from the University activities at the Uni- public and private schools, churches, and of North Carolina at Greensboro. He versity of Wyoming at the collegiate level in several states. completed his Kodály training at Capital (UW), where she From 1999 to 2009, he was artistic University in Columbus, Ohio, where conducts the UW

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Singing Statesmen. This seventy-fi ve- Ohio State University (1993–2010), to conducting the voice, non-auditioned ensemble per- she has conducted her university choirs four ensembles at formed at the 2012 Northwestern at divisional and national conferences of the school, he has nu- ACDA Division Conference in Seattle ACDA. She conducted the University of merous teaching and and was highlighted in her presentation Toronto MacMillan Singers at Podium mentoring respon- on female conductors of male choirs at 2012, the national conference of the sibilities, and sings the 2013 ACDA National Conference Association of Canadian Choral Com- professionally with in Dallas. Lamartine also conducts the munities. She has led choral festivals in Male Ensemble Northwest. UW Collegiate Chorale, which recently Europe and at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln He received his bachelor’s degree performed at the 2011 Northwest Centre in New York. In 2009 she con- from Pacifi c Lutheran University study- MENC Conference and at the 2011 ducted the Mormon Tabernacle Choir ing under Maurice Skones. He continued NCCO Conference. Her choirs have in a live broadcast of Music and the his education with an MM from Western enjoyed residencies, commissions, and Spoken Word. She has directed all-state Washington University, studying with premieres from composers Jennifer choruses in more than thirty states and Bruce Pullan. Higdon, Forrest Pierce, and Craig Hella led the 2011 Ontario Youth Choir. She Davidson’s thirty-four-year-long ten- Johnson. will conduct the National Youth Choir of ure as choir director at Ballou Junior As a professional vocal musician, Canada in 2014. High School has acquainted him well Lamartine has sung with Grammy- She has published multiple articles in with the complexities of the adolescent nominated Conspirare, the Santa Fe professional journals, as well as several voice. At present, Davidson directs a Desert Chorale, the Colorado Bach chapters in two books: Wisdom, Wit and fi fty-fi ve-voice beginning soprano-alto Ensemble, and the choruses of the Will: Women Choral Conductors on their choir, a thirty-fi ve-voice beginning teno- London BBC and City of Birmingham Art (GIA, 2009) and Conducting Wom- bass choir, a forty-voice eighth-grade Symphony Orchestras (UK). Lamartine en’s Choirs: Strategies for Success (GIA, choir, a forty-four-voice ninth-grade currently serves as Wyoming ACDA 2012). Her research interests include choir, and a sixteen-voice jazz choir. past president and was chair of the 2011 repertoire, particularly of Canadian His jazz choir performed at the 2010 ACDA National Women’s Honor Choir. composers, and leadership styles among Northwest ACDA Conference in Seat- conductors. She is currently preparing tle. Davidson is experienced as a church a book on Canadian composer Ruth choir director and has also directed Women's Watson Henderson. She is a frequent choirs at Western Washington Univer- conference presenter and often con- sity and Pacifi c Lutheran University. ducts master classes at various levels, Davison has received numerous Hilary Apfelstadt is including some university residencies. awards for his role in music education, professor and direc- Apfelstadt was a member of the including the 1996 State of Washing- tor of choral activi- Robert Shaw Festival Singers and re- ton Christa McAuliffe Educator of the ties at the University corded two Grammy award-winning Year, the Educator Citizen of the Year of Toronto, where CDs with them in France. She is a past for 2010 for Communities in Schools she conducts the national president of ACDA and a in Puyallup, Washington, and also the MacMillan Singers, current member of the Choral Journal Outstanding Choral Director Award for the Women’s Chamber Choir, and editorial board. 2010 from Washington ACDA. teaching courses in conducting and choral literature. She is also conductor of Exultate Chamber Singers of Toronto. Raised in Nova Scotia, she earned Youth degrees from the University of Toronto, the University of Illinois, and the Uni- versity of Wisconsin-Madison. Formerly Dan Davidson has been the choir direc- director of choral activities and associate tor at Ballou Junior High in Puyallup, director of the school of music at the Washington, since 1979. In addition

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