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Chicago Children’s Choir Medal, which recognizes achievement through research in authorship, in invention, for discovery, for unusual public service or for anything deemed of great benefi t to humanity. In 2012, she received the Roman Nomitch Fel- lowship to attend the Harvard Business School’s Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofi t Management, a program that provides opportunities for senior executives to examine their missions and develop strategies for the new global economy. Lee received a bachelor’s in piano performance from DePaul University and a master’s in conducting from Northwestern University.

Founded in 1956 during the height of the Civil Rights Judy Hanson holds a bachelor’s from Movement, Chicago Children’s Choir (CCC) is a non- the University of Illinois and a master’s profi t organization committed to peacefully uniting a from Northwestern University. As direc- diverse world through education, musical expression, and tor of choral programs, Hanson over- excellence. Serving more than 4,000 children annually, sees and directs the coordination and CCC empowers singers to bridge cultural divides and presentation of all Chicago Children’s become ambassadors of peace in their communities. With Choir programs and guides conduc- programs in more than seventy Chicago schools, ten after- tors in serving more than 4,000 children each year. She school neighborhood programs, an ensemble for boys with serves as the associate director and choreographer for the changing voices, and the internationally acclaimed Voice world-renowned Voice of Chicago and the conductor of of Chicago, the diversity of CCC refl ects the cultural DiMension, a choir for young men with changing voices. landscape of the city. She received a 2006 Jeff Award nomination (Choral Choreography) for Chicago Children’s Choir’s original Josephine Lee has served as artistic world musical, Sita Ram. Hanson has presented sessions director of Chicago Children’s Choir and workshops at ACDA chapters, judged national show since 1999 and was appointed president choir competitions, and conducted choirs throughout the in 2010. Through her vision and leader- United States. ship, CCC has become a civic treasure and cultural icon. In 2014, Lee received the University of Chicago’s Rosenberger

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Leipzig Baroque Orchestra cooperative interaction with their peers that fosters sup- port, cultural enlightenment, and academic achievement. Noteworthy appearances include: the Oprah Winfrey Show, 57th Presidential Inauguration (special guest of First Lady Michelle Obama), Queen Latifah Show, Hollywood Bowl, and multiple tours to Italy, Spain, and Sweden.

Valparaiso University Chorale and Bach Choir Founded in 1995, the Leipzig Baroque Orchestra (Leipziger Barockorchester) is a sought-after ensemble specializing in music from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. They are an integral part of the diverse musical life in Leipzig and involved in several prestigious projects annually. The musicians of the orchestra perform exclu- sively with period instruments and their faithful copies of the scores. Together, their knowledge of historical performance practice produces vivid results.

Soul Children of Chicago The Valparaiso University Chorale is recognized as one of the top Lutheran choirs in the United States, upholding the highest standard of choral art through performance of the greatest choral literature of all eras. The chorale has a distinct relationship with the St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, Germany, having served fi ve residencies, and has performed twice at the invitation of the Bach Archiv in the annual Bach Festival. The chorale has also received an invitation to be the only international ensemble at the 500th anniversary of the Reformation in Wittenberg, Germany, in October 2017. The Bach Choir has per- formed under the direction of Helmuth Rilling, Craig Jessop, and Hermann Max. They performed J. S. Bach’s Organized in October 1981, the Soul Children of Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit (BWV 106) at the Central Chicago, under the leadership of Walt W. Whitman Jr., ACDA Conference (2013) and appeared at the Indiana was created as an alternative program for African Ameri- MEA Conference (2015). can at-risk youth in the community to creatively express themselves through music. It is a nonprofi t organization Christopher M. Cock is the director of choral and vo- whose membership mix is 30-40 male and female voices cal activities at Valparaiso University. He is founder and ranging from 7 to 17 years of age. Since its inception, the director of the Bach Institute at Valparaiso University and Soul Children of Chicago has remained a positive force has forged a unique career path combining the roles of through which at-risk youth have an opportunity to learn conductor and performer. Cock has led fi ve residencies

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of the Valparaiso University Chorale at Johannes Hiemetsberger hails the St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, con- from Kaltenberg in Upper Austria and ducting numerous cantatas of J. S. Bach is the founder and artistic director of and many choral masterworks. Cock the “Chorus sine nomine,” the vocal has established important professional soloist ensemble Company of Music, as relationships with the Thomanerchor well as the Upper Austrian provincial and the Bach Archiv and has enjoyed the Youth Choir (2000-2005) and the New in-depth mentorship of Helmuth Rilling, Robert Shaw, Viennese voices (2010-2013), an initiative of the Musi- and Maurice Skones. He has appeared as both a soloist cal Youth of Austria. He was educated at the Bruckner and conductor in Carnegie Hall and with the Bach Choir Conservatory in Linz, at the Vienna Conservatory, and at of Berlin. In October 2017 he will lead the Valparaiso the University of Music and Performing Arts, where he University Chorale as the only international choir to be was appointed in 1998. He teaches choral and ensemble invited to the 500th anniversary celebration of the start conducting and conducts the Webern Chamber Choir of of the Reformation in Wittenberg, Germany. the MDW. He is also known internationally as a speaker and leader of diverse vocal works and choirmaster courses and as an adjudicator in Europe and the Far East. Webern Kammerchor Central Division Registration Information

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*Registration after midnight January 21, 2016 Since its establishment under Herwig Reiter in 1983, • Attendee $260 • Retired $200 • Student $90 the Webern Chamber Choir has been a fi xture of Vien- nese concert life. Its members—all of them students of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna—come On-site registration begins February 24, 2016 together to pursue their interest in choral singing across a broad range of styles, working on repertoire ranging • Attendee $280 • Retired $200 • Student $90 from Baroque oratorios to pop and jazz numbers, and from madrigals to world premieres of contemporary works for unaccompanied choir. In the Choral Bridges One Day Only Pass $125 - series, the Webern Chamber Choir seeks out encounters Purchase day of ONLY with chamber choirs from universities of music all over the world; most recently, the madrigal choir of the Acad- emy of Music and Theatre (Munich) and the Mississippi *NO READING PACKET SELECTION Concert Singers (USA). AFTER MIDNIGHT JANUARY 21, 2016

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Bexley High School Bienen Contemporary/ Vocal Ensemble Early Vocal Ensemble

Members of Vocal Ensemble, the advanced choir at The Bienen Contemporary/Early Vocal Ensemble Bexley High School, have worked with Eric W. Barnum, sings advanced, virtuosic repertoire concentrating on David Childs, Rollo Dilworth, Sydney Guillaume, James music of the twenty-fi rst century and drawing relation- Mulholland, Clayton Paar, Raymond Wise, Jeff rey Red- ships to its polyphonic roots in early music, particularly ding, and Hilary Apfelstadt. Vocal Ensemble travels the that of the Renaissance. Providing professional training United States extensively, including tours in New York to Northwestern’s voice majors, this chamber ensemble City, Toronto, Chicago, Pittsburgh, and Philadelphia. has presented the United States premiere of a number Their international tours include Venice, Salzburg, Vi- of works, including those of Wolfgang Rihm and Toivo enna, Prague, Budapest, Krakow, London, Paris, and a Tulev. In April 2016 they will sing the world premiere of a June 2015 tour of Ireland. Vocal Ensemble has performed substantial new work by David Lang, written to celebrate at OCDA Summer Conferences in 2007, 2009, 2011, and the opening of the new Music and Communication Build- 2014 and OMEA Conferences in 2009, 2011, and 2013. ing on the campus’ lakefront. In June 2016, B.C.E. will They performed for the 2012 Central ACDA Division sing a world premiere of Samuel Adams at the Harris The- Conference in Fort Wayne. atre as part of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s Music- NOW series, and in autumn 2016 they will be featured in AAmymy JJohnstonohnston BlosserBlosser is the conductor of the Bexley Chicago’s Ear Taxi with the music of Ted Hearne. High School Vocal Ensemble. Her photo and bio are on page 19. Donald Nally is director of choral or- ganizations at Northwestern University, conductor of The Crossing, and chorus master of the Chicago Bach Project. He The RAYMOND W. has held distinguished tenures as chorus master for Lyric Opera of Chicago, BROCK Welsh National Opera, The Spoleto Memorial Student Composition Contest Festival (Italy), and Opera Philadelphia, and music direc- tor for Cincinnati’s Vocal Arts Ensemble. Recent guest 2015 Winner Alex Berko of Indiana University conducting includes the Latvian State Choir in Riga, the Forgiven Tears for SATB a cappella chorus and cello Philharmonia Chorus of London, and the Grant Park Text based on Lamentations 2:19 Symphony Chorus. His ensembles have received Chorus America’s Margaret Hillis Award twice: The Choral Forgiven Tears will be performed during the Central Arts Society of Philadelphia in 2002 and The Crossing Division Conference by Indiana University, NOTUS. in 2015.

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Cincinnati Boychoir as one of the foremost music education and performance Tour Choir organizations in the region. Each year, the Cincinnati Boychoir presents approximately forty performances in the Greater Cincinnati region and has performed concerts and completed residencies at home and abroad.

Christopher Eanes is a conductor and teacher based in the Over‐the‐Rhine neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio, The Cincinnati Boychoir is one of the premiere pro- where he is the artistic director of the fessional boychoirs in the United States. Located in the Cincinnati Boychoir and the artistic urban arts core of Cincinnati at the Aronoff Center for the director of Collegium Cincinnati, Cin- Arts, the Boychoir reaches approximately 250 young men cinnati’s professional choral‐orchestral each year from more than ninety schools in Ohio, Ken- early music ensemble. As the director of the Boychoir, tucky, and Indiana. Since 1965, the Cincinnati Boychoir Chris oversees a program of 250+ boys from more than has been dedicated to the musical, intellectual, and emo- 100 schools in the region; the boys present more than forty tional development of these young men and has served concerts annually to audiences at home and abroad. He

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PPerformingerforming ChoirsChoirs has presented numerous workshops on the male changing the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Chorus. Wong has worked voice and is currently co‐directing a study on this topic in with students of all levels, ranging from prekindergarten partnership with Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. Eanes through college. Prior to her appointment in Wooster, she holds an undergraduate degree from Occidental College taught for sixteen years in public and private schools in and graduate degrees from the University of Southern New York, Pennsylvania, and Indiana. She has a bach- California. elor’s in music education from West Chester University, and a master’s and doctorate in choral conducting from Indiana University.

The College of Wooster Chorus Downers Grove High School Madrigal Singers

Founded in 1964, the College of Wooster Chorus is comprised of undergraduate students representing all The Downers Grove High School Madrigal Singers academic areas within the College of Wooster’s liberal have a rich tradition and sing a variety of choral literature arts program. Located in Wooster, Ohio, approximately in many styles. They perform at many school, civic, and fi fty-fi ve miles south of Cleveland, Wooster is considered community events throughout the year. Past performances America’s premier college for mentored undergraduate include the ILMEA All-State Convention in 2011 and research and has been called the “best kept secret in 2016 and the Illinois ACDA Conference in 2014. higher education.” (Colleges That Change Lives) The chorus collaborates annually with the Cleveland Orchestra and Laura Coster is a veteran teacher at Cleveland Orchestra Chorus. Enthusiastic about the per- Downers Grove South High School in formance of new music, Wooster has recently premiered Downers Grove, a western suburb of works by several American composers, including Eric Chicago. She is National Board Certifi ed Whitacre and Jake Runestad. Highlights for 2016 include and works with a choral team to provide performances at the OMEA Conference in Cincinnati, a rich variety of choral experiences for and the Central ACDA Division Conference in Chicago. all of the students in the choral program. She has bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Uni- Lisa Wong is an associate professor versity of Illinois in Champaign in music education and at the College of Wooster, where she choral conducting. directs the choirs and teaches courses in conducting, choral literature, and music education. She is also on the conducting staff of the Cleveland Orchestra as assis- tant director of choruses and director of

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Fort Wayne Children’s Choir Marian Consort

The Fort Wayne Children’s Choir off ers a program that strongly emphasizes developing music literacy and appreciation through choral literature. The mission of the Fort Wayne Children’s Choir is to provide a choral The Marion Consort is a professional, Chicago-based program exemplifying artistic and educational excellence ensemble dedicated to the performance and preservation for children from diverse backgrounds. The choir is or- of early vocal music. Founded in 2010, the Marion Con- ganized into seven levels of curriculum, with auditioned sort specializes in music of the Medieval, Renaissance, singers placed in a choir level based on their musical skill, and Baroque time periods. They have been featured on growth, and development. Each choir includes a strong Milwaukee Public Radio’s Lake Eff ect with Bonnie North and focus on team‐building, self‐discipline, and positive cre- the Ars Antigua podcast hosted by Peter Van de Graff . ative expression. The Concert Choir is the premier choir Recent season highlights include a performance at the Bo- of the Fort Wayne Children’s Choir. Singers can sing in- hemian National Cemetery, the Early Music at the Barn dependently in multiple parts, use advanced solfége skills concert series, the Central ACDA Division Conference, for sight‐reading, and demonstrate a healthy, accurate and a collaboration with the Chicago Arts Orchestra. tone. They rehearse throughout the school year for ninety minutes, twice a week. Amy Bearden holds a master’s degree in early music voice from the Early Music Jonathan Busarow is the executive Institute of Indiana University in Bloom- artistic director of the Fort Wayne ington, Indiana. There, she studied voice Children’s Choir. Busarow also serves with Paul Elliott, a renowned tenor and on the faculty at Indiana University— founding member of the Hilliard En- Purdue University—Fort Wayne where semble. At Indiana, Bearden focused on he teaches choral methods and voice. Medieval and Renaissance music, studying history and Previously, he served as director of the performance. In Chicago, she is the artistic director and Valparaiso University Men’s Choir, instructor of voice, founder of the Marion Consort, a premier early music and the Valparaiso University Chorale. He also serves as ensemble. In addition to Marion, Bearden sings with the the Reading Session Chair for the Central ACDA Divi- William Ferris Chorale and is a sought-after choral artist. sion conference and as the Children’s Choir R&S Chair Currently she teaches K-8 general music in the McKinley of ICDA. Busarow holds a bachelor’s from Valparaiso Park neighborhood of Chicago. University and a master’s from the Ohio State University and a Kodály Certifi cation from the Kodály Institute. He has music education licensure from Ohio State University.

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Dominick DiOrio since 2012, NOTUS has performed NOTUS: at division and national conferences of ACDA and as an Indiana University invited ensemble on the Distinguished Concerts Interna- Contemporary Vocal Ensemble tional New York Artist Series at Carnegie Hall. Noted for adventurous and innovative programming, the ensemble is dedicated to performing works of living composers, including recent commissions and premieres by Claude Baker, Sven David Sandström, and Zachary Wadsworth. NOTUS was honored to host Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw in 2013 and is the only ensemble beyond Roomful of Teeth to have performed excerpts from her Partita for 8 voices.

DDominickominick DiOrioDiOrio is assistant professor of choral con- ducting at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, NOTUS: IU Contemporary Vocal Ensemble is com- where he directs NOTUS and mentors graduate conduc- posed of twenty-six of the fi nest singers from the Indi- tors while also teaching courses in score reading, choral ana University Jacobs School of Music. Conducted by literature, and undergraduate and graduate conducting.

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He was named a 2014 recipient of the and prepares the Madrigal Singers for Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, the annual Christmas Madrigal Dinners. IU Bloomington’s highest honor for Menk also conducts the South Bend tenure track faculty. He was also one Chamber Singers and the 120-voice of the conductors selected for ACDA’s Northwest Indiana Symphony Chorus. International Exchange Program with She has conducted six Carnegie Hall Sweden. Also a noted composer, DiOrio concerts, including the Carnegie Hall was named the 2014 winner of The American Prize in premiere of American composer Carol Barnett’s The Composition (professional choral division). His original World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass. She returned to New York works are published with G. Schirmer, Oxford, Boosey & City in November 2014 to conduct a concert of music by Hawkes, and many others. Gwyneth Walker at Alice Tully Hall.

Saint Mary’s College University of Cincinnati Women’s Choir College Conservatory of Music Chamber Choir

The Saint Mary’s College Women’s Choir regularly commissions and performs new works for women’s voices, many of which are published by earthsongs in the Saint Mary’s College Choral Series. The choir has performed throughout the United States and has appeared at state, division, and national ACDA conferences. Each Novem- The CCM Chamber Choir is CCM’s premier choral ber the choir hosts the annual High School Women’s ensemble of graduate and advanced undergraduate voice Choir Festival, in which twenty choirs perform for each majors and choral conducting majors. Acclaimed for other and a panel of commentators. The choir regularly staged productions of J. S. Bach’s St. John Passion and St. performs major works with the University of Notre Dame Matthew Passion, recent presentations by the CCM Cham- Glee Club and the South Bend Symphony Orchestra. The ber Choir include David Lang’s little match girl passion, Tan Women’s Choir has recorded fi ve CDs on the ProOrgano Dun’s Water Passion after St. Matthew, Schnittke’s Concerto for label. They were named Second Place Winners for The Choir, Stravinsky’s Les Noces with the CCM Dance Dept., American Prize in Choral Performance for 2012. and the collegiate premiere of Bastian Clevé’s fi lm, The Sound of Eternity, with Bach’s Mass in B Minor. In 2015-16 Nancy Menk holds the Mary Lou and Judd Leighton the CCM Chamber Choir premieres newly commissioned Chair in Music at Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, works by Judith Bingham, Dominick DiOrio, Ola Gjeilo, Indiana. She also teaches graduate conducting at the Uni- and Jake Runestad for the CCM Choral Department’s versity of Notre Dame. At Saint Mary’s, Menk conducts Shakespeare Quadricentennial April 23, 2014-April 23, the Women’s and Collegiate Choirs, teaches conducting, 2016.

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Earl Rivers is professor of music and (2004) and the Director Laureate Award (2015). director of choral studies at CCM. His graduate conducting program has been recognized by U.S. News and World Report University of Evansville as a leading program in the United States. At CCM he has conducted re- University Choir gional premieres of John Adams’s On the Transmigration of Souls and El Niño, Philip Glass’s Symphony The University Choir from the University of Evans- No. 5—Requiem, Bardo and Nirmanakaya, and Krzysztof ville has built a reputation for performances of choral- Penderecki’s Credo. Artistic director for the World Choir orchestral masterworks and unaccompanied music from Games in Cincinnati in 2012 and music director of Cin- the Renaissance through the twenty-fi rst century. Recent cinnati’s Vocal Arts Ensemble 1998-2008, Rivers has guest works include William Albright’s Chichester Mass, Norman conducted in South Korea, China, Europe, and Carnegie Dello Joio’s To Saint Cecilia, and a performance of Handel’s Hall. Chorus America presented him with the Michael Saul with the Evansville Bach Singers and Orchestra. The Korn Founders Award for Development of the Choral Art University Choir performed in 2010 and in 2013 at the

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Indiana MEA State Convention, and in May 2011 they Cantus Femina, a dynamic group of auditioned voices joined the New England Symphonic Ensemble and other specializing in repertoire written especially for women’s select choirs to perform Haydn’s Paukenmesse at Carnegie voices. In 2011-12 the ensemble was selected to perform Hall. Students in the choir are chosen by audition and at both the NCCO national convention and the Central include both music majors and non-music majors. ACDA Division Conference. Cantus Femina celebrated the 100th anniversary of women’s choir at Western Michi- Dennis Malfatti is associate professor gan University by touring to the Orlando, Florida area in of music and director of choral activities May 2010. Cantus Femina also sang at the 2004, 2010, at the University of Evansville in Indi- and 2014 ACDA Michigan State Conventions and has ana. He is also the founder/conductor performed with the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra, in- of the Evansville Bach Singers. Choirs cluding a recent collaboration with the Kalamazoo Civic under his direction have been invited to Players in a production of Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer perform at Washington National Cathe- Night’s Dream. In 2006, Cantus Femina performed with dral and at NAfME conferences in Indiana and Virginia. Tapestry, a professional women’s ensemble from Boston, In 2011, Malfatti appeared at Carnegie Hall conducting in a shared concert presented by the Michigan Festival the New England Symphonic Ensemble and combined of Sacred Music. The ensemble is also part of WMU’s choirs from across the country. He was twice selected to 160- voice Grand Chorus, which includes the University participate in Helmuth Rilling’s conducting master class Chorale and Collegiate Singers. at the Oregon Bach Festival, and he was recently elected to the position of president-elect of the Indiana Choral Dee Gauthier, professor of music at Directors Association. His doctorate in conducting is from Western Michigan University, conducts Louisiana State University. the university women’s chorus, Cantus Femina, and teaches graduate and un- dergraduate choral and general music education courses. She is the coordina- Western Michigan University tor of intern teachers for the School of Cantus Femina Music and served as chair of the Professional Education Area for eleven years. She is a vocal and general music The Treble Clef Club (1909), the fi rst women’s en- specialist having public/private classroom experience in semble at Western Michigan University, has evolved into Illinois at all levels with a K–8 emphasis.

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Gauthier received a bachelor’s in music education from place in the 2013 American Prize and in 2015 released Eastern Illinois University and master’s and doctorate Contemplating Weather, an album on the Bridge Records degrees from the University of Illinois at Champaign- label. In 2015, Adams was a fellow in the International Urbana. She is a member of the ACDA, NAfME, NCCO, Conductors Exchange Program with Sweden and pre- Michigan MEA, and Phi Delta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, sented at the Scandinavian Choral Conference. Adams Kappa Delta Pi, and Pi Kappa Lambda honor societies. was previously the director of choral ensembles at Mount Holyoke College. She holds undergraduate degrees from Oberlin College & Conservatory and graduate degrees Western Michigan University from the Yale School of Music and the University of Chorus Wisconsin-Madison.

Young Naperville Singers Bella Voce Singers

The University Chorale is Western Michigan Universi- Now in its thirty-second season, Young Naperville ty’s fl agship choral ensemble and represents the university Singers (YNS) continues its dedication to promoting the at home and throughout the world. Chorale has a long highest level of artistic excellence in choral music for history of excellence in performance and competition young people through extraordinary educational and and has appeared alongside professional ensembles such performance experiences. YNS is a premier commu- as the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra and Seraphic nity-based children’s choral organization in Chicago’s Fire. In 2013 the chorale was awarded second place in western suburbs, reaching more than 350 singers in the collegiate choral division of The American Prize. The eight choirs. In addition, community outreach programs chorale has released numerous recordings; most recently, are held that involve over 600 young people. Bella they were featured on Contemplating Weather, an internation- Voce rehearses two hours weekly and has members ally distributed album of works by Paul Lansky for the that range in age from 13 to 17. Touring members most Bridge Records label. In 2016 the University Chorale will recently returned from a concert tour in Ireland. Bella perform at the Michigan Music Conference, Michigan Voce provides an environment where young people can ACDA’s state conference, and the Central ACDA Divi- sing freely, develop leadership skills, and experience sion conference. community.

Kimberly Dunn Adams is the director Angie Johnson is now in her seven- of choral activities at Western Michigan teenth season with YNS, having served University, where she directs the Uni- as the artistic director since 2007. She versity Chorale, Collegiate Singers, and guides the music education, manages Grand Chorus. Under her direction, the artistic programming, and provides the University Chorale received second visionary leadership for the growing or-

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ganization. Prior to 1999, Johnson taught choral/general with choirs in their classroom settings. Passionate about music for Circle Center Middle School (Yorkville, IL) and sharing her love for choral education, she has led work- Gregory Middle School (Naperville, IL). She is an active shops for both future and current teachers specializing in clinician and festival conductor. Johnson loves working creative rehearsal techniques for young voices.

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A Lifetime of Singing: inform “A Lifetime of Singing.” Julia Davids is the Choral/Vocal Techniques Stephen J. Hen- and Expectations for Karen Brunssen, drickson Associate is the co-chair of Healthy Singing Professor and chair music at the Bienen of choral activities at at Every Age School of Music at North Park Univer- Northwestern Uni- sity, Chicago. She is Many choral conductors work with versity. Her singing the artistic director of the Canadian a wide range of singers. The sounds career spanned over Chamber Choir, Canada’s profes- and functions of voices change thirty years. She was a master teacher sional choir dedicated to building throughout a lifetime. This session for the 2013 NATS Internship communities through choral sing- will explore the natural and variable Program, has done master classes, ing. Davids has led workshops and vocal, musical, and personal qualities adjudication, and presentations on master classes for conductors and for diff erent age brackets and appro- “The Evolving Voice: Profound singers throughout North America. priate and age-optimal techniques at Every Age,” and “The Senior An accomplished soprano soloist, to nurture singing. We will outline Years,” for NATS Workshops, the she frequently performs with her goals and drawbacks for a variety 2012 National Conference, ACDA husband, baroque violinist Martin of age groups from early childhood conferences, MTNA, AGO, Zürcher Davids. Davids directs the North to singing at advanced ages. We will Sing-Akademie, Cambridge Univer- Shore Choral Society, a 140-voice off er practical examples and exercises sity, NATS Chapters, colleges and community choir, and is director of to help work toward desirable vocal universities, and Castleton Music music ministries at Trinity United qualities in choral and solo singers Festival. She is a member of the Methodist Church. She is co-author and deal with common issues that distinguished American Academy of with Stephen LaTour of the award- can be damaging or frustrating to Teachers of Singing and received the winning book Vocal Technique: A Guide singers as voices change. With this Weston Noble Award from Luther for Conductors, Teachers, and Singers, pub- information, choral conductors can College. Brunssen is the NATS Cen- lished by Waveland Press. strive to work within realistic limits. tral Region Governor and Program Considering physiology, vocal health Chair for the 2016 NATS fi fty-fourth and development, and vocal qualities National Conference in Chicago, Il- and textures, we will team up and linois. share exercises, practical advice, and expectations to facilitate and better

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Adolescent Voice Change: community, and public school en- most diverse and meaningful artistic Enjoy it While it Lasts! sembles. Stegman currently serves and educational experiences for boys the choral profession as Northwest and young men. Join a discussion Working with adolescent chang- Regional Chair of the Ohio Choral led by artistic director Christopher ing voice need not be intimidating. Directors Association and continues Eanes and director of education and Sandra Frey Stegman and Tracey to be active as a clinician and conduc- outreach KellyAnn Nelson as they Nycz present practical approaches tor, presenting at various state and present strategies for recruiting, re- to working with adolescent singers division workshops and appearing taining, and teaching boys the choral through the voice change. Students as guest conductor of festival and art through diverse experiences and from Woodmore School District honors choirs. Accomplishments as meaningful performances. As many will exemplify stages of change. The a scholar and researcher include pre- choral organizations search for ways intended audience is teachers and sentations at conferences and publica- to recruit and retain their male sing- choral conductors working with ado- tion of articles in several professional ers, the Cincinnati Boychoir has seen lescent singers in school, community, journals. signifi cant and rapid growth over the and church settings. The session will past fi ve years. The presenters will begin with a brief discussion of the Tracey Nycz began share their unique perspectives on physiological changes that are oc- her teaching career what has worked (and hasn’t worked) curring during adolescence and re- in 2001 and has as they have continued to be strong sultant vocal characteristics (Brinson been the director of advocates for boys’ participation in and Demorest, 2014). The research vocal music for the choral singing. of Gackle (1991), Cooksey/Baressi Woodmore Local (1986), and Barham & Nelson (1991) Schools in Elmore, Christopher Eanes will be one will be used as a framework to con- Ohio since 2005. At Woodmore, of the clinicians for this session. His sider the various stages of change Nycz conducts six choral ensembles photo and bio are on page 101. in both girls and boys. Practical including sixth-grade choir, middle approaches for working with chang- school boys’ choir, middle school girls’ KellyAnn Nelson ing voice students will be presented choir, high school men’s chorus, high is the director of and demonstrated by students from school women’s chorus, and Sym- education and out- Woodmore Schools. Appropriate phonic Chorale. Nycz holds a bach- reach for the Cincin- repertoire will be off ered. elor’s from Otterbein University and nati Boychoir, where master’s from Bowling Green State she conducts three Sandra Frey Steg- University. She is an active member primary and inter- man is associate of the Ohio MEA, Ohio CDA, and mediate choirs, teaching music theory professor of music ACDA. to over 200 boys, and organizing com- education at Bowl- munity events such as a free All-City ing Green State Uni- Boychoir program in the Cincinnati versity. A graduate Boys to Men: Public Schools, SongFest Summer of the University of Music Camp, and the annual All- Recruiting, Retaining, and Michigan and former public school City Boychoir Festival for hundreds teacher, Stegman teaches courses in Inspiring Boys Who of boys from throughout the city of music education and choral studies Love to Sing Cincinnati who love to sing. She is and conducts the University Women’s also the founder and artistic director Chorus. Throughout her career, she Since 1965, the Cincinnati Boy- of the 600-voice Young Professionals’ has conducted various university, choir has been one of the region’s Choral Collective (YPCC). Nelson

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has served as guest conductor and men and the Chamber Choir, he director for Muncie’s Masterworks clinician at various events across the also teaches conducting and choral Chorale and director of music min- country and has presented on the literature and supervises the gradu- istries for High Street United Meth- topic of incorporating music literacy ate choral program, off ering master’s odist Church. At the University of activities into the choral rehearsal and doctoral degrees. Crow is artistic Minnesota, Crow earned a doctorate and sharing ideas about transforming communities through participation in the arts.

Choral Intonation: Can You Tune a Soprano Like You Tune a Piano?

Drawing on the presenter’s profes- sional experience as a piano techni- cian and choral conductor, the session will address initial factors relating to intonation in any fi eld. Members will discuss what it means to sing “in tune.” The presenter aims to encourage frustrated conductors and confused singers. Most of the session will assess causes of poor intonation and provide pragmatic solutions to guide the conductors’ work toward improved choral intonation in a variety of scenarios. Topics include: vocal production, vowel unifi cation, varying temperaments, standing arrangements, harmonic balance, and the unique challenges posed by certain types of repertoire. The ses- sion is relevant to any conductor who works with singers of any age or level of experience.

Andrew Crow is director of choral activities at Ball State University. In addition to leading the Ball State States-

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IInterestnterest SessionsSessions in conducting following degrees from formulating a choral sound that is Fun + Fabulous Temple University and The Ohio vocally free, dynamically varied, and Sight-Singing State University. Since the summer of unifi ed in quality. This presentation for the Classroom 2011 he has led an intergenerational will deal with the unique young choir called Musica in Situ that annu- (larger-size) voices in a choral setting ally tours to perform choral music in in a positive way. This session will present ten strate- historic and interesting architectural gies to increase student engagement spaces. Walter Huff is as- in sight-singing instruction in the cho- sociate professor of ral classroom. Attendees will be given choral conducing at practical solutions for maintaining From Victoria to Verdi: the Jacobs School student interest and engagement for Victory over Issues of of Music, Indiana teaching music literacy in rehearsal. University.His duties These lessons will help students de- Vibrato/Non-Vibrato, include classroom velop skill in music reading by incor- Choral Blend, and teaching, preparation of university porating creative, student-centered Additional Ensemble opera choruses, and a unique men- input opportunities. Basics of curricu- Challenges with the toring of conducting students in the lum, pitch and rhythm systems, how “Operatic” Student Voice craft of opera chorus preparation. He to introduce and sequence exercises, maintains his tenure as chorus master and how to keep sight-reading fresh Coming from the unique perspec- for Atlanta Opera, having led the and exciting will be part of the pre- tive of a choral conductor/educator, renowned Atlanta Opera Chorus in sentation. An emphasis on individual opera chorus master and vocal coach more than 120 productions. Receiv- learning and individual performance Walter Huff will bring twenty voice ing degrees from Oberlin and Pea- can lead to more satisfying educa- majors from the Jacobs School of body Conservatories, Huff has served tional experiences for each student in Music and present these singers as as coach for Tanglewood Center and an environment where too often a few soloists and choral singers. The audi- Washington Opera, in addition to leaders make the entire group sound ence will hear each singer off er thirty assistant professor at Georgia State “good enough.” Assessment strategies seconds of a solo/area selection in University. Huff leads workshops will be provided. order to hear the basic quality of the in rehearsal techniques and vocal voices that he works with. Techniques pedagogy for choral singing. He also Bryan E. Nichols on how to bring these seemingly dif- maintains a vocal coaching studio in is an assistant profes- ferent and individual voices together Atlanta. sor of music at the will be demonstrated, eventually University of Akron, where he teaches Save the Date undergraduate Robert Shaw – Man of Many Voices methods classes and supervises student teachers. A former A film on the music, life and legacy of Robert Shaw middle school and high school choral April 24, 2016 | Atlanta Symphony Hall director, he has published articles in the Choral Journal, and his scholarly interests include singing accuracy, music teacher education, and sight- singing pedagogy. Nichols earned his robertshawthefilm.com bachelor’s in music education from

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the University of Kentucky, his mas- er at various choirmaster courses as a young conductors feel overwhelmed ter’s from Florida State University, juror in competitions and as an expert by the task at hand. This session is and his PhD from the University of in child and youth choir. In 2002 he intended for newer conductors as a Washington. became head of the newly founded way to provide suggestions that are Institute Anton Bruckner, and in applicable no matter what age level 2004 he was appointed professor of the conductor is teaching. Interpreting and conducting. In 2009 he founded the Understanding Romantic Institute Anton Bruckner the Vienna Amy Johnston Blosser will be the German Choral Repertoire: Choir to allow hands-on experience clinician for this session. Her photo in the choral work with children and Phrasing, Pronunciation, and bio are on page 19. youth. Agogic, and Beyond Webern Kammerchor will be the Off the Beaten Path: Mendelssohn, Brahms, Bruckner... demonstration choir for this session. German and choral music composed Their photo and bio are on page 99. Undiscovered Gems in German language truly holds from CPDL countless treasures. Pronunciation, the handling of text, word-music Mentoring the The Choral Public Domain Li- relationship, and characteristics of brary represents a wealth of free New Choral Conductor: agogic and phrasing will be the focus music: the site currently hosts free of this interest session. The Webern Essential Tips for the scores of over 17,000 choral and Chamber Choir serves as a studio First Five Years vocal works by over 2,000 compos- choir, who will, with the help of Alois ers, and its stores continue to grow Glassner, introduce attendees to the The number of college students daily. As schools of all levels battle specifi cs of interpretation of German who will soon be new conductors as reduced budgets, a free resource choral music. well as conductors with less than fi ve such as CPDL represents a treasure years experience is on the rise. The trove of easily reproducible, conve- Alois Glassner fi rst few years in any position can be niently stored, and readily accessible received his fi rst mu- simply overwhelming, and one can of- repertoire. While CPDL permits sical training while ten feel unprepared. Even with strong easy access, the sheer volume of pos- still in high school undergraduate programs preparing sibilities can be overwhelming. This in Melk Abbey. This students through ensemble and studio reading session will aspire to present was followed by ex- work as well as methods classes, there to attendees largely unknown but ac- tensive studies at the is still much left to trial and error. cessible works for mixed choirs from University of Music and Performing What do you do when you are asked every era of music history appropri- Arts Vienna in church music, organ, to conduct the pit orchestra and have ate for mixed choirs of various sizes at orchestra conducting, composition, never worked with instrumentalists high school, college, community, and and vocal pedagogy. As a conductor, before? How do you communicate church institutions. Palestrina wrote Glassner worked together with the appropriately with parents on a con- so much more than Sicut Cervus, and Symphony Orchestra of the Vienna sistent basis about their child in your Certon wrote more than La, la la, je Volksoper, the Mozarteum Orchestra, classroom? How does one program ne l’ose dire (to name two Renaissance and the Camerata Salzburg. Guest on little to no budget without break- composers). Let’s explore beyond the appearances took him to Italy, Spain, ing copyright laws? With so many tried and true and see if CPDL holds Korea, and Japan. He is also a speak- irons in the fi re, it is no wonder many any further choral gems that are less

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IInterestnterest SessionsSessions well known but no less deserving of Parlez-vous IPA? gart, and the Oregon Bach Festival performance. Tips and Tools for Chorus, and he has performed with Great Choral Diction the New York Philharmonic and the Vaughn Roste Philadelphia Orchestra under Robert comes to Indiana Since communication and expres- Shaw, Kurt Masur, Helmuth Rilling, University-Purdue sion of the text is at the heart of and Ricardo Muti. Cloeter holds an University Fort choral music making, beautiful and master’s from Westminster Choir Wayne with over a clear diction is essential. In addition, College, and he is fi nishing a doctor- decade of college singing a choral composition in its ate at the University of Arizona. teaching experience original language is both faithful to in Georgia, Oklahoma, Ohio, and the composer’s vision and educational Illinois. Canadian by birth, he con- for our students. So don’t let the chal- Raising the Bar: tinues to be a member of the edito- lenge of teaching foreign-language Teaching World Music rial board for Anacrusis, the offi cial diction get in our way! This clinic publication of the Association of provides an introduction/review of More Authentically Canadian Choral Communities. He the International Phonetic alphabet holds four degrees, the most recent (IPA), equips you to use IPA in your Mollie Stone and Patty Cuyler of which is a doctorate in choral own preparation and with your will teach participants a selection of conducting from Louisiana State students in rehearsal, and presents polyphonic choral repertoire from University. He has had three feature successful practices and guidelines for South Africa, Bulgaria, and the Re- articles published in the Choral Journal teaching accurate and authentic dic- public of Georgia using their Raising and over two dozen other articles tion in English, Latin, German, and the Bar book/teaching DVD series elsewhere; 2003 also saw the publi- French. The intended audience for while demonstrating techniques and cation of his fi rst monograph, The this presentation is high school and keys for successful rehearsal and per- Xenophobe’s Guide to the Canadians. He college choral directors, but all who formance practice. They will provide has traveled to every continent except program or sing foreign-language guidance in teaching proper vocal Antarctica. songs will benefi t. tone, style, rhythm, movements, pro- nunciation, and social/historical con- Tim Cloeter con- text for the diff erent genres, and will ducts the Collegiate examine how the use of multimedia Chorale and the resources is invaluable for teaching Men’s Chorus at music from world choral traditions Bowling Green State with both confi dence and authentic- University (where ity. This session is relevant for con- he also teaches con- ductors of adult, children’s, treble, ducting and choral literature), and women’s, and men’s ensembles, The Indiana University-Purdue he directs the Masterworks Chorale including those who have previously University Fort Wayne Univer- of Toledo. His choruses have been tackled teaching world folk music sity Singers will be the demonstra- recognized for excellence, perform- and those who have little or no prior tion choir for this session. ing at MENC, OMEA, OCDA, and experience with these genres. Intercollegiate Men’s Chorus Confer- ences. Cloeter has sung in the Aspen Mollie Stone serves as director of Chamber Choir, the Santa Fe Desert world music at Chicago Children’s Chorale, the Bachakademie Stutt- choir and assistant director of choral

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activities at the Uni- Georgian folk and sacred music. She music education and versity of Chicago. is currently collaborating with Mol- choral conducting She holds degrees lie Stone and the Chicago Children’s and is a member from Amherst Col- Choir on the Raising the Bar series of of the choral music lege, Westminster book and teaching DVDs for choirs. faculty at the Gov- Choir College, and ernor’s School of a doctorate in con- North Carolina. He ducting from Northwestern Univer- is also a composer whose choral works sity. In 2001, she created Vela Vela, a Using Circle Singing are published by Hinshaw Music, Inc. teaching DVD that helps music edu- to Enliven Choral Creativity Prior to beginning his doctoral stud- cators learn and teach black South ies, he taught middle school chorus in African choral music more authenti- Circle singing, a form of vocal Greensboro, North Carolina, and he cally in the oral tradition. In 2006 improvisation devised by Bobby remains passionate about developing she began researching how South McFerrin, has the potential to trans- quality choral experiences for middle Africans use choral music to combat form choral music education and school singers. His scholarly interests HIV. With Patty Cuyler, she teaches school choral performances. Living include the teaching and learning of with Village Harmony, co‐directs the somewhere between notated choral songwriting, music education philoso- Brooklyn and Chicago World Music music and purely improvised sounds, phy, and music teacher identity. Choruses, and published Raising the this process can lead students toward Bar—a teaching DVD series helping improvisation using elements of a Joshua Palkki is choirs improve their performances of more “traditional” choral experience. completing a PhD in music from other cultures. Circle singing presents a new possibil- choral music educa- ity for creativity in the choral context, tion at Michigan Patty Cuyler has as circle singing allows teachers and State University. He co‐directed the Ver- students to participate as creators and taught middle and mont‐based Village performers. With its focus on aural high school choral Harmony and its skills and improvisation, circle sing- music in Maryland and California professional touring ing complements the musical skills and holds an undergraduate degree ensemble, North- that students are developing as they in music education from Ball State ern Harmony, since prepare their traditional performing University and a master’s degree in 1995. A dynamic workshop leader repertoire. In this hands-on session, choral conducting from Northern with special expertise in teaching participants will experience the pro- Arizona University. Palkki has a Corsican, Georgian, and South Afri- cess directly as they collaborate to cre- keen interest in LGBTQAI+ issues can polyphonic choral music, Cuyler ate their own circle songs. Attendees in music education, middle school takes amateur and professional sing- will also learn strategies for leading choral music, and music education ers abroad on international music‐ circle songs eff ectively. Presenters and social justice. He has served as performance camps every summer will discuss implementation of circle a presenter, adjudicator, and guest and directs community world music singing in both classroom and concert conductor in several states and will choirs in Boston, Brooklyn, and settings, including adaptations for dif- conduct the Nevada Middle School Chicago during the school year. ferent age levels and ensemble types. All-State Choir in 2016. His writing She has published two volumes of has been published in the Journal The Folk Rhythm Book + DVD series Stuart Chapman Hill is a PhD stu- of Music Theory Pedagogy, Visions of of traditional South African choral dent in the college of music at Michi- Research in Music Education, and the music and two book/CD volumes of gan State University, where he studies Choral Journal.

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VOCES8 in English, German, and French enhance development in numeracy, with Japanese and Chinese versions literacy, and linguistics. Methods Workshop planned for release, this ground- breaking Method is a unique teach- VOCES8 will be the clinicians for Join the members of Voces8 for a ing tool. Designed for students of all this session. their photo and bio are vocal methods workshop. Written by ages, the Method is an innovative and on page 49. Paul Smith of Voces8 and available engaging program that is proven to

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Children’s research through choral performance. Dwyer has been the associate director of the Indianapolis Children’s Choir Rollo Dilworth will be the conductor of this choir. His (ICC) since 1988 and ICC Director of Education since photo and bio are on page 22. 1996. She is also the artistic director and administrator of the Columbus Indiana Children’s Choir.

Middle School Boy’s High School Henry Leck will be the conductor of this choir. His photo and bio are on page 19. Joe Miller is the conductor of two of America’s most renowned choral ensembles: the Westminster Choir and the Westminster Symphonic Choir. He Middle School Girl’s is also director of choral activities at Westminster Choir College of Rider Ruth E. Dwyer is internationally rec- University. In addition to his responsibili- ognized as a treble youth and children’s ties at Westminster, Miller is artistic director for choral choir specialist and Kodály educator. activities for the renowned Spoleto Festival USA. Miller Dwyer has been the guest conductor for has made three recordings with the Westminster Choir. the OAKE National Children’s Choir, Their debut recording, Flower of Beauty, received four stars numerous all-state and honor choirs, and from Choir & Organ magazine and earned critical praise the National Children’s Choir at Lincoln from American Record Guide, which described the West- Center and for MidAmerica Productions Carnegie Hall minster Choir as “the gold standard for academic choirs Children and Youth Choral Festival. Dwyer is the founder in America.” Miller earned a bachelor’s degree in music and artistic director of the Hoosier Hills Choral Festival in education and voice from the University of Tennessee. He Southern Indiana and of Philthrusong, Inc. (Philanthropy holds a master’s degree and a doctorate in choral conduct- Through Song) a non profi t organization supporting ing from the College-Conservatory of Music, University anti-drunk driving education and traumatic brain injury of Cincinnati.

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Collegiate Repertoire Chorale the Naxos recording of Milhaud’s monu- mental L’Orestie d’Eschyle, on which The Collegiate Repertoire Chorale will expose singers Blackstone served as chorusmaster, was to new repertoire and techniques within a collaborative nominated for a 2015 Grammy Award context. The choir will be led through a range of musics (Best Opera Recording), and in February exploring a variety of choral sonorities, experimenting 2006, he received two Grammy Awards with techniques suitable to the creation of these sounds. (Best Choral Performance and Best Clas- The format allows for an upbeat and energetic pace with- sical Album) as chorusmaster for the critically acclaimed out the concerns of performance. College and university Naxos recording of William Bolcom’s monumental Songs singers interested in participating in this demonstration of Innocence and of Experience. Blackstone is considered choir should contact Noah Horn: [email protected] one of the country’s leading conducting teachers, and his students have been fi rst-place award winners and fi nal- Jerry Blackstone is director of choirs and chair of the ists in both the graduate and undergraduate divisions of conducting department at the University of Michigan ACDA’s biennial National Choral Conducting Awards School of Music, Theatre and Dance. In December 2014, competition.

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