Director of Choral Activities at Minnesota State University- Mankato

January 2012 CONTENTS Vol. 52 • no 6

VOICES of LIGHT

Southern Division ACDA Winston-Salem, NC February 29 - March 3, 2012

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INSIDE 2 From the Executive Director 4 From the Industry Associate Rep. 6 From the Editor 158 Career Moves 83 10300 160 Advertisers’ Index

The Choral Journal is the official publication of The American Choral Directors Association (ACDA). ACDA is a nonprofit professional organization of choral directors from schools, colleges, and universities; community, church, and professional choral ensembles; and industry and institutional organizations. Choral Journal circulation: 19,000. 119 13900 Annual dues (includes subscription to the Choral Journal): Active $95, Industry $135, Institutional $110, Retired $45, and Student $35. One-year membership begins on date of 9 North Central Division Conference Preview Editor’s note: dues acceptance. Library annual subscription February 8–11, 2012 in Madison, WI Material for this issue rates: U.S. $45; Canada $50; Foreign $85. was submitted by the Single Copy $3; Back Issues $4. 31 Eastern Division Conference Preview participants or their February 15–18, 2012 in Providence, RI representatives and was Permission is granted to all ACDA members to edited for length and clarity. reproduce articles from the Choral Journal for 57 Southern Division Conference Preview The editors have made noncommercial, educational purposes only. February 29– March 3, 2012 in Winston-Salem, NC every effort to ensure Nonmembers wishing to reproduce articles factual accuracy; however, may request permission by writing to ACDA. 83 Southwestern Division Conference Preview 545 Couch Drive, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma since conference events February 29– March 3, 2012 in Dallas, TX 73102. Telephone: 405/232-8161. All rights mentioned in this issue are reserved. 103 Western Division Conference Preview subject to change, please February 29– March 3, 2012 in Reno, NV consult your program book The Choral Journal (US ISSN 0009-5028) is for up-to-date information. issued monthly except for July. Printed in the 119 Central Division Conference Preview United States of America. Periodicals post- March 7– 10, 2012 in Fort Wayne, IN age paid at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and Cover art by Efrain Guerrero, additional mailing office. POSTMASTER: Send 139 Northwestern Division Conference Preview graphic artist, Austin, Texas. address changes to Choral Journal, 545 Couch March 15– 18, 2012 in Seattle, WA Drive, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73102. National Officers This year, 2012 will be an exciting President FROM THE year of goal setting and prioritizing for Jo-Michael Scheibe University of Southern California the American Choral Directors Asso- [email protected] EXECUTIVE ciation. Our strategic planning process Vice-president Jerry McCoy hits the ground running in the new year University of North Texas DIRECTOR 940-369-8389 (voice) as our National ACDA Board and Stra- [email protected] tegic Planning Committee ask all of our members to President-elect Karen Fulmer participate in ACDA’s fi rst-ever membership survey. 253-927-6814 (VOICE) This Strategic Planning Survey is online now at [email protected] www.acda.org, and will only take fi ve minutes to NATIONAL TREASURER Jo Ann Miller complete, but those fi ve minutes will be very valuable North Dakota State University [email protected] to us, as we look ahead to the coming three to five Executive Director Tim Sharp years in the life of our association. Tim Sharp 405-232-8161(voice) The following goals were identifi ed by the Na- [email protected] tional Board, as having signifi cant importance to ACDA, and the online Central Division President Tom Merrill Strategic Planning Survey asks you to indicate your level of agreement and Xavier University prioritization of these goals. 513-745-3135 (voice) [email protected] The suggested goals for ACDA for the next three to fi ve years, as identi- Eastern Division President fi ed by our National Board, are: Bob Eaton [email protected]

North Central Division President Excellence in Choral Performance Aimee Beckmann-Collier Drake University (Foster and promote the ﬁ nest examples of choral music 515-271-2841 (voice) [email protected] production, interpretation, and musicianship)

Northwestern Division President Solveig Holmquist Western Oregon University Excellence in Choral Repertoire 503-838-8437 (voice) [email protected] (Foster and promote quality repertoire through performances, Southern Division President print, online resources, and commissions) Tom Shelton First Presbyterian Church 336-478-4713 (voice) [email protected] International Communities Southwestern Division President Margie Camp (Foster and promote collaborations, exchanges, and programs Young Voices of Colorado 303-797-7464 (voice) that build international opportunities to share choral music) [email protected]

Western Division President Kathryn Smith Lifelong Opportunities to Sing Cosumnes River College 916-687-0545 (Foster and promote programs that create opportunities for [email protected] people of all ages to participate in choral music) Industry Associate Representative Alec Harris GIA Publications Inc. 708-496-3800 (voice) Mentorship Chair, Past Presidents’ Council Hilary Apfelstadt (Foster and promote coaching programs to support new and University of Toronto emerging conductors and train leadership in ACDA) 416-978-0827 (voice) [email protected]

National Past Presidents † Archie Jones Maurice T. Casey Outreach to Society † Elwood Keister † Hugh Sanders † Warner Imig David O. Thorsen (Foster and promote opportunities for choral music perfor- † J. Clark Rhodes Diana J. Leland † Harold A. Decker William B. Hatcher mances to partner with, or extend into the life of local and † Theron Kirk John B. Haberlen † Charles C. Hirt † Lynn Whitten national communities) † Morris D. Hayes James A. Moore Russell Mathis Milburn Price † Walter S. Collins David Stutzenberger H. Royce Saltzman Mitzi Groom † Colleen Kirk Michele Holt Executive Director's The 12 Purposes Log Professional Institutes and of ACDA What's on Initiatives Tim's daytimer? (Foster and promote • ToTo fosterfoster aandnd ppromoteromote cchoralhoral programs to introduce ssinginginging whichwhich willwill provideprovide artistic,artistic, January 14 - 15 Children's Choir Leadership Retreat and establish professional ccultural,ultural, andand spiritualspiritual experiencesexperiences forfor Denver, CO development tthehe participants.participants. January 18 Oklahoma Music Educators opportunities that facilitate Conference excellence in choral music) • ToTo fosterfoster aandnd ppromoteromote tthehe ffinestinest Tulsa, OK ttypesypes ofof choralchoral musicmusic toto makemake thesethese January 25 - 28 Missouri All-State Choir Research and eexperiencesxperiences possible.possible. Lake of the Ozarks, MO Pedagogy • ToTo fosterfoster aandnd ppromoteromote tthehe oorgani-rgani- February 8 - 9 North Central ACDA Conference Madison, WI (Foster and promote zzationation andand developmentdevelopment ofof choralchoral scholarly research to de- ggroupsroups ofof allall typestypes inin schoolsschools andand February 10 -11 Kentucky Music Educators velop a resource of knowl- Conferenceand 80 ccolleges.olleges. Louisville, KY edge and reﬁ ne the art of instruction) • ToTo fosterfoster aandnd ppromoteromote tthehe ddevelop-evelop- mmentent ofof choralchoral musicmusic inin thethe churchchurch What's on Tim's Ipad? Technology aandnd synagogue.synagogue. Resources Made to Stick Chip and Dan Heath • ToTo fosterfoster aandnd ppromoteromote tthehe oorgani-rgani- Development zzationation andand developmentdevelopment ofof choralchoral Relevance Harrison Coerver and Mary Byers (Foster, promote, and ssocietiesocieties inin citiescities andand communities.communities. implement technology What's on tools that provide • ToTo fosterfoster aandnd ppromoteromote tthehe uun-n- Tim's ipod ? resources and facilitate dderstandingerstanding ofof choralchoral musicmusic asas anan ease in consumer usability) iimportantmportant mediummedium ofof contemporarycontemporary Kick in the Pants Just4Kicks vocal jazz quartet aartisticrtistic expression.expression. American Voices St. Thomas Choir of Men and Boys

Please help us be the very best • ToTo fosterfoster aandnd ppromoteromote ssignificantignificant stewards of the resources of the rresearchesearch inin thethe fieldfield ofof choralchoral music.music. American Choral Directors Associa- tion by participating in this signiﬁ cant • ToTo fosterfoster aandnd eencouragencourage cchoralhoral World Choir Initiatives membership survey. The higher the ccompositionomposition ofof superiorsuperior quality.quality. The World Youth Choir had the privilege percentage of participation, the more to perform three times at the Nobel Peace • ToTo fosterfoster aandnd ppromoteromote IInterna-nterna- conﬁ dent we will be that we are Prize program in Oslo in December 9-11, continuing to be the association our ttionalional exchangeexchange programsprograms involvinginvolving 2011. Following an opening solo concert in pperformingerforming ggroups,roups, cconductors,onductors, aandnd members want us to be. Oslo University, the choir closed the offi cial ccomposers.omposers. ceremony in Oslo City Hall the next day (you can listen to the performance at http://www. • ToTo fosterfoster aandnd eencouragencourage rrehearsalehearsal youtube.com/watch?v=sJPGK3nrKws). pproceduresrocedures conduciveconducive toto attainingattaining Lastly, the choir opened the Nobel Peace Tim Sharp tthehe highesthighest possiblepossible levellevel ofof musi-musi- Prize Concert (http://www.youtube.com/ ccianshipianship andand artisticartistic performance.performance. watch?v=NPzHqh7mBOU). The World Youth Choir is a project of the • ToTo cooperatecooperate withwith allall organizationsorganizations World Youth Choir Foundation, under the ddedicatededicated toto thethe developmentdevelopment ofof patronage of the IFCM, Jeunesses Musicales mmusicalusical cultureculture inin America.America. International, and the European Choral Association - Europa Cantat. Auditions for TimothySharp • ToTo disseminatedisseminate professionalprofessional nnewsews the choir are taking place in January 2012. aandnd informationinformation aaboutbout cchoralhoral mmusic.usic. American Choral Directors Association Please log on to http://www.worldyouth- choir.org/ for more information on how you —ACDA—ACDA ConstitutionConstitution andand BylawsBylaws can participate.

National R&S Chairs FROM THE A Publisher’s View INDUSTRY of The Choral World National Chair Amy Johnston Blosser Bexley High School Most people working in the music 614/539-5262 (voice) ASSOCIATE publishing profes- [email protected] sion do this work as Boychoirs Julian Ackerley REPRESENTATIVE a labor of love. We Tucson Arizona Boys Chorus 520/296-6277 (voice) are often drawn to [email protected] the profession because we had a great deal of Children and Youth Community Choirs musical training and experience and wanted to Robyn Lana Cincinnati Children’s Choir maintain a close tie to the music world. Choral 513/556-0338 (voice) [email protected] publishing is not a get-rich industry. For many, its greatest reward is enrichment of the soul, not College and University Choirs William McConnell monetary gain. St. Andrews Presbyterian College 910/277-5262 (voice) These past few years have seen unprec- [email protected] Alec Harris edented changes in the choral publishing profes-

Community Choirs sion. These changes have enormous implications Ron Sayer Marshall Community Chorus for those of us who publish, but also for the choral directors and com- 660/831-5197 (voice) [email protected] posers we serve. Music engraving software, new digital presses, and Internet marketing make it easier than ever to produce quality choral Ethnic and Multicultural Perspectives Sharon Davis Gratto editions. But, Internet piracy, cuts in arts programs, and economic strains University of Dayton loom large. Despite all of this, there remain tremendous opportunities to 973/229-3946 (voice) [email protected] be innovative—and to publish those special works that is every publisher’s

Junior High/Middle School dream to ﬁ nd! Gretchen Harrison The traditional structure of the publishing industry remains alive and Frontier Trail Junior High 913/780-7210 (voice) active today. This structure can be likened to a pyramid. At the top of [email protected] the pyramid is the composer. The composer gives birth to music that Male Choirs Ethan Sperry allows our profession to exist. Music that, in the best of circumstances, Portland State University ends up being sung by hundreds or thousands of choirs around the [email protected] world—and perhaps enjoyed by millions. Music in Worship Terre Johnson The publisher is the next tier of the pyramid. The publisher essen- Vestavia Hills Baptist Church [email protected] tially works for the composer and supports him or her in an effort to print the best possible edition of their music. Within the publisher’s Senior High Choirs Daniel Bishop realm are the editor, the music engraver, the printer, customer service support, the warehouse and shipping workers, the recording engineer, Show Choirs Robert Lawrence the technology expert and web designer, the graphic artist, and the University of Central Missouri [email protected] business experts who keep track of all of the above.

Two-Year Colleges The other mainstay of this pyramid is the retail music dealer. Dealers Dianna Campbell work in tandem with the publisher from whom they purchase their Seminole State College of Florida 407/708-2644 (voice) music. Trusted dealers comb through thousands of published editions, [email protected] working with choir directors and publishers to ﬁ nd and promote the Vocal Jazz Kirk Marcy best music in print. These dealers have their own group of workers Edmonds Community College who maintain stock, shipping orders, provide reading sessions for choral 425/640-1651 (voice) [email protected] conductors, send out promotional ﬂ iers, and display and sell products at

Women’s Choirs conventions. All these individuals work to promote the sales of music. Iris Levine Another tier of the pyramid is licensing agencies such as the Harry Vox Femina Los Angeles [email protected] Fox Agency, who manages mechanical licensing requests for recordings, Youth and Student Activities and ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC, who license music for performances. Joey Martin Texas State University —San Marcos [email protected]

4 CHORAL JOURNAL Volume 52 Number 6 Not to be left out are the all-important volun- Of course, the reality is that most published music teers. They include ACDA Repertoire and Standards does not sell well. Composers rarely quit their day committee members, who collect new issues and jobs and support themselves solely on royalties. Even help get the word out about the best music being the best publishers have only a few big sellers, and published. In addition to ACDA, there are other many editions that never recoup the publisher’s initial volunteer organizations that support choral music investment. and choral directors. Illegal copying on the Internet is a huge issue, much Over the past twenty years, we have seen positive bigger than the impact of the invention of the photo- trends in the area of music publishing. Today, music copier several decades ago. Publishers work continu- rarely goes out of print. Instead, high-end digital ously to educate customers about what is, and what presses make it possible to keep an edition available isn’t legal. For the most part, choral music is not ex- forever, even if it only sells a few copies a year. This pensive. Purchasing music supports this great engine is a true miracle for music publishers and was only a of creativity that is composing and music publishing, dream twenty years ago. More choral music is being and gives us the incentive to help even more quality published than ever before. titles see the light of day. As long as choral directors Courtesy of the Internet, choral directors now see a value to purchasing their music, there will be have unprecedented and easy access to publishers. a high-quality network of publishers and dealers to Before e-mail or publisher Web sites, conductors support the choral arts. rarely contacted a publisher directly with questions. Today, there is a growing phenomenon: the com- Now, conductors can and do ask a wide range of posers who wants to do it all on their own—adver- questions about a certain work, or for help fi nding tise, exhibit at conventions, self-promote, and sell their specifi c kinds of literature. Anxious conductors whose music directly to the consumer in whatever format choirs are chosen to sing at conventions—and those they choose. The fact is, for every composer busily who are conducting honor choirs—now benefi t from working at self-publishing, there are several equally the option of enlisting both publisher and retailer for talented composers emerging and ready to do it help locating appropriate literature. the traditional way. They see that their time is best The Internet has broadened the outreach of the spent composing and don't want to be bothered publisher and sped the processes that previously shipping music, processing returns, or maintaining a relied on U.S. mail. Audio clips and previews of music Web site. They understand the value in working with are easy to fi nd on publisher Web sites. We now have a talented group of editors and marketers. However the ability to instantly send a contract for a song to a a composer chooses to be involved, there is a place for composer in Sweden, and another to the poet in Aus- all in this profession. tralia. Within one hour, both contracts can be signed, And, so the pyramid that is the support group for scanned, and back in the editorial offi ce, printed and this profession lives on, becoming reinvigorated as ready for fi ling. The next moment, we can receive an new technology and ideas emerge. One thing never e-mail submission from a composer in Brazil. These changes: we all get our just rewards when we hear a are events that those of us in the publishing industry choir sing our music. So be it. do not take for granted. September People often ask, “What does a music publisher do?” The quick answer is, “The same thing a book Barbara"National Harlow Board" Meeting publisher does, except for music.” The more com- President, Santa Barbara Music Publishing, Inc. plete answer is that we select only what we believe sbmp.comSeptember 16 - 17, 2011 has quality. We edit, proof, print, maintain inventory, record, provide a Web site, pay rent and insurance, Alec Harris and market through conferences, catalogs, magazines, President, GIA Publications, Inc. and sponsorships. We support choral directors and ACDA Industry Representative answer their questions. And, once a composition is giamusic.com in print, that work will always be available for future generations to discover.

CHORAL JOURNAL Volume 52 Number 6 5 Editorial Board FROM THE In This Issue

Editor In February and March 2011, our seven ACDA divi- Carroll Gonzo University of St.Thomas EDITOR sions will hold conferences across the country for its 651-962-5832 [email protected] members and the music industry. The choral performances, special concerts, interest sessions, and the who’s Managing Editor Ron Granger who in ACDA and choral music will come together ACDA National Office for music-making, lecturing, honor choirs, repertoire 405-232-8161 [email protected] and standards presentations, net-working, and making

Editorial Associate needed purchases from the exhibitors’ smorgasbord David Stocker of musical scores, books, classroom materials, choir 281-291-8194 [email protected] Carroll Gonzo robes, etc. This issue of the Choral Journal contains the proposed Board Members conference schedule for each of the seven divisions. Readers will be introduced to Hilary Apfelstadt University of Toronto information about honor choirs, conference performing choirs, interest sessions, 416-978-0827 [email protected] and listings of special guests. Although key information about conductors, performing groups, and presenters of interest sessions are iterated for each division, Terry Barham Emporia State University a great more information can be found on our division Web sites. The unedited 620-341-5436 [email protected] information appearing there was provided by the various divisions, and readers

Kristina Boerger are encouraged to not only visit their Web sites now, but also near conference Carroll University 262-524-7183 time, in the event changes have been made in any of the conference programs. [email protected]> Below is the list of the seven divisions and the names of the cities in which their

Philip Copeland conferences will be held. Samford University 205-588-4794 [email protected]

J. Michele Edwards Central Division—Fort Wayne (March 7 – 10) 651-699-1077 [email protected] Eastern Division—Providence (February 15 – 18) Lynne Gackle Baylor University 254-710-3654 North Central—Madison (February 8 – 11) [email protected]

Steven Grives Northwestern—Seattle (March 15 – 18) South Dakota State University 605-688-4616 [email protected] Southern Division—Winston—Salem (February 29 – March 3)

Sharon A. Hansen University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee Southwestern Division—Dallas (February 29 – March 3) 414-229-4595 (voice) [email protected] Western Division—Reno (February 29 – March 3) Edward Lundergan SUNY-New Paltz 845-257-2715 (voice) [email protected] For regular conference attendees, meeting old friends and making new ones, David Puderbaugh is an expected outcome just for being present. The range of conversations, in- University of Iowa 319-335-1627 formation exchanged, and sharing of the convention experience is suffused with [email protected] abundant intellectual and emotional satisfaction. For “ﬁ rst timers,” the conference Ann R. Small Stetson University experience is wonderfully over-whelming. Returning home and reentering the 386-822-8976 [email protected] classroom with new ideas, goals, and objectives is exhilarating accompanied by a good feeling of a deep sense of belonging to a vibrant community in which all Magen Solomon San Francisco Choral Artists choral musicians are committed to the choral art and its myriad demands and 415-494-8149 [email protected] rewards.

Richard Stanislaw Ocean City Tabernacle 609-399-1915 (voice) [email protected]

Stephen Town Carroll Gonzo Northwest Missouri State University 660/562-1795 (voice) [email protected] 6 CHORAL JOURNAL Volume 52 Number 6 Call for Interest Session Proposals for the 2013 National Conference in Dallas, Texas

Interest Session guidelines will be available on the ACDA Web site (www.acda.org) beginning January 1, 2012.

All materials will need to be uploaded by midnight March 30, 2012 to be considered eligible for consideration.

Suggestions for interest session proposal topics are on page 137.

Call for Performing Group Auditions for the 2013 National Conference in Dallas, Texas

Performance ensemble audition guidelines will be available on the ACDA Web site (www.acda.org) beginning January 1, 2012.

All materials will need to be uploaded by midnight March 30, 2012 to be considered eligible for auditions.

HONOR CHOIR AUDITION INFORMATION AND MATERIALS WILL BE POSTED SEPARATELY.

February 8 - 11, 2012

North Central Division Madison, Wisconsin

Before joining the Community Music School staff, Zaryski Bel Canto Solfeggio: taught middle and high school vocal music in Orlando and Why Settle for Half a Singer? upstate New York, was a conductor and accompanist for the Ithaca Children’s Choir, and was an assistant conductor for The pre-conference Immersion Day on Wednesday, Febru- MSU choirs. She is the music director at the University United ary 8, will focus on the sequential teaching of musical literacy. Methodist Church in East Lansing. Clinicians John Armstrong and Kristin Zaryski will emphasize the development of tone and expressivity using singers from Dal- Natalie McDonald is in her third year as las Center-Grimes (IA) High School. Participants will be signing, vocal music director at Dallas Center- singing, and moving through the day as they are introduced to Grimes (IA) High School, where she the practice of fundamental hand sign skills. leads the two curricular choirs and two The day is designed to show how to obtain beautiful tone jazz choirs, directs musicals, and oversees along with music literacy skills, including the complete chromatic the show choir. scale. Participants will be taken through the sequential learning With 150 students, musical groups cycle: In the air, on the board and from the page, and will learn under her direction regularly receive top how to connect inspiring visual, kinesthetic and auditory rapport ratings at state contest and take the lead in the areas of musical with the signs and symbols of music reading. Pitch charts and literacy and hand-sign solfeggio training. pulse charts will be introduced, working from the known to the A graduate of Northeast Missouri State University (Tru- new in artistic ways. man State) with a music education degree in voice and piano, A fundamental philosophy of the day is to help students McDonald has taught in the Los Angeles area and Des Moines, focus and build conﬁ dence through the process of discovery. IA. She has worked as a staff accompanist at Drake University. The choir will demonstrate proven warm-ups, exercises, rounds and songs from Armstrong’s method, The Reading Choir Singer. They will also sight-sing a new work, integrating the “Bel Canto Dallas Center-Grimes High School Singers Solfeggio” process. The goal of the day is to help conductors think long term: Dallas Center-Grimes High School, in central Iowa, has a fall-to-spring, ﬁ rst year to last year, whatever the level of singers long history of strong choral groups. The combined choirs total in the choir. over 150 students out of a total 9-12 student population of 610. Freshman and sophomore women sing in a Treble Choir and John Armstrong has worked with music all other singers are placed into a non-audition Mixed Choir. teachers and choral directors to raise DC-G’s vocal program includes the two core choirs as well music literacy standards throughout the as a strong show choir and two jazz choirs. Students experience Northeast and Midwest. He appears as a a rigorous curriculum based upon musical literacy and solid guest conductor for festival choirs and vocal training. The sight-reading curriculum is taught using the is a clinician, author, and composer. He has hand-sign solfeggio system and bel canto-style singing. appeared as clinician for MMEA, NYSSMA, ICDA, VMEA and PMEA, and was keynote speaker for the 2009 WMEA State Conference. Armstrong runs an online “Solfeggio Support Group” that includes 400 choral directors. As a composer, Armstrong has won the Ithaca College Choral Composition Contest and the Iowa Choral Commissioning Competition.

Kristin Zaryski is the director of the Career Moves Michigan State University (MSU) Children’s Choirs: the Preparatory Choir, the CMS Career Moves is a sum- singers, and the MSU Children’s Choir. She mary of all the help serves as the area chair of choirs. wanted positions in each Zaryski received her BME with an emphasis on piano and organ studies at issue. This month's listing

2012 Division Conferences - Immersion Day - Immersion Conferences Division 2012 Ithaca College in New York, and her MM in is on page 159. choral conducting at Michigan State University. She has a Level I certiﬁ cation in choral music experience.

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Clerestory Clerestory is named for cathedral windows that let in daylight; they tell the clear story of the music we sing through sophisticated performances grounded in decades of experience singing together. The members of Clerestory are Jesse Antin, Clerestory is Chris Fritzsche, John Bischoff, Dan Cromeenes, Clifton Massey, the Bay Area’s Justin Montigne, Tom Hart, Jim Monios, and Kevin Baum. acclaimed nine-man classical a cappella ensemble. Vet- Kansas City Chorale erans of San Francisco’s The Kansas vocal groups City Chorale is including a professional Chanticleer, vocal ensemble Clerestory's singers, from countertenor to bass, remain mem- in its twenty- ed Choirs bers of the Bay Area choral community and pride themselves ninth season on providing unparalleled performances to local audiences. that enriches the local, national and international communities through its dedication to excellence in performing music from diverse historical periods. The Chorale records with graduate study in choral conducting Chandos, and their CD of Grechaninov’s Passion Week at Yale Institute of Sacred Music and Yale School of Music (2007) received a Grammy award for Best Classical Record- ing, Engineering. In December 2008, their CD Music of Josef Rheinberger was nominated in two Grammy categories, Best Choral Performance and Best Surround Sound Album. Recent performances by the Chorale include those at Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center, the Troy Music

with Hall in Troy, New York, and as Marguerite L. Brooks, yale camerata one of four invited choirs at the Jeffrey Douma, yale glee club 2009 Incheon Choral Festival in Masaaki Suzuki, yale schola cantorum South Korea. degrees offered Charles Master of Music Master of Musical Arts Bruffy has Doctor of Musical Arts been artistic Artist Diploma director of Full tuition scholarships for all admitted students. Additional merit-based awards available. the Kansas Ample podium time with choral and instrumental ensembles. City Cho- 2012 Division Conferences -Invit Conferences Division 2012 rale since Ofﬁce of Admissions Yale Institute of Sacred Music, 409 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511 1988 and of the Phoenix Bach tel 203.432.9753 fax 203.432.9680 · www.yale.edu/ism · [email protected] Choir since 1999. Under his direction, both choirs continue

10 CHORAL JOURNAL Volume 52 Number 6 Iowa • Minnesota • Nebraska • North Dakota • South Dakota • Wisconsin

to merit critical acclaim. began in the 13th century with the ﬁ rst boys’ Jennifer Beynon- In addition to his work with these choirs, choir at St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague. Martinec is the con- he was recently named as Chorus Director ductor of The Czech of the Kansas City Symphony Chorus. He Jakub Martinec is a Boys Choir - Young conducts choruses across the nation and renowned choral con- Men’s Ensemble. She internationally, most recently in the Sydney ductor in the Czech is a voice and music Opera House and in South Korea. Republic. He has per- education graduate Recent commissions and premieres formed with eminent of the University of include works by David Montoya, Matthew orchestras, ensembles British Columbia and the University of Harris, Stephen Sametz, Stephen Paulus, and musical personali- Western of Ontario. She is a former mem- Libby Larsen, Eric Whitacre, René Clausen, ties, including Meisters- ber of the Amabile Youth Singers, the World Ola Gjeilo, and Terry Schlenker. ingerhalle, Nürnberg (2005, 2009), Grace Youth Choir, UBC Singers, and the Canadian He has been an active board member of Cathedral in San Francisco (2004), Winspear Chamber Choir. Chorus America and conducts workshops Hall in Edmonton, Canada (2006), the Pan- Jennifer was a choral conductor and vo- and clinics across the nation. Bruffy received theon and the Basilica Santa Maria Maggiore cal teacher at St. Michael’s Choir School in his bachelors degree in secondary educa- in Rome for the leaders of the Vatican (2009, Toronto, Ontario, conductor of the Amabile tion with an emphasis in piano performance 2010), and regularly at the Rudolﬁ num Boys Training Choir, and the assistant con- from Missouri Western State University and Dvorak Hall in Prague. ductor to Linda Beaupre and the Bach Chil- a masters degree in vocal performance from With his choirs, he performed the dren's Choir. Jennifer has studied voice with the Conservatory of Music at the University opening concert of the Czech Philharmonic David Meek and Darryl Edwards, and choral of Missouri-Kansas City. Orchestra (2006), and has appeared at nu- conducting with Dianne Loomer, James merous international music festivals including, Fankhauser, Ken Fleet and Linda Beaupre. The Prague Spring Festival (2004, 2005), Since 2005, Jennifer has been a private AmericaFest International Festival for Boys’ voice teacher and conductor with Boni Pueri, Czech Boys Choir and Men’ Choirs, including the sixth World a lecturer and voice teacher at Charles Uni- Choral Symposium in Minneapolis (2002), versity, and currently teaches at the English and Festival d'Ambronay (2006), Mitte Europa International School in Prague. Young Men’s Ensemble (2008, 2009), and the World Festival of Singing for Men and Boys (Prague, Hradec Kralove, 2004, 2008).

The Czech Boys Choir and Young Men’s Ensemble from Hradec Kralove in North Bohemia maintains the famous traditions of boychoir singing in the Czech territory as it

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Friday, February 10, 8:00 p.m. Paulus is also a strong advocate for the music of his colleagues. He is co-founder and a current Board Vice-President of the To Be Certain of the Dawn American Composers Forum, the largest composer service by Stephen Paulus organization in the world. with libretto by Michael Dennis Browne Lee Nelson, conductor Minnesota State University-Mankato This is the task: in the darkest night to be certain of the Concert Choir dawn, certain of the power to turn a curse into a blessing, agony into a song. To know the monster’s rage and, in The Minne- spite of it, proclaim to its face; to go through Hell and sota State to continue to trust in the goodness of God—this is the University- challenge and the way. Mankato, Concert —Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel Choir is the select choral ensemble at To Be Certain of the Dawn was commissioned by the Basilica the university. of Saint Mary in Minneapolis as a gift to Temple Israel Synagogue The choir presents several major concerts each year and in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the liberation of hosts an annual Invitational Choral Festival featuring 300 the Nazi death camps. It is the result of interfaith dialogue and singers from throughout the southern region of Minnesota. stands as a testimony to the power of understanding and of The Concert Choir has appeared on state and division music’s unique ability to encourage hope, to promote peace. ACDA conferences including the 2006 ACDA North Cen- The rehearsal and performance of this transformative piece tral Division Conference in Omaha, Nebraska. The choir is are being approached in an exceptionally process-driven way, featured on several promotional recordings by Walton Music with the intention of modeling the Beyond the Notes phi- and Santa Barbara Music Publishers that have been distributed losophy on which this conference is based. The oratorio will throughout the United States. be performed by choirs from Nebraska Wesleyan University, Minnesota State University, Wartburg College, and members of the Madison Boys and Girls Choirs, the Wisconsin Youth David Dickau is a choral conductor and Symphony Orchestra, and soloists from throughout the North composer residing in Mankato, Min- Central Division. nesota, where he is director of choral activities at Minnesota State University- Mankato. He conducts the Concert Minnesota composer Stephen Paulus Choir and Chamber Singers and has been hailed as “[A] bright, ﬂ uent teaches conducting and composition. inventor with a ready lyric gift.” (The Dickau holds advanced degrees in New Yorker) His output of two hundred choral music from Northwestern University in Evanston, IL, works is represented in many genres, and the University of Southern California. He has taught cho- including music for orchestra, chorus, ral music at the high school and college levels and conducted chamber ensembles, solo voice, key- community and church choirs. board and opera. Commissions have He is an active member of ACDA, having served as a been received from the New York Philharmonic, Cleveland national R&S Chair from 1987 to 1991 and as a clinician at Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Orches- ACDA national and regional conferences. His choirs have tra, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, the Houston Symphony, and performed at ACDA regional conventions in Omaha and St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. He has served as Composer in Minneapolis and at a national convention at Orchestra Hall Residence for the orchestras of Atlanta, Minnesota, Tucson, and in Chicago. Annapolis, and his works have been championed by Sir Neville Marriner, Kurt Masur, Christoph von Dohanyi, Leonard Slatkin, Yoel Levi, the late Robert Shaw, and others.

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named Outstanding Choral Director of Artistic Leadership and is a member of the Nebraska Wesleyan the Year in Nebraska, was the recipient of Music Educator's Hall of Fame. University - Lincoln the City of Lincoln Mayor's Arts Award for University Singers

The Nebraska Wesleyan University Choir has performed throughout the United uses le Chor States and in major performance venues A Festival for Treb in Europe, South America, Asia, Russia, and Scandinavia. The choir has worked with Randall Thompson, Aaron Copland, Robert San José, Costa Rica Shaw, Craig Jessop, Howard Swan, Daniel Pinkham, Paul Salamunovich, and Sir David Willcocks. The ﬁ fty-ﬁ ve member June 12 – 16, 2013 choir received an Emmy nomination for a Christmas television program produced by Under the Artistic Direction of Nebraska Educational Television. The choir Paul Caldwell has performed on six ACDA regional and Youth Choral national conference programs and for state Theater of Chicago MENC and ACDA events. Sean Ivory Grand Rapids Symphony Youth Chorus William A. Wyman has been teaching at Join North American and Costa Rican singers the collegiate level for forty-one years, the t 3FIFBSTBMTJOMPDBMUIFBUFST DVMNJOBUJOHJOBNVTJDBM last thirty-seven years NPVOUBJOUPQQFSGPSNBODFJOEPXOUPXO4BO+PTÏ at Nebraska Wesleyan University, where he is t *OUFOTJWFDPMMBCPSBUJPOXJUI$PTUB3JDBONVTJDJBOT professor of music and director of choral activities. During his tenure t )JLFBWPMDBOP [JQMJOFJOSBJOGPSFTUT UPVSDPČFF at Nebraska Wesleyan University, Wyman QMBOUBUJPOTBOENPSF has conducted the Nebraska Wesleyan University Choir, the Wesleyan Chamber t *ODMVEFTĘJHIUT BDDPNNPEBUJPOT NFBMT TJHIUTFFJOH Singers, Lincoln Choral Artists, and serves BOEPQUJPOBMQSFBOEQPTUUPVST as director of music at Saint Paul United Methodist Church in Lincoln. His choirs have appeared on six ACDA regional and national convention programs, many MENC and ACDA state conferences, 3250 28th Street S.E., Grand Rapids, MI and an AGO regional convention. www.cantacostarica.com He was named Fulbright Scholar in Vocal 800-469-4883 Music, received the Bethany College (WV) [email protected] Alumni Achievement Award, has been

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Wartburg College concerts, and music retreats. Wartburg Choir The curriculum, focused The Wartburg on thematic Choir per- musical study, is forms sacred presented in an music from all environment of historical peri- sharing, growth, ods and styles and recreation, and often fea- allowing MYC to teach discipline, build self-conﬁ dence, foster tures premiere works of contemporary composers. The teamwork, and provide constructive activity and positive role Wartburg Choir is one of the college’s three musical groups models during formative years. that tour internationally on a triennial basis. In 2011, the choir performed a 30 day/20 performance tour of Hungary, Austria, Lisa Kjentvet is in her twelfth season with Germany, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. the Madison Youth Choirs and the former Madison Children's Choir. Her history Lee Nelson is the director of choral activi- with the organization began as the con- ties at Wartburg College in Waverly, IA. ductor of Capriccio for the Madison Chil- Nelson conducts the Wartburg Choir, Rit- dren’s Choir, where she served as artistic terchor (men’s choir), teaches advanced director for two years. After serving as conducting, and serves as the artistic co-artistic director of the Madison Youth director of Christmas with Wartburg. Choirs during its inaugural season, she added to her conducting Nelson also serves as the music direc- responsibilities and currently directs Choraliers and Capriccio. tor and conductor of the Metropolitan Kjentvet graduated from the University of Wisconsin- Chorale. Nelson earned his BME from Concordia College Madison with a degree in general and choral music education. (Moorhead, MN) and received his MM and DMA from the She has previously served as choral director at Kettle Moraine University of Arizona. Middle School in Dousman, Wisconsin, and Jefferson Middle In 2005, Nelson won the National ACDA Conducting Com- School and Memorial High School in Madison. She has worked petition in Los Angeles, CA. He was also awarded the Out- with the Madison Savoyard. Lisa is active as a conductor, clinician, standing Young Choral Conductor of the Year award given by performer, and private piano and voice instructor. American Choral Directors Association of Minnesota in 2001. Nelson made his conducting debut at Carnegie Hall in 2011. Randal Swiggum was artistic director of the Madison Children’s Choir from 1996–2000, and currently conducts the Madison Youth Choirs Madison Boychoir’s top ensembles. He is in his thirteenth season as music director Britten and Capriccio Choruses of the Elgin Youth Symphony Orchestra. He has a teaching career that spans el- The Madison ementary general music, high school choir, Youth Choirs college orchestra, music theory, and conducting. (MYC) offer He has served as chair of the Wisconsin CMP (Com- youth be- prehensive Musicianship through Performance) Project, now tween the in its thirty-second year. He is a frequent guest conductor of ages of seven orchestral and choral festivals; a presenter at MENC, ASTA, and and 18 the op- ACDA conferences; a conductor of opera and musical theatre; portunity to and music director of thirty stage works. As a writer, Swiggum participate in has served as music critic for the Milwaukee Journal and is the eleven sepa- author of the book Strategies for Teaching, and co-author of rate choral groups. Shaping Sound Musicians. Focused on drawing connections between music and the greater world, the program offers choristers musical and social 2012 Division Conferences - Special Performance - Special Conferences Division 2012 education opportunities through weekly rehearsals, annual

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Wisconsin Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestras ensemble, and a brass choir program. The (WYSO) was established in 1966 by pro- Youth Orchestra toured Eastern Europe Youth Symphony Orchestra fessor Marvin Rabin of the University of in 2005 and Canada, Japan, Scotland, Spain, Wisconsin-Extension Music Department. France, Colorado, Iowa, and Washington, Five hundred young musicians from 100 D.C. in the past. communities in southern Wisconsin have participated in WYSO during its 44 years Randal Swiggum will be the rehearsal con- of providing excellence in musical oppor- ductor for this choir. His photo and bio are tunities. on the previous page. WYSO, under the artistic direction of James Smith, includes three full orchestras and a string orchestra, a chamber music program, a harp program, a percussion

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Armstrong High School women. They perform for worship services, participate in the annual Christmas at Luther concert and Dorian Vocal Festival, Concert Choir and present a spring concert with the Norsemen, Luther’s choir for fi rst-year men. Armstrong Conducted by Sandra Peter since 1992, Aurora has released High School, two CDs, Finding a Voice (2006) and Using Our Voice (2010). The Robbinsdale, ensemble is featured on an instructional DVD accompanying Minnesota, the book, Conducting Women’s Choirs: Strategies for Success, offers seven forthcoming by GIA Publications. The Madison conference curricular and marks their fi fth appearance at NC-ACDA. three co-curricular ensem- Sandra Peter is an associate professor of bles involving 500 of the 2100 students enrolled. The Concert music at Luther College, Decorah, Iowa, Choir consists of 94 auditioned juniors and seniors who are where she conducts Cathedral Choir and not only singers. Aurora. She also teaches conducting and The choir has been featured in several national venues ear training. and collegiate festivals, including Carnegie Hall, Orchestra Hall, She has led all-State and honor choirs Guthrie Theater, Choral Arts Finale Festival, Luther, St. Olaf, throughout the United States. Peter is a Concordia, UW-Eau Claire, St. Cloud State, and MENC. The member of ACDA, the College Music choir has appeared multiple times at the Minnesota Music Society, and a charter member of NCCO, and is its state Educators Mid-Winter Clinic. chair for Iowa. She is a published arranger with the Neil Kjos Company and MorningStar Music and the co-editor of Morn- Stephanie Trump holds her MA in music ingStar’s Luther College Music Series. She is a contributor to education from the University of Hawai’i, Conducting Women’s Choirs: Strategies for Success, forthcoming Manoa, and BAs in vocal performance and from GIA Publications. A native of Saint Paul, Minnesota, Peter music education from Augsburg College, holds degrees from Concordia College (Moorhead), University Minneapolis. Trump was featured as a na- of Arizona and the University of Iowa. tional MENC choral mentor in the MPR broadcast, “The State of Choral Music in Minnesota.” She serves on the Minnesota Arts Consortium Board and has served on the board of ACDA- Creighton University Minnesota, and as fi ne arts representative to the Minnesota Chamber Choir State High School League. The Armstrong choirs have performed several commis- The Chamber sions, dedications, and premiers by composers Dean Sorenson, Choir, under the Cheryl Parkes, David Dickau, Paul Oakley, Jerry Rubino, Dale direction of A. Warland, Robert Sieving, and Timothy Takach. Her choirs have Barron Breland, sung with the Minnesota Chorale, Minnesota Orchestra, Doc is comprised of Severinson, The King’s Singers, Oratorio Society, Minnesota 32 students per- Youth Symphony, and Cantus. forming works written especially for a smaller or mid-sized choir. They performed last year Aurora for the Nebraska Music Educators Association. Alumni of the Chamber Choir can be found in all career paths, including medi- Aurora, one cine, academia, law, Broadway, and the opera or concert stage. of seven auditioned choral A. Barron Breland performs music from ensembles at the Baroque and Classic eras to contem- Luther Col- porary works of art, including repertoire lege in Deco- in various popular styles. Recent perfor- rah, Iowa, is mances include Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass, comprised of Handel’s Alexander’s Feast, Honegger’s 2012 Division Conferences - Performing Choirs - Performing Conferences Division 2012 100 first-year King David, and Einhorn’s Voices of Light.

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Breland completed his doctorate in served ACDA in a number of capacities, Science in Wahpeton, Lakeville (MN) South choral conducting at the Indiana University including ICDA president, editor of Melisma High School, and is currently an adjunct Jacobs School of Music in 2009. While there, and Sounding Board, and chair of the 1992 professor at the University of Wisconsin- he prepared the University Singers for a per- North Central conference, 1995 ICDA River Falls. Peter has been a clinician for formance with Dale Warland in 2008, and Summer Symposium, and the 2002 North several festivals and workshops throughout the previous fall gave over 12 performances Central conference Immersion Day. the Barbershop Harmony Society and many as guest conductor of the 120-member A graduate of Saint Mary’s College, highly regarded high school and university Grammy-nominated Singing Hoosiers. Notre Dame, Indiana, which recently pre- choral programs. Currently, Breland is on faculty at Creighton sented her with its Distinguished Alumna University in Omaha, Nebraska, conducting Award, Beckmann-Collier received master’s the Chamber Choir and teaching classes in and doctoral degrees from The University Isthmus Vocal Ensemble theory, history, and voice. of Iowa, where she studied with Don Moses. She is the recipient of Drake University’s Levitt Distinguished Community Service Award, the Iowa Music Educators Associa- Drake University tion’s Distinguished Service Award, and the Chamber Choir National Federation Interscholastic Music Association’s Outstanding Music Educator’s Award.

The Great Northern The Isthmus Vocal Ensemble, founded in 2002 by Artistic Director Scott MacPherson, Union Chorus comprises a community of dedicated choral singers, drawn together each summer for a few intensive weeks of rehearsals and limited performances in Madison, Wisconsin. The Drake Chamber Choir is one of four The choir is known for its wide variety of choruses that provide singing opportunities repertoire, ranging from Renaissance works for 250 students at Drake University of Des to cutting edge pieces by living composers. Moines, Iowa. The ensemble has performed In addition to its commercial CD on the throughout central and western Europe, and Clarion label, Andrew Rindﬂ eisch Choral in England and looks forward to May perfor- Works (2006), the ensemble recently re- mances in Ireland and Wales. The Chamber leased a CD of live performances recorded Choir is the featured ensemble for Drake’s The Great Northern Union Chorus is an in 2010, An Isthmus Christmas. Christmas madrigal dinners, tours regionally all-male a capella chorus based in the Min- neapolis/St. Paul area. In July of 2010, the on an annual basis, and has performed for Scott MacPherson, a North Central Division conferences on two group achieved a second place silver medal native of Wisconsin, other occasions. in the Barbershop Harmony Society’s Inter- is the founding artis- national Competition in Kansas City, which tic director of Madi- Aimee Beckmann-Col- featured 30 choruses representing ﬁ ve dif- son’s Isthmus Vocal lier is director of choral ferent countries. Ensemble. Since 2008, studies at Drake Uni- versity, where she has Peter Benson has been taught since 1989. She the music director of has twice conducted the Great Northern in Carnegie Hall and Union Chorus since *ODGGH0XVLF3XEOLFDWLRQV Drake ensembles un- 2002. Peter received 7KH&KRUDO0XVLFRI%UDGOH\1HOVRQ der her leadership have performed in Eng- his masters degree 3HUIHFWIRU6SULQJ land, Austria, Italy, Germany, and the Czech in choral conducting ³7+(5(:,//&20(62)75$,16´ Republic. from Mankato State ZZZ*ODGGH0XVLFFRPUDLQVKWP Beckmann-Collier is president of the University. He served as Director of Choral a6HHWKHVFRUHKHDUDUHFRUGLQJa North Central Division of ACDA and has Activities at North Dakota State College of

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MacPherson has served as director of choral activities at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, where he conducts choirs and Magnum Chorum leads the graduate program in choral conducting. For fi fteen years prior to that, he was the director of choral activities at Magnum Cho- Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. Before moving to San rum is based in Antonio, MacPherson served on the choral faculty of the Uni- St. Louis Park, versity of Wisconsin-Madison for six years. He holds degrees Minnesota. in choral and orchestral conducting from the University of The fi fty-voice Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Southern California. chamber choir MacPherson is also the conductor of the San Antonio Chamber presents col- Choir, a professional choir he founded in 2005. orful concerts, commissions and premieres new sacred works, and provides music for worship. Magnum Chorum has performed with distinguished conductors including Anton Armstrong, Weston Lawrence Academy Girl Choir Noble, Dale Warland, Kenneth Jennings, Craig Hella Johnson, Philip Brunelle, René Clausen, and Osmo Vänskä. Bel Canto Bel Canto is Christopher Aspaas, artistic director and the high school conductor of Magnum Chorum, serves as component of associate professor of choral/vocal music the Lawrence at St. Olaf College. Aspaas received his Academy of PhD in choral music education at The Music (LAM) Florida State University, his MM in choral Girl Choir conducting from Michigan State Univer- program, com- sity, and his BM in voice performance from posed of six St. Olaf. He has served on the faculties of Central Washington performing and eight rehearsing ensembles, grades 3-12. Re- University and Mount Holyoke College. hearsals focus on developing vocal skills and musical knowledge At St. Olaf, Aspaas conducts the Viking Chorus, a 90-voice and creating powerful aesthetic moments. LAM Girl Choirs ensemble of fi rst-year student men, and the Saint Olaf Chapel have performed at state and regional MENC and ACDA con- Choir, a 100-voice ensemble specializing in the performance ventions, sung with children’s choirs from around the globe, of larger works like Mendelssohn’s Elijah and the Brahms’s Re- and worked with musicians such as Libby Larsen, Henry Leck, quiem. In addition to conducting, he leads coursework in choral Malcolm Dalglish, and Roger Treece. literature, conducting, and voice. He has conducted all-state choruses in Kentucky, South Da- Karen Bruno is the artistic director of the kota, Virginia, and Wisconsin, and conducted the 2009 Anacrusis Lawrence Academy Girl Choir program Boys’ Honor Choir in Minnesota. and teaches the young women of Bel Canto. She is currently the director of the Lawrence Academy of Music, a community school of music in Appleton, North Dakota State University Wisconsin, that teaches 2,000 students Concert Choir from pre-school through retirement annually. She enjoys music-making with singers of all ages and Concert backgrounds, having worked in public schools, houses of wor- Choir, under ship, and an international school in Senegal, West Africa. Jo Ann Miller’s Bruno holds degrees from Smith College and Boston direction, has University, has received awards from the Wisconsin Choral performed at Directors Association, the Danbury (CT) Music Centre, Rotary state, regional, International, and Lawrence University, serves as North Central and national ACDA’s repertoire and standards chair for Children and Com- ACDA conferences. The Concert Choir is one of six choirs at munity Youth Choirs, and is a member of Wisconsin’s Compre- NDSU conducted by three choral faculty members and fi ve hensive Musicianship through Performance (CMP) committee. master’s and doctoral choral conducting graduate students. 2012 Division Conferences - Performing Choirs - Performing Conferences Division 2012

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Two-thirds of its members are music majors. communities around central Minnesota. The all over the world. The choir last appeared The Concert Choir performs numerous choirs travel far beyond the walls of the Ab- at an ACDA North Central Division confer- concerts every year and has produced 30 bey Church, ministering to local communities ence in 1992. recordings. and performing in churches and concert halls

Jo Ann Miller, director of choral activities at NDSU since 1989, conducts the Concert Choir and University Chamber Singers, teaches undergraduate and graduate choral conducting and literature courses, and is the graduate coordinator for NDSU Music. Miller received her DMA in choral conducting from the College Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati. She is currently the chorus master of the Fargo- Moorhead Symphony Orchestra, the artistic director of the NDSU Baroque Festival, and the national treasurer for the American Cho- ral Director’s Association. She has been the president of the North Central ACDA and the North Dakota state president. Miller was named North Dakota’s Outstanding Choral Director in 2004, received the Distinguished Educator Award from the NDSU Blue Key National Honor Society, and was named NDSU University Distinguished Professor in 2008, the highest faculty award and rank awarded by North Dakota State University.

St. John’s Boys’ Choir

The St. John’s Boys’ Choir was founded by the monastic community of Saint John’s Abbey in Collegeville. The organization has grown to include three performing ensembles with 85 choirboys, representing home, public, and private schools in 15

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André-Louis Heywood, born in Trinidad, Mitchell studied piano performance at the College of St. moved to Canada at an early age, where Scholastica in Duluth, Minnesota, before earning her degree he joined the Amabile Boys’ Choir. He in vocal music education from Bemidji State University, where went on to study music at the University she studied under Paul Brandvik. She is pursuing an MA with a of Western Ontario, earning an MM in choral conducting emphasis from the University of St. Thomas, choral conducting. After serving as as- St. Paul, Minnesota. In addition to her teaching duties, she is sistant conductor of the Amabile Boys’ a guest clinician for area middle school and women’s choir Choir for two years, he moved to Colle- festivals. Mitchell is a member of ACDA, MENC, and the Voice geville, Minnesota, to become artistic director of The St. John’s Care Network. Boys’ Choir. On the Saint John’s campus, he serves as conductor of the monastic choir at Saint John’s Abbey, liturgical music director at Saint John’s Preparatory School, and is a faculty University of North Dakota member in the music department at Saint John’s University. Heywood is a specialist in liturgical music, Gregorian Chant, Concert Choir and young male voices. He serves as the Boychoir Repertoire & Standards Chair for the ACDA North Central Division. The University of North Da- kota (UND) Concert Choir, comprised of Stillwater Area High School music majors Belle Chanter and non-music majors, is the Belle Chanter premiere auditioned choral ensemble at UND. The choir re- is one of sev- cently celebrated its 50th year in existence. The Concert Choir en curricular has a history of excellence, performing frequently at regional and co-curric- and national conventions. This past year, the choir traveled to ular choirs at the Netherlands and Belgium performing and working with Stillwater Area professional conductors from around that region. High School. The members Joshua Bronfman is director of choral are 10–12 activities at the University of North grade women Dakota, where he directs the UND Con- chosen by au- cert Choir and Varsity Bards. He teaches dition. Belle Chanter has earned superior ratings at the Min- graduate and undergraduate courses in nesota State High School League contest each year since its choral conducting, choral literature, and formation. The choir has also been awarded ﬁ rst place in the choral methods. In addition to his duties women’s choir category and the “Most Outstanding Choral at UND, he is the artistic director of the Group” at Heritage Festivals in Chicago, IL. Belle Chanter Grand Forks Master Chorale, a select chamber choir. performed at the 2007 Minnesota ACDA Fall Conference, the In 2005, Bronfman was selected as a Conducting Fellow for 2008 and 2011 Minnesota Choral Arts Finale, and the 2010 the Eric Ericson Masterclass in the Netherlands, where he di- Minnesota Music Educators Association convention. rected the Netherlands Chamber Choir and Netherlands Radio Choir. He is an active clinician, directing honor choir festivals at Angela Mitchell began her teaching the elementary, middle school, high school, and collegiate levels. career ﬁ fteen years ago in the Stillwater His published articles and presentations on choral music and school district and currently directs four choral music education have reached state, regional, and na- choirs at Stillwater Area High School as tional audiences. Bronfman completed his PhD in choral music well as the seventh grade girls and boy’s education and choral conducting at Florida State University. choirs at Stillwater Junior High. Choirs under her direction have been invited to perform at state and regional choral

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Don V Moses. Publishers of his music edi- represent many of the college’s more than University of Nebraska-Lincoln tions include Hal Leonard, Colla Voce, Hope, 50 academic majors. University Singers Concordia, and Santa Barbara. Jane Andrews, professor of music, has directed the Wartburg The Wartburg College College Castle Singers Castle Singers and the St. Elizabeth Chorale, a women’s choir, since 2001. She teaches choral music education courses and supervises student teachers. Before joining the Wartburg Col- University Singers performs music from lege music faculty, she was director of music the thirteenth century through the pres- at the 3,000-member Atonement Lutheran ent. They have performed for state and Church in Overland Park, Kansas. In the regional ACDA and MENC conferences, 1970s, she was instrumental in introducing and the 2002 national MENC convention the vocal jazz genre to the state of Colorado. in Nashville. Recent repertoire includes During the early 1990s, she chaired the music department at Mount Mercy College Hindemith’s When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard The Castle Singers of Wartburg College, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Bloom’d, the B Minor Mass, Bruckner’s Mass Waverly, Iowa, specialize in all types of vocal Most recently, Andrews conducted #2, Beethoven’s Mass in C, Puccini’s Messa jazz but are not limited to that genre. The Handel’s Messiah in the United Arab Emir- di Gloria, Elijah, Messiah, Duruﬂ é’s Requiem, group tours throughout the United States ates and served as a clinician in the United Honegger’s King David, Brahms’s Requiem, and travels abroad during the college’s one- States and internationally. She earned her Carmina Burana, Chichester Psalms, Belshaz- month May term. BA in music education from the University of zar’s Feast, Liszt’s Christus, and the operas In March 2011, they toured Dubai and Northern Colorado, her MM in choral con- Elixir of Love and La Bohème Abu Dhabi, and their international tour in ducting from Colorado State University, and May 2012 will take them to Scandinavia, her DMA in conducting from the University Peter Eklund is pro- Estonia, Germany, Prague and Paris .Travel- of Missouri Conservatory in Kansas City. fessor of music and ling to Brazil in 2009, they were the ﬁ rst director of choral Wartburg ensemble to tour in South activities. He annually America. They performed in Germany, conducts instrumental Slovenia, and Italy in 2006, and in Australia and choral ensem- in 2003, 1998 and 1994. Members of the bles in Europe and Castle Singers are chosen by audition and throughout North America. He has conducted his choirs in Carnegie Hall (numerous times), Mozart’s Salzburg Cathedral (yearly), Paris’s Notre Dame (yearly), Minneapolis’s Orchestra Hall, Venice’s St. Mark’s, Oxford’s Christ National Leadership Conference Church, Washington DC’s Kennedy Center and National Cathedral, London’s St. Paul’s June 6 - 10, 2012 Cathedral, Vienna’s St. Stephen’s, and other prestigious cathedrals and abbeys in Prague, Strasbourg, Milan, Reims, Rouen, London, Monaco, Normandy, Chartres, Cambridge, Munich, Nürnberg, Coventry, Canterbury, and New York. Eklund studied conducting with In- ternational Mahler Medal-winner James Dixon, ACDA past-president (and Univer- sity of Nebraska–Lincoln alumnus) William Hatcher, and recognized scholar/conductor CHORAL JOURNAL Volume 52 Number 6 21 February 8 - 11, 2012

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A CCommunity That Sings: BodySinging: New Arrangements of America’s Classics – Moving Singers Toward Songbook Vol. II More Expressive Choral Performance

The North Central ACDA Division’s continuing effort to This session will focus on the musical, emotional, and provide its members with quality arrangements of American expressive development of choral singers through the folk songs has produced twelve new pieces by some of our integration of the vocal/physical connection in rehearsal country’s best-known composers. Kevin Meidl, former NC and performance. The session will include demonstration ACDA president and originator of this project, will lead this and discussion of how building “body-voices” allows singers reading session. Pieces premiered at this session are available to feel, express, and understand the deep meaning in the for NC ACDA members’ use at no charge. music they are singing. Through the gentle progression of a “BodySinging” class Kevin Meidl is artistic director of speciﬁ cally designed with choral singers in mind, the singers the Appleton Boychoir, and founder/ will experience how the engagement of the whole body principal conductor with the Badger when singing can have a profound effect on tone, phrasing, State Girl Choir. He is choral direc- rhythmic integrity, and musicality and can create a holistic artistic approach to choral performance. erest Sessions erest tor and chair of the performing arts department at West High School in Appleton. Therees Tkach Hibbard has served Meidl has conducted honor and all- as conductor, adjudicator, and clinician state choirs throughout the country and is a guest clinician for choral organizations throughout and adjudicator. He has presented at national conventions Great Britain, Europe, North America, of MENC and ACDA and delivered keynote addresses at Hong Kong, and Oman. Her work as professional music gatherings across Midwest. In November, a movement specialist in the training 2010, he presented an address to the nineteen-country of choral singers and conductors has international symposium on community singing held in created unique opportunities for her Newcastle, England. to collaborate with choirs and conductors from around Meidl has served ACDA in numerous positions at the the world. Her research on enhancing choral performance state and division level since 1984, including WCDA and through movement training has led to the development of NC-ACDA president. He holds degrees from Lawrence a comprehensive choral education philosophy of “BodySing- University, Northwestern University, and Boston University. ing,” most clearly demonstrated through her work with the Oregon Bach Festival Youth Choral Academy. She is an associate professor of choral music at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), where she directs the UNL Chamber Singers; and is also co-artistic director Behind the Scenes of Lincoln’s newly established professional chamber choir, with the Czech Boys Choir Abendchor.

The conductors of the Czech Boys Choir and Young Men’s Ensemble will provide an in-depth picture of the The Bridge to Somewhere: ensembles. They will address topics such as recruitment, vocal development of technique for unchanged and changing Using Performance Repertoire as a Vehicle voices, and boychoir performance practices. They will also to Develop Music Reading Skills introduce central European choral music by contemporary composers suitable for boys choirs. Though many of us spend time teaching sight-singing at the beginning of each choral rehearsal, students are not Jakub Martinec and Jennifer Beynon-Martinec will be the cli- always able to see how the skills they build during this time nicians for this session. Their photos and bios are on page 11. impact the learning and performance of choral repertoire. In this session, choral pieces will be used to construct 2012 Division Conferences - Int Conferences Division 2012 music reading exercises and activities that apply directly

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to learning the performance repertoire. Building Literacy and learning sequence will be applied to tonal Elementary age choirs will be the focus of reading. To aid the development of aural/ this presentation. Musicianship Skills into the oral tonal skills, a sequence of vocal pitch Choral Rehearsal: exercises will be presented in a graphic form Angela Broeker is di- Takadimi and Beyond that can be utilized via overhead transparen- rector of choral activi- cies or an LCD project. Teaching strategies ties at the University and activities for developing tonal audition, Working from the premise that singers of St. Thomas (UST), musical memory, dictation, and aural skills will learn musical skills in much the same order St. Paul, MN, where also be addressed. as they do language skills, participants will she conducts the explore how we learn music through hear- Chamber Singers and Carol Krueger will be the clinician for this ing and imitating patterns before reading Concert Choir and session. Her photo and bio can be found on and writing. The Takadimi rhythm-pedagogy teaches undergraduate courses in choral in the second column. system will be addressed and specific conducting and methodology. She oversees techniques for developing rhythm reading the Kodály, Orff, and choral concentrations readiness, literacy, audition, musical memory, and teaches choral methods, choral con- dictation, and elementary composition. ducting, and choral literature courses. Building Literacy and Broeker's choirs have sung at the 2011 Carol Krueger is the Musicianship Skills into the ACDA National Conference, the 2009 Min- director of choral ac- nesota Collegiate Choral Festival, the 2008 Choral Rehearsal: Melodic tivities at Emporia North Central Division ACDA Conference, State University (KS), 2004 ACDA-MN, and at the 2001 and 2007 where she teaches This session will focus on melodic read- MMEA conventions. conducting and choral ing and the implementation of tonal, rhythm, Broeker received her DMA from the methods, and serves and melodic reading to choral repertoire via University of Oklahoma and her MM and as the conductor of curriculum maps that specifi cally outline the BME from Indiana University. Her research the A Cappella Choir, Chamber Singers, literacy process for each octavo. interests include seventeenth-century vocal Community Choir, and Emporia Camerata, music suitable for treble choirs. She coau- a community-based women’s chamber Carol Krueger will be the clinician for this thored the book, Educating Young Singers, ensemble. session. Her photo and bio can be found in with Mary Goetze and Ruth Boshkoff. Krueger received her BME from the the second column. University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, and her MM and DMA in choral conducting from Building an Ensemble the University of Miami. As an active clinician and guest conductor, Krueger has conducted Developing Musicianship in Living up to its architectural name, Clere- festivals and honor choirs in twelve states. the Digital Age through story has built its unconducted, undirected Krueger has presented interest sessions at musical democracy from the ground up. the ACDA National Conference in New the Use of the iPad The ensemble will share its techniques York, the OAKE national convention in and Other Technologies and practices for programming, rehearsing Charlotte, the ACDA Southern Division without a leader, verbal and musical commu- conferences in Nashville and Louisville, and The iPad has had a unique cultural impact nication, listening from within, and building the Southern Division MENC convention and it has the potential to revolutionize group knowledge and memory. Clerestory in Charleston. Krueger is widely recognized the fi eld of choral music. This session will encourages singers to take their eyes off for her work with music literacy, and Oxford demonstrate some of the ways the iPad the score and even the conductor, liberating University Press publishes Krueger's book, can be used to go beyond the notes as a music from the page. Progressive Sight Singing. music reader, for score preparation, for sight- reading, for historical research, to fi nd online Clerestory is an invited choir at this confer- resources, as an audio or video recorder, for ence. Their photo and bio can be found on assessment, for composition, and to help page 10. Building Literacy and develop independent, imaginative choral Musicianship Skills into the musicians who are engaged and involved in Choral Rehearsal: Tonal the creative process. Many of the concepts discussed in the session could be transfer- In this session, the sound-to-symbol able to other platforms.

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Christopher J. Russell is the director The Genesis and Structure of of choirs and performing arts depart- To Be Certain of the Dawn ment chair at East Ridge High School in Woodbury, Minnesota. He earned his BS in music education from Northwestern To Be Certain of the Dawn, a Holocaust memorial oratorio College, an MA in music education with written by Stephen Paulus, with libretto by Michael Dennis a choral emphasis at the University of St. Browne, was written as a result of interfaith dialogue and with Thomas, and his PhD from the University the purpose of encouraging ongoing conversation between of Minnesota. He has also worked toward a MDiv at Bethel people of faith. Theological Seminary. Russell is a lyric tenor and tubist, having Paulus, Browne, and Father Michael O’Connell, Basilica of performed with the Woodbury Community Theater, the Min- St. Mary’s, Minneapolis, who commissioned the work, will talk nesota Chorale, and the Minnesota Opera. about the ideas and goals that spawned the commission, the collaborative writing process of uniting text and music in this highly dramatic work, and the poetic and musical structure that leads to its emotional and intellectual impact on listeners and From Start to Finish: performers. Developing Artistry erest Sessions erest Stephen Paulus will be a clinician for this session. His photo and bio can be found on page 12. The clinicians will demonstrate with video clips from their rehearsals with elementary, middle school, and high school Michael Dennis Browne is a professor students, a practical daily process for developing student growth emeritus of English at the University of in independence and artistry. Minnesota, where he taught for thirty- nine years. Browne has published several Wes Hansmeyer teaches grades 6–12 books of poetry, and his poems have been choral music at Norris School District published in many magazines and antholo- in Firth, NE, where he directs the 7th gies. His awards include fellowships from Grade Choir, 8th Grade Choir, Mixed the National Endowment for the Arts, the Choir, Titan Singers, 68th Street Singers Bush Foundation, the Jerome Foundation, and the McKnight Show Choir, and Gold Show Choir. He Foundation Two of his collections have won the Minnesota also co-directs the annual fall high school Book Award for poetry. musical, a one-act play, and the spring 7th As a librettist, he has written many texts for music, working and 8th grade musical. Hansmeyer also directs the Lincoln (NE) principally with composer Stephen Paulus. Their post-Holo- Public Schools All City Girls Chorus. He earned his BME from caust oratorio, To Be Certain of the Dawn, was nominated for the Nebraska Wesleyan University in 1996 and a masters in edu- Pulitzer Prize in music by the Minnesota Orchestra and issued cational leadership from Doane College in 2006. He received as a CD in 2008 (BIS Records). Some of the best-known short the 2011 Outstanding Music Alumni Award from Nebraska choral works by Paulus and Browne include The Road Home, Wesleyan University. Pilgrim’s Hymn, Hymn for America and Hymn of the Eternal Flame.

Annette Mitchell holds a masters in curriculum and instruction from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a Get Out of Their Way: BME from Chadron State College (NE). Enabling Singers to She teaches K–4 general music at Norris Elementary School, Firth, NE, and also Be Independent Musicians directs the 5th Grade Choir. Mitchell is a member of Music Educators National In this session, the presenter will work with a high school Conference, Nebraska Music Educators Association, and the choir he has not met in advance as they are presented with a Nebraska Choral Directors Association. new piece of music. Instead of telling the students about the text and music and how they should rehearse it, Carey will

2012 Division Conferences - Int Conferences Division 2012 guide them as they make their own discoveries, discuss possible musical decisions, and work as a full group and in teams.

24 CHORAL JOURNAL Volume 52 Number 6 Iowa • Minnesota • Nebraska • Accepting North Dakota • South Dakota • Wisconsin applications for the Master of Music Degree is the choral Paul Carey teaches courses in conducting. in conducting music teacher and con- She holds masters and doctoral degrees ductor of the North in choral conducting from Indiana University Carolina Governor’s and the University of Iowa, respectively, and School, held each sum- a BME from Saint Mary's College in Notre mer in Raleigh for six Dame, Indiana. Her conducting teachers hundred of the state’s included Don V Moses, Julius Herford, and ﬁ nest students in ten Helmuth Rilling. different disciplines. Recently he has been Connors has served as guest conductor/ featured as a guest conductor/composer/ clinician for numerous choral festivals in Min- clinician for festival choirs in Ohio, Pennsyl- nesota, Indiana, and Iowa. She is the editor vania, Indiana, and Nebraska, and overseas in of several published choral works from the South Korea and Hong Kong. ospedali period of eighteenth-century Italy. Carey studied music composition with THE BARD COLLEGE Alfred Blatter and Ben Johnston at the Uni- versity of Illinois. His graduate studies were CONSERVATORY at Yale University. Carey’s compositions have Integrating the Art been performed by choirs worldwide and OF MUSIC with the Science at ACDA, MENC, OAKE, and AGO confer- ORCHESTRAL AND CHORAL ences across America. Rise Up, Emma Laza- CONDUCTING PROGRAM rus was the winner of the New York Treble In this session the clinicians will show how Singers 2004 competition. Esta Tarde, mi bien to integrate the Bel Canto Solfeggio concept CO-DIRECTORS [This Evening, My Love] was the winner of throughout the choral rehearsal, developing the Cambridge Madrigal Singers Competi- tone, intonation, rhythm, and meter elements Harold Farberman Founder and artistic tion in 2004. while singing freely and expressively. Learn director, Conductors Institute how to transition from singing bel canto warm-ups and fundamental handsign/solfeg- James Bagwell Music director, Collegiate Chorale gio skills to sight-reading and learning new Igniting Imagination literature. You don’t have to sacriﬁ ce the art Leon Botstein to gain the science of singing beautifully and Artistic director and conductor, in Rehearsal American Symphony Orchestra independently. and Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra

The imagination is one of our most pow- John Armstrong will be a clinician for this Visit www.bard.edu/conservatory/gcp erful tools in making music. It is the ﬁ re that session. He will also be a part of Immer- 845-758-7196 propels us beyond the notes to meaningful, sion day. His photo and bio can be found [email protected] expressive singing. It can also be the key to on page 9. actually accomplishing the notes in a free, effective,and satisfying way. This session will Kristin Zaryski will be a clinician for this ses- present speciﬁ c rehearsal techniques that sion. She will also a part of Immersion day. engage the imagination through imagery and Her photo and bio can be found on page 9. movement. Strategies will address issues of rhythm and meter, phrase shaping, energy, and expression. Introduction to Bel Canto Patricia Cahalan Con- Solfeggio nors is the director of choral activities and chair of the depart- More than music literacy, this is an ment of music and overview of a three-step sequence (in the theater at St. Cath- air, on the board, from the page) that helps erine University in St. singers to visualize, feel, and hear beautiful Paul, MN. She con- tone while singing together in an ensemble ducts the Women's Choir, the St. Catherine setting. The clinicians will show non-verbal Choral Society, the Madrigal Singers, and ways to obtain bel canto tone and accurate

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intonation with singers of all ages as they move within the pulse. ences, defi nitely beyond the notes—perhaps because of the Does the singer serve the choir and does the choir serve the notes. The participants will also receive additional concrete singer? Why settle for half a singer? strategies to use in their next classes as they continue to strive for meaningful music-making back home. John Armstrong will be a clinician for this session. He will also be a part of Immersion day. His photo and bio can be found Roger Henderson holds a BA from Luther on page 9. College in Decorah, Iowa, and a masters in vocal performance and pedagogy from Kristin Zaryski will be a clinician for this session. She will also the University of Iowa. Henderson is past be a part of Immersion day. Her photo and bio can be found president of the Iowa Choral Directors on page 9. Association and has been a presenter at the ICDA Summer Symposium and the Iowa Music Educator's Association annual conference. He is a founding member of the Iowa Comprehen- Imagine What Lies Beneath: sive Musicianship Project team and has led various sessions for Mining for Jewels in the Choral Ensemble the project’s summer music institute for music teachers. He served as a regional teacher/team leader for the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, developing teacher This session will discuss methods used to help students dig erest Sessions erest assessments for national board certifi cation in music education, beneath the surface of the notes and rhythms as they search and continues to train assessors reviewing candidate submis- for aesthetic jewels initially unseen. Methods of encouraging sions for National Board Certifi cation in music. Henderson imagination in the rehearsal will be introduced and the imagina- recently received a Yale Distinguished Music Educator Award tion/technique cycle will be discussed. for outstanding service to music education in public schools, presented at Yale in June 2011. Brad Holmes conducts the University Choir and is the director of choir programs at Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois. Holmes has overseen the growth The Music of Stephen Paulus of Millikin's choral program to fi ve traditional choirs and a variety of smaller Composer Stephen Paulus, whose oratorio To Be Certain of vocal ensembles involving more than 300 the Dawn will be performed during the conference, will lead singers and seven choral/ensemble staff. a reading session of his music and discuss his compositional Under his direction, The Millikin University Choir has sung process, the way he marries text to music, and how he thinks for three regional conferences and two national conferences about musical structure in writing choral music. of ACDA: Miami (2007) and Chicago (2011). The Choir’s touring history includes performances in Scandinavia, Russia, Stephen Paulus will be the clinician for this session. His photo Haiti, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, England, China, and and bio can be found on page 12. Taiwan. In May 2011, they performed in Ireland and Scotland. Holmes' guest-conducting schedule has included all-state choirs, ACDA honor choirs, district festivals, and church music clinics throughout the United States. Internationally, he has re- New Choral Frontiers: ceived guest invitations in the Far East conducting choirs from Japan, Korea, China, and the Philippines. This year he returns Cuba, ACDA, and the to England to conduct the Royal Free Singers of Windsor in a International Conductor program of American music. Exchange Program

ACDA’s International Conductors Exchange Program repre- Making Music Meaningful sents an opportunity for a new generation of choral specialists to afﬁ rm that choral music-making transcends national borders, ideologies, religions, and all those demarcations that too often Participants in this session will be guided through musical divide us. This session, featuring an ICEP participant from Cuba, 2012 Division Conferences - Int Conferences Division 2012 excerpts with speciﬁ c outcomes and strategies that have the provides participants a rare opportunity to look inside the potential of intentionally creating meaningful singing experi- choral culture of Cuba.

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Process in Practice: Teaching Historical and Cultural House, and throughout Europe, Asia, and Honor Choir Observations Context through Choral Music Africa. They have been Because Beyond the Notes is all about commissioned by the Much of the world’s music ﬁ nds its the process of music-making, each honor Crescent City Choral power through relationships with events, choir will also have a designated open re- Festival in New Or- cultures, and the great stories of civilization. hearsal during the interest sessions for con- leans, the Children in This session will focus on ways to identify vention participants to observe the process Harmony Festival at with and remember those things we should of music-making from the very beginning as Walt Disney World, the Sing A Mile High never forget. they learn and rehearse a choral piece they Choral Festival in Denver and the ACDA receive when they arrive at the conference. Southern Division. In one way or another, Paul Caldwell and Sean their music has been featured at every Ivory have had their national conference of ACDA for over a music telecast on PBS decade. In the past four years, the National Process to Product: and A&E and per- Endowment for the Arts has funded three formed at Carnegie different commissioning projects allowing Demystifying Score Study Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, them to create new works for American and Energizing Your Rehearsals the Sydney Opera choruses.

Using several works from standard high school repertoire, this session demonstrates ways to bring score study a practical way of determining rehearsal goals and strategies. Learner outcomes include an increased understanding of how score study relates Non-music majors... to interpretive decisions, reduced anxiety about what score study entails, and increased confi dence in one’s ability to wed analytical Sing for Your Scholarship! skills with creative imagination. with the Hawai‘i Pacifi c University David Rayl is director International Vocal Ensemble of choral programs at Michigan State Univer- sity, where he directs Scholarship awards are available for accomplished singers who desire to major in one of the graduate program more than 50 undergraduate or 14 graduate programs at HPU. in choral conducting. Prior to joining MSU in 2002, he held the same position at the University of Missouri- Columbia for 12 years. Choirs under his direction have performed for the ACDA national convention (1995 and 2007), the national meeting of the College Music Society (2002), Florilège Vocale in Tours, France, (1998), Maggio Mu- sicale in Florence, Italy, (2000) and with the Detroit Symphony. Rayl has also taught at Marymount Col- For more information, contact: Dr. Esther S. Yoo, Director of Choral Music lege in Salina, Kansas, and St. Ambrose Uni- 808-544-1127 or [email protected] versity in Davenport, Iowa. Rayl received his www.hpu.edu/choral BM in voice from Illinois Wesleyan University; MM from the University of Oklahoma; and DMA in choral conducting from the Uni- Hawai‘i Pacifi c University versity of Iowa.

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Caldwell is the artistartistic director of the Youth Choral Theater Patricia Trump has taught elementary ofof Chicago. He is a member of the Board of Directors of vocal music and directed school choruses ChorusCChh America, and he and his chorus were awarded the for 35 years, most recently at Monroe ChorusCChh America/ASCAP prize for Adventurous Programming Elementary in Des Moines. She received inin 2006. Ivory is the conductor of the Grand Rapids Youth her BME and MME from Drake University, SymphonySSyym Chorus, and a choral director at Forest Hills Central and completed her Level III Orff certiﬁ ca- HighHig School. tion at Hamline University in St. Paul, MN. Trump is a member of the Iowa Com- prehensive Musicianship Project team which provides professional development for music teachers throughout Iowa. She When Music Meets Theology is an active member of the Des Moines Choral Society, serves on the board of Heartland Youth Choirs, and sits on the Music In this session, a panel will consider: What considerations Advisory Committee of Grand View University. shouldsshho be involved in the performance of the music of a reli- giousgio tradition unfamiliar to the director or to the ensemble? InIn whatw kinds of situations should an interfaith worship service bebe developed, and who should be invited? What creative, in- The Wonder Years spirational,ssppi and unifying non-worship experiences can achieve erest Sessions erest similarssiim goals as a worship service? This session is geared to- Come witness this “informance,” featuring singers from the wardswwaa helping participants develop interfaith experiences which Madison Youth Choir’s Holst Boychoir, that will focus on music buildbbuui harmony, going beyond the notes and into the hearts of selection, voice change, encouraging boys to keep singing, and thosetthho who are served. strategies for a comprehensive rehearsal.

Kyle Lechtenberg lives in Des Moines, Randal Swiggum will be a clinician for this session. His bio and Iowa, where he has served as director photo can be found on page 14. of the ofﬁ ce for worship for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Des Moines since Margaret Jenks is a graduate of the Law- 2009. rence University Conservatory of Music, Educated and experienced as a vocal with degrees in music education and vocal music teacher, parish music and liturgy di- performance. Her teaching and perform- rector, and college campus minister, Kyle ing career has taken her from Freiburg, nnowow brings his musical experience to his service in educating Germany, to Eagan, Minnesota, and to mmusicu ministers in rural and urban settings, working with the Waukesha, Wisconsin, where she taught ddesignes and renovation of worship spaces, and collaborating on at Butler Middle School and later at North tththehe planning of large-scale liturgical celebrations. His passion High School. Presently, she designs and teaches the introductory ffoforor interfaith dialogue is rooted in his family’s diverse religious choir programs of the Madison Youth Choirs. eexpressionsxp and has been realized through the coordination of While at Butler, Margaret created the Bridge Ensemble, an sseseveralev interfaith and ecumenical prayer services and dialogues. innovative choir which gained attention for its unique approach Lechtenberg received his BME from the University of of pairing gifted and talented students with cognitively disabled NNortherno Iowa and a Master of Theological Studies with a students. The Bridge Ensemble appeared by invitation at the cconcentrationon in liturgical studies from the University of Notre January 2001 Wisconsin Choral Directors state convention. DDaDame.a In 2010, Margaret co-conducted the ﬁ rst ACDA Central Division Young Men's Honor Choir in Cincinnati with colleague Randal Swiggum. They were invited to conduct the APAC Choral Festival in Seoul, Korea in 2009, and work with music Why Are You Here? teachers from across southeast Asia. Margaret serves as the Planning for What Really Matters WCDA Repertoire & Standards Chairperson for Boychoirs and is a member of the Wisconsin CMP Team. This session will explore why you should consider the af- fectiveffeec needs of your singers and reveal concrete ways you can 2012 Division Conferences - Int Conferences Division 2012 planppla for experiences that will transform your teaching and the liveslivvee of those you teach.

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Because Beyond the Notes is all about the process of music- making, open rehearsals of the four honor choirs will provide a THE unique inside view of the process of music-making as conduc- CHORAL JOURNAL INDEX ors tors/teachers engage singers’ imaginations, developing artistry in ways that connect mind, body, and spirit. While honor choir IS NOW AVAILABLE singers have prepared most selections before their arrival in Madison, each honor choir will also learn one piece entirely ONLINE from scratch, providing an organic perspective of the process of learning a piece from start to ﬁ nish. Additionally, Paul Caldwell THOUSANDS OF ARTICLES and Sean Ivory will take this process orientation a step further as they guide middle level women in creating and performing HAVE BEEN CATALOGUED, their own composition. ANNOTATED, AND CROSS-REFERENCED Children’s

Angela Broeker will be the conductor of the Children's Honor Choir. Her photo and bio are on page 23.

Middle Level Boys

Margaret Jenks will be a conductor of the Middle Level Boys Honor Choir. Her photo and bio are on the previous page.

Randal Swiggum will be a conductor of the Middle Level Boys Honor Choir. His bio and photo can be found on page 14.

Middle Level Girls

Paul Caldwell and Sean Ivory will be the conductors of the Middle Level Girls Honor Choir. Their photos and bios can be FFREEREE found on page 27. TTOO ACDAACDA MMEMBEEMBERRSS

High School SATB FFINDIND IITT AATT WWWW.ACDA.ORGWW.ACDA.ORG Brad Holmes will be the conductor of the High School SATB UUNDERNDER TTHEHE Honor Choir. His photo and bio are on page 26. ““PUBLICATIONS”PUBLICATIONS” TTABAB 2012 Division Conferences - Honor Choir Conduct Choir - Honor Conferences Division 2012

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Saturday, January 21 Trinity Lutheran Church Nordic Choir Blue Earth, Minnesota Sunday, January 22 Allen Hightower, conductor Zion Lutheran Church Iowa City, Iowa Friday, January 27 First Christian Church Des Moines, Iowa Saturday, January 28 First Plymouth Congregational Church Lincoln, Nebraska Sunday, January 29 First Congregational Church Greeley, Colorado Monday, January 30 Augustana Lutheran Church Denver, Colorado Tuesday, January 31 Bethany Lutheran Church of Denver Cherry Hills Village, Colorado Thursday, February 2 Grace Cathedral Topeka, Kansas Friday, February 3 St. Andrew’s Methodist Church Omaha, Nebraska Saturday, February 4 Basilica of Saint Mary Minneapolis, Minnesota Tuesday, February 7 Center for Faith and Life Luther College Decorah, Iowa

For times, tickets, and more information, visit http://music.luther.edu. 2012 Winter Tour February 15 - 18, 2012

Eastern Division Providence, Rhode Island

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15TH Providence College I Cantori Creating a Choral Community Welcome Concert I Cantori, the elite choral ensemble at Rhode Island Children's Chorus s Providence Chamber Chorus College (PC), represents The Rhode some of the Island Chil- ﬁ nest singers dren's Chorus from New was founded England. Specializing in choral music that spans all eras, the in 2003 by group is comprised solely of undergraduate students from the Christine Department of Music and other academic programs within the Noel and its College. I Cantori performs throughout the academic year on Executive Di- the PC campus and at major venues throughout New England rector, Joyce and has toured extensively in the United States and in Europe. Wolfe. The Chorus currently serves 170 singers in four choir This past summer, they sang High Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica. levels, offering comprehensive training in music theory, sight- singing, and vocal technique. The Chorus has collaborated with T. J. Harper is the director of choral activi- the Rhode Island Philharmonic, the Providence Singers, and with ties and supervises the secondary music the choruses of Boston University and Rhode Island College. education curriculum at Providence Recent performances include Orff’s Carmina Burana, Mahler’s, College in Providence, Rhode Island. He Symphony No. 3, and John Adams’s On the Transmigration of Souls. conducts the college’s three choral en- The Chorus is featured on Bill Harley's album, I Wanna Play, sembles: I Cantori, Concert Chorale, and nominated for a 2007 Grammy Award. the Women’s Chorus. He also teaches courses in conducting, secondary choral Christine Noel is founding artistic di- methods, and applied voice. Harper rector of the Rhode Island Children’s received a DMA from the University of Southern California Chorus and director of choral activities (USC), where he graduated with honors. At the USC Thornton at Clark University. She recently received School of Music, he taught courses in undergraduate and gradu- a DMA in conducting from Boston Uni- ate choral conducting and conducted the USC Thornton Apollo versity. Noel serves as the executive Choir. He received an MA in choral conducting from California secretary for ACDA in Rhode Island State University-Northridge and a BA in vocal performance and is active as festival clinician and and choral conducting from California State University-Fresno. adjudicator. She conducted the Rhode Island Children’s Chorus at the 2010 ACDA Eastern Division Conference in Philadelphia and at the 2009 MENC Convention in Providence. Noel studied at the Istituto Italiano in Florence, Providence Singers Italy and completed Italian studies at the University of Florence. She is a graduate of the Kodály Institute of Music in Kecskemét, The Provi- Hungary. Noel is the artistic director of the Carillon Women’s dence Singers Chorus (RI) and associate conductor of the Providence Singers, is a 100-voice which she has prepared for performances of Messiah, Carmina symphonic Burana and Mahler Symphony No. 3. chorus, conducted by Betsy Bur- leigh. The cho-

2012 Division Conferences - Evening Concert - Evening Conferences Division 2012 rus presents an annual concert series, and performs regularly with the Rhode Island Philharmonic. Recent collaborators include the Dave Brubeck Quartet, Kronos Quartet at the FirstWorks Festival,

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BostonB Modern Orchestra Project, the New Haven Symphony, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16TH NNewport Baroque Orchestra, Aurea Ensemble, and others. The PProvidence Singers commissions new choral works with sup- Giuseppe Verdi’s Requiem pport of its Wachner Fund for New Music, supports emerging ttatalent through the Junior Providence Singers program for high Soloists: sscschool students, and has produced an educational DVD to sup- Michelle Johnson, soprano, s pport choral programs in our schools. The chorus’s acclaimed rrerecordings of Lukas Foss’ The Prairie and Dominick Argento’s Jana Baty, mezzo-soprano, JJoJonah and the Whale are available on the BMOP/sound label, Richard Clement, tenor, wwherever CDs are sold. Anton Belov, bass Betsy Burleigh became artistic director of the Providence Singers as of Boston University July 2011. She is also music director of the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh, Symphony Orchestra where she prepares the choir for its performances with the Pittsburgh Sym- Boston University phony Orchestra, and music director of Symphonic Chorus Chorus pro Musica in Boston. Burleigh is an active guest conductor in choral, The Boston oorchestral, and musical theater repertoire, and sustains a strong University Sym- aacademic interest in choral education. Among many career high- phonic Chorus llilights,g she conducted the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus on an is an auditioned EEmmy award-winning beneﬁ t concert for the 9/11 Red Cross ensemble open DDisaster Relief Fund. A graduate of Indiana University (BME to university wwith distinction, vocal concentration), Burleigh earned graduate students, faculty, ddegrees in choral conducting at the New England Conservatory staff, and friends. oof Music (MMus with distinction) and Indiana University (DM). The chorus pro- SShe was most recently professor of music at Cleveland State gram is guided by the principle of deeply involving students and UUniversity, and served as interim conductor of the Cleveland members of the university community in the study and perfor- SState Orchestra before moving to Boston in 2010. mance of major choral- orchestral works. Most concerts take place in Symphony Hall in Boston. Recent works performed have included Britten’s War Requiem, Argento’s Cenotaph, Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 13 (Babi Yar), Mozart’s Mass in C Minor, Haydn’s Die Schoepfung and Mendelssohn’s Elijah. The chorus and the Boston University Symphony Orchestra, conductor David Hoose, collaborate on a biannual basis.

Ann Howard Jones is professor of music and director of choral activities at Boston University (1993). She conducts the Symphonic Chorus and Chamber Chorus, teaches graduate conducting, and administers the choral program. A clinician, master teacher, speaker and conductor, Jones maintains an active schedule away from Boston University. www.choralnet.org She received the Robert Shaw Award for distinguished professional accomplishment from ACDA in 2010. From Boston

2012 Division Conferences - Evening Concert - Evening Conferences Division 2012 RESOURCES AND COMMUNICATIONS University, she has received the Metcalf Award for Teaching FOR THE GLOBAL CHORAL COMMUNITY Excellence. She was awarded a Fulbright Professorship to Brazil and was an invited speaker for the Lily Foundation. For many

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years she was the assistant conductor to in 2005, a new opera for vocal ensemble and I Fagiolini has recorded 18 CDs and two Robert Shaw with the Atlanta Symphony speaker by Ed Hughes. In 2006, I Fagiolini DVDs and given live performances around Choruses and the Robert Shaw institute. toured its1990s South African collaboration the world, from BBC Proms and the Lincoln Simunye and in 2009 launched Tallis in Won- Center Festival to the Far East and Africa. derland, a new way of hearing polyphony utilising both live and recorded vocals and Robert Hollingworth FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17TH lighting. In 2011, the ensemble premiered a is the director of new commission from Orlando Gough The I Fagiolini, a British Spell, and a new semi-staged collaboration solo-voice ensemble Insalata I Fagiolini with the English Concert Baroque Orchestra specializing in Renais- for Purcell’s King Arthur. sance and contem- This ensemble has produced an a cap- The group celebrated its 25th anniver- porary music. It is pella salad of music from the High Renais- sary in 2011 with a European tour, and the only early music sance with the twentieth century works they the hugely successful release on Decca of ensemble ever to be inspired. In the ﬁ rst half, Monteverdi’s most a lavish world première recording of Strig- awarded the Royal Philharmonic Society’s powerful miniatures for the virtuoso court gio’s 40-part mass (lost until recently). The Ensemble Prize. Hollingworth also writes at Mantua, followed by Poulenc’s sensual recording stayed at the top of the specialist and presents programs for BBC Radio 3. Sept Chansons which he wrote after work- classical chart for nearly four months and His style is informative but relaxed and ing on music of the Italian master. An actual the live version will tour European festivals has become a feature of I Fagiolini’s work. “ensalada,” a staged and Monty Pythonesque in 2012. A similar ambitious recording will Directing I Fagiolini has taken up most of drama from the court of Valencia leads to be released on Decca in 2012 and per- his time since founding the group in 1986, Berio’s take on sixteenth-century street formances for BBC Radio 3, Wigmore Hall but he has also directed other ensembles at cries written for The Kings Singers and some and the Perth Festival, Australia. In Perth, I home and abroad. lighter works to close. Fagiolini will collaborate with Australian cir- cus company Circa, bringing the production to the UK as part of the cultural olympiad. I Fagiolini

Graduate Degrees photo by Eric Richmond In choral conducting I Fagiolini is renowned for its innovative Master of Music staged productions of Renaissance and Doctor of Musical Arts Master of Music in Sacred Music Baroque music theatre works. Recognition for this came in 2005 with the award of the Ensemble Prize from the Royal Philharmonic Society. It has staged Handel with masks, news from UK Choirs Richard Burchard named 2012 Composer-in-Residence Purcell with puppets, madrigal comedies Summer Choral Workshop scheduled for June 10–12, 2012 with more masks and in 2004, premiered The Full Monteverdi, a dramatised account of the composer’s Fourth Book of Madrigals (1603) For more information, contact: by John La Bouchardière, which has since Jeff Johnson, Director of Choral Activities been turned into a highly successful ﬁ lm, 859.257.5897 • Email: [email protected] shown all over the world. The Birds followed www.uky.edu/FineArts/Music

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Eastern Division Providence, Rhode Island David Griggs Janower, Albany Pro AccordAccor Treble Choir Musica’s founding conductor, is director of choral music and professor at the Accord Treble University at Albany, SUNY, where he Choir, found- has taught since 1981. ed in NYC in 2009, was formed by friends and veteran cho- Central Bucks High School-West ral singers Chamber Choir from diverse backgrounds The Central aandnd professions. Their repertoire ranges from medieval chant Bucks High ttoo the vast array of twentieth and twenty-ﬁ rst century works School-West ffoforor upper voice unaccompanied ensembles. Accord seeks to Chamber sshshareha works from Eastern European composers that are often Choir is from oovoverlookedv by or unfamiliar to American choirs. The ensemble Doylestown, sststrivestr to be non-hierarchical, working collaboratively to inter- Pennsylvania. pprpretre pieces in the spirit of consensus. West Choirs have performed at ACDA conventions in 1996 in Philadelphia, 1997 Liz Geisewite is a founding member in San Diego, 1998 in Providence, and 2008 in Hartford. The and the conductor of Accord Treble Chamber Choir has performed at the White House, Pentagon, Choir. She has been active as a cho- Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, Toronto Center for the Arts, rister and soloist in NYC, perform- Ryman Auditorium, Severance Hall, Chicago Symphony Hall, ing with a variety of small and large Boston Symphony Hall, Jordan Hall, and major cathedrals and ensembles, since 2005. She splits her venues across North America. West choirs annually collaborate time between Accord and her position with the greatest composers and conductors of our time. The as director of education for a GED 2012 resident and tour composer is Morten Lauridsen. preparation program in Brooklyn.

Joseph Orht is director of choral activities at Central Bucks High School- Albany Pro Musica West, where he has commissioned and premiered four hundred works from Albany Pro Musi- composers from around the globe. His ca’s 30-year history choirs have sung at ACDA state, divi- is distinguished by sion, and national conventions, and IMC tremendous artistic and MENC conventions. He has led growth, expand- performances for many heads of state ing audiences and including: Bill and Hillary Clinton, Vaclav Havel, Nelson Mandela, increasing national and Shimon Perez. He has served on the ACDA-Pennsylvania recognition for Board of Directors for many years. choral excellence. It is the premier choral group in thetthhe capital region, with approximately 65 singers in its core groupgro and 130 singers in its expanded AP Masterworks cho- FFollowollow uuss oonn FFacebookacebook aandnd TTwitterwitter rus.rruus The group is known for its large-scale choral/orchestral workswwoo and its exceptional mastery of more intimate unac- AmericanAmerican ChoralChoral companiedccoo works. They have appeared at 4 divisional and two DDirectorsirectors AAssociationssociation nationalnat ACDA conferences. 2012 Division Conferences - Performing Choirs - Performing Conferences Division 2012 TTimothySharimothySharp

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Essex Children's Choir Greece Arcadia High School Edward Bolkovac is the chair of the cho- Select Women's Choir ral program at The Hartt School and the director of the vocal studies division. Before coming to Hartt he was senior lecturer in music at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. He became known throughout Australia for his performances of Baroque oratorios and The Essex Children’s Choir, celebrating The Greece Arcadia High School Select artistic leadership of the Brisbane Early Mu- its 25th anniversary, enriches the lives of Women’s Choir is an extra-curricular vocal sic Festival. He is currently in his 7th season children throughout Vermont through ensemble that focuses mainly on the works as the artistic director of the New Haven choral artistry, educational programs and of living composers. The have received nu- Chorale. community service. Performance highlights merous gold medals and fi rst place rankings include ACDA, MENC, OAKE, Garrison Keil- at national music festivals. The choir’s biggest lor Radio, Vermont Public Radio, Brundibar, honors have been performing at regional recorded on Arabesque label with Robert and national ACDA, MENC, and New York Henry James Memorial School DeCormier, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater with state conferences. Select Singers the Craftsbury Chamber Players, and the inauguration ceremonies of Governor James Kristy Kosko is in her Douglas. 14th year at Greece Arcadia High School Constance J. Price in Rochester, NY. As is the founding di- director of Vocal Mu- rector of the Essex sic, Kosko directs up Children’s Choir and to fi ve choirs yearly, The Henry James Memorial School has dedicated her life four levels of voice Select Chorus is an auditioned seventh and to the education of class, drama club, and eighth grade mixed choir. The purpose of children at the highest musical theater productions. She is a clini- the group is to provide students with a high musical level. She has cian for women’s choir literature and guest level choral experience while helping them lectured at numerous conductor of treble choirs in New York develop confi dence, improve cooperation, colleges in the United States and Canada, State. and increase responsibility. They perform is on the staff at the Kodály Institute, New several concerts per year for the school and England Conservatory and a Fellow in the community and recently performed at the Vermont Academy of Arts and Sciences. 2010 CT ACDA Fall Conference. Hartt Chamber Choir Colleen Emerick Thompson teaches vocal music at Hen- ry James Memorial School in Simsbury, CT, where she directs a program comprised of 350 seventh and eighth grade choristers. A public school educator for 10 years, she has taught middle school vocal music in Ohio, Georgia, and Connecticut. The Hartt Chamber Choir is an advanced SATB choir of 24 singers that performs independently or with the Hartt Chorale.

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Holton-Arms Jana Ballard has been on the music faculty at LaGuardia High School of Music Lower School Chorus and Art and Performing Arts since 2007, The Holton- where she conducts both the Senior Arms School, Chorus and Advanced Women’s Choir, located in and prepares the opera workshop Bethesda, Mary- chorus. She is also the conductor of the land, is an inde- New York City Labor Chorus. pendent college preparatory school for girls Mansfield University in third through twelfth grades. Founded in 1901, the school has from its inception dedicated itself to excellence in the arts Concert Choir and in academics. The Lower School Chorus, which meets once per week during the school day, consists of all students The Mans- in ﬁ fth and sixth grades. Holton-Arms Lower School choruses field Univer- have performed for national, regional, and state music confer- sity Concert ences, and at the White House, the Kennedy Center, and the Choir is a se- National Cathedral. lect ensemble of singers, rep- Ann Vaughn has been teaching music resenting some at The Holton-Arms School since of the finest 1992. She serves as chair of the music talent from the department, directs the Lower School American Northeast. The group has achieved an impressive choruses, and teaches lower and middle reputation of excellence, having been chosen each of the last school general music. She is past presi- 19 years to perform at MENC, ACDA, or NCCO conventions dent of the Maryland Music Educators across the country and for international festivals around the Association. world.

Peggy Dettwiler is professor of music and director of choral activities at Mans- Laguardia High School of ﬁ eld University, where she conducts the Concert Choir, Festival Chorus, and Man- Music and Art and Performing Arts sﬁ eldians, and teaches choral conducting Senior Chorus and methods.

Senior Chorus is an advanced level mixed Montclair State choir for junior and senior mu- University Singers sic majors at LaGuardia High The Montclair School of Music State Univer- and Art and Performing Arts in New York, NY. Senior Chorus sity Singers is members are accepted into the choir based on musicianship, a 55-member sight-reading, and teacher recommendations. Recently, they mixed-voice performed the world premiere of A Still Small Voice, written by ensemble com- Grammy nominated composer and Latin jazz musician, Arturo prising under- O’Farrill, at NYC’s Symphony Space in conjunction with the graduate and Wall to Wall Sonidos series. graduate stu- 2012 Division Conferences - Performing Choirs - Performing Conferences Division 2012 dents who are experienced singers and musicians. Students

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from all schools/colleges in the university conducts the 160-voice Chorale, 55-voice in good academic standing are welcome to University Singers, and 24-voice Vocal Ac- audition. The University Singers performs cord. A licensed Andover Educator since a wide variety of sacred and secular rep- 2002, Buchanan specializes in the teaching ertoire, encompassing choral genres from of body mapping and somatic pedagogy the Renaissance to the twenty-ﬁ rst century for musicians. and with a special emphasis on music by contemporary and new composers. Class. They have performed with the New Heather J. Buchanan, New Jersey Youth Chorus Jersey Symphony Orchestra and Canadian an Australian born Advanced Chorus Brass at NJPAC in Newark, with Marvin conductor, is as- Hamlisch and Bill Conti at the State Theater The New Jersey Youth Chorus, celebrating sociate professor of in New Brunswick, for the 2008 ACDA Di- its twentieth anniversary season this year, is music and director vision Conference in Hartford, Connecticut, an auditioned choral program for children of choral activities at and at the Chorus America’s 2009 National in second through twelfth grades, divided Montclair State Uni- Conference. into four ensembles: Advanced, Young Men’s versity, where she Ensemble, Intermediate, and a Musicianship

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Patricia Joyce Trish is the founder and jazz and pop music in four-part harmony with a style that is artistic director of the New Jersey Youth timeless and up-to-the-minute. Chorus, and directs its Advanced Treble Syncopation has performed with the Boston Pops on their Choir. She has conducted the Central 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular in 2009. The group often New Jersey Junior High Honors Choir, performs with instrumental accompaniment of piano, bass, the North Jersey Junior High Women’s and drums, but they are equally renowned for their unac- Honors Choir, and the Vermont Chil- companied singing, which earned them 1st place at the 2008 dren’s Choir Festival. Trish is ACDA Boston Harmony Sweepstakes. All About Jazz calls Syncopation President for the state of New Jersey. “a thoroughly modern, bright, and fresh take on ensemble jazz vocals that effectively updates the entire genre.”

Queens College Choir University of Maryland The Queens College Choir Chamber Singers is the Aaron Copland Chosen by audi- School of Mu- tion, the Univer- sic’s principal sity of Maryland undergraduate Chamber Sing- choral ensem- ers specializes in ble. Comprised repertoire from primarily of music majors, the group engages in a wide variety of the Renaissance, performances throughout the academic year, includ- Baroque, and ing concerts of unaccompanied choral music, opera Contemporary productions, and major works with orchestra. The periods. The Queens College Choir performs regularly in Manhattan Chamber Singers have appeared at many ACDA and NCCO and has appeared in many of the city’s prestigious venues. conventions and served as Resident Choir for conducting master classes at the Philadelphia Bach Institute in 2010 and in 2011. James John is associate professor and director of choral activities at the Edward Maclary is the director of choral Aaron Copland School of Music at activities and professor of music at the Queens College-CUNY, and artistic University of Maryland. He leads the director of the Manhattan-based vocal graduate studies program in conducting ensemble, Cerddorion. John received and oversees the School’s six full-time ACDA’s Julius Herford Award for his choral ensembles. Choral ensembles dissertation on Brahms. He serves on under his direction have won numerous ACDA’s National Research and Publi- prizes in international competition. cations Committee and was recently appointed editor of the American Choral Review. West Chester University of Pennsylvania Syncopation Chamber Choir Vocal Jazz

The Boston The West Globe calls Chester Uni- Syncopation versity Cham- the “Manhat- ber Choir, tan Transfer of established ﬁ ve the twenty-ﬁ rst years ago, is a 2012 Division Conferences - Performing Choirs - Performing Conferences Division 2012 century.” Synco- small ensemble pation performs that performs

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vocal jazz, often one on a part. The highly Jeffrey Douma is The Concorde Vocal Ensemble, 40 members select group of singers is chosen not only director of the Yale of the 120-voice York County Senior Honors for their musical skills, but also for their abil- Glee Club, founding choir, is a community choir comprised of ity to sing close harmony and to blend. The director of the Yale high school singers in tenth through twelfth ensemble provides most members with solo Choral Artists, and grades from nineteen different York County, opportunities and includes a jazz trio. associate professor PA school districts and home-schooled of conducting at the students. The members of Concorde are Jane Wyss is as- Yale School of Music, recommended by their school and church sistant chair (vocal where he teaches choral directors and their private voice area) of the applied graduate choral conducting. He has ap- teachers and are chosen by audition. The music department peared as guest conductor with choruses choirs have a mission of celebrating the at West Chester and orchestras on six continents, and is county’s rich diversity through the voices University in West currently musical director of the Yale Alumni of youth. Chester, PA where Chorus and choirmaster at the Cathedral of she also conducts St. Joseph, Hartford. Randy Yoder is the the Mastersingers, musical director and Women’s Chorus, and Chamber Choir Vocal conductor of The Jazz. She also teaches classes in conducting, York County Senior diction, Baroque vocal style, and private York County Honors Choir and voice. Senior Honor Choir the Concorde Vocal Concorde Vocal Ensemble Ensemble. Randy is the director of music at Eastminster Pres- Yale University byterian Church in York, PA, the choral direc- Glee Club tor for The Sound of America Honor Chorus European concert tour, guest conductor for choral festivals, accompanist for numerous vocal recitals, and is the Pennsylvania ACDA R&S Chair for Community Choirs.

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BestBt Kept Secrets: exclusively associated with his famous unaccompanied setting of Psalm 150. While Salmo 150 remains among the most fre- Commission Gems from GALA Choruses quently performed Brazilian compositions in the United States, American conductors still have limited understanding of Aguiar’s This repertoire session and clinic will brieﬂ y describe the extensive output and fundamental musical language. how-tohhoo steps for commissioning new music and the beneﬁ ts In order to foster an awareness of Ernani Aguiar’s con- choirsch can experience in working with a living, breathing com- tributions to choral music, this session will explore Aguiar’s poserppoo to bring new music to life! The majority of the workshop unknown unaccompanied choral works with an emphasis on willw be conducted as a repertoire session introducing workshop their overall stylistic features. It will also provide an overview participantsppaa to new commissions that are available for perfor- of his life achievements and a critical analysis of his Salmo 150, mancem but have not yet been published or recently published. highlighting the elements that may have sparked its international HandoutsH will include tips for commissioning, sample composer interest. Ultimately, this session will introduce new pieces to the contracts,co a repertoire list of each commission presented and American choral repertoire and discuss general performance contactco information to request music from any of the compos- practice considerations for programming Aguiar’s music. erseerr represented in the session. Mariana Farah, born in Brazil, worked for John Quillin is the managing artistic the Universidade de São Paulo as the director of the Gay Men’s Chorus of conductor of Grupo Lauda and Canto Charlotte, and former artistic director do Campus. In the United States, she

erest Sessions erest of One Voice, the Gay, Lesbian, and Gay- was the conductor and founder of the Afﬁ rmative Chorus of Charlotte. He Conservatory Women’s Chorus, Bella has been active in the gay/lesbian choral Voce. In 2008, she became the director movement since 1989, twice serving of choral activities at Indiana University on the Gay and Lesbian Association of Southeast (IUS). Mariana is a frequent Choruses (GALA) board of directors, clinician for choral festivals in Brazil and in the United States, aandn conducting GALA’s ﬁ rst Singers’ Weekend mixed chorus. where she is often sought out for her expertise in Brazilian OOver the past 22 years, Quillin has performed a large number choral music. In addition to her work at IUS, Farah also serves ooff commissioned original works and arrangements for SATB as the R&S Chair for Ethnic and Multicultural Perspectives for aandn TTBB chorus covering a wide array of genres. the Indiana Choral Directors Association.

Joseph J. Buches was appointed the artistic director of the Philadelphia Gay Men’s Chorus in September 2004 and Boy Singers: Matters That Matter has served as the director of choral This session will examine how to be successful in dealing music at The Episcopal Academy in with boys in choirs. Methods for keeping boys engaged and Newtown Square, PA since 1998. overcoming stereotypes will be discussed, as well as practical Buches also serves as music director suggestions for recruitment, retention, group management and at Lutheran Church of the Holy Com- repertoire selection. The psychology of boys and how athletics munion in Philadelphia. He has served can exist with the arts in a boy’s life will also be explored. Special asas adjunct vocal music faculty member at Penn State University, emphasis will be given to dealing with the male changing voice DelawareD County Campus. He currently serves on the GALA including exploration of ranges, use of head tone, coping with BoardBBoo of Directors and Events Committee. erratic shifts, identifying potential technique problems, and an

examination of solutions for continued healthy singing.

Beyond Salmo 150: The Unaccompanied Julian Ackerley is the National Boychoir Choral Music of Ernani Aguiar Repertoire & Standards Chair for ACDA. He is an experienced teacher, Brazilian composer Ernani Aguiar (b. 1950) has established having taught music at all levels from himselfhhi as one of the most inﬂ uential names on the contem- elementary to university students. He is poraryppoo Latin American musical scene. Although more of his recognized for his advocacy of male sing- 2012 Division Conferences - Int Conferences Division 2012 compositionsco begin to gain international visibility through recent ing at all levels, particularly of boy singers. performancesppee and publications, his name continues to be almost He has been the director of the Tucson

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Arizona Boys Chorus since 1980. Ackerley Choral Conductor and Organist: John Walker is minis- has achieved acclaim as a conductor and ter of music at Brown administrator of choral organizations. A Creative Partnership Memorial Park Av- enue Presbyterian This is a workshop celebrating the artistic Church in Baltimore Building Literacy and intersections of choir and organ, proposing and a member of performance solutions for selected cho- the organ faculty at Musicianship Skills into the ral repertoire with organ, and answering Peabody Conserva- Choral Rehearsal: Rhythm some questions frequently voiced both by tory of Music. His conductors and organists. Repertoire to be active performance schedule has taken him Participants will explore how we addressed: Handel’s Messiah, Mendelssohn’s throughout North America, Europe, and “learn’” music through hearing and imitat- Elijah, Fauré’s Requiem, Parry’s I Was Glad, Asia. A Fellow of the American Guild of ing patterns before reading and writing. and Phillips’ Antiphon. Organists, he is Vice President of AGO. The TAKADIMI rhythm-pedagogy system and techniques for developing rhythm reading readiness, literacy, audiation, musical memory, dictation, and elementary composition will be addressed.

Building Literacy and Musicianship Skills into the Choral Rehearsal: Tonal and Melodic

In this session the sound-to-symbol learning sequence explored in the rhythm session will be applied to tonal and melodic reading. A sequence of vocal pitch exercises will be presented in a graphic form as well as techniques for implementing tonal, rhythm and melodic reading to choral repertoire.

Carol Krueger will be a clinician for this session. Her photo and bio can be found on page 23.

Michael Driscoll teaches at Brook- line (MA) High School, where he directs three choirs, teaches AP music theory, class piano, and advises three student-run a cappella ensembles. He has been director of Boston Saengerfest Men’s Chorus since 2001.

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AAllenllen HHendersonenderson is Executive Director of ChoralChoChoralDl Directorsirector are from Mars and Voice NATS and professor of music at Geor- Teachers are from Venus: gia Southern University. He has served ‘Sing from your Diaphragm’ as chair of two music departments and directed choirs and opera productions and Other Vocal Mistructions at several universities.

How can middle and high school and college choral conduc- torsttoo interact with independent and academic voice teachers in theirth area to develop a successful team? Is the voice teacher/ choralcchh conductor conﬂ ict in higher education fantasy or fact? ExploringEExx answers to these questions, we will delve into com- Choral Singing in Marginalized Communities: monlym used mis-instructions and their implications. Documentation and Strategies Sharon Hansen is director of choral This workshop has a twofold purpose: to discuss how choirs activities at the University of Wiscon- can reach out to or be created in marginalized populations; and sin, Milwaukee. She authored Helmuth to help choral musicians develop ideas, strategies, knowledge, Rilling: Conductor–Teacher. Since 1996, and repertoire for socially-responsible outreach in prisons, Hansen has been a member of the shelters, hospitals, and the bedsides of the dying. Choral Journal Editorial Board, where erest Sessions erest she is editor of the “On the Voice” Jamie Hillman is a multi-faceted musician column. who is active as a singer, pianist, composer, and conductor. His work as a clinician includes several international engage- Brenda Smith is associate professor ments in Canada, Southeast Asia, and at of music at the University of Florida. the Hawaii International Conference on Respected for her expertise in voice Arts and Humanities. His co-editorial and choral pedagogy, Smith is the work includes numerous editions of author with Robert Sataloff of the Western, Arabic, Asian, and Latin Ameri- textbook, Choral Pedagogy. The book is can choral pieces with Earthsongs and Hinshaw Music. the only text exclusively devoted to the relationship between vocal pedagogy, André de Quadros, conductor, ethnomu- choral conducting, and voice science. sicologist, and human rights activist, has SShSheh is also the author of Cantare et Sonare: A Handbook of Choral conducted and undertaken research PPePerformancee Practice. in forty countries and is a professor

of music at Boston University. He has Scott McCoy is Past President of NATS developed artistically innovative and and professor of music at Ohio State socially responsive choral projects in University. He holds degrees in choral Southeast Asia and the Middle East. In conducting and voice performance 2010, he conducted an historic project and is author of the widely used voice with Palestinian and Israeli choral musicians in East Jerusalem. pedagogy text Your Voice: An inside View.

Commissioning: Engaging Your Patrons, Donald Simonson is President of NATS. He currently serves as chair of the voice Singers, and Board in New Music division at Iowa State University where he teaches voice, vocal literature and This panel/repertoire session is presented by ﬁ ve conduc- pedagogy, and directs musical theatre. tors with experience in church, youth, collegiate, community, and symphonic choirs. All panelists share a penchant for new music

2012 Division Conferences - Int Conferences Division 2012 and evolving the choral art. In this session, discussion will include the entire choral commissioning process from beginning to end and provide illustrated examples from professional, collegiate,

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engaging in critical listening skills of choral community, and children’s choirs. Philadelphia Singers, among others. singing, and explores the development of quality choral performance stemming from Miguel Felipe is choral Beth Willer is artistic rigorous and comprehensive rehearsals. director and lecturer director of Boston’s in music at Mt. Holy- Lorelei Ensemble, a Cindy L. Bell is as- oke College, artistic women’s ensemble sociate professor director of the Provi- dedicated to new of music at Hofstra dence Singers, and and early music. She University in Hemp- artistic director and is assistant conduc- stead, NY, where she co-founder of the tor of Harvard’s directs the 150-voice International Meeting Radcliffe Choral So- University Chorus, on Choral Music in Riberão Preto, Brazil. He ciety and faculty at NE Conservatory’s Pre- a non-auditioned has conducted numerous premieres and paratory School, the Boston Arts Academy, choir. As a specialist established the Boston Choral Ensemble and the Walnut Hill School. in choral music education, teacher training Commission Competition. and community choirs, Bell has presented numerous workshops and choral research. Thomas Cunningham

founded and leads the Body Architecture and Body Manhattan Choral En- Kinesthetic: Keys to semble (MCE). With Fashioning Compelling Stories: MCE, Cunningham Expressive Conducting started the New Mu- Engaging Singers through sic for New York com- This session will set about redeﬁ ning es- Text Narrative Exploration missioning project. sential conducting technique through Body Mapping and the use of Laban to arrive at By offering guided opportunities to Andrew Clark is direc- conducting gesture that supports musical explore text narrative, choral conductors tor of choral activities and vocal objectives in choral ensemble encourage singers to deepen their percep- and senior lecturer rehearsal and performance. tions and discover how texts are relevant on music at Harvard to their lives. Learn time-efﬁ cient methods University. He leads James Jordan’s ca- to enable singers to imagine and develop the Holden Choral reer and publica- stories inspired by texts, moving past initial Program of 500 sing- tions have been impressions to form personally meaningful ers and six faculty- devoted to inno- interpretations. directed choruses and vative educational serves as conductor of the Harvard Glee changes in the cho- Philip Silvey is as- Club, the Radcliffe Choral Society, and the ral art which have sistant professor of Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum. been embraced music education at around the world. the Eastman School Steven Sametz is the Jordan is professor and senior conductor at of Music, where he Ronald J. Ulrich pro- Westminster Choir College and conducts directs the Women’s fessor of music at The Westminster Schola Cantorum and Chorus and teaches Lehigh University and The Westminster Williamson Voices. In undergraduate and the artistic director 2009, he was named to the Panel for The graduate courses in of the professional National Endowment for the Arts. music education. He has served as guest chamber choir, The conductor, clinician, and adjudicator in Princeton Singers. At numerous states and directed all-state Lehigh, he directs the Developing Critical Listening choruses in Maryland and Virginia. He is a University Choir, Choral Union, and Men’s contributing author for the textbook series Glee Club in choral-orchestral repertoire Skills for Undergraduates Experiencing Choral Music and Teaching Music from medieval to modern eras. Sametz’s through Performance in Choir, Volumes II and III. publications include commissions from This clinic is for undergraduates prepar- His choral compositions and arrangements ACDA, the National Endowment for the ing for student teaching in a choral setting, have been performed by all-state and na- Arts, Chanticleer, the Dale Warland Singers, but is useful to teachers of choral methods tional honors choruses. The Los Angeles Master Chorale, and The courses. It introduces a fresh approach for

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Forming an Unaccompanied new work each year during his collegiate conducting career. Boyle is the Eastern Division R&S Chair for Youth & Student SATB Hospice Singing Group Activities. This is a participatory SATB singing workshop, with singers sitting in parts. The workshop will include a discussion about hospice singing and how to form your own hospice singing Full Disclosure … group. A handout will be provided with all the music and with A Real Life Demonstration more information and resources for forming a hospice chorus. of Choral Music Learning Peter Amidon and Mary Cay Brass are two of the leading fi gures in community At conferences, we hear the result of months of prep- choral singing in New England. They are aration—a polished performance. But wouldn’t you like to founders and co-directors of Hallowell, discover how they arrived, to see the process at its genesis? a hospice chorus that has inspired the Developmental level singers from the Boston Children’s founding of dozens of other hospice Chorus will sight-read music, and we’ll examine the rehearsal choruses. They have toured with North- strategies in play. ern Harmony and led week-long singing camps for children and adults with Michele Adams joined the Boston Chil- Village Harmony. Brass also leads two dren’s Chorus (BCC) in 2007 as the erest Sessions erest community choruses, both intergenera- organization’s assistant artistic director. tional choruses with 80–90 singers in She conducts three of BCC’s choirs each group. Amidon is the co-director of and directs the innovative education the Guilford (VT) Community Church program for urban singers. Prior to Choir, and he is a prolifi c choral com- joining the BCC, Adams worked in poser and arranger. public schools in Nebraska, New York, South Carolina, and Florida. She is an active adjudicator and speaker. The Four Stages of Verbalization Heart, Head, Hands: in the Choral Rehearsal Self-Renewing Skills for This session, geared toward the new teacher, is also practical Conducting/Ensemble Leading for anyone searching for a methodology dealing with what we say to our choirs and how to make spoken communication This session will explore the means that are always avail- practical. The Four Stages of Verbalization provides a frame work able to us for self-refreshing, focus, and self-renewal: drawing for what to say, when to say it, and how to say it, maximizing on innate musical talent and love of music; using a variety of rehearsal time and streamlining verbal instruction. Effective use personal learning styles to fi nd the essence of music; allow- of metaphor, simile, and allegory—when do we speak over a ing personal conducting gestures to organically arise from choir—how to introduce a piece in a benefi cial way—all this musical ideas. and more will be discussed. Wayne Abercrombie is professor Mark A. Boyle is the director of choral emeritus of music, former director activities and assistant professor of of choral Programs, University of music at Millersville University of Penn- Massachusetts/Amherst and founding sylvania. As a tenor, Boyle performs conductor of the Children’s Chorus of in recital, concert, and on the opera Springfi eld. He has conducted choirs stage. He is an alum of the professional in churches and schools, as well as chamber choir, The Princeton Singers orchestras and wind ensembles. He and is currently member of the new 2012 Division Conferences - Int Conferences Division 2012 has taught conducting master classes, professional chamber choir, Vox Amaris. is a frequent clinician at conferences and for individual choral A proponent of new music, he has commissioned at least one programs, and has had many guest conducting appearances.

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Abercrombie is past President of Massachu- choirs for homeless, special needs, hospice, rector of the annual Saratoga Choral Festival. setts and ACDA's Eastern Division . senior, or prison choirs. She has prepared choirs for the Philadelphia Orchestra under Charles Dutoit, and has Jason Thoms is di- previously served as director of the Concord How to Make a Strong rector of choral activities at Concor- Case for the Value of dia College-New Choral Music Education York, where he directs the Concordia Singing in choir helps students succeed, Tour Choir, Festi- but school choral programs are under siege. val Choir, Chamber St. John That is why Chorus America has developed Choir, Men’s Glee, “Making the Case for Your School Choir: An and Women’s Chorale. He is a profes- Advocacy Guide.” This interactive session sional bass/baritone and published com- Passion of will provide practical tools and compre- poser. Thoms is conference chair for the hensive data to help K–12 choir directors 2012 ACDA Eastern Division Conference. J.S. Bach pro-actively advocate for choral music education.

Catherine Davies I Can’t Believe I Said That! ... joined Chorus or How Do We Speak America as director to Our Singers? of operations and membership ser- This discussion will allow conductors to vices in 2006. In ad- increase their self-awareness of how they dition to serving as might come across to those in front of Simon Carrington, the primary point of them, and how to turn around negativity contact for Chorus Guest Conductor into positive and constructive statements Derek Chester, Evangelist America’s members, she has been instru- for more effective interpersonal relation- Professional orchestra mental in producing the annual Chorus Op- ships with our singers. Discussion topics will erations Survey Report, the Chorus Impact also include professional ethics and jealousy. and soloists Study, the Nonproﬁ t Chorus Self-Evaluation This panel discussion will include conduc- Tool, and most recently, Making the Case tors from the school age (Francisco Nunez University of Northern for Your School Choir: An Advocacy Guide. invited), community (James Bagwell invited), Colorado Concert Choir Prior to relocating to Washington, D.C., she and professional level (Richard Coffey in- Galen Darrough, Conductor worked in several capacities with VocalEss- vited), and include a licensed psychologist ence in Minneapolis, MN, including serving (David Anderegg). It will be moderated by as executive assistant to Philip Brunelle, Andrea Goodman. MARCH 19-23, 2012 grant writing, and concert production. Andrea Goodman, director of the Greeley, Colorado The Hows and Whys of Cantilena Cham- Therapeutic and Service Choirs ber Choir, also For a full schedule of the serves as the direc- week’s activities, contact: Galen Darrough, This panel discussion, led by Jason tor of the North- Director of Choral Activities Thoms, is on therapeutic and service ern Berkshire University of Northern Colorado choirs. This session will include discussion of Chorale based in [email protected] music’s effect on the brain, and what we can Williamstown. She (970) 351-2290 do as choir directors to provide “healing” has been a visiting professor of conducting opportunities to our singers and audiences. at the New England Conservatory of Music, where she also directed the women’s choir. This performance is funded by the Skinner The discussion and information provided Endowment for the Choral Arts. will also assist directors in beginning new During the summer season she serves as di-

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Chorus (Massachusetts), director of Choirs at Skidmore College and orchestras in North America, Europe, Asia, and Central and New York University. and South America.

Individualized Assessment Leonard Bernstein in the Choral Ensemble And Choral Community Making: This professional development session will provide both a Focus on Innovative Concert Collaborations philosophical rationale and practical suggestions for incorpo- Dedicated to Musical Diversity, Social Inclusion, rating individualized assessment within the choral ensemble. It and Building Community is designed for teachers and teachers’ educators. In order to increase accountability for the individual musical development of students, teachers need to explore various methods for Working from the musical context of a recently published assessing student progress and evaluating their own teaching concert version of Bernstein’s Mass, the session will demon- methods. strate how to widen social boundaries, encourage musical diversity, and build community through the use of a uniquely Victoria J. Furby is the coordinator of American repertoire that links sacred and secular, pop and music education at Buffalo State College, concert, gospel and jazz.

erest Sessions erest where she teaches courses in aural per- ceptions and secondary choral methods, Doreen Rao was appointed Music Di- supervises student teachers, and works rector and Conductor of the Buffalo within the DaCapo learning community. Philharmonic Chorus in 2008. She holds She is also the director of the Buffalo the Cameron Baird Conductor’s Chair State College Chamber Choir and Vocal working in collaboration with JoAnn Jazz Ensemble. In addition to her teach- Falletta and the Buffalo Philharmonic ing and conducting pursuits, Furby is actively pursuing a research Orchestra. Rao leads the Buffalo Sings! agenda related to sight-singing instruction and assessment at Community Concert Series dedicated the secondary and collegiate levels. to building bridges between artists and their audiences through concert performances and educational programs throughout Western New York. Former positions include the University of Toronto’s Elmer Iseler Chair in Conduct- Interpretation and Performance Practices in ing and director of the Toronto Bach Festival. She was the ﬁ rst female assistant conductor of the Chicago Symphony Chorus Latin American Choral Music and prepared the award-winning Glen Ellyn Children’s Chorus (Anima) for concerts, tours, and recorded performances. “Phrasing with your heaps,” or how to study, rehearse, and perform choral Cuban son, Caribbean bolero, vocal adapta- tions from the Krao Indians in Brazil, Andean tonada and cueca, Venezuelan joropo, and the Pan-American salsa. These styles Locomotion: Using Eurythmics comprise the repertoire of the 2012 ACDA Eastern Division in the Choral Rehearsal Latin American Honor Choir. This session will demonstrate how the use of eurythmics in Juan Tony Guzmán is an arranger, con- the choral rehearsal can enhance music performance. Speciﬁ - ductor, and music educator from the cally, it will show how movement can be used (1) to assist with Dominican Republic. He is director of rhythmic accuracy; (2) to achieve better ensemble singing; (3) the jazz program and associate profes- to energize music that moves slowly; and (4) to shape melodic sor of music education at Luther College lines and assist with proper metric stress. The activities shown in Decorah, Iowa. Guzmán has written in the session may be applied to a very wide variety of choirs choral arrangements of Caribbean and and ages of singers. Latin American traditional music; some 2012 Division Conferences - Int Conferences Division 2012 of them published by Oxford University David P. DeVenney is professor of music and director of Press and Boosey & Hawkes. He has conducted choirs, bands, choral activities at West Chester University of Pennsylvania,

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where he directs rience, this presentation gives a portrait of mentor/protégé relationship and to assist the select Concert a rarely discussed aspect of the conductor’s mentor and protégé in achieving the best Choir and Men’s life. The goal of the session is to help the possible beneﬁ ts of these relationships. Chorus and guides conductor realize the full potential of the the MM program in choral conducting. His choirs have toured throughout the United States and Europe and appear on two commercial CD recordings, and a number of privately produced CDs. He is the author of 14 books, most recently a three-volume textbook series, Conducting Choirs.

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Tim Sharp is executive director of the singing a selection of ﬁ ve pieces from different social, cultural, American Choral Directors Associa- and linguistic contexts. A distinction is made between Islamic tion. He represents choral activity in the music and music that is more culturally situated in Muslim United States to the International culture. Choral directors attending the session will leave with Federation for Choral Music. An ac- practical ideas for performance and strategies for how to locate tive choral conductor, researcher, and such repertoire. writer, Sharp has varied his career with executive positions in higher education, André de Quadros will be the clinician for this session. He is also recording, and publishing. Prior to his presiding over another session at this conference. His photo position with ACDA, he was dean of ﬁ ne arts at Rhodes Col- and bio can be found on page 42. lege in Memphis, TN, and earlier, director of choral activities at Belmont University in Nashville, TN. His research and writing focuses pedagogically in conducting and score analysis, and vari- MMyy AdministrationAdministration WantWants a GleeGlee Choir:Choir: ous published essays and books portray his eclectic interests in regional music history, acoustics, creativity, innovation, and WhatWhat DoDo I Do?Do? aesthetics. He has conducted university, community, church, and children’s choirs, and is currently the conductor of the Tulsa The main focus of this session is assisting the current choral Oratorio Chorus, Tulsa, OK. educator, at whatever level, with the implementation of a show choir. The session will provide guidance in developing a basic teaching philosophy for inclusion of a show choir utilizing the

erest Sessions erest ACDA Show Choir Standards of Excellence and basic informa- Middle East Harmonies: tion on how to achieve those standards. By utilizing a sound the Challenges of Programming philosophy and learning some basic components, choral teachers can implement excellence into an entertainment choir that Joshua Jacobson and André deQuadros will discuss their will appeal to students and the community at large. experiences with choral music from Israel and from Arab countries, and their attempts to bring people together through Robert Lawrence joined the music faculty music. The session will include videos and performances by the at the University of Central Missouri in Boston Zamir Chorale. Participants will receive bibliographies 1998, where he currently directs two and octavos of Arab and Israeli choral music. choirs and teaches music education courses. He has taught at every level Joshua R. Jacobson, one of the foremost of music education, from elementary to authorities on Jewish choral music, is community choirs, and all types of choirs. professor of music and director of choral He has guest conducted, adjudicated, activities at Northeastern University and and presented clinic sessions at state, visiting professor and senior consultant regional, and international festivals and conferences. Lawrence in the School of Jewish Music at Hebrew currently serves as ACDA’s National Repertoire and Standards College. He is also founder and artistic Chair for Show Choirs. director of the Zamir Chorale of Boston. Over one hundred of his choral arrangements, editions, and compositions have been published, and are The New Gregorian Chant frequently performed by choirs around the world. Performance Practice: André de Quadros will be a clinician for this session. He is presid- Word, Melody, Neume ing over another session at this conference. His photo and bio can be found on page 42. This session will be an introduction to developments that have resulted in a “New (Old) Gregorian Chant Performance Practice.” Through the singing of a selection of simpler syllabic chants, the participants will experience how today’s perfor- Music of the Muslim World: mance practice combines three parameters of interpretation: Breaking the Barrier Word, Mode and Neum. That is, beginning with the innate mu- 2012 Division Conferences - Int Conferences Division 2012 sicality of the Latin words, that are then “clothed,” so to speak, This session is a repertoire session, getting participants to in a speciﬁ c mode, the ancient musical notation of neums indi- understand the great diaspora of music of the Muslim world by cates the rhythm and expressiveness that makes this repertoire

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justly famous, useful for study, and a precious Easy practice Leader, she is a contributing Constance Chase resource of the choral world. author to the Choral Journal, James Jordan’s is director of the Evoking Sound: The Choral Rehearsal, Vol. I; and West Point Glee Fr. Stephen Con- Teaching Music Through Performance in Choir Club, where she has cordia, O.S.B. is a Volumes II and III. conducted the choir Benedictine monk in venues as var- and priest with 25 ied as Carnegie Hall, Tanglewood, and the years of daily contact Recovery, Healing, and with the Gregorian Academy of Country Chant repertoire. Wholeness: How Music Music Awards show; and recorded for Co- He is choirmaster of Can Feed the Homeless lumbia, Capitol, PBS, and Curtain Call. She is Saint Vincent Arch- artistic director of the Connecticut Chamber Choir and adjunct lecturer in applied voice abbey in Latrobe, PA; assistant professor of Explore music as a means of social justice at Western Connecticut State University. She Music at Saint Vincent College; director of through the story of Bethany’s Women of has presented regional master classes and is the Saint Vincent Camerata; and director Praise, a choir of homeless women in Wash- co-author with the late Shirlee Emmons of of the Saint Vincent Schola Gregoriana. His ington, DC. This interactive workshop will Prescriptions for Choral Excellence. recent activities in the fi eld of Gregorian inspire and prepare others to consider the Chant include workshops and presentations potential power of music in communities at ACDA conferences, performances with dealing with addiction and recovery, mental major orchestras, and a translation from illness, and unemployment. See How the Italian of the chant textbook Tones and Opposites Attract Modes by Alberto Turco. Amanda Weber began teaching music When Music is in the Middle at N Street Village OOnenessneness ooff TThoughthought in Washington, D.C., Pianist Rachel Kramer and conductor a continuum of care Catherine Roma will discuss the importance aandnd GGesture:esture: for homeless wom- of building a strong conductor/pianist rela- TTaiai ChiChi forfor ConductorsConductors en started by the tionship and share tips about performance Luther Place Memo- and rehearsal techniques they don’t teach in Tai Chi gives us practice opening the rial. She was hired by school. Effective verbal and non-verbal com- pathways between mind and body, intention Luther Place as coordinator for community munication, proper preparation, joint musical and movement, to guide us towards con- life and the arts, where she stayed until May research, and plenty of practice are among ducting from our deepest intuition. When 2011. Her interest in the arts and social the topics discussed. the distraction of your conscious self is lifted justice led her to Yale University, where she like a veil between thought and gesture, will graduate in 2013 with an MM in choral Rachel Kramer is conducting becomes an act of artistic truth. conducting. president of Music In this session, participants will follow a Tai Learning Center, Chi form developed for maximum benefi t Inc. a group music- to conductors. The movements are slow teaching program and simple, much like conducting a slow, Resonance in in Cincinnati with quiet song. The form may be done in any the Choral Voice: 200 students’ ages 6-months to 16 years. attire; participants will be invited to remove All Things are Possible their shoes. She is the associate director of music at St. John’s Unitarian Singing in the resonance of the voice Amelia Nagoski stud- Universalist Church and for MUSE—Cin- makes possible all things choral: intona- cinnati’s Women’s Choir. She has been a ies the infl uence of tion, blend, dynamic capability. Two vital a conductor’s mind presenter at national and state conferences, components produce resonant singing has written articles for several publications, on the body at the reliably: the appoggio breath posture and University of Con- and has been teaching group piano for 25 acoustical vowels. Underlying principles and years. Kramer is an adjunct faculty member necticut, where she specifi c examples are examined interactively is a doctoral stu- at Wilmington College and is the president to augment directors’ options for eliciting of the Southwest District of the Ohio Music dent in conducting. expressive singing. A certifi ed Tai Chi Teachers Association.

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CatherineC Roma is professor of music Singing From the Heart: at Wilmington College. Through her association there, she founded and Working With People directs UMOJA Men’s Chorus at War- of “Different Abilities” ren Correctional Institution, in Lebanon, Ohio. Roma is minister of music at St. Making music with singers who have intellectual and physi- John’s Unitarian Universalist Church in cal disabilities offers great rewards and signiﬁ cant challenges. Cincinnati, and is co-founder and direc- As the core of the ACDA Eastern Division’s Building Com- tor of the Martin Luther King Coalition munities Festival Choir, Joyful Noise’s singers will share their CChorale. She serves at co-chair of the local Music Advisory passion for music with the singers and music therapists joining CCommittee for the World Choir Games. Roma became one them in conference rehearsals and this interest session led by ooff the founding mothers of the women’s choral movement, an Allison Fromm, Alice Parker, and Nick Page. The singers will ininternationalnt network of over 70 women’s choruses, when she demonstrate effective methods for working toward attentive- sststartedt Anna Crusis Women’s Choir in her native Philadelphia in ness, focus, ensemble, diction, rhythmic and pitch accuracy, head 11975.9 She began MUSE—Cincinnati’s Women’s Choir in 1984. voice, vocal tone, and expression.

Allison Fromm, Joyful Noise director, has Sing in Style: Expand the conducted choruses at Yale University, Dutchess Community College, Boston Vocal Skills of Your Choir

erest Sessions erest University, the University of Illinois, and for the Hudson Valley Opera. In addi- Through demonstrations by the Mansfi eld University Con- tion to founding Joyful Noise, she has certccee Choir and with audience participation, Peggy Dettwiler launched several choruses in Illinois: Kol willw show how to teach and expand the vocal techniques of Achad, Sinai Shabbat Singers, and the choirscchh so that they can produce different choral colors and Whirlwind Interfaith Choir. She has giv- singsin repertoire in a wide variety of styles and from contrasting en presentations on Joyful Noise at several ACDA conferences. worldw cultures. Alice Parker is a composer, conductor, and PeggyPPee Dettwiler will be the clinician for this session. Her photo teacher. She says that she sang before aanandn bio are on page 36. she spoke. She believes that melody is the foundation of human music-making, and that song issuing from one human Singing Bach with Agility— throat is the essential fi rst-step to a musical life. Her many conducting and Strategies for Large Choirs teaching engagements keep her traveling around the United States and Canada. It is possible for a large chorus to give a fi ne performance ofof the works of J. S. Bach. This session will deal with some Nick Page is a Boston based composer, techniquesttee and strategies for getting a lean, balanced, and agile conductor, and author also known for his soundso from a large community or church choir with many song leading. He has seventy published maturem voices. pieces including his song You Have a Heart that he wrote for Joyful Noise. Michelle Graveline is professor of music Page is the author of three books. In at Assumption College in Worcester, 2007, Nick conducted his Nursery Rhyme MA, where she conducts the As- Cantata at Carnegie Hall and his Comic sumption College Chorale. She also Book Opera premiered at Lincoln Cen- conducts the Salisbury Singers of ter in June, 2011. Page is the founding director of the Mystic Worcester, an independent chorus of Chorale. 85 voices. Graveline is past president of Massachusetts ACDA and has conducted massed choirs at conventions 2012 Division Conferences - Int Conferences Division 2012 aanandn festivals. She has also served as an adjudicator and clinician ffoforo numerous festivals and auditions.

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Singing Locally, Giving Globally: Sound as Prayer: The Thinking Rehearsal: Why Intergenerational Paperless Worship Creating Independent Musicians Community Choirs Matter in the Choral Setting Texts guide us through worship. Words defi ne the choral art. We respond to our Using case studies, this workshop will This session will address the advantages faith in God from the heart, and often by explore how community choirs can in- of teaching rather than simply rehearsing heart. Come and join us in one of Provi- crease their membership, income, visibility, your choir and model techniques for dence’s most unusual sacred spaces for and creative/collaborative programming by structuring the rehearsal to engage your an interfaith worship service that employs engaging in community service. This dual singers to think and solve musical problems everyone without the use of printed texts. mission—to create opportunities for choral independently. Octavos of various voicings Experience elegant, structured worship that artistry and service—provides a new para- and diffi culty will be used to demonstrate is elaborate yet accessible. Come and be digm for choral singing and provides a pow- the application of this approach to all age both congregant and choir in this unique erful tool for building community support. and ability levels. form of prayer and song. Whether you’re in a small church with few resources, a Stephanie Davis is Joy Hirokawa is the larger place that would like to begin a new the director of devel- founder and artis- service, or are looking for a way to help opment in the Johns tic director of The your community fi nd and build its collective Hopkins Division of Bel Canto Children’s voice, there will be something for everyone Pediatric Oncology, Chorus. She is cur- to learn and love in this quiet moment of where she is respon- rently instructor of respite from an otherwise busy week. sible for the fundrais- music education at ing, advisory board Moravian College in Ana Hernández is a management, and Bethlehem, PA. Un- composer/arrang- special events. She has 38 years of leader- der her direction, the Concert Choir of Bel er, multi-instrumen- ship experience in non-profi t management Canto has toured nationally and interna- talist, and workshop in the fi eld of human services. A member of tionally, and appeared at numerous confer- leader. She has pro- the Deer Creek Chorale since 2006, she has ences for MENC and ACDA. Hirokawa is a duced seven CDs, been the President of the Board since 2009. frequent guest conductor and clinician, pre- and is author of The She brings her personal passion for com- senting and conducting regularly at MENC, Sacred Art of Chant: Preparing to Practice. Her munity service to the Board and has helped PMEA, and ACDA conferences. most recent recording is An Unexpected the choir raise $120,000. She is dedicated to Christmas, with the Virginia Girls Choir and the dual mission of providing choral artistry director Dan Moriarty. and giving back to the community. Ubuntu! Learning and Singing Mark Trautman is di- Martha Banghart, South African Music rector of music at St. founder and musi- Paul’s Church in En- like South Africans cal director of the glewood, NJ, where Deer Creek Chorale he plays the church’s Ubuntu! is an African word that means “a (DCC), has served Austin and E. M. Skin- person is a person through other people.” the choral commu- ner organs, conducts Choral singing is the ultimate manifestation nity as an educator, a semi-professional of the concept of ubuntu. Attendees will clinician, director, pri- choir program and be engaged and enthralled as they learn vate instructor, and oversees a large concert series. He is also a South African music the way South Africans soloist. She is well known in Maryland and member of the music department faculty at themselves learn it—by making music fi rst beyond as an innovative teacher and pas- Mason Gross School of the Arts of Rutgers and perfecting it along the way. Songs will sionate supporter of the choral arts. University, where he teaches church music be taught by rote, encouraging participants skills and coaches chamber music. He has to turn off the left side of their brain and served as an adjudicator and leader for electrify the right side. South African drum- events sponsored by ACDA, AGO, and the ming also will be addressed. Written music New Jersey Folk Festival. will be provided at the end of the session.

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Steven Fisher has had the privilege of Robert Hollingworth will be the clinician for this session. His making music with South Africans in the photo and bio are on page 33. townships many times over the last fi f- teen years. He is a composer, conductor, and foremost, a music educator. He co- founded Umcolo (“food of life”), a South The Wow Factor: African musical immersion program for American music educators. He is also the Create It, Aspire It, Achieve It co-founder and associate music director of the Keystone State Boychoir (KSB). This session is a practical guide for performers, students, Since its founding in 2001, KSB has established a sister-choir teachers and parents that offers fundamental philosophies and in the Pennsylvania Girlchoir, and Find Your Instrument! an concepts essential to a person’s growth and development that outreach program that gives children with no music program will contribute to a successful professional life in music. Call an opportunity to fi nd their singing voice and know the joy of it the Wow Factor—there is something for everyone in this singing in a choir. Additionally, he is the conductor of the Singing interactive workshop! City Children’s Choir. In 2011, Fisher founded the New York Boychoir, the only community-based boychoir in New York City. Steve Zegree is a vocal jazz conductor and educator. He is active as a pianist, conductor, clinician, and adjudicator. His vocal jazz ensemble, Gold Company, erest Sessions erest Undergraduate Conducting Masterclass has won numerous awards and has performed at MENC National Conventions, Paul Rardin will be joined by a small group of auditioned IAJE International Conferences, and the undergraduate conductors and a college-level demonstration World Symposium on Choral Music. choir to focus on effective conducting gestures, with emphasis In addition, he is the founder of The on fi nding balance between clarity and expression. Steve Zegree Vocal Jazz Camp, held every summer at Western Michigan University. Paul Rardin joined the faculty of Temple University as director of choral activities in 2011. He conducts the Concert Choir, teaches graduate conducting, and over- YYogaoga forfor ConductorsConductors andand SingersSingers sees the six-choir program at Temple’s Boyer College of Music and Dance. This yoga class will help participants to fi nd freedom from He previously taught at the Univer- pain and stress, to increase focus, and fi nd the path to peace sity of Michigan and Towson University. through movement, breathing, chant, meditation, and relaxation. Rardin has served as a guest conductor No yoga experience or fl exibility is necessary. Wear gym cloth- for all-state choirs in eleven states; has presented clinics for ing. Bring a yoga mat or beach towel. state, regional, and national conferences; and his articles have appeared in the ACDA publications Choral Journal, Troubadour, SSteventeven A.A. RussellRussell has been practicing and Resound. yoga for over ten years. He is a certifi ed teacher of Dharma Yoga. Steven is the Eastern Division Repertoire & Stan- Why Monteverdi? Recent Discoveries dards Chair for Community Choruses. He is also the president of the New that Raise the Composer’s Profile Jersey Choral Consortium, the artistic Above His Contemporaries. director of the New Jersey Gay Men’s Chorus, and the director of Sacred Mu- Monteverdi has had a reputation far above those of his sic at the Parish of St. Thomas More, in Manalapan, NJ. contemporaries. After 30 years and much research into these contemporaries and discovery of more of them, Monteverdi’s

2012 Division Conferences - Int Conferences Division 2012 image seems to be reinforced. This session is an attempt to come to grips with exactly what it is in his vocal music that makes it clearly so much better than anyone else of his time.

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PerformancesPePerformancesf andd an i interinteractivet question and answer sessions Conference in Rochester NY. They were invited to perform at with high school choirs and their directors. 2010 ACDA Eastern Division Conference.They have sung at Carnegie Hall along with the Metropolitan Youth Chorale and premiered Everything Indicates by Gerald Custer a work for choir Central Dauphin High School CD Singers and full orchestra. able CD Singers of Central Dau- Louise O’Hanlon holds an undergraduate phin High School perform degree from University College Cork, repertoire ranging from Re- Ireland, an MME from Lehmann College naissance to modern-twen- (CUNY), and certifi cates in Orff (Hof- ty-fi rst century. CD Singers, stra University) and Kodály (NYU). She comprised of 40 students continued her studies at Westminster in grades 10 –12, qualify for Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey. membership through audi- O’Hanlon has been a guest conductor at tion. CD Singers meets each several all-county festivals. She has given school day for 45 minutes. choral and classroom workshops at the Balanced Mind Confer- The CD Singers have per- ence and for NMEA and SCMEA. formed at ACDA and MENC, state and divisional conventions. The Singers have taken part in frequent master classes and are consistent participants in ACDA and MENC state, divisional, and national honor choirs. Holton–Arms Upper School Chorus The Holton-Arms Up- Charles Masters is the director of choral per School Chorus, activities at Central Dauphin High School. a non-auditioned en- Masters directs three of the fi ve curricu- semble for singers in lum choirs, teaches Guitar II, three levels grades 9–12, appears of music theory, and produces the spring annually at the Wash- musical. Masters graduated from Mansfi eld ington National Ca- University with a BM in music education thedral as part of the and piano performance. Charles earned Independent Schools Choral Festival. The chorus has appeared an MME from Ithaca College in New York. at the National Association of Independent Schools Conference, Masters served as Vocal Jazz R&S Chair for ACDA-PA. He has Maryland Music Educators Conference, Kennedy Center, Sydney also held positions at Lycoming College and Loyalsock Town- Opera House, Auckland’s Holy Trinity Cathedral, and historic ship High School, both in Williamsport, PA. Charles received the venues in Prague, Budapest, and Vienna. ACDA-PA Outstanding Young Conductor Award in 2007, and in 2008 was recipient of the ACDA Eastern Division Lannom Endowment Award. Mary Jane Pagenstecher directs four choral ensembles at Holton-Arms School and is director of fi ne and performing arts. She is past president of the Mary- Herricks High School Chamber Choir land Choral Educators Association and serves as Women’s Chorus Chair for the The Herricks Chamber ACDA MD/DC chapter. Pagenstecher has Choir has performed presented on the use of movement in the holiday music at the choral rehearsal process, and presented Empire State Building, a workshop/demonstration on developing treble sound at the sang for the senior 2011 MENC Eastern Division Conference. She is a choral festival citizens of Herricks, and adjudicator and guest conductor. Her guest conducting includes been invited guests at Delaware and Maryland all-state choruses and county, district, the Queens College and regional honor choruses. Choral Festival. They have also worked with David Fryling, director of choral studies at Hofstra University. In 2009, the group performed at the NYS School Boards Convention in NYC and the NYSSMA All State 2012 Division Conferences - High School Soundt School - High Conferences Division 2012 CHORAL JOURNAL Volume 52 Number 6 53 February 15 - 18, 2012

Eastern Division Providence, Rhode Island her research interests include developmental choral groups, the Elementary adolescent voice change, learning partnerships, and voice use of music teachers and students. Professor Bowers holds music

Joan Gregoryk, founder and artistic degrees from Louisiana State University (PhD) and Texas Tech director of the Children’s Chorus of University (BME). Washington, is internationally recog- ors nized as a leader in the ﬁ eld of children’s vocal music. She prepared the singers for various performances with the Na- High School tional Symphony at the Kennedy Center and Carnegie Hall. Gregoryk taught for many years at Chevy Chase Elementary Pearl Shangkuan is a sought after School, where her school’s chorus won her considerable ac- conductor and clinician all across the claim. Gregoryk has conducted numerous district, state, inter- United States and in Asia. A professor national festival, and ACDA division children’s honors choruses. of music at Calvin College, she is also She has taught courses on children’s vocal development and chorus master of the Grand Rapids chorus at Westminster Choir College and the University of Symphony. Shangkuan has her own St. Thomas, and lead seminars for numerous Orff-Schulwerk, signature choral series with earthsongs Kodály, ACDA, and MENC chapters. She holds her BA and and serves as the music editor of the MA in music education and is an artist-teacher associate at the GIA’s Calvin Choral series. Her choirs Choral Music Experience Institute have performed at national, regional, and state conventions of ACDA and other professional music organizations. She has conducted ACDA division honor choirs, all state honor choirs and festivals in numerous states and in several Asian countries, Middle School/ Junior High Canada, and Australia. She has served on the National Board of the ACDA as president of its Central Division, and as Michigan State president. A student of Joseph Flummerfelt, she received Judy Bowers is professor of choral mu- a BME and MM from Westminster Choir College, and a DMA sic education at Florida State University in choral conducting from Rutgers. (FSU). She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in choral music education, and conducts the Women’s Glee Club. She has received a University Latino Repertoire Award for Excellence in Teaching at FSU. From 1990–2000, she led the Capital Juan Tony Guzmán will be the conductor for this choir. He is Children’s Choir program at FSU and also presiding over an interest session for this conference. His more recently has developed a community service partnership photo an bio can be found on page 46. with an urban middle school. She is an active conductor of all- state and honor choirs, and in 2005 was awarded the Wayne Hugoboom Distinguished Service Award from Florida’s ACDA Chapter. Bowers frequently presents workshops and clinics, and

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Amazing and historic venues, utmost attention to details and a comprehensively planned tour make it a true delight to work and travel with ACFEA. As a director, it is so comforting to be able to relax and enjoy a tour, rather than being buried in all the logistical nuts and bolts. Thank you ACFEA for once again providing a memorable and successful international tour experience for my singers and me! Kevin Tison, Director Fountain Valley High School Troubadours

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Hilary Apfelstadt is director of choral Seraphic Fire activities at the University of Toronto, a position she assumed in the fall of 2010. Founded in She conducts MacMillan Singers, a select 2002 by ar- mixed chamber choir, and the newly- tistic director formed Women’s Chamber Ensemble, Patrick Du- and teaches undergraduate and gradu- pré Quigley, ate courses in conducting and choral Seraphic Fire repertoire. An alumna of the University has garnered of Toronto in vocal music education, she earned graduate de- critical acclaim grees in music education from the University of Illinois and the locally and na- University of Wisconsin-Madison. She also holds a diploma in tionally. Laud- piano performance from the Royal Conservatory of Music in ed by the Miami Herald as “one of the best choirs anywhere,” Toronto. For several years, she sang with the Robert Shaw Seraphic Fire has gained a reputation for dynamic performances. Festival Singers and recorded two Grammy award-winning In an exciting crossover collaboration in 2004, Seraphic Fire was CD’s with them in France. invited to record with international pop star Shakira on a track She was on the faculty at the University of North Carolina for her album Oral Fixation II, which ultimately went platinum at Greensboro, for ten years, conducting the Women’s Choir on the Billboard Pop Charts. and teaching music education courses. From 1993 – 2010, she Seraphic Fire’s programming is broad, including classical and was professor and director of choral activities at the Ohio State contemporary, sacred and secular choral works. This program- University in Columbus, where she also served as associate ming has won the organization awards and earned wide-ranging director of the School of Music from 2008 – 2010. praise. Over the past seven seasons, the organization has Choirs under her direction have performed at ACDA commissioned and premiered works by up-and-coming young regional and national conferences, at MENC regional and composers. In 2005, Seraphic Fire commissioned The Road state conferences, at Carnegie Hall (2006 and 2010), and in From Hiroshima: A Requiem—a 50-minute work from 28-year- Europe. She has conducted numerous all-state and honor old composer Shawn Crouch. It was subsequently nominated choirs throughout the United States, and has guest conducted for a Pulitzer Prize. in Austria, Canada, Cuba, England, and Switzerland. In 2009, she In recent years, Seraphic Fire has made signifi cant organi- conducted the Mormon Tabernacle Choir in a live broadcast zational and artistic strides. Recent seasons have experienced of Music and the Spoken Word. In June 2011, she conducted a record-breaking ticket sales with many sold-out performances. festival choir at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. She has presented In 2007, Seraphic Fire was awarded a Knight Foundation grant papers and conducting master classes in many professional for the formation of the Firebird Chamber Orchestra, which venues, and serves on the editorial boards of three journals debuted in 2008. including the Choral Journal. A prolifi c author, she has published In 2010, Seraphic Fire has started its educational initiative, numerous articles on choral music and education, and wrote Miami Choral Academy. The Choral Academy is a program two chapters in Wisdom, Wit and Will: Women Choral Conductors designed to create a little-league style network of choirs in on their Art (GIA, 2009). She is also a contributing author to a Miami’s inner-city schools. In partnership with Miami-Dade new book on women’s choirs (Debra Spurgeon, editor) to be County Public Schools, the Choral Academy seeks to make published by GIA in 2012. positive academic and social change through participation in A life member of ACDA, Apfelstadt has served as state choral singing and an integrated academic enrichment program. president of the North Carolina chapter, as Central Division president, and as national president (2007 – 2009). She remains on the Executive Committee through June 2013. She has twice Patrick Dupré Quigley is the founding been honored with service awards from ACDA, in North artistic director of Seraphic Fire. He Carolina (1993) and in Ohio (2008). has conducted ensembles throughout North America, Europe, China, and Israel. Quigley is the recipient of the 2004 Robert Shaw Fellowship, given 2012 Division Conferences - Headliners Conferences Division 2012 Log on and help shape ACDA’s future annually by the National Endowment by voting and participating for the Arts and Chorus America to in the National Strategic one conductor between the ages of 25 Planning Survey at www.acda.org and 40 who demonstrates the potential for a signifi cant profes- Survey will be online Jan 1, 2012

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sional career. At 26, Quigley was the youngest person ever to Today and All Things Considered; and in numerous national publi- receive this award. cations, including the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. In eight seasons, Quigley has built Seraphic Fire into a nation- Voices Of Light merges the legendary silent fi lm master- ally recognized ensemble, now considered one of the fi ve major piece The Passion of Joan of Arc with a live performance of a performing arts institutions in Miami. The international classical beautiful new work by composer Richard Einhorn. The fi lm is music magazine Gramophone has declared that Seraphic Fire considered by critics to be one of the 10 greatest fi lms ever “has quickly become one of the top attractions in the [South made. Thought to have been destroyed in warehouse fi res, a Florida] region. No group programmes more adventurously.” perfect copy was discovered recently and lovingly restored. The South Florida Sun Sentinel calls Seraphic Fire “the smartest, With its raw emotional power, its naturalistic acting, and an utmost creative and consistently excellent classical music ticket terly contemporary visual style, The Passion of Joan of Arc looks in South Florida.” like it was made only yesterday. It is a haunting, extraordinary In October 2006, he was one of 16 conductors from fi lm. around the world invited to Stockholm, Sweden, to compete in The music has attracted a huge audience on its own. The the tri-annual Eric Ericson Award. Under his leadership, Seraphic Sony Classical CD of Voices Of Light, featuring the famous Fire was the recipient of the 2006 ASCAP (American Society medieval vocal ensemble Anonymous 4, is an international of Composers, Authors and Publishers) Award for Adventurous bestseller and has spent 7 weeks on the Billboard charts. Voices Programming of New Music. Of Light has a proven popular appeal and a special ability to Patrick received his MM in conducting from Yale University. deeply touch the hearts of its audiences. He earned a bachelor in musicology from the University of Notre Dame. Bel Canto Company

In 1982, Rich- VOICES OF LIGHT: ard Cox, then a faculty member THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC of the UNC- by Greensboro Richard Einhorn School of Mu- sic, founded an ensemble with Voices Of Light is a stunning evening of music theatre. The event members of the has been performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music Next newly-formed Greensboro Opera Company chorus. The new Wave Festival; at Avery Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center; at the choir performed primarily opera and Broadway music and Kennedy Center, and Wolf Trap with the National Symphony; placed an emphasis on solos and small ensembles. Bel Canto and in dozens of major concert halls across the country. It has Company was born, and presented one concert that ﬁ rst been featured on CBS Sunday Morning; on NPR's Performance season featuring opera arias and ensembles, and a number of choral works. Today, Bel Canto Company continues to be recognized as the Triad’s premier choral ensemble; an ensemble of profes- Choral Buzz sional singers that presents innovative and engaging choral A daily educational performances for diverse audiences. Under Young’s direction, Bel Canto Company continues to grow artistically and musically. outreach providing Now in its 29th season, Bel Canto Company has contracted enrichment, inspiration 170 local singers, released eight CDs, commissioned several and, motivation new works, and performed for prestigious music festivals and conferences throughout the Southeast, including Washington from ACDA's vast Cathedral’s Summer Music Festival, Spoleto Festival USA, ACDA media holdings. Visit Southern and North Carolina Division Conferences, and the

2012 Division Conferences - Headliners Conferences Division 2012 ChoralBuzz daily at National Endowment for the Arts American Masterpieces: Choral Music programs. The ensemble is a professional member . of Chorus America, has performed with the American Boychoir, the Virginia Chorale, the Greensboro Symphony, the North Carolina Symphony, and the Carolina Chamber Symphony, and

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has been featured on National Public Radio is currently its president. He established and served North Carolina schools, churches, on Chorus America’s The First Art and NPR’s administers the NCMEA High School and and community groups as a master teacher, Performance Today. Middle School Honors Chorus Clinics at mentor, collaborative performer, and adjudi- UNCG preparing young students for their cator. Doyle was instrumental in organizing Welborn E. Young auditions for Honors Chorus. Young holds the Piedmont Invitational Children’s Choir is director of choral his DMA in choral conducting from the Festival and the Advanced Choral Work- activities and asso- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and shop, each held annually in different North ciate professor of his MM and BME from Middle Tennessee Carolina cities. For two years she served as music at the Univer- State University. accompanist and associate director for Bel sity of North Caro- Canto Company. Doyle maintains a private lina at Greensboro, coaching studio at her home and is the (UNCG) where he choir director and organist of St. Andrew’s was the recipient of Greensboro Youth Chorus Episcopal Church. the 2007 Outstanding Teacher of the Year Cantible award. Young arrived at UNCG from Chi- cago in 2000 and conducted the Women’s Choir, Men’s Glee Club, taught classes in University of North Carolina German diction, undergraduate conducting, Greensboro and choral repertoire at the graduate and undergraduate levels. Currently, he directs Chamber Singers the University Chamber Singers and teaches graduate conducting and graduate seminars in choral repertoire. He has been active as the conductor of the UNCG Summer Music Camp Senior Mixed Chorus since 2002. In For 23 years, GYC choirs have participated 2005, Young was named artistic director in local, regional and international choral and conductor of Bel Canto Company, an events. Under Ann Doyle’s direction, GYC ensemble of professional singers. For seven has had many prestigious and exciting years, Young served as the conductor of the experiences including state, national, and Choral Society of Greensboro in perfor- international competitions and festivals.. Chamber Singers is one of the newest ad- mances of major choral-orchestral works. Their international tours include Kathau- vanced mixed ensembles at the University He has been a featured festival conductor mixw International Choral Festival (Powell of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG). at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, River, British Columbia), Central European Chamber Singers is a select ensemble of Netherlands, at the York Minster Interna- Choral Festival (Germany and France) and 22– 26 gifted and talented pre-professional tional Choral Festival in Great Britain, and the Canterbury Choral Festival (England). singers, music educators, and dedicated ama- at Carnegie Hall. He has served as a guest In 1996, GYC was selected to sing at the teurs chosen from the UNCG student body. conductor and clinician in festivals and clin- Southern Division Convention of American Membership requires an audition. Chamber ics in North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Choral Directors Association in Norfolk, VA Singers performs choral masterworks, new South Carolina, Washington D.C., Illinois and has performed for numerous NC ACDA works, a cappella or instrumentally accom- and Oregon. His choirs have toured in Eu- conventions. Locally, GYC has sung with the panied, in concerts throughout the semester rope performing in such cities as Florence, Greensboro Symphony, Greensboro Opera including major works with orchestra. Vienna, Budapest, Prague, Cambridge, York, Company, UNCG Opera Theatre and Bel and London. Young has presented papers Canto Company. Welborn E. Young is the conductor of the and lead interest sessions at national and University of North Carolina-Greensboro international conferences on topics such Ann K. Doyle is a Chamber Singers. His photo and bio can be as the music of György Orbán and Morten graduate of the Uni- found in the ﬁ rst column of this page. Lauridsen, skill building for church musicians, versity of North Car- choral techniques addressing the needs of olina at Greensboro a volunteer ensemble, and choral blend. He with post-graduate has prepared ensembles for John Rutter, work at Memphis Dimitry Sitkovetsky, and Stuart Malina. Young State University. For has served on the board of NC ACDA and 30 years, Doyle has

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Southern Division Winston-Salem, North Carolina FROM LIGHT INTO LIGHT: Southeastern Chamber and Symphony Orchestras. He made his Carnegie Hall debut in 1996. In 2004, the New York Times A HYMN SERVICE lauded the “robust choral sound.” Recent performances have included regular invitations to conduct the New England Sym- On Thursday, March 1 at 5:15 P.M., ACDA convention at- phonic Ensemble in New York's Carnegie Hall, and the Roma tendees are invited to gather at Centenary United Method- Symphonia in Rome, Italy. Johnson served as assistant artistic ist Church for a service of anthems and hymns. Led by the director and guest conductor for the International Haydn Fes- Birmingham Chamber Chorus, Terre Johnson, conductor; tival in Vienna. He conducted in the Sydney Opera House and the Jacksonville Children’s Chorus, Darren Dailey, conductor; Sydney’s Town Hall, as part of the “Voices in the House Festival.” and the Oakwood University Aeolians, Jason Max Ferdinand, His choirs have performed in international festivals in Warsaw, conductor, with Susan Bates of Centenary United Methodist Krakow, Coventry, and performed as part of the 1999 Easter Church at the organ, the congregation will experience the Festival in Rome. His choirs have toured in Switzerland, Italy, conference theme “Voices of Light” through the seasons of the England, Poland, and throughout the United States. In 2010 he Church Year. Thoughtful reﬂ ections, guest instrumentalists, and appeared in the Festival of the Aegean in Greece. congregational singing will enrich our worship and understanding “as forward we travel from light into light.”

Jacksonville Children’s Chorus Vestavia Hills Baptist Church Concert Choir Birmingham Chamber Chorus The Jackson- ville Children’s Chorus fills The Birming- an important ham Chamber need in the Chorus is an community, ecumenical rounding out chorus made cultural offer- up of church ings in the re- musicians, mu- gion for child and adult audiences alike. As Chorus singers, sic educators, they take pride in participating in events that shape the cultural music students, landscape. and other out- The children have sung in Holiday Pops performance of standing singers, and is sponsored by the Vestavia Hills Baptist the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, performed in ﬁ ve major Church. They have been invited to sing for the Alabama ACDA operas, self-produced forty concerts, commissioned eleven new Invitational Festival, and for the 2008 “Unity” Ecumenical Service musical compositions and arrangements. at historic Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, with President Jimmy The Chorus has taken the stage at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Carter as speaker. After the tornadoes that devastated central Center, has hosted and performed with the Westminster Choir, Alabama in April, 2011, they joined other area choruses in a the St. Olaf Choir, the African Children’s Choir, Grammy-winner fund-raising concert that raised almost $5,000 for storm relief. David Holt, Broadway Baritone Leon Williams. Its singers have recorded, rehearsed, performed, and taken a bow for sixteen holds degrees in choral Terre Johnson years. music education from Troy University, Auburn University, and Florida State Darren Dailey has served as guest con- University. He serves as minister of ductor for performances in Saint Peter’s music at the Vestavia Hills Baptist Basilica, Sacred Heart Basilica, Avery Church. He is also adjunct professor of Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center, Carnegie music theatre at Troy University. Johnson Hall, Millennium Park, Jordan Hall and serves ACDA as the National R&S Chair for the 2010 ACDA Honor Youth Choir for Music in Worship. in Seattle. In June 2012, he will serve as He was conductor-in-residence for Midamerica Productions guest conductor for the 2012 Ireland in New York, and music director of the New Jersey Choral Choral Festival for Treble and Mixed Society. He is also the founder and music director of the Choirs. He has presented workshops for the NAPM, OAKE, 2012 Division Conferences - Music & Worship - Music Conferences Division 2012

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the North Carolina and Florida chapters Morning Show. The Aeolians were privileged others. They were featured at the recently of ACDA, the and Massachusetts and New to be part of the fi nale at the recently Gen- concluded General Conference Session in Jersey chapters of MENC. He has served eral Conference session in Atlanta, GA Atlanta, GA. as Florida ACDA R&S Chair for Children’s Choir/Boy Choirs. His chorus performed at Jason Max Ferdi- the 2004 Democratic Convention. His work nand is in his fourth can also be heard on A Boston Christmas season as director MORAVIAN LOVEFEAST (Back Bay Chorale), Building Bridges (Mystic of choral activities at AND SINGSTUNDE Chorale), and Amani Celebration, a limited- Oakwood University. edition compact disc of holiday songs from In 1997 Ferdinand The Southern Region of the ACDA will 15 children’s choirs to benefi t African chil- went to Oakwood gather on Friday, March 2, 2012 at 1:00 p.m. dren who have been orphaned because of College, (now Oak- for a Moravian Lovefeast and Singstunde at the HIV/AIDS epidemic. wood University) in the Home Church in Old Salem, NC. Dailey received his BME with a concen- Huntsville, AL. While attending Oakwood, Lovefeasts originated in the fi rst gather- tration in voice from Westminster Choir Ferdinand studied conducting with Lloyd ing of Christians after Pentecost. The early College and his MME in choral conducting Mallory Jr., and served as a student conduc- believers met and broke bread together, from Appalachian State University’s Hayes tor, student accompanist, and arranger for thereby signifying their union and equality. School of Music. Dailey is also trained in the Aeolians. Ferdinand earned a BA in piano These meals of the church family were as- Kindermusik Early Childhood Beginnings. performance (with honors) . sociated with the celebration of the Lord’s Ferdinand received his MA (with high Supper, which followed them. The lovefeast honors) in choral conducting from Morgan of Apostolic times was resuscitated in its State University. He has guest conducted original simplicity by the Moravian Church Oakwood University Aeolians the Morgan Choir even after his graduation. in 1727. For seven years, Ferdinand was choir The lovefeast is primarily a song service director of the Pine Forge Academy Choir. (Singstunde). Often there is no address; The Concert Choir has toured extensively the hymns in the ode, or order of service, throughout the continental United States, furnish the subject matter for devotional Canada, Bermuda, Trinidad and Tobago and thoughts. There is no rule as to the food to Barbados. be offered, except that it be very simple and Ferdinand began his studies toward his easily distributed, so that it may be served DMA in choral conducting at the Univer- very quietly and without interruption of the sity of Maryland, College Park. At Maryland, singing. While the congregation partakes, Ferdinand served as co-director of the the choir sings an anthem. The food served University Choir, an assistant conductor for is not consecrated, as in the communion. the Chamber Singers and Maryland Chorus, The Aeolians performed at the Kennedy Children and members of any denomination in addition to teaching undergraduate con- Center in Washington, DC. Their album of may partake. ducting classes. Ferdinand is a candidate (All Negro spirituals, Oh Freedom (1974), sold As Moravian missionaries took the Gos- But Dissertation) for his DMA in choral and over 10,000 copies. Other recordings in- pel and their own particular “theology of the orchestral conducting. clude two joint concerts of the Aeolians and heart” around the globe after 1732 they also Ferdinand served as a staff director wind ensemble of the University of Alabama, took their beloved worship practices with for four years at the Metropolitan Baptist Huntsville, at the Von Braun Civic Center them, The Singstunde became the pattern Church in Washington DC. In August of in Huntsville, Alabama (1977 and 1978), for a variety of services: Lovefeasts, Holy 2008–09 school year, Ferdinand returned to under the titles, "Together In Concert" and Communion, Christmas Vigils, New Year’s his alma mater Oakwood University to take "Together Again." Both were aired on Public the helm of the celebrated choral program Television. Lloyd Mallory recorded Lift Every there. He directs the Aeolians, the University Voice and Sing in 1998. Under Julie Moore Choir and the Chamber Singers. One hun- the Aeolians also produced a recording. The dred and eighty students have chosen to be ACDA National Symposium latest recording project, A New Song, was part of the choral program. The Aeolians on American Choral Music recorded in 2008–09. Two DVD recordings have in the last couple years recorded a have been done in this same period under June 29 & 30, 2012 studio album and three live DVD record- Washington, D.C. Jason Max Ferdinand. ings. They have toured California, Trinidad The Aeolians have also made appear- and Tobago, Florida, Virginia, Maryland and Register at www.acda.org ances on Good Morning America and the CBS

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Watchnight. They all were based on the original “singing hour.” success with European tours. International performances include the St. Moritz Festival in Switzerland (1985 and 1987), Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania and Yugoslavia (1989), Customs and Practices of the Moravian Church, Crews & England (2004), the Republic of China (2007), and Italy (2011). Starbuck, 2003. Chorale has recorded several albums. The ﬁ rst featured the music of Jean Berger. The composer-supervised recording The ACDA Lovefeast will be led by Nola Reed-Knouse, the contains eighteen of Berger’s best-known sacred and secular director of the Moravian Music Foundation. Musical leadership compositions. It was released on the Gasparo label in late 1986. will come from the Belmont University Chorale under the A second Gasparo album was released in 1989 and features direction of Jeffrey Ames. Anthems and hymns of the service twenty of Jester Hairston’s best-loved spirituals. Exsultate Jubi- will highlight the rich musical tradition of the Moravian Church. late, the sacred choral music of Daniel Pinkham, marked Cho- rale’s third album with Gasparo. The Choral Music of Robert Ward was the ensemble’s fourth album with the Gasparo label. Belmont University Chorale Jeffery Ames serves as director of choral activities at Belmont University. The Belmont His prior appointments include as- Chorale has a sistant director of choral activities at distinguished his- Baylor University and choral director tory. It has been at Edgewater High School and Lincoln recognized for High School in Florida. its musical ex- As a choral clinician, Ames has con- cellence with ducted senior and junior high school performances mixed and male choirs at ACDA and MENC state and regional at MENC con- conferences, including the inaugural Florida Male All-State Cho- ventions and rus, and at Carnegie Hall with the National Youth Choir. He the Southern has performed and guest conducted internationally in Costa Division of the Rica, Germany, and Italy. American Choral Ames’s music has been premiered by Florida MEA, Florida Directors Asso- ACDA, Southern Division of ACDA, National ACDA Confer- ciation. The ensemble tours annually and has enjoyed great ences in Los Angeles and Miami, and most recently heard on 2009 Christmas at Belmont, which aired on National Public Television. Professor Ames holds his PhD in choral conducting/ choral music education and an MM of choral music education from Florida State University, and a BME, with a double major in vocal performance and piano accompanying, from James Madison University. He is currently the R&S Chair of Ethnic and Multi- cultural Perspectives for the state of Tennessee, and was the ﬁ rst recipient of the National ACDA JJames Mulholland Choral Music Fellowship. 2012 Division Conferences - Music & Worship - Music Conferences Division 2012

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Atlanta Sacred Chorale Appalachian State University University Singers Atlanta Sacred Chorale (ASC) is The Univer- a chamber choir sity Singers of of professional Appalachian musicians and State Univer- gifted amateurs sity is a select in a remarkable ensemble that ensemble whose performs a mission is to “in- repertoire of spire and enrich the lives of our community through choral diverse genres artistry.” and styles. The ASC’s repertoire has been called “the musical language of ensemble has the deeper soul” and includes choral treasures from the Re- performed at naissance to the contemporary and familiar hymns, spirituals, state, regional, and gospel music. ASC performs concerts in the Atlanta area and national and throughout the Southeast. It has also performed at the ACDA conferences. The choir frequently combines with other Piccolo Spoleto Festival, with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, choral and instrumental ensembles from the Hayes School of at Carnegie Hall, at conferences of ACDA, MENC, the Choris- Music to perform major works, including a recent performance ters Guild, Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship, and at numerous of Orff’s Carmina Burana with the North Carolina Dance denominational music conferences. Eleven ASC albums are Theatre. Additionally, this ensemble has provided promotional currently available on the da Chiesa label. recordings for Hinshaw Music, Inc. Comprised mostly of music majors, membership in the group is open by audition to all Eric Nelson teaches at Emory University, students, regardless of major. where he teaches graduate choral conducting and choral literature and directs Stephen M. Hopkins is director of choral the 40-voice Concert Choir and the activities in the Hayes School of Music at 150-voice University Chorus. In 1999, he Appalachian State University, a position became the director of Atlanta Sacred he has held since 1992. He conducts the Chorale, and recently, the minister of Chamber Singers and University Singers music at Second-Ponce de Leon Baptist and teaches choral conducting, choral Church. With training in voice and choral techniques, and choral literature at the conducting from Houghton College, Westminster Choir Col- undergraduate and graduate levels. His lege, and Indiana University, Nelson inspires choral artistry in previous teaching experience includes singers of all ages. two years as director of choral activities at West Texas State At Emory University, Nelson’s Concert Choir has risen to University in Canyon, Texas. national prominence with performances at regional and national Hopkins earned his DMA and MM in choral conducting from conventions of ACDA, and at major venues across Europe and the University of Texas at Austin and received his BME from the United States, including Rome, Venice, Milan, Florence, Kra- Murray State University. He is a member of National Association kow, Berlin, Leipzig, Prague, Moscow, Washington, D.C., Carnegie for Music Education and ACDA and has contributed articles to Hall, and the Sydney Opera House. the Choral Journal. He received two university teaching awards Within the United States, Nelson is active year round as a and was designated the “Hayes School of Music Teacher of the clinician, guest conductor, and conference headliner for organi- Year.” He was honored with a University Award for Excellence zations such as national and regional conferences of ACDA, the in Teaching. Music Educators National Conference, the Choristers Guild, the Hopkins is a frequent guest clinician and adjudicator. An American Guild of Organists, the Montreat Music and Worship active composer and arranger, his compositions have been Conference, the Baptist Music Convention, the Association of published by Hinshaw Music, Inc. and Carl Fischer. Lutheran Church Musicians, and the Presbyterian Association of Musicians. Nelson has also served as a past president of the Georgia ACDA.

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Birmingham Boys Choir professional organizations as the Charlotte Symphony, Opera Carolina, and Carolina Voices, has appeared with the American Senior Choristers Boychoir, appeared on the A&E television special with Judy The Senior Collins, and most recently with the Grammy Award winning Ca- Choristers nadian Brass. The Choir has also appeared at state, regional and are 5th–8th national music educators’ conferences including the NC Music graders. They Educators Association, the 2006 OAKE National Conference, rehearse the 2001 and 2007 Southern Division ACDA Conferences, and once a week, the 1997 and 2008 AOSA National Conferences. The Concert and continue Choir has also appeared on National Public Radio’s From the Top, working on a program featuring America’s most talented young musicians. vocal production and music Sandy R. Holland is in her twenty-fi rst reading. After graduating in 8th grade, choristers can continue year as the artistic director of the Char- with the BBC as Graduate Choristers throughout high school. lotte Children's Choir. Holland was se- The BBC presents a yearly concert series featuring their lected as a Chorus America Masterclass annual christmas concert and spring concert. In the odd- Conducting Fellow with Joseph Flum- numbered years the Senior Choristers take a concert tour. They merfelt and Ann Howard Jones. have traveled extensively throughout North America, Western She has fi fteen years experience in Europe and Japan. church music, directing adult and children’s choirs and is currently an adjunct Ken Berg served as the director of choral director at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, choirs and fi ne arts chairman at John where she directs the Charlotteans, a women’s glee ensemble. Carroll Catholic High School in Bir- Holland attended Pfeiffer College and received her MM mingham. The choirs at John Carroll from Indiana University. While at Indiana University, she was an consistently received highest ratings in associate conductor of the University Children’s Choir under district, state, and national festivals under the direction of Mary Goetze. She received her Level II Off- his leadership. Schulwerk from the University of Memphis and has received Ken served for 6 years as the full- the Artist Teacher Diploma from the Choral Music Experience time music minister and composer in Institute with conductor/teacher Doreen Rao. residence at Mountain Brook Baptist Church, in Birmingham. Holland is an member of Chorus America and ACDA. She He serves as the fi rst full-time music director and resident served as the state and divisional R&S Chair for Children’s composer for the Birmingham Boys Choir. Under his leadership Choirs, was the 2008 Children’s Honor’s Choir Chairperson is the Choir has toured extensively throughout Europe, Japan, currently the President Elect for North Carolina ACDA. and Canada and has sung for MENC and ACDA conferences. He has served in various offi ces with the Alabama ACDA and the ACDA’s Southern Division. Festival Singers of Florida

The Festi- Charlotte Children’s Choir val Singers of Florida is an The Charlotte auditioned Children’s Choir choral ensem- serves children ble consisting between the of women ages of 8–18 by and men from providing the throughout highest level of Florida. During artistic excel- its four sea- lence in choral sons, the choir has performed the works of Carol Barnett (The music. The Choir World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass), Jonathan Dove (Seek Him has enjoyed unique performance opportunities with such 2012 Division Conferences - Performing Choirs - Performing Conferences Division 2012 that Maketh the Seven Stars), Dan Forrest (Three Nocturnes),

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David Lang (The Little Match Girl Passion), tuary Choir of First Leo Nestor (An American Triptych), Rob- Baptist Greenville, the ert Kahn (Sommerabend), Tarik O’Regan Furman Chorale, and (Dorchester Canticles and Triptych), and Alfred works as a collab- Schnittke (Requiem). The ensemble is mainly orative pianist with comprised of choral music teachers from students and faculty. across the state who learn the music inde- She is the principal pendently, and volunteer their time to meet Keyboardist with the and rehearse in the Central Florida area. The clude John Rutter’s Magniﬁ cat, W. A. Mozart’s Greenville Symphony choir performs two concerts each year at Requiem, and Robert Ray’s Gospel Mass. In Orchestra, and is the former music direc- the First Methodist Church of Orlando and recent years the choir has performed with tor of the Greater Anderson Musical Arts performs additional concerts throughout the Greenville Symphony Orchestra at the Consortium Chorale in Anderson, South Florida—from Tallahassee to Naples and Peace Center for the Performing Arts, at Carolina. from The Villages to Vero Beach. the National Cathedral in Washington, DC, Hamilton was a singer in the Robert and Riverside Church in New York City. The Shaw Institute Festival Singers, where she Kevin Fenton choir was selected to perform for the 2000 had the opportunity to work with Robert serves as professor Southern Division ADCA Conference in in Shaw, and has also studied conducting with of ensembles and Orlando, Florida, and at the 2001 ADCA Dan Lewis and Edvard Tchivzhel. Hamilton conducting at The National Conference in San Antonio, Texas. has worked with choirs at Simmons College, Florida State Univer- Emerson College, Northeastern University, the University of South Carolina, and Clem- sity, where he directs Vivian Hamilton is minister of music at First son University. She is a former president of the University Sing- Baptist Church, in Greenville, South Carolina, South Carolina ACDA. ers and the Vocal Jazz and a member of the music faculty at Fur- Ensemble. Fenton man University. Hamilton conducts the Sanc- has guest conducted choirs in 35 states, including ﬁ fteen all-state choirs. In 2008, he conducted the ACDA Southern Division High School Honor Choir and in 2007, Fenton conducted the Beijing International Choral Festival Choir with China’s People’s Liberation Orchestra as a part of China’s Choral Conductor’s Meeting. He is a recipient of the Gamma Mu Chapter of Delta Omicron Music Professor of the Year Award and has been nominated Integrating the Christian faith for a Florida State University Teach- with professional music-making ing Award for Excellence for the past ten and fine scholarship years. Fenton has an active member ACDA Graduate and Undergraduate throughout his career and currently serves Programs in Music as Vice President of the Florida Chapter; and B.Mus. in: President-Elect of the Southern Division. composition music education performance music with elective studies First Baptist Church of M.Mus. in choral conducting Greenville, South Carolina Generous graduate assistantships Sanctuary Choir

The Sanctuary Choir of First Baptist Church in Greenville, SC, is under the direction of Admission 800.777.2556 | School of Music 585.567.9400 [email protected] | www.houghton.edu/greatbatch Vivian Hamilton and is accompanied by Charles Tompkins. Recent performances in-

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MercerMe University Dr. Phillips High School Mercer Singers Cora Bella

The Mercer Cora Bella is Singers, an the advanced auditioned women’s cho- ensemble rus at the of forty-five Dr. Phillips voices, is the High School primary tour- (DPHS) Cho- ing choral rus Depart- ensemble of ment. Cora MercerM University. The Mercer Singers have sung for the Geor- Bella sings a diverse body of repertoire covering many styles giag MEA, the Southern Division of MENC, and have made four of music from throughout history and around the world. Cora professionalp recordings. The choir has performed throughout Bella performs jazz, pop, and broadway music. The Dr. Phillips thetthh United States and Europe. Since 2000, the Mercer Singers Chorus is comprised of 240 students in six choirs. For twenty- haveh experienced six international tours of England and Wales ﬁ ve years, the soloists and various choruses at DPHS have (May((MM 2000), Italy (2002), Austria and the Czech Republic (2004), consistently received superior ratings, performed at school and Germany,G Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary (2006), Japan (2007), throughout the community. Graduates of this program have anda Russia (2011). Additionally, the ensemble has gained a gone on to ﬁ rst tier college and university academic programs, regionalrree following with its annual performances of A Festival of and successful careers in music and the entertainment industry. NineN Lessons and Carols. Andrew Minear is the director of choral Stanley L. Roberts is in his sixteenth year activities at Dr. Phillips High School in of teaching in the Townsend School of Orlando. Previous teaching and choral Music at Mercer University, where he is directing experience includes middle the Arthur Lowndes Rich Professor of school, children’s choir, community Choral Conducting and associate dean. choir, and youth and adult church choirs. He conducts the Mercer Singers and the Minear is the Women’s Choirs R&S Mercer Women’s Chamber Choir, and Chair for Florida ACDA and as the Dis- teaches undergraduate and graduate trict 8 Chair for the Florida Vocal Asso- courses in conducting, choral literature, ciation. He has served as state R&S Chair for Senior High Choirs aand techniques. The Mercer Singers have sung on programs for and Children’s Choirs, coordinated district and state honor GGeorgia MEA and the Southern Division of MENC. Roberts choirs, and served on the Orange County Choral Leadership wwas chosen as Mercer University’s Outstanding Faculty Mem- and Curriculum Writing Teams. His choirs have performed bber of the Year (2001), Professor of the Year (2004) and the for the FMEA All-State Clinic/Conference, state and division TTownsend School of Music Professor of the Year (2009, 2010). ACDA conferences, and have consistently received superior A member of MENC and ACDA, he has served in numerous patings at district and state music performance assessments. lleadershipe capacities for organizations and is Past President for He is a frequent honor choir clinician, conference presenter, GGeorgia ACDA. An active church musician for 25 years, he is an and adjudicator. Minear received his MME and BME from the eeditor of the newly released hymnal Celebrating Grace and cur- Florida State University. rrerentlye serves as minister of music at the First Baptist Church of MMacon, Georgia. Roberts is a graduate of Mercer University and TThe Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky. Shenandoah Valley Children’s Choir The Shenan- CChorTeachorTeach doah Valley Children’s wwww.acda.org/publications/chorteachww.acda.org/publications/chorteach Choir (SVCC) of Harrison- A greatgreat resourceresource forfor choralchoral dirdireectorsctors aatt aallll llevels.evels. burg, Virginia, NNewew articlesarticles appearappear quarterly.quarterly. celebrated its 2012 Division Conferences - Performing Choirs - Performing Conferences Division 2012 twentieth an- 66 CHORAL JOURNAL Volume 52 Number 6 Alabama • Florida • Georgia • Kentucky • Louisiana • Mississippi • North Carolina • South Carolina • Tennessee • Virginia • West Virginia

niversary in 2011. The choir includes two Choir in Denver, Colorado. She received th Spain. The Chorale has been featured at hundred children ages 6–17 in two classes 1998 and 2000 Governor’s School awards a Georgia ACDA Conference, at Georgia and three auditioned choirs, and a staff of in Richmond, and received the 2003 Distin- Music Educators In-Service Conferences, fi ve. Invitational performances include the guished Artist-in-Residence title at Eastern and at a Georgia NATS Convention. 2000, 2002, and 2006 ACDA Southern Mennonite University. She is a regular guest Division Conferences, the 1996, 1998, 2004, lecturer for music education classes at James Martha Shaw, Lester and 2008 Virginia MEA Conferences, and Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Harbin Chair of Con- the 2001 and 2009 OAKE National Confer- ducting, is professor ences. Collaborations include performances of music and the with the American Boychoir, The Washington director of choral Symphonic Brass Quintet in 2003, 2006, Shorter University activities at Shorter 2009, and 2011, and with the James Madison Shorter Chorale University. In 2008, University Percussion Ensemble in 2011. The she was honored SVCC has sung at the White House, and with the President’s the Pageant of Peace National Tree Lighting Award for excellence in teaching and schol- Ceremony in Washington D.C. with Placido arship. At Shorter, she teaches conducting, Domingo and the National Coast Guard ear-training, sight-singing, and music methods Band in 1997. classes and conducts the Shorter Chorale. The SVCC has sung at the Carnegie Hall Shaw is the founding director of the Spivey Children’s Choir Festival, the Tuscany Inter- Hall Children’s Choir. The choir has been national Children’s Choir Festival in Italy, and featured in performances for state, divi- the Pacifi c Rim Children’s Chorus Festival in The Shorter Chorale is the select choral sion, and national ACDA conferences, and Hawaii. They performed for the Mahatma ensemble of Shorter University in Rome, national conferences of OAKE and Chorus Gandhi Center for Global Nonviolence Georgia. In the past fi ve years, the Chorale America, and on NPR’s Performance Today Awards Ceremony at James Madison Uni- has recorded two CDs, Beautiful River (2009) and From the Top. versity for Archbishop Desmond Tutu and and A Savior from On High (2007), the latter She received her BME from Shorter for former President Jimmy Carter. of which was chosen as an “exemplary” recording by critic Alan Swanson in Fanfare College and her MS in music education from Magazine. The Shorter Chorale performs the University of Tennessee. Prior to joining Julia J. White is each year in churches and schools through- the faculty at Shorter in 1999, Shaw studied the artistic director out the Southeast, and continues its tradition at the University of South Carolina, where and founder of the of excellence with triennial summer concert she was a member of the faculty and earned Shenandoah Valley tours to countries such as France, Yugoslavia, her DMA in conducting. Children’s Choir. She Romania, Greece, Russia, England, Italy, and holds a BM from DePauw University and an MM from Westminster Choir College, Princeton. White has done post- graduate specialization in children's choirs at Westminster Choir College, the American Boychoir School, Royal School of Church Music, and Choral Music Experience Institute at Northern Illinois University, where she received Levels I-III certifi cation and Artist Teacher Diploma. She has studied long-term in Vienna, Austria, and England and holds the Level I Kodály training. White served two terms as the ACDA Children's Choir R&S Chair for Virginia and created the ACDA Virginia/Maryland Honors Choir in 1998 and 1999. In 2008, White directed the ACDA Western Division Conference Children’s Honor Choir in Ana- heim, CA and the OAKE National Children’s

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The Can- tus Chamber Choir of the South Caro- lina Governor’s School for the Arts and Hu- The University of Kentucky (UK) Men’s Chorus is an eighty- manities (SCG- voice ensemble composed of freshmen to graduate students SAH) serves as from a variety of musical backgrounds and academic disciplines. the primary vo- Established in the Fall of 2002, the Men’s Chorus is the newest cal ensemble for those students enrolled as vocalists. The choir choral ensemble at UK. The choir’s repertoire includes Grego- has been featured throughout South Carolina in a variety of rian chant to music of the twenty-ﬁ rst century. venues including gubernatorial inaugurations, local concerts and The Men’s Chorus performed at the 2011 ACDA National collaborative performances, state ACDA appearances, cathedral Convention in Chicago, the 2010 Intercollegiate Male Choruses concert series, and state-wide middle school and high school National Convention, the 2008 ACDA Southern Division Con- performances. Cantus has appeared on stage with professional ference, the 2006 NCCO National Conference, and the 2006 vocalists such as the Boston-based unaccompanied group Ball MENC National Conference. in the House and the Cantus Vocal Ensemble of Minneapolis. The UK Men’s Chorus is dedicated to promoting and cel- Vocalists at the Governor’s school typically attend for their ebrating male singing at all stages and for all ages. The group junior and senior years of high school. In addition to their vocal hosts an event each year called “Male Chorus Day,” where studies, students take a full academic load and music theory and hundreds of high school and middle school students come to music history. Music students at the Governor’s School have campus and learn male chorus literature and techniques. been recognized at state and national levels for their musical achievements individually and in ensembles. Jefferson Johnson is director of choral activities at the University of Kentucky, David E. Rhyne directs the choral pro- where he conducts the University gram and teaches conducting and music Chorale and Men's Chorus. He teaches theory. Choruses at the Governor’s advanced choral conducting, choral School include two ensembles. The methods and literature, and directs Cantus Chamber Choir has performed the graduate program (MM and DMA on two concert tours of Europe, at the degrees) in choral music. A native of Basilica of St. Peter in Vatican City, and St. Atlanta, Johnson received his BM from Thomas Church in Leipzig. the University of Georgia (magna cum laude, 1978), his MM In addition to his work at the Gov- from the University of Tennessee (1981), and his DMA from the ernor’s School, David is also in his eighth season as director of University of Colorado (1992). While living in Atlanta, Johnson music ministries at Trinity Lutheran Church of Greenville, SC. was also a member of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus He is also the founder and artistic director of the Greenville and Chamber Chorus conducted by Robert Shaw. Area Lutheran Chorale, a community-based vocal ensemble He has conducted honor choruses in 30 states and has specializing in sacred choral music. Rhyne has degrees in organ appeared as a featured clinician at ACDA or MENC conven- performance from Lenoir-Rhyne College and the College- tions in Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Conservatory of Music of the University of Cincinnati. He Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, earned a DMA in choral conducting from the University of Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and West Virginia. Miami (FL), where he was a student of Don Oglesby and Jo- Michael Scheibe. 2012 Division Conferences - Performing Choirs - Performing Conferences Division 2012

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who have appeared at regional and national University of Louisville Convention in Ft. Collins, CO. They performed in the feature major works concert ACDA, NCCO, and MENC conferences. Cardinal Singers and served as the demonstration choir for Although the Chorale performs primarily the graduate conducting competition at unaccompanied repertoire, they regularly the 2009 ACDA National Conference in perform major works, often in collaboration Oklahoma City. They performed the Head- with the Louisville Orchestra. liner Concert at the 2008 ACDA Southern Division Conference in Louisville and at the Kent Hatteberg is 2004 ACDA Southern Division Conference director of choral in Nashville. activities at the Uni- Locally, the Cardinal Singers perform for versity of Louisville, community functions, ofﬁ cial university gath- where he directs the The Cardinal Singers were founded in erings, and recruiting events. The ensemble Collegiate Chorale 1970 as an outreach organization for the rehearses twice weekly on the University and Cardinal Sing- University of Louisville. The Cardinal Singers of Louisville campus. Several of the singers ers, administrates the performed at the 2011 NCCO National are members of the Collegiate Chorale, masters program in

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choralch l conducting,d i and teaches graduate and undergraduate Virginia Commonwealth University ccourses in conducting, choral literature, and choral techniques. HHe earned his BME in piano and voice summa cum laude from Commonwealth Singers thet University of Dubuque and his MM and DMA in choral conductingc from The University of Iowa. Named a Fulbright The Virginia ScholarS in 1990, Hatteberg studied conducting and choral- Common- orchestralo literature in Berlin. Hatteberg received the University wealth Uni- ofo Louisville Distinguished Faculty Award for Research in the versity (VCU) CreativeC and Performing Arts in 2010, the KCDA Robert K. Common- BaarB Award for choral excellence in 2008, and the University of wealth Singers DubuqueD Career Achievement Award in 2008. He was named is the most thet KMEA College/University Teacher of the Year in 2004 and select of four a University of Louisville Faculty Scholar in 2002. choral ensembles at VCU. Commonwealth Singers have perfor- manced and demonstrated for the Virginia MEAAnnual Confer- ence, and have participated in two previous ACDA southern division conference. The choir also had a featured role in the Valdosta State University 1995 world premiere of Samuel Jones’s oratorio The Temptation of Jesus with the Richmond Symphony. Chamber Singers In June, 2008 the Commonwealth Singers were the host The Valdosta choir for “A Mid-Atlantic Choral Tribute to the 2008 Olympics,” State Univer- accompanied by the Beijing Film Philharmonic Orchestra in sity (VSU) the Forbidden City Concert Hall, Beijing. The choir also gave Chamber Sing- performances at the Oriental Arts Center in Shanghai, and at ers bring to- Fudan University, one of VCU’s 16 partner institutions around gether students the world. from a variety of majors John Guthmiller came to the VCU acrossa the university. They are the premiere auditioned choral department of music as director of groupg at VSU and perform the highest level of choral music. The choral activities in 1988. His choirs have ChamberC Singers perform a variety of choral genres and are performed throughout the southern thet University’s primary touring ensemble, performing annually United States, in Poland, and the former throughoutt the state of Georgia. They have performed for the Soviet Union, and at the Arkansas MEA GeorgiaG MEA several times, including a 2010 performance with Convention, Virginia MEA Conference, Neal.N This is their ﬁ rst appearance at an ACDA conference. The and at ACDA southern division and ChamberC Singers have performed nationally in cities, including National conferences. He is a former Atlanta,A Nashville and New York City, as well as international associate conductor of the Norman Luboff Choir and guest tourst to Italy and Poland. conductor of the Virginia Chorale. Guthmiller holds degrees in music education, music history Paul Neal is assistant professor and and literature, and in the literature and performance of choral director of choral studies at Valdosta music. His articles on vocal pedagogy in the choral rehearsal and State University (VSU). VSU’s choral on the choral music of Antonin Dvorák have appeared in the ensembles have earned invitations to Choral Journal. He served as state ACDA president for Virginia perform for the Georgia Music Educa- from 1995–97 and also served as music director for downtown tors Association and at ACDA division Richmond’s 2nd Presbyterian Church from 1990 –99. He led conference. A native of Louisiana, Neal the adult choir from the church in two performances at the serves as associate conductor of the 1999 ACDA National Conference in Chicago. Valdosta Symphony Orchestra, and has serveds as assistant conductor for the Santa Fe Desert Chorale anda the Texas Choral Artists. Recent conducting engagements includei a performance in Lincoln Center, the Georgia All-State Choir,C and the professional vocal ensemble, Clerestory, in San Francisco.F 2012 Division Conferences - Performing Choirs - Performing Conferences Division 2012

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Vocal Arts Ensemble of Durham He earned a doctoral degree in choral The ensemble also has performed at the conducting at the Yale School of Music, a White House. masters degree from the University of Wis- The Select Women’s Ensemble has consin (with Robert Fountain), and a bach- consistenly received superior ratings at the elors degree from Yale. Before coming to annual performance assessment festival Duke in 1984, he held conducting positions sponsored for the district by VMEA and at the University of Chicago, Yale School of also has received superior ratings during the Music/Institute of Sacred Music, and Mount ensemble’s annual spring trip to participate Holyoke College. in a music festival. In addition, the ensemble has often been awarded the outstanding choir award of the festival. Adjudicators The Vocal Arts Ensemble (VAE) of Durham often have commented on the ensemble’s was founded in 1996 by Rodney Wynkoop. W.T. Woodson High School mature tone and musicality. VAE performed at the 2005 ACDA National Select Women’s Ensemble Conference in Los Angeles, and 2000, 2004, Michael L. Ehrlich and 2008 Southern Division Conferences. began teaching at They appeared at the 2002 NC-ACDA Fall W.T. Woodson High Conference in Greensboro. VAE has per- School in 1988. Eh- formed with Durham’s Mallarmé Chamber rlich recently com- Players, on the WUNC-FM Composers-in- pleted his term as Context Series, and at several of Hinshaw president of the Music’s annual Celebration Concerts. VAE’s VMEA. His other ac- mostly unaccompanied repertoire ranges The Select Women’s Ensemble of W. T. Woodson High School has sung at the 1993 tive memberships from the Renaissance to the present and has include ACDA and the Fairfax County included such diverse and challenging works and 1999 Virginia MEA State Conventions. This will be the ensemble’s third appearance Choral Directors Association, of which he is as Tallis’s Spem in alium, Schoenberg’s Friede a past president. He is also a past president auf Erden, Martin’s Messe, Penderecki’s Agnus at an ACDA southern division conference. Dei, Orban’s Stabat Mater, and MacMillan’s Cantos Sagrados. In 2006 they commissioned and premiered Love Song, a work for violin and chorus by Imant Raminsh.

Rodney Wynkoop is director of university choral music, and director of chapel music at Duke Uni- versity. He conducts the Duke University Chorale, Chamber Choir, Duke Chapel Choir, and Schola Cantorum. He is also conductor of the 150-voice Choral Society of Durham and its Chamber Choir. He teaches choral conducting in the music department at Duke, and holds the title of professor of the practice of music. He was given a Meritorious Service Award for Ex- ecutive Leadership at Duke in 2009. Three of Wynkoop’s choirs—the Choral Society of Durham, the Duke Chapel Choir, and VAE—have performed at ACDA southern division conferences.

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of VCDA. The Academy offers a full range of college preparatory in- In 1977, he began his college career at Indiana University structional tracks. Our student body is incredibly diverse, bring- in Bloomington, receiving his bachelors degree in music and ing together students from many different ethnic backgrounds theatre. He received his masters in music education and choral and religious faiths. conducting from Florida State University. Woodward Academy’s Camerata was founded in 1977 He was a ﬁ nalists for Fairfax County Teacher of the Year. by Alan McClung. While Camerata originally performed only He was named a USA Today All-American Teacher. The Fairfax- Renaissance repertoire, the choir now proudly performs music Annandale Times selected him as its Fairfax-Annandale Citizen of all eras. of the Year. He was the recipient of the 2007 VCDA Sidney Swiggett Award for outstanding service to the Virginia Choral Directors Association. Ehrlich was honored to be named W. T. Stephen Rotz is in his ﬁ fth year at Wood- Woodson High School PTSO’s 2008– 09 Teacher of the Year. ward Academy. His duties at Woodward include directing Camerata, Festival Sing- ers, the Upper School Treble Choir, and the Middle School Men’s Chorus. Rotz Woodward Academy co-directs the Middle School Ensemble and teaches AP music theory. He earned Camerata his MM in choral conducting from the University of Alabama, and BME from Since its found- Shorter College (now Shorter University), where he was a ing in 1900, First Honor Graduate. He has been a member of the Atlanta Woodward Symphony Orchestra Chorus and served as a church music Academy has director. Under Rotz’s leadership, Woodward Academy’s Cam- embraced a erata performed at the 2009 GMEA In-Service Conference. philosophy of Rotz serves GMEA on the committee for LGPE repertoire. education that asserts the importance and uniqueness of the individual student. Our motto “Excellence, Character, Opportunity” expresses the long-standing commitment that enables Woodward Academy to make a positive difference in each student’s education.

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Southern Division Winston-Salem, North Carolina A New MModelodo for Professional Choirs from conﬁ ned to notes, rhythms, or vocal technique. Through an engaging and empowering session using the responses of – featuring Seraphic Fire over 200 choral students, Andrea will discuss the predominant themes of meaning found by these singers. Utilizing the students’ Patrick Dupré Quigley and James Bass of the Grammy- own words, session attendees will explore positive and practical nominated ensemble Seraphic Fire discuss the changing trends means of applying this information when planning instruction in American choral singing over the past 50 years that led to the and shaping the choral rehearsal environment. growth of professional ensembles around the country. Andrea Ramsey is currently a PhD Patrick Dupré Quigley will be the clinician for this session. His student in choral music education at choir, Seraphic Fire is a headliner at this conference. His photo Michigan State University. A native and bio can be found there on page 57. Arkansan, Andrea has eleven years of teaching experience, including work with children’s, junior high/middle school, and university choruses. She is a regu- Better Quality Recordings of Your Choir larly commissioned, and ASCAP award- winning composer. Engagements for 2011–12 include presentations at the 7th Annual International This session will explore when to use professional versus Symposium on Sociology in Music Education, Central, Southern amateur recording resources, how to facilitate greater success and Northwestern division ACDA conferences, as well as con- and create better recordings and how to effectively communi- ducting appearances with the Louisiana All-State Men’s Chorus, cate with recording engineers. This session is primarily focused and the Missouri All-State 7-8 Grade Honor Choir. on capturing live events.

Andrew Robinette previously served as the director of choral music at Philadel- De-Mystifying Conducting: phia University and on the music faculty of Temple University. He holds degrees Body, Breath and Center from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and Temple University This session will present concepts and new approaches to and is currently a DMA candidate at conducting to transform your rehearsals and performances. the University of South Carolina under Larry Wyatt. James Jordan will be the clinician for this session. He is also presenting a session at the Eastern Division conference. His Jeffery Francis is the recording engineer photo and bio can be found there on page 43. for the University of South Carolina School of Music, where he has developed and teaches the audio recording program. A graduate of the University of From the Cloister: An Introduction Miami, he was previously a senior technical engineer for Sony Music Studios to the Choral Music of Isabella Leonarda (New York) and served as an adjunct faculty for McGill University’s (Montreal, Isabella Leonarda (1620–1704) entered an Ursaline Con- Canada) Graduate Sound Recording program vent at the age of 16. During her many years at the convent, Leonarda composed and published 200 compositions making her the most published female composer of the Baroque era. This session will introduce choral musicians to her music using Choir is … examples from several of the forms listed above. In addition Meanings of the Choral Experience, it will explore her style of composition by presenting 3 of her grades 7-12. compositions with a conductor analysis and performance practice suggestions. The Murray State University Concert Choir will perform the examples and works being presented. While music making is essential to the choral experience, 2012 Division Conferences - Interest Sessions - Interest Conferences Division 2012 the meanings found by choral students in grades 7-12 are far

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Bradley L. Almquist is director of cho- about what's coming next? Does the sensory clutter allow ral activities at Murray State University. us to be in the moment? Making decisions in the moment He received a bachelor and masters in based upon what we hear rather than what we expect can music education from the University of be challenging to the conductor. Cheryl Dupont and Donna North Dakota and was awarded the fi rst Thomasson will offer guidance and insight in active listening DMA in choral conducting by Louisiana that informs successful rehearsals and concerts. Members of State University, Baton Rouge. the Charlotte Children’s Choir, Artistic Director, Sandy Holland, His choirs have performed for a will assist during the session. Kentucky Choral Directors Association, Kentucky Music Educators Association, MENC Southern Divi- Cheryl Dupont is the executive/artistic sions Conference, ACDA Southern Division Conference, and director of the New Orleans Children's ana MENC National Conference. In addition, they performed Chorus. She is equally experienced at thet Raymond Brock Memorial Commission at the 2006 ACDA working with mixed choirs on the high SouthernS Division Conference. school, college, and adult levels. She has Almquist is the recipient of the Murray State University conducted numerous all-state choirs Board of Regents Teaching Excellence award, the MSU College and festivals throughout the country, for ofo Humanities and Fine Arts Award for Creative/Scholarly Activ- children, middle school, junior high, and ity, and the MSU College of Humanities and Fine Arts Award high school. Dupont is a master teacher forf Outstanding Service. He was honored at the 2004 Summer for the Choral Music Experience Institute, working in the fi eld KyACDA convention with the Robert K. Baar Award for choral of advanced training of choral teacher/conductors. She directed excellence.e He received the fi rst Charles and Marleen Johnson the Children’s Honor Choir at the 2006 ACDA Southern Divi- OutstandingO Music Faculty Award at Murray State University. sion Conference and she conducted the Youth Treble Honor He was honored with the award again in 2011. Choir at the 2010 ACDA Western Division Conference. She is the founder and artistic director of the Crescent City Choral Festival, held annually in her native city of New Orleans. The Murray State University Con- Donna Thomasson is a choral music cert Choir is the educator, conductor, and entrepreneur. premier choral or- She has been guest conductor for chil- ganization at Mur- dren's and junior high/middle school ray State University. honor choirs and all-state choirs. She Under the baton of holds her BME from the University of director of choral Florida and her MM from the University activities Bradley L. of Kentucky. Thomasson received the Almquist, the choir Artist Teacher Certifi cate and is a mas- has sung at a Ken- ter teacher for the Choral Music Experience Institute, and has tuckyt MEA conference; Kentucky Choral Directors Association served on faculty at CME courses. She currently serves on the conference;c MENC Southern Division Conference; MENC Advisory Board of the New Orleans Children’s Chorus and is nationaln convention, and an ACDA Southern Division confer- a life member of ACDA. ence.e They have toured England, Scotland, and Wales; Germany Austria,A the Czech Republic and Hungary; Italy; and Ireland, Wales,W and England. Dedicated to the study and performance of choral mas- Johannes Herbst: Colonial Winston-Salem's terworkst of all musical epochs the choir frequently appears withw regional orchestras performing major choral/orchestral Bridge to the Berlin Song School repertory.r In addition to standard repertory, the choir regularly commissionsc and/or premieres new music. The life of Johannes Herbst represents the fi rst generation of the renewed Moravian Church in Europe and America. Unique among the well-traveled Moravian leadership, he lived in every signifi cant center of Moravian life from his birth in 1735, until I'm Listening—Really? his death in 1812. He is buried in Winston-Salem's Moravian cemetery. Atypical among Moravian leaders, Herbst was actu-

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educational responsibilities. He held every Aristotle’s theories for spoken and writ- leadership position of the renewed Moravian Making Music Inside-Out: ten rhetoric are adapted in this session as Church, including his appointment as Bishop Text, Context, and a rubric to guide conductors in providing in Salem shortly before his death. This ses- the Gift of Self fresh insight into great choral compositions. sion explores Herbst's vocal compositions, The result is a “breath of fresh air” for choral which are monuments of late eighteenth performance. century American music and represent a This session will use music of Randall signiﬁ cant sampling of song migration from Thompson, Tomas Luis da Victoria, and Paul E. Oakley is the the Berlin song school to colonial America. George Frederick Handel to assist conduc- director of choral and tors in ﬁ nding the inner clues often hidden sacred music studies Tim Sharp will be the clinician for this ses- in the musical notation that provide some and a professor of sion. He is also presiding over a session insight into how the music should actually music at Kentucky for another conference. His bio and photo sound. While the repertoire for this session Wesleyan College can be found there on page 48. is written for mixed voices (soprano, alto, in Owensboro, Ken- tenor, bass), the session is applicable to any tucky. He is the editor and all who are involved in making choral for a series of choral music. compositions for Colla Voce Music, Inc. Each

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year, Oakley conducts all-state high school choirs and festival presenter's greatest joys in the choral profession is seeing these honor choruses throughout the United States and abroad. “non-singers” thrive and eventually grow into fully-functioning Oakley has taught at three ACDA national conferences “choir enthusiasts.” and he has performed at four. He has been a clinician for divisional conferences, and is a frequent clinician/conductor at Andrew Crane received his DMA from state ACDA and MENC conferences. He teaches workshops Michigan State University, and his MM and performs recitals and hymn festivals for chapters of AGO and BM from Brigham Young University. and the Choristers Guild. He has performed for the American Crane previously served as director Institute of Organbuilders National Conference. In 2006, he de- of choral activities at California State livered the Mortenson Dialogues in Sacred Music at Concordia University, San Bernardino, where he College in Morehead, Minnesota. received the College of Arts and Letters Oakley has performed in many widely respected venues, Outstanding Teaching Faculty Award. His among them: Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, The Kennedy Cen- choirs have appeared at conventions ter for the Performing Arts, The White House, The Cathedral of of ACDA, California MEA, and the Southern California Vocal St. John the Divine, Washington National Cathedral, Westmin- Association. Crane is also the former choral director at Provo ster Abbey, Coventry Cathedral, The Cathedral of Notre Dame High School (UT). Additionally, Crane performs frequently as (Paris), Chartres Cathedral, Christ Church Cathedral (Dublin), a tenor soloist in the choral/orchestral repertoire, and has Salzburg’s Domkirche, Roy Thompson Hall (Toronto), St. Mi- appeared with such groups as the Los Angeles Bach Festival, chael’s Collegiate Church in Munich, the National Cathedral of Lansing (MI) Symphony Orchestra, San Bernardino Symphony, the Church of Sweden in Uppsala, and the Piccolo-Spoleto Fes- and with orchestras in Italy, Austria, and Hungary. He has pub- tival. Oakley holds his MM in conducting from Boston University lished articles and reviews in Choral Journal and Classical Singer. where he was a Dean’s Scholar. He holds two undergraduate degrees from Friends University, one in organ performance and another in sacred music. He was a Presser Scholar in Music. A Practical Guide to Nineteenth-Century Choral/Orchestral Performance Practice My Principal and Students Want a Glee Choir NOW What Do I Do? Today’s performers imagine that modern ideas about how to perform Romantic music correspond with what the composers themselves would have heard. But in recent years, This session will provide guidance in developing a basic restoration of many early recordings and research into vari- teaching philosophy for inclusion of a show choir, utilizing the ous written sources have revealed a very different picture. A ACDA Show Choir Standards of Excellence, and basic informa- lost tradition of nineteenth-century interpretation is currently tion on how to achieve those standards. being re-discovered by a number of performers and scholars, and a few speciﬁ c techniques can bring our performances of Robert Lawrence will be the clinician for this session. He is also Romantic choral repertoire much closer to the sound world of presenting a session at another conference. His bio and photo Brahms, Schumann, Bruckner, and Verdi. This session will intro- can be found on page 48. duce these techniques through early recordings, contemporary descriptions of choral interpretation, visual evidence, and live demonstration.

No Experience? No Problem! Deanna Joseph serves as professor of Vocal Instruction conducting and director of choral activities at Georgia State University, where for Non-Singers she conducts the University Singers, teaches conducting and choral literature, This session will focus on vocal techniques that are easily and supervises the masters program in understood by students with little to no singing experience, and choral conducting. that will help them quickly become contributing members of a She is the founder and artistic direc- choral ensemble. We will also discuss speciﬁ c teaching strate- tor of the semi-professional chorus,

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three years, Joseph held a conducting posi- University of New York at Potsdam, her MA in choral conducting from Indiana University. tion on the Artist Faculty of the New York in music education from Montclair State Uni- Corbin directs the A Cappella Choir, State Summer School for the Arts—School versity in Montclair, New Jersey, and her DM Chamber Singers, Calhoun County Civic of Choral Studies. Joseph has a DMA in conducting from the Eastman School of Music, where she served as an instructor of undergraduate conducting and assistant conductor of the Eastman Chorale and the Eastman-Roch- ester Chorus. While at Eastman, she was a recipient of the Walter Hagen Conducting Prize and the TA Award. Her research interests include nineteenth-century choral- orchestral performance practice. She has presented on this topic at ACDA and other professional conferences. Joseph was a conducting fellow at the Oregon Bach Festival in the summers of 2005 and 2006, where she studied with Helmuth Rilling.

Preparing Female Student interact Choral Conductors for Success in the New Millenium

This session will be a panel discussion of college and university teachers of conducting excellence comes to where that will address the preparation of student conductors, with particular attention to the special challenges facing female choral conductors, and how best to mentor and prepare them for successful careers. Panelists include: Hilary Apfelstadt, director of choral activities, faculty of music, Uni- versity of Toronto; Sara Lynn Baird, music Jerry Blackstone Eugene Rogers Julie Skadsem department chair, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama; Susan Klebanow, director of cho- mpulse 2012 ral activities, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. ! ! !% ! Patricia Corbin ! ! joined the David L. ! % ! $ # Walters Department " $ of Music at Jackson- ville State University ! !!! (JSU) as director of choral activities in the fall of 1999. She received her BME from the Crane School of Music at State

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Rehearsal Technique Chorale, and teaches applied voice advanced choral conducting, choral literature, and class recorder. Her research interests According to include the late masses of Czech Baroque composer Jan Dis- the Twelve Commandments mas Zelenka (1679–1745) and the choral music of Alabama composers. This session will explore rehearsal techniques for the choral Corbin is the organist/choirmaster of St. Michael and All conductor, drawing from William Dehning’s “12 Command- Angels Episcopal Church in Anniston, Alabama. She is the Ala- ments” as the primary basis of the session; (excerpted from bama College & University R&S Chair and is also a member of Dehning’s Chorus Confi dential: Decoding the Secret of the Choral MENC, NATS, and AGO. Art (2003: Pavane). The session will also explore less familiar techniques such as “thesis-antithesis-synthesis”; “macro-micro- macro”; and “stimulus variation.” All of the foregoing can be the foundation of a effective choral rehearsal technique and will Real Men Sing! bring better results, faster and more enjoyably, while helping A Session for Techniques, choruses grow as musicians and people. Repertoire, and Recruitment Erin Colwitz received her BM from for Male Voices. the University of Minnesota. She later completed her MM and DMA from Real Men Sing! Is an interest session that will focus on vari- the University of Southern California ous aspects of male singing such as recruitment techniques and in choral music. Colwitz is the director methods, effective pedagogical techniques, varied, appropriate of choral activities at the University of repertoire and director approach. How do we motivate them Alabama in Huntsville (UAH). She con- to sing, and encourage them to sing “like men” in a healthy ducts the Chamber Choir and Concert way? How do we fi nd appropriate repertoire for them in a Choir, teaches music history, conducting, variety of styles, without essentially singing sea chantys and choral music, and diction classes. Colwitz is also active with spirituals, though we love them? Pedagogical techniques will be opera and theatre at UAH, having served as music director for employed and demonstrated, and resources such as publishers many musicals and conducted a recent production of Purcell’s and recordings will be shared. Dido and Aeneas. Colwitz is frequently a guest conductor, contest adjudicator, William M. Skoog is professor of music, and choral clinician throughout Alabama. She also serves of TN, holding the Elizabeth Daughdrill Fine the Alabama ACDA board and is the founder and supervisor Arts Endowed Chair, serving as chair of of the UAHuntsville student chapter of ACDA. the department of music and director of choral studies at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. He conducts the Rhodes Singers, Chamber Singers, and Sacred Songs for Sacred Time: the MasterSingers Chorale, perform- A Survey of Church Music ing often with the Memphis Symphony Orchestra. He is also director of the R.S.V.P. Men’s Chorus in by the Late Glenn Edward Burleigh Germantown, Tennessee. His choirs have performed at ADCA, MENC, and IMC conferences, and regional, national, and inter- The primary goal of this session is to expose church musi- national choral festivals including; the 2010 Rome International cians and other conference attendees to the choral music of Choral Festival, the 2008 Lucerne International Choral Festival, the late Glenn Edward Burleigh. Most widely known for his and 2004 and 2006 Dvorak Festivals in Prague. Skoog holds his internationally acclaimed composition titled Order My Steps, this DA in music from the University of Northern Colorado, MA session is intended to introduce the signifi cant sacred/gospel in conducting and voice pedagogy from the Lamont School of music Burleigh composed for worship. A survey of Burleigh’s Music at Denver University, and BA in music and theatre from music will be showcased within the framework of the Christian Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minnesota. Calendar Year. Participants will read, sing, and listen to select, accessible octavos and congregational songs appropriate for each season of the liturgical year. Members of the Oakwood

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Tony McNeill was (1) Understanding why rehearsal manage- Presbyterian Church appointed guest lec- ment is essential to a successful choral in Lakeland. Gordon turer in choral music program and the longevity of a choral music also serves as direc- at Appalachian State director’s voice and career, (2) Identifying tor of choral activi- University (ASU) in the most common rehearsal management ties at Southeastern Boone, NC. In this problems, (3) Developing and communicat- University. position he conducts ing expectations of students in the ensemble, After teaching for the ASU Jazz Vocal and (4) Implementing simple strategies for ﬁ fteen years in public Ensemble, Men's Glee documentation and action that maintain the schools, he served as Club, and Gospel Choir. “tempo” of a fast paced rehearsal setting. choral director and chair of music educa- McNeill received his BME from Appala- tion at The Crane School of Music, SUNY chian State University as a North Carolina Amy Aucoin serves Potsdam and director of vocal studies at Teaching Fellow. He was awarded the Uni- as an assistant pro- Christopher Newport University in New- versity Fellowship Scholarship Award to fessor of music at port News, VA. attend Florida State University (Tallahassee, Murray State Uni- As musical director of the Ottawa Choral FL), where he completed MMP in choral versity, where she Society (OCS), Gordon collaborated with conducting. teaches courses in the National Arts Centre Orchestra under He is a member of the Phi Beta Sigma choral methods, mu- the direction of Pinchas Zukerman. He pre- Fraternity, Inc., Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fra- sic education, and pared the OCS for additional performances ternity, ACDA, AGO, and a former member aural skills, and con- with Franz-Paul Decker, Joel Revzen, David of the Board of Directors for the North ducts the University Chorale. She is the Currie, and Duain Wolfe. During these Carolina Dance Theater. He served the Advi- conductor of the Paducah Symphony Youth years, he conducted the Ottawa Symphony sory Board for the National Religious Music Chorus in Paducah, Kentucky. Aucoin had Orchestra and the Ottawa Choral Society Week Association and was as a member the opportunity to direct high school and in an all Brahms and Bruckner program and of the Community Advisory Board for the junior high choral music programs in the Ter- conducted the combined choirs of the OCS Community School of the Arts of Charlotte. rebonne and Lafourche Parish public schools and the Crane Chamber Choir in the U. K. He is the Founder/President of The Call 2 in southeastern Louisiana. premiere of Morton Lauridsen’s Lux Aeterna Worship Group, which functions as a refer- with the English Chamber Orchestra and ral and resource entity for church musicians later with the Bath Philharmonia. Gordon and clergy. holds his MM and DMA from The Florida Serious Worship State University College of Music. The Oakwood University Aeolians, con- or Serious Worship: ducted by Jason Max Ferdinand will serve Moving Well Beyond the as the demonstration choir for this session. They are also performing in the Music Worship Wars or Sixty-Minute Miracles: &Worship concert at this conference. Their Why We Should Producing Music of Quality bio and photo can be found on page 61. Have Listened to John Cage for Every Sunday

The purpose of this session is to examine Sunday mornings come 52 weeks a year, Save Your Voice the role music plays in Christian worship. and usually, church music directors have The presenter will discuss the limitations only one hour of preparation time each of and Your Sanity: of worship styles (both new and old) and those weeks, much less preparing a seasonal Classroom Management in consider the role Christian education plays in long-form work. By combining my own ex- the Choral Rehearsal Setting how we understand music in worship. Addi- perience with that of other church directors, tionally, the diminished role of the traditional I have developed a method by which my church choir, particularly in smaller churches, choir sings a piece of musical quality every This session will present rehearsal man- will be examined. Sunday with only 60 minutes of rehearsal agement in a positive light by focusing on time. My desire is to share the techniques understanding the inherent problems and I have learned to ease the burden for oth- Daniel A. Gordon has led music programs ﬁ nding a solution that does not complicate a ers who are struggling to keep their church in Presbyterian churches in Weedsport, busy rehearsal so that choral music directors choirs on task. NY; Oakland, FL; Norfolk, VA; Yorktown, can devote their energy to the music. The VA; and Canton, NY before arriving at First topic will be presented in four main parts:

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The Palmet- Jonathan Adkins is director of music to Voices at First Christian Church (Disciples of are made up Christ) in Morehead, KY, and holds a of alumni of day job in the insurance industry. He Sonja Sepúlve- has an MM in choral conducting from da. Formed in Morehead State University, and a bach- 2006, the choir elors degree in general music. His pri- strives to preserve the legacy of the Negro Spiritual and share mary conducting teachers include Greg the vision that this unique American choral art form is for ev- Detweiler and Mark Suderman. Adkins eryone. The choir sang at the South Carolina Music Educators beganb singing at age 13 with the CrossRoads Youth Team of Conference in 2009 and combined with the Brewton-Parker Pikeville,P KY, under the direction of Yvonne "Birdie" Clark, and he Concert Choir in the summer of 2010 to sing a concert at heldh his ﬁ rst church music director job at age 17. He has been Carnegie Hall. a member of choirs at Morehead State University, Georgetown College,C the Lexington Singers, and church and clinic choirs.

Women of Strength: The Spiritual as an American Art Form: Choral Works for Women’s Voices Performance Practices and Our actions and behaviors serve as a vocal model and role Comparisons to Gospel model for our singers. Consider this though: are our repertoire choices equally worthy to be role models? If you teach women’s voices, you no doubt ﬁ nd yourself trying to point out strong This session will include a multimedia presentation of the female role models for your students. Yet, our repertoire choices hhistory, composers, songs, and performance practices of the don’t always reﬂ ect these ideals. In this session, it is my intent NNegro Spiritual with a comparison to Gospel and the likenesses to present repertoire suggestions for women’s voices including aand differences of the two styles. The Palmetto Voices, directed middle school, high school, college, and community ensembles. bby Sonja Sepúlveda, will demonstrate by singing arrangements, These options will explore women composers and poets and oold and new, that the Spiritual is an unique American art form women-supportive subject matter, and will appeal to a range aand is for everyone. The choir will premiere a new arrangement of ensemble sizes and ability levels. bby Roland Carter.

Sonja Sepúlveda is director of choral Shelbie L. Wahl is the director of choral activities and theory at Salem College activities at Hollins University in Roa- in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and noke, Virginia, where she conducts two conducts the Salem Chamber Choir, all-women’s ensembles—the University Chorale, and Jazz Voices. Concert Choir and the Talmadge Sing- Graduating from Winthrop Univer- ers. She also teaches aural skills and con- sity with a BME and MM, she earned ducting. Wahl received her DA choral her DMA from the University of South conducting from Ball State University, Carolina. She received the William H. with a secondary degree emphasis in NolteN Graduate Assistant Teaching Award from the University music education. She received her MM in choral conduct- ofo South Carolina. ing from Butler University. Her research interest centers on Sepúlveda is former SC Choral Festival Chairman and repertoire for women’s voices, including a dissertation and serveds as SC All-State Chairman for four years. She also annotated repertoire list titled “Choral Works for Women’s serveds as the state ACDA chairman for jazz and show choirs. Voices: Composed and Texted by Women.” She has presented HerH choirs have toured Europe, Mexico, and Canada and have for conferences of ACDA-Voices United, ACDA Central Divi- performedp concerts for the National Cathedral, Carnegie Hall, sion, College Music Society, and Sister Singers Network, and KennedyK Center, the Lincoln Center, South Carolina Music has an article on women’s repertoire published in the Choral EducatorsE Association (SCMEA), National American Choral Di- Journal. Additionally, Wahl served ten years as musical director rectorsr Association (ACDA), Southern Division ACDA, and the and conductor for the Indianapolis Civic Theatre. MusicM Educators National Conference (MENC). She conducted 2012 Division Conferences - Interest Sessions - Interest Conferences Division 2012 anda sang choral parts for the ABC mini-series, North and South.

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Children's ginia Organization of Kodály Educator's Vocal Arts Camp. Jenkins has earned degrees from Westminster Choir College of Rider University and Temple University, and at Robyn Lana is the founder and manag- both institutions was awarded the Elaine Brown Conduct- ing artistic director of the Cincinnati ing Award. She holds a certifi cate in Kodály pedagogy from ors Children’s Choir, Ensemble-in-Residence Westminster Choir College of Rider University and level at the University of Cincinnati College- two Orff-Schulwerk certifi cation. She is a candidate for Conservatory of Music (CCM). At CCM, DMA in choral conducting at the University of Arizona in she sponsors undergraduate interns Tucson. with the children’s choir and mentors graduate choral conducting students. Level III Orff-Schulwerk certifi ed, she also teaches general music at the Montessori Academy of Cincinnati. Regularly serving as a guest conductor, she has directed international, state and regional honor and High School festival choirs. Her choirs have performed for state, regional, and national professional development conferences. National Joe Miller is conductor of the West- publications include the Choral Journal, Choristers Guild’s The minster Choir and the Westminster Chorister, and Chamber Music America’s CMA Matters. She pres- Symphonic Choir. As director of ently serves ACDA as the National Repertoire and Standards choral activities at Westminster Chair for Children’s and Youth Community Choirs. Choir College of Rider University in Princeton, NJ, he also oversees an extensive choral program that includes eight ensembles. Junior High/Middle School His recordings with the West- minster Choir have garnered critical praise. His debut CD, Flower of Beauty, was described by American Record Guide Lynnel Joy Jenkins is in her third season as setting “the gold standard.” Noël, a collection of French as artistic director of the Princeton Christmas music recorded at New York’s Cathedral of Saint Girlchoir and the choral teacher at John the Divine with mezzo-soprano Jennifer Larmore, was the Timberlane Middle School of the centerpiece of a 2010 national public radio holiday the Hopewell Valley Regional School program. His 2011–12 season with the Westminster Choir District in Pennington, New Jersey. includes a concert tour of the South, several national radio Jenkins served as graduate assistant broadcasts, a Carnegie Hall Community Sing concert and for the music education department their annual residency at the Spoleto Festival USA. at the University of Arizona in Tucson. His season with the Westminster Symphonic Choir in- In this capacity, she conducted the University of Arizona's cludes collaborations with the New York Philharmonic and High School Outreach Choir, supervised student teachers, Peter Schreier (Handel’s Messiah), the Berlin Philharmonic and taught undergraduate music education courses including and Simon Rattle (Mahler’s Symphony No.2) and The Phila- choral, secondary, and elementary methods. delphia Orchestra and Yannick Nezet-Seguin, (Brahms’s Ein Jenkins's conducting and teaching experience ranges from deutsches Requiem). Miller is founder and conductor of the the elementary to collegiate level. She has served as assistant Westminster Chamber Choir and leads the annual West- professor of music education at the Westminster Choir minster Choral Festival. College of Rider University and conductor of the Resident This season he will participate in residencies at Baldwin- Training Choir at the American Boychoir School in Princeton, Wallace Conservatory of Music and Temple University. He New Jersey. She was on the conducting staff of the Temple will also conduct the Texas All-State Choir and Oklahoma University Children's Choir. A former music specialist at the All-State Collegiate Choir. He will serve as headliner for Haverford School in Haverford, Pennsylvania, she developed the Georgia ACDA and collaborate with David Robertson and implemented a general music program for elementary and the Orchestra of St. Luke's for Carnegie Hall’s Carmina school children based on the pedagogy of Zoltán Kodály. Burana Project. Jenkins has lectured and conducted in China, Hong Kong, Iceland, and South Africa. She has served as guest conductor for honor choirs, all-state choirs, and choral festivals in the United States and a clinician for several professional music conferences. She serves on the conducting faculty for the Vir- 2012 Division Conferences - Honor Choir Conduct Choir - Honor Conferences Division 2012

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Crystal Children’s Choir Under his leadership, Crystal Children’s Choir has received superior ratings at many choral festivals and has been rec- Crystal ognized for its outstanding performance Children’s of repertoire rich in cultural diversity. His Choir was unique character has inspired a commu- founded nity choir, Ching Ching Chorus, to con- in the San tinue growing over 30 years. He received Francisco his MS in engineering from University of Bay Area in Texas and his MBA from Santa Clara University. However, his 1994 and passion for choral music has led him to pursue his lifelong dream currently in children’s music education. has 1,000 choristers in Northern California. The choir also expanded to include 400 choristers in Taiwan and 70 choristers in Beijing, China. Its mission is to strive for excel- ed Choirs lence in choral music, providing choral music education Orpheus Chamber Singers to children and blending the best of Eastern and Western musical traditions. The choir has toured Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America, and performed at numerous prestigious venues including Carnegie Hall, St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican, Sydney Opera House, Taipei National Concert Hall, and Beijing Concert Hall.

Karl Chang is the co-founder of two choirs in Silicon Valley, California. He is the president of Crystal Children’s Choir. Orpheus Chamber Singers enriches, inspires, and edu- cates north Texas audiences through critically acclaimed performances of traditional and innovative chamber choral music from the past Yale Glee Club six centuries. Now in its 17th Season, Orpheus continues Jeffrey Douma, Musical Director to provide to the Dallas community a four-program, Emerging Composers Competition nine-performance season, First Prize: $1,500 and possible future publication garnering rave reviews from Compositions for a cappella or accompanied SATB Choir audiences and critics. In 2010, the performance of Please visit www.yalegleeclub.org/New_Music for details Monteverdi’s 1610 Vespers Submissions by April 1, 2012 to: by Orpheus and Houston’s Yale Glee Club early music group Ars Lyrica, Emerging Composers Competition was named the number one P.O. Box 201929, classical performance in the New Haven, CT 06520-1929 metroplex by the Dallas Morning News music critic. Yale Glee Club New Classics Choral Series Orpheus has three com- A source for new music that will engage your singers and your audiences mercial recordings: A Sound Dominick Argento Jenni Brandon Jocelyn Hagen of Angels, Night Sounds, and 2012 Division Conferences - Invit Conferences Division 2012 James Macmillan Michael Gilbertson Ned Rorem a compilation of works from Robert Vuichard Cristian Grases Caroline Mallonee live performances, A World of Sound.

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Donald Krehbiel is the founder and artistic Vocal Majority director of Orpheus Chamber Singers, a 24-voice professional chorus in Dallas, In its 40-year Texas, and is the director of music and history, Vo- organist at First Unitarian Church of Dal- cal Majority las, where he has served for twenty-two (VM) has been years, conducting two adult choirs and known for its administering an active vocal and instru- unaccompa- mental program. He has served as adjunct nied music, but choral director at Southern Methodist University, prepared the the chorus has also sung with many symphony orchestras such 200-voice Dallas Symphony Chorus for performances with the as the Dallas Symphony, Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, Dallas Symphony at the Meyerson Symphony Center and at Texas Wind Symphony, Las Colinas Symphony, Mid-Cities Or- Carnegie Hall, and has led numerous choral repertoire reading chestra, Richardson Symphony, Irving Symphony, San Angelo sessions across the country. He earned his MSM from Southern Symphony, Utah State Symphony, the Constitution Symphony Methodist University and Perkins School of Theology, and BA Orchestra, and the Atlanta Symphony.

ed Choirs from Bethel College, Newton, Kansas. The chorus has also performed at home in the United States, and abroad in England, Scotland, and Canada. In addition, VM has sung in front of U. S. Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush. They have been privileged to share the stage Street Corner Symphony with The Four Freshmen, The Lettermen, The Oak Ridge Boys, The Suntones, the Texas Boys Choir, The Mormon Tabernacle Runners Up of Season 2 of Choir, Glen Campbell, Jimmy Dean, Bob Flanagan, John Gary, NBC’s “The Sing-off” Lee Greenwood, Jack Jones, and Johnny Mann.

The members Jim Clancy is the director of The Vocal of Street Cor- Majority Chorus. Clancy has conducted ner Symphony the Chorus in performances in the are from all over United States, Canada, Scotland, England, the Southeast and before two United States Presi- United States dents. Clancy is often called upon as a and are proud to call Nashville, Tennessee, their home base. coach with national and International The group was formed in May of 2010 for the sole purpose choral groups, having directed multiple of winning NBC’s The Sing Off. SCS brings a unique laid back concerts for ACDA and MENC. He has southern soul to the competition, demonstrating notable inﬂ u- understudied American greats such as Fred Waring, Madeleine ences from artists like Take 6 and Alison Krauss. SCS offers a Marshall, Paris Rutherford, Martha Moore Clancy, Warren An- diverse repertoire and the group has a rich heritage in gospel gell, and B .B. McKinney in addition to pursuing academic work music. Two of the members are grandsons of the legendary at Baylor University, Centenary College, and the University southern gospel tenor Bill Shaw of “The Blackwood Brothers.” In of North Texas. Clancy is known throughout the recording addition, ﬁ ve of the six members were preacher’s kids and grew industry as America’s most recorded bass singer in jingles and up singing and learning music in church. SCS is made up of two commercials on radio and television. sets of brothers and two other unrelated guys, and each brings In October 2000, Clancy was honored by the Barbershop a unique background and character to the group. One member Harmony Society Southwestern District when a new Chorus is a pilot, one is a major label recording artist, one is an operatic Champion trophy was unveiled and named in his honor as the baritone, one is a dichromat, one has indeed met Chuck D., and Jim Clancy Chorus Champion Award. In 2005, Jim Clancy was one has a serious phobia of fruit. When not singing together, the inducted into the Barbershop Harmony Society Hall of Fame. group is actually still just trying to get acquainted! 2012 Division Conferences - Invit Conferences Division 2012

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Allegro Children’s Choir of Arlington Texas. It is an audition only volunteer chorus of 100 members. The chorus operated for several years as the Allegro Con Brio Arlington Civic Chorus and the Arlington Choral Society. In the Spring of 2005, the organization formally adopted its current Heralded as name. As the Arlington Master Chorale, the ensemble continues “the voice of a long tradition of excellence in the performance of classical angels” by the music for the citizens of Arlington and surrounding communities. Kansas City Star, AMC has performed at TCDA (2009), Bass Hall in Fort Worth, Allegro Con Meyerson Symphony Hall in Dallas, Carnegie Hall in New York, Brio inspires St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, and St. Mark’s Cathedral in Venice. thousands of audience mem- Randy Jordan is in his 8th year as direc- bers each year with its varied repertoire and heartfelt singing. tor of the Arlington Master Chorale, and Known for connecting with their audience, Brio is the oldest and his 2nd year as choirmaster at University most advanced choir in the Allegro Children’s Choir program Christian Church in Fort Worth. Prior and is comprised of young ladies, ages 13–18, from the Kansas to those appointments, Jordan was a and Missouri state lines in the KC metro. Brio is a frequent guest choral director in Texas public schools of the Kansas City Symphony and has performed by invitation for 30 years. for state and regional conferences and national events. Allegro Jordan’s choirs have sung at TMEA has toured extensively including the recent 2011 Italy tour (1995, 2005), TCDA (2009), National ACDA (1997, 2005), Bass with performances in St. Peter’s Basilica. Brio combines song Hall, Meyerson Symphony Hall, Disney Symphony Hall, Carnegie and community service with Operation Breakthrough to help Hall, the Vatican, and St. Mark’s Cathedral in Venice. He received defeat childhood poverty. his BME from Texas Tech University, his MME from NTSU (now UNT) and his degree in music supervision from UTA. Christy Elsner is the founder and artistic director of Allegro Children’s Choir. She is a clinician for children’s, youth, and treble choirs. In 2012, she will conduct Beckendorff Junior High School the NWACDA, Wyoming All-State, and Missouri All-State Children’s Honor Varsity Girls’ Choir Choirs. In 2011, she shared her choral The Beckendorff passion with honor choirs in Arkansas, Junior High Var- Kansas, Missouri, Mississippi, and Louisiana. She is the 2010 re- sity Girls’ Choir is cipient of the Kindest-Kansas Citian and a 2008 recipient of the a select ensemble MENC Outstanding Middle Level Educator. She is the current of 39 7th and SWACDA Children’s and Community Youth R&S Chair. She 8th grade sing- received her music education degree from the University of ers. Under the Kansas. Professional memberships include MENC, Chorister’s direction of Ja- Guild, Chorus America, and ACDA. net Menzie, they have consistently received 1st Di- vision and Out- Arlington Master Chorale standing Performer medals at solo and ensemble and earned places in the TMEA Region Honor Choir. They have also earned The Arlington straight superior ratings at UIL as a treble choir and with the Master Chorale Varsity Boys as a mixed choir for ﬁ ve consecutive years. was founded In addition to their March 2012 performance at SWACDA, in 1973 under the girls were selected to perform with the boys at the MS/JH the direction of National Conference for Choral Music in February. They are Michael Kemp, a commended and two-time national winner of The Founda- minister of mu- tion for Music Education Mark of Excellence Project, and have sic at First Pres- consistently been recognized as “Best in Class” and “Overall 2012 Division Conferences - Performing Choirs - Performing Conferences Division 2012 byterian Church Outstanding Choir” at festival competitions.

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Janet Menzie is in her ninth year of nity activities. The choir has received consecutive Texas UIL public-school teaching and eighth at Sweepstakes ratings, and many of these singers have been Beckendorff Junior High. She began the members of Region V All-Region Choir and have received choir program with 76 students when superior ratings at solo and ensemble contests. the school opened in 2004 and has developed the program into one with 200 Lorelai Cole is currently in her sixth year singers in seven choirs and two smaller as head choir director at CJH. She re- performing ensembles. All of her choirs ceived her BM in vocal performance and have been consistent UIL Sweepstakes pedagogy from UT Arlington, while sing- winners, having earned straight ones for the past fi ve years. She ing under the direction of Jing Ling Tam. has presented workshops at CEDFA and TMEA. Menzie has a Cole had successful private voice studios BA in music performance from Central College and an MM in in GCISD and HEBISD and performed vocal performance from the University of Southern California. with Fort Worth Opera before tran- sitioning into the classroom as a choir director. She holds memberships in TMEA, ACDA, and TCDA. Central Junior High School Varsity Treble Choir Cherry Creek High School Central Junior High (CJH) is Meistersingers a 3B Junior High School The Meis- located in tersingers of Euless, Texas. Cherry Creek With 950 High School in students and Greenwood twenty-three Village, CO, different lan- excel at fi nd- guages spoken, CJH has also received the 2010 National Blue ing the fun in Ribbon award and has been named a 2010 NCEA Higher being serious Performing about music. They have performed at numerous conventions School. Cen- for ACDA and MENC, most recently the 2003 National ACDA tral’s choir pro- Convention in New York City (directed then by Bill Erickson) gram is made and the 2010 Colorado Music Educators Conference. They up of over have hosted renowned choral directors including Simon Car- 300 seventh rington, Anton Armstrong, Dennis Keene, Andre Thomas, Z. Westminster Choir College of Randall Stroope and, this coming May, Karen Kennedy. They have Rider University through ninth grade students commissioned works from Rene Clausen, Z. Randall Stroope, Organ Faculty Lawrence Kaptein, Joan Catoni Conlon, and Timothy C. Takach. Tenure Track – Rank Negotiable who participate in one or Annual tours have included locations throughout the United Westminster Choir College of Rider more of seven States, Europe, Australia, and Asia. University is searching for an artist performer of international stature and performing teacher of organ who will continue the groups. Sarah Harrison is in her sixth year as long history of the Westminster Choir The CJH director of choral activities and AP music College in both the training of organists for careers in performance and sacred Varsity Treble theory at Cherry Creek High School. music to start September 1, 2012. For choir is com- Previously, she opened, and spent fi ve more information visit our website at prised of fif- years at, Silver Creek Middle/Senior High www.rider.edu/hr. Position 315399. AA/EOE ty-two select School in Longmont, CO. She sings with singers, who various ensembles throughout the com- are involved in munity and is an orchestral and jazz string various school bassist. She has been a guest conductor

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Longmont, and is the Colorado ACDA High years at Clear Creek, Kyle co-directed the Homer Hanna High School School Mixed R&S Chair. She obtained her Symphonic Chorale with his brother, Sean. Varsity Women’s Choir BME with instrumental and vocal certiﬁ ca- The two directed the ensemble for per- tion, from St. Olaf College, MN, and her MM formances at the Texas MEA Conventions in conducting and music education from in 2004 and 2007, and at ACDA National Colorado State University. Conferences in 2005 and 2009. This year’s performance by the Symphonic Chorale will be the ﬁ rst convention performance directed solely by Kyle Pullen. Clear Creek High School Symphonic Chorale

Duncanville High School Homer Hanna High School is located in A Cappella Men Brownsville, Texas. The choral program has 200 singers, six concert choirs and three show choirs. The Varsity Women’s Choir is a select group from Chorale (top choir) and rehearses entirely outside the school day. The choirs perform seasonal, contest, and Clear Creek High School, located in a community concerts that include a wide Southeastern suburb of Houston, enrolls variety of music. Hanna choirs excel at UIL approximately 170 students in fi ve choirs. by earning consistent Sweepstakes awards The Symphonic Chorale, directed by Kyle and at TMEA auditions by placing multiple Pullen, consists of fi fty-four singers, and is members in the all-state choir. The choirs the top performing ensemble. The choirs at The Duncanville choral department from earn Best in Class and Overall Outstanding Clear Creek have enjoyed a rich tradition of Duncanville, Texas, has a long history of be- Choir awards at music festivals. The Varsity excellence for over forty years. Its founder ing a part of one of the premier Fine Arts Women’s Choir is honored to make their of success, Milton Pullen, began building the programs in the State of Texas. Students in fi rst SWACDA convention appearance. program from a meager existence in 1968, the Duncanville High School (DHS) choral and since then, the choirs have fl ourished. department have built competitive and ef- Gene Holkup is They have consistently been named the fective performing and interpretative skills choral director at outstanding choirs at festivals throughout the throughout the years. Hanna High School state. The Symphonic Chorale has sung for The A Cappella Men’s Choir has consis- and holds a BME the Texas MEA Conventions on four previ- tently earned Sweepstakes at UIL, represent- from the University ous occasions in 1980, 1994, 2004, and 2007. ing the highest Superior ratings in concert of North Dakota and The Symphonic Chorale has also sung for and sight-reading. They have been the core an MM from Sam ACDA National Conferences in Washington of the choral department, gaining recogni- Houston State Uni- DC in 1995, in Los Angeles in 2005, and in tion through some of the best clinicians in versity, where he was graduate assistant Oklahoma City in 2009. the state and country. Students have had to B. R. “Bev” Henson. He is a member of consistent membership in the TMEA All- ACDA, TCDA, TMEA and TMAA. His lead- Kyle Pullen is in his State choirs. ership roles include Region and Area Chair, fourteenth year of Region VP, and membership on the UIL teaching at Clear Tyron Shaw is the Sight Reading Committee. Holkup is listed Creek High School. director of choral in the 2004–07 Who’s Who Among America’s He received his BME activities at DHS. (no Teachers, the 2005–06 National Honor Roll at the University of additional bioww was of Outstanding American Teachers and the Houston. A year later provided. 2011–12 Cambridge Who’s Who. He is an he received his MM adjudicator and clinician and has appeared in choral conducting as a soloist with the Rio Grande Valley Sym- from the same institution. He spent the phony, Austin Sinfonietta, Corpus Christi next two years at the Claremont Graduate Symphony, and the Corpus Christi Chorale. University working toward completion of his DMA in conducting. During the fi rst eleven

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The Concert The Lake Jack- Choir is the top son Interme- auditioned mixed diate School ensemble at Kan- (LJI) Men’s sas State Univer- Choir has sity comprised of established a students from a well-earned variety of majors reputation of across campus. This excellence. ensemble performs standard concert literature and explores a They have won Sweepstakes trophies every year for the last variety of choral music genres. Additionally, the ensemble tours nine years. At the Bluebonnet Classic Music Festival in San An- annually across the state, nation, and abroad, and performs by tonio they were awarded Best in Class trophies in 2004 and invitation of such organizations as KMEA and ACDA. Recent 2005 and the Best of Festival trophy in 2005. The members bi-annual tours include (2009) Vienna/Prague and (2011) Italy. of the Men’s Choir participate in a wide variety of school activities such as Student Council, National Junior Honor Society, industrial technology, theater arts, guitar club, spirit club and Joshua Oppenheim was on faculty UIL academic events to name a few. More than half of them at the Crane School of Music (N.Y.) participate in athletics as well. from 2006– 08. He holds his BM from Western Michigan University, his MM David Hill is in his 30th year of teaching from the University of Mississippi, and and in his tenth year at Lake Jackson In- his DMA from the University of North termediate School (LJI). Hill has enjoyed Texas. His choirs have been invited to a good deal of success at LJI. During his perform at state ACDA/MENC confer- time there every choir he directed has ences in New York and Kansas. He has won an award at UIL contest every year. conducted honor choirs in New York, Oklahoma, and Kansas His choirs won thirty-four Sweepstakes and has presented interest sessions at ACDA conferences in awards. In 2004 and 2005 his Treble and California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Tenor-Bass choirs both won First Class/ Nebraska, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina Superior awards and Best in Class trophies at the Bluebonnet and Texas. He also serves as a member of the ACDA Technol- Classic music festival in San Antonio. In 2005, the Men’s Choir ogy Committee. was awarded the Best of Festival trophy. Hill graduated in 1982 with a BME from Southwestern Uni- Julie Yu holds her BM from the Univer- versity. He received his MM choral conducting at the University sity of Central Oklahoma, her MM from of New Mexico in Albuquerque. Oklahoma State University and her DMA from the University of North Texas. She has conducted honor choirs in Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Virginia, and Germany Lawrence Free State High School and has given presentations at SWACDA Chamber Choir and European Music Educators Associa- tion Conventions. She also serves as R&S The Cham- Chair for Youth and Student Activities for SWACDA. ber Choir at Lawrence Free State High School in Law- rence, Kansas, is an auditioned, mixed ensem-

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Free State High School choral ensembles of sophomores, juniors, and seniors. The North Crowley High School have received straight superior ratings at choir consistently earns division 1 ratings KSHSAA State Music Festivals since the at UIL concert and sight-reading contests. Men’s Varsity Choir school opened in 1997 under the direc- Several students are also members of the tion of the school’s only two directors, Pam TMEA Region V Honor Choir and the school Bushouse (’97–’06) and Hilary Morton consistently places students in the Texas All- (’07–’12). Chamber Choir has earned top State Choir. Members of the Mansfi eld choir honors at MusicFest Orlando and Festival have sung with composers Eric Whitacre Disney. Committed to the performance of and Z. Randall Stroope and conductors new music, the Free State Chamber Choir Sandra Snow and Goeffrey Boers. commissioned a new work, Something There is Immortal by Tim Takach, founding member Reginal Wright is of Cantus, in 2009. Chamber Choir has per- in his twelfth year formed three times at the KMEA In-Service of teaching and Members of the Varsity Men routinely Workshop (2002, 2006, 2012). The juniors his fourth year at participate in Region and All-State choirs, and seniors of the LFSHS choral program Mansfi eld High. He State Solo/Ensemble competition, Celebra- produce a large-scale variety show, Encore, previously taught at tion! Show Choir, the annual musical, formal each Spring. William James Middle concerts and other school and community School and Trimble performances. The Varsity Men are known Hilary Morton is in Technical High School for their exciting and eclectic performances, her sixth year as cho- in Fort Worth. Reginal holds a BME and both at school functions and in competitive ral music director MME from Stephen F. Austin State University. programs. Every year a number of graduates at Lawrence Free His professional affi liations include, TMEA, pursue degrees in music performance, music State High School. ACDA TMAA and MENC. education or musical theater. The Varsity Morton taught three Men will be the fi fth choir from NCHS to years at Oregon Trail Jane Silvey Andrews perform at a state, regional or national con- Junior High School in is in her seventh year vention since 2004. Olathe, Kansas. She as associate director attended the University of Kansas, where of the Mansfi eld High Robyn Hollimon is as an undergraduate, she sang under the School Choirs. She in her twelfth year direction of Simon Carrington. She received holds a BME from as choral director at her BME with a minor in vocal performance Centenary College of North Crowley High in 2002, and her MM in choral pedagogy in Louisiana. She earned School (NCHS) and 2010, also from KU. She currently serves as her MM and DMA at sixth year as director KMEA Assistant High School Choral Chair Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary of music at Genesis for the Northeast District, and as the Multi- in Fort Worth. Andrews served previously UMC in Ft. Worth. Cultural R&S Chair for the state of Kansas. as adjunct professor of piano at the Semi- She graduated sum- nary. Andrews is a member of the TMEA ma cum laude from Baylor University in and ACDA. 1990, where she was named Outstanding Mansfield High School Graduate in the School of Music and has subsequently taught in Texas schools for A Cappella Women’s Choir twenty-two years. Hollimon led NCHS choirs in earning consistent UIL Sweepstakes ratings and Best in Festival awards and has inspired numerous students to excel in TMEA, UIL and ACDA vocal competitions. She is a member of TMEA, TMAA, TCDA and ACDA, and has served as Region 7 Vocal Chair, Region 7 Secretary and 2007 All-State Mixed Choir The A Cappella women serve as the Varsity Alto section leader. Women’s choir Mansfi eld High. The thirty- www.acda.org voice choir is an auditioned group consisting

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Spanish eighteenth century, which he had recently uncovered Northwest Missouri State University in Spanish archives. The Orchestra’s singers and instrumental- Madraliers ists, professional experts in the performance of early music, have premiered 60 works from this repertory which is largely The Madral- vocal/orchestral, and liturgical or theatrical. Education has been iers choral a major thrust of the Orchestra, it’s in-school concerts of Soler ensemble is a villancicos a major component thereof. It’s fi rst recording, Fran- select group cisco Courcelle: Masses of Celebration, was released by Dorian/ of thirty-eight SonoLuminus in 2009. Working with musicologists in Mexico undergraduate and Bolivia the Orchestra has added works from the Americas and graduate to its repertory. The Orchestra will tour Bolivia in May 2012, studentss representing a variety of disciplines and majors at and Mexico fall of 2012. NorthwestN Missouri State University. The repertoire for the choirc ranges from composers of the Renaissance to the twenty- Grover Wilkins, tenor, has pursued a fi rst century. The Madraliers were selected to perform at the career conducting university orchestral 20082 ACDA Southwest Division Conference and the 2006 and and choral ensembles. At the Univer- 20122 Missouri MEA Conference. This past December marked sity of Pittsburgh he developed for the thet 38th Annual Yuletide Feaste presented by the Madraliers Heinz Chapel Choir four annual tours ono the Northwest Campus. The talent and versatility of the to France featuring American and con- singerss are further demonstrated each spring as the choir temporary music. The repertory of his becomesb Northwest Celebration, performing vocal jazz and New Pittsburgh Chamber Orchestra shows choir repertoire. led to his conducting the Pittsburgh and Dallas Ballet companies. He was awarded a Fulbright Senior Brian Lanier is associate professor of Research Fellowship in 1985 for work on the fi lm music of choral studies at Northwest Missouri Les Six, remained in Paris and created the American Orchestra State University, where he conducts two and Chorus of Paris. Early that year he encountered a History choirs and teaches conducting, music ed- of Spanish Music, a totally unknown repertory, which led to ucation, and studio voice. He graduated the creation of the Orchestra of New Spain and a second from Stetson University, Southwestern Fulbright to Spain in 1995. He is currently pursuing publication Baptist Theological Seminary, and Florida and recording of major works from Baroque Spain.luminus label. State University. Prior to his appointment at Northwest, Lanier taught sec- oondary vocal music for sixteen years. For twelve years, he was cchorus master for The Orlando Opera Company, and musical ddirector for The Camerata Chorus. Choirs under his direction Southern Nazarene University hhave performed for ACDA, Missouri MEA, and Florida MEA. He University Singers hhas conducted choral performances in Italy, Austria, Hungary, FFrance, England, and Germany, and all-state and regional honor The South- cchoirs, district choir festivals and has presented music clinics in ern Nazarene tthe United States. University Singers, which was formed in 1988 by D. E. Orchestra of New Spain Hill, consists of twelve singers The Orchestra who specialize of New Spain in vocal jazz was created in and contemporary styles. They perform a wide variety of 1989 by Gro- music from Take 6 to The New York Voices and from Peter ver Wilkins to Gabriel to John Coltrane. During their existence they have explore the performed at Regional and National Conventions of the Ameri- unheralded can Choral Directors Association, they have toured across the music of the Southwest United States, in Brazil, Japan, Korea, New Guinea, 2012 Division Conferences - Performing Choirs - Performing Conferences Division 2012 90 CHORAL JOURNAL Volume 52 Number 6 Arkansas • Colorado • Kansas • Missouri • New Mexico • Oklahoma • Texas

The Bahamas, Kenya, and Central Europe. and choral masterworks, some of which majors. This ensemble provides women op- The U. Singers also host the annual SNU include the requiems of Brahms, Mozart, and portunities to sing outstanding repertoire Vocal Jazz Festival. They have performed in Verdi; Orff's Carmina Burana; Mendelssohn’s with a special emphasis in exploring the wide concert with Jennifer Barnes, Greg Jasperse, Elijah; Danielpour’s An American Requiem; and range of colors available to the female voice. Peter Eldridge, Darmon Meader, M-Pact, and Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis. In addition to a regular concert series each Point Of Grace. With an upcoming May tour of Austria semester, the Women's Chorale performs as and the Czech Republic, the choir continues part of the TTU School of Music ‘Sound En- Jim Graves is a its tradition of regularly touring Europe. counters’ Concert, and in 2009 was featured multifaceted vocal Through guest appearances at the Texas with the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra in its artist, arranger, and MEA Convention, MENC, and ACDA Con- performance of Holst's The Planets. educator. In three ferences,. short years in Okla- Carolyn S. Cruse is homa Graves has Tim King is director associate director of led groups at the of choral activities choral activities and National ACDA at Stephen F. Aus- assistant professor of Convention, been tin State University music education at guest conductor of the Director’s Choir (SFA). He conducts Texas Tech University, at the OCDA Summer Convention, and the A Cappella Choir, where she conducts was selected as the SWACDA Jazz R & S Madrigal Singers, and Chair. Previously, Jim directed The University supervises the under- of North Texas Jazz Singers II, and vocal graduate and gradu- ensembles in Eagle, Idaho, and in Colorado ate choral programs. Following a successful Springs, Colorado. Graves’ arrangements teaching career in the Texas Public School have been performed by The University of System, King came to SFA. Over the next North Texas Jazz Singers, UNT Jazz Singers II, thirty years, his choirs built a reputation for University of Oklahoma Singing Sooners, and choral excellence exhibited by invitations high school groups in Idaho and Colorado. from ACDA, MENC, and TMEA. King has Jim is an active clinician and adjudicator and faithfully served ACDA in various ofﬁ ces has presented master classes or directed and has served as a panelist for the National ensembles at multiple MENC and ACDA Endowment of the Arts. King received his state workshops. BMusEd and MM from Texas Tech University and DMA from the University of Illinois. King maintains a rigorous concert schedule at Stephen F. Austin home and for various festivals throughout the United States. State University A Cappella Choir Texas Tech University Women’s Chorale

Texas Tech University's (TTU) Women’s Chorale is an auditioned ensemble open The A Cappella Choir sings a distinctive rep- to women of all majors, yet includes mostly ertoire of unaccompanied, concerted works, music education and music performance

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thetthheh WomenWomen’s’sChora ChoralChorale, and teaches undergraduate choral University of Central Arkansas mmusic education courses, including choral techniques, advanced cchoral conducting, and vocal pedagogy. Cruse is active with Concert Choir tththe Summer Master of Music Education program, teaching an The University ccourse each summer, and leading independent studies in choral of Central Ar- cconducting and methods. kansas (UCA) Concert Choir is the most select of the Texas Woman’s University large choral Concert Choir ensembles in the music de- The Texas partment at Women’s Uni- the University of Central Arkansas located in Conway. The versity (TWU) choir was founded in 1975 by it’s present director, John Erwin. Concert Choir Since that time the 60-voice choir has had a distinguished is a 45-voice, se- history of artistic performances including eight ACDA conven- lect treble choir tions, conventions of MENC and MTNA, 2 gold medals at the consisting of un- Riva del Garda choral competition, and six Arkansas Music dergraduate and Educators All State conferences. The UCA Concert Choir graduateg students majoring in a variety of disciplines. Perfor- was the grand national prize winner of the Great American mancem repertoire includes works from the major periods of Choral Festival and has toured in the United States, Canada, music,m as well as multicultural, folk, and jazz literature. In support and Europe. ofo the university’s initiative to feature women in the arts, music byb women composers is frequently featured on the Concert John Erwin has been the director of Choir’sC programs. The choir has performed at a Texas MEA choral activities at the University of convention,c a SWACDA conference, the Meyerson Symphony Central Arkansas (UCA) since 1975. CenterC (Dallas), and at New York’s Carnegie Hall. He conducts the UCA Concert Choir and the UCA Chamber Singers. In Joni Jensen is the coordinator of choral addition, Erwin teaches conducting, activities and associate professor of graduate choral literature, and graduate voice at Texas Woman’s University in choral conducting. Denton, TX. She received her BME in He is also the artistic director and vocal performance and pedagogy and conductor of the Arkansas Chamber Singers, a semi-profes- her MM in choral conducting from sional choral ensemble in Little Rock that performs an annual Brigham Young University in Provo, UT. concert series. Professor Erwin received his musical training at She attended the University of Arizona, the University of Illinois, University of Missouri-Kansas City, and where she was conferred a DMA in Arkansas State University. He served 10 years as the ACDA cchoral conducting, with a minor in vocal performance. Jensen Southwest Division R&S Chair for Colleges and Universities. hhas conducted numerous festival and community choirs and He is active as a clinician and adjudicator for state and region sserves as a choral clinician and adjudicator in the United States. choral festivals.

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Every ethnic minority group in China has its own unique history Angel of the East and tradition. The folk music is one of the key differentiating attributes to represent the multiplicity of musical styles and The work sets part of John Donne’s poem Good Friday, 1613. diversity of culture in China. Riding Westward, explaining the spiritual context: the poet rides out on business on a Good Friday, neglecting his meditations Karl Chang will be the clinician for this session. His choir, Crystal on Christ’s death. He journeys away from Jerusalem and the Children's Choir, will be the demonstration choir. Their photo crucifi xion, which lies due east, moving in the opposite direction and bio can be found on page 83. to which his mind automatically turns. Donne argues against his guilt that by travelling westwards he will eventually reach the east. Thus, the earth is a sphere where east and west become one. The work is scored for solo soprano, SSA voices, bass in- Beyond the Score: struments, plucked instruments, organ, virginals, harmonium, two percussionists, violins (beginners). A church venue is envisaged. Performing Latin American Choral Repertoire A lighting scheme may play a role. With its joyous rhythms and appealing melodies, Latin American music has become more and more popular with Graham Lack graduated B.Mus. Hons. erest Sessions erest American choirs. This session explores the great traditions of Lond. and M.Mus. from Goldsmiths’ choral music from throughout Latin America, from Argentina College and King’s College, University of to Cuba to Mexico. It will include a discussion of performance London (Composition, Historical Musi- practice from the various folk traditions, where to fi nd high qual- cology), State Certifi cate of Education ity performing editions, tips on how and when to use percussion, (Music Pedagogy), Bishop Otter College, and how to get beyond the printed score to reveal the essence University of Chichester. Studies at the of authentic performance. Technical University of Berlin (Doctoral Thesis) from 1982. Lectureship in Music Joshua Habermann is music director (Harmony and Counterpoint, Analysis) at the University of of the Santa Fe Desert Chorale (Santa Maryland (Munich Campus) 1982-90. 1993-1994 Head of Mu- Fe, NM), where he made his debut in sic, Cricklade College, Hampshire, England. Returns to Munich 2009. Projects with the Desert Chorale in 1995. Chair of international symposia (University of Oxford: include choral-orchestral works such as Dramaturgy in Contemporary Finnish Music, 1999; Goethe J. S. Bach’s Mass in B Minor, Monteverdi’s Institute Germany (1st International Symposium of Composer Vespers of 1610, Handel’s Dixit Dominus, Institutes, 2000). 1997-2008 Chair, Repertoire and Standards and unaccompanied masterworks such Committee, Munich Association of Choirs. Contributions as Rachmaninov’s All Night Vigil, and to Groves Dictionary of Music and Musicians and to Tempo Copland’s In the Beginning with mezzo-soprano Susan Graham. Magazine for Contemporary Music. Since 2011 Consultant For eleven seasons Habermann was assistant conductor of Editor, IFCM Choral Bulletin. Lack currently works as a freelance the San Francisco Symphony Chorus (SFSC), where he pre- composer. Publishers include Hayo Music, Cantus Quercus, pared the chorus for performances with conductors Michael Schott, Tomi Berg, Josef Preissler. Tilson Thomas and Charles Dutoit. From 1996–08 Habermann was professor of music at San Francisco State University (SFSU), where he directed the SFSU Chamber Singers. From 2008–11 Habermann was director of The Appreciation of Chinese Culture choral studies at the University of Miami Frost School of Music, Through Choral Music: Chinese Choral where he led the graduate program in conducting, and directed Repertoire and Interpretation the Frost Chorale. In August 2011, Habermann began his tenure as Chorus Director of the Dallas Symphony Chorus (DSO). A native of California, Habermann is a graduate of Georgetown Chinese embraces balance and harmony. The philosophy University and the University of Texas at Austin, where he affected the society for thousands of years. Choral music pro- completed doctoral studies in conducting. vides an opportunity to sing in harmony. Explore and learn a great range of traditional and contemporary Chinese choral 2012 Division Conferences - Int Conferences Division 2012 music repertories for treble, mixed, and male voice choirs in this session. There are more than fi fty ethnic groups in China.

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bringing together musicians, actors, dancers, writers and artists Choices for the to explore all forms of expression in worship. After fi nishing Vocal Jazz Ensemble undergraduate studies in music at Wheaton College (IL), Glen completed a Master of Music in choral conducting from Rutgers In this session, we will explore the three most valuable University, followed by a doctorate in the humanities and a sec- choices that a vocal jazz director (aspiring or current) can make ond master’s degree, in liturgical studies, from Drew University. to improve the overall level of their ensemble, whether novice, intermediate or advanced, at any academic level. Philosophical and practical rehearsal suggestions as well as question and answer will be included. Cultivating the Men's Chorus at All Levels: Recruitment, Voice Building, Rehearsal, Jennifer Barnes has directed downBeat [magazine] vocal jazz ensembles at Repertoire, and Retention eight universities, including her current position as director of vocal jazz at This session will look at practical ways of recruiting a male the University of North Texas. She has choir, the use of solid group vocal techniques, fast paced reserved as a guest conductor for district hearsal methodologies (including lots of problem-solving ideas), and all-state music festivals in the United repertoire and resources, and retention. Much attention will be erest Sessions erest States and has taught jazz vocals at the given to the unique psychological makeup of an all-male gather- Jamey Aebersold Jazz Camps since 1998. ing, ideas for a thorough and fast-paced rehearsal intended to Barnes is a performing and studio vocalist, including her roles as make immediate progress, understanding the properties and alto vocalist, composer, and arranger for the vocal ensembles possibilities of the male vocal instrument. Vertical Voices Live and Sixth Wave and singing solo and group vocals for television shows and fi lms including Wall-E, Enchanted, Galen Darrough is director of choral Star Trek, and Glee. Barnes has also served for the past three activities at the University of North- years as the vocal ensemble adjudicator for the DownBeat ern Colorado, where he conducts the Annual Student Music Awards. 65-voice Concert Choir, the 65-voice Men’s Glee Club, and directs graduate choral studies. In his 32 years in the pro- Creativity in and Out fession, he has directed or adjudicated of the Loft groups in 23 states, Canada and Latin America, and regional or all-state choirs in Texas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Da- Going beyond the common performance of an anthem, kota. His Men’s Glee Club and Concert Choir have appeared reaching to new heights of expression, this session will explore at regional and national conferences of ACDA (1996, 2006), the many different ways a choir might participate in the corpo- Colorado Music Educator’s Association (1996, 2006, 2009) and rate worship experience. Using not only sound, but also space the National Choral Conductors Organization (2011). and structure as well, we will look into and perform different ways of orchestrating praise and forming worship to include traditional and some non-traditional means of participation for your church’s choir. Music, beyond new ways for singing liturgical forms and service music will be considered Healthy Approaches for Non-Vibrato Singing and Volume in the Glen Olsen recently joined the staff of Choral Rehearsal the First United Methodist Church of Midland, Texas, as Director of Worship Vocal skills to safely minimize vibrato. This style can bring stun- Arts. He has served churches through- ning results, but if singers have no idea how to minimize vibrato out the New York City metropolitan it can cause fatigue or damage. A set of ideas will be presented area, including the historic Calvary to instruct singers on this style. Understanding the urge to Baptist Church in midtown Manhattan. over sing. The Lombard effect, and the protective refl ex in the Not only a church musician, Olsen is human ear will be presented as possible factors in over-singing. 2012 Division Conferences - Int Conferences Division 2012 also a performer, composer, writer With an understanding of these refl exes, singers can control and educator. He founded the Arts in Worship conference, the urge to sing too loudly.

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Rebecca Sherburn Group, Los Angeles Master Chorale, Neua meaning of the lyrics. is an associate pro- Flora Theater in Hamburg, and the Zurich fessor of voice at Opera. Scholarly work has been published Robert Lawrence will be the clinician for the University of by NATS, the Choral Journal, and the College this session. His photo and bio can be found Missouri-Kansas City Music Society. Her MM and DMA are from on page 48. Conservatory of Mu- the University of Southern California. sic and Dance. Her students perform widely, apprentice at Loop the Loop! Spinning various opera companies, teach voice in How to Achieve Expressive Interactive Circles to Develop public schools, colleges, and universities and Faces to Match Your have won national and regional competitions. Choral Sound, Engage In 2004, the Conservatory honored her with Expressive Singing Awareness and Explore Artistry the Kauffman Excellence in Teaching Award. As an opera/concert singer her performing This session will involve the participants This session engages participants in in- experiences are varied, and international in speciﬁ c exercises, many of which are teractive circles to explore ensemble voice including the Los Angeles Philharmonic New from acting techniques that will animate the building techniques, choral rehearsal strate- Music Group, the New York New Music performer’s face so as to communicate the gies and kinesthetic awareness activities to

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motivate singers of all ages. Participants will experience how the International Symposium in Newfoundland, MENC, and ACDA. innovative use of gesture, movement in place and movement in He is a member of ACDA, NCCO, NATS, SAM, MENC and is space increase their physiological connection to singing, encour- a founding member of Southwest Liederkranz. ages their full-bodied awareness of musical elements, and allows for their natural artistry to be accessed and conveyed. New research will also be shared that explores how choral singers perceive the effectiveness of these strategies and how best to Music for Ninth Grade That is Good Enough apply movement and interaction loops in various choral settings. for the Pros Jeffrey S. Gemmell joined the college of music at University of Colorado-Boulder At press time there was no description available for this session. in 2009 and is interim director of choral studies, where he conducts University Richard Bjella was most recently hired Choir and teaches graduate choral sym- in September 2009 as full professor and posium and advanced conducting. His director of choral studies at Texas Tech research interests include vocal-choral University. The University Choir, who pedagogy, kinesthetic rehearsal tech- made its Carnegie performance debut on niques, historic performance practice, May 2, 2010 to rave reviews, was selected erest Sessions erest music editing, and instructional technology. Previously, Gemmell as the only college choir to sing at 2012 was director of choral activities and vocal music at Millersville TMEA Convention in San Antonio. University of Pennsylvania and California State University- Chico; he has held conducting, choral music education, vocal pedagogy, and studio voice positions at Ithaca College, Cornell University, and Metropolitan State College of Denver. He has Practical Editions and Choices: earned degrees from CU-Boulder, Northwestern University, A Review of Score Selection and Towson University. of Renaissance Music in the Digital Age

Motivation: This session will discuss a score’s effect on interpretation, The Art of Possibility with a focus on the comparison of conventional scores available from retailers and the massive volume of user-edited/ The session is based in leadership principals outlined in cur- maintained scores on CPDL, IMSLP, and other free sources. The rent best sellers including The Art of Possibility, Power vs. Force: goal of the session is to develop a manner of selecting editions The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior, Primal Leadership: that allow for the greatest ease of performers’ interpretation Learning to Lead with Emotional Intelligence, The Courage to Teach, and musicality. Good to Great, Talent is never Enough and Blink. There will be numerous opportunities for audience participation and complete resources packets will be provided. Daniel Farris is the vocal area coordinator and is in his ﬁ fth year as assistant professor of music with Southwestern James Stegall is professor of music and Oklahoma State University. Farris has director of choral activities at Western conducted honor choirs in Texas and Illinois University. The Illinois Music Oklahoma. He is an internationally pub- Educators Association recently honored lished author and editor with the Athens him with their Mary Hoffman Award of Institute of Education and Research Excellence. Through juried application, located in Athens, Greece. Farris has his choirs have appeared at twenty conducted and sung with various University of North Texas and professional music conferences at the DFW area ensembles during which time he performed in Italy, state, regional, and national levels along the United Kingdom, and the United States. He has also con- with appearances on professional venues with major symphony ducted and sung with the North Texas opera program, the Dal- 2012 Division Conferences - Int Conferences Division 2012 orchestras. He has presented for the International Conference las Opera Company, and recently was a consultant to the Arts on Arts and Humanities in Hawaii, the Phenomenon of Singing District Chorale in Dallas, TX. Farris is a music advisory board member and adjudicator with the Oklahoma Arts Institute. He

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received his DMA in choral conducting from Respecting Artistry: Show Choir the University of North Texas. Practical Suggestions For in the Age of Glee Taking It to the Next Level This session will explore the beneﬁ ts and challenges of adding and maintaining a show Preparing for the Orchestra This session, will examine decisions we choir program to bolster one’s traditional Rehearsal can make to enhance our own rehearsal choral program. We will explore topics such and conducting technique in an effort to as general recruitment, choreographers, inspire the level of artistry that our students, This session will explore the following competitions, and appropriate literature the music, the listener, and we as conduc- questions: What should I expect at an or- choices. Also being addressed is the topic of tors all deserve. Topics covered will include: chestra rehearsal? How can I best prepare arrangements and legal copyright permis- respecting the gesture, respecting musician- for the experience? What does the orches- sions for custom charts. ship, respecting the repertoire, respecting tra need from the conductor? We will also composer intent, respecting our singers, explore strategies for score preparation, respecting our audience, respecting the po- Andrew Drinkall is effective rehearsal techniques and principles dium, and respecting conductor uniqueness. director of choral of baton technique that will allow for clear activities and fine communication between conductor and Jill Burleson is direc- arts chair at Troy Bu- orchestra. tor of choral music chanan High School education/associate (TBHS). At Troy, An- Robert H. Bode is director of choral drew conducts the on the faculty at the studies at University Women’s Choir, In- Conservatory of of Northern Colo- termediate Men’s, Music and Dance rado, conducting the Women’s choirs, Concert Choir, Chamber at the University of Women’s Glee Club Choir, Men’s Choir, “Express” show choir, Missouri-Kansas City, and Prima Voce “Sound Wave” show choir, and an all male a where he is the Ray- Chamber Ensemble, and teaching choral cappella group, “Dodecaphonics.” The Troy mond R. Neevel/Mis- methods and conducting. Her doctorate is Buchanan Choirs have received consistent souri Professor of from Ball State University, where she was the superior ratings at festivals, contests, and are Choral Music and director of choral activities. Don Neuen fellowship recipient and subse- regularly named “Grand Champion” at many His choirs have been featured in per- quently served as associate director of cho- show choir competitions. In 2005, the TBHS formances at ACDA conferences. Bode ral activities. She additionally holds an MM Men’s Choir was selected to perform at the conducted the Walla Walla Mastersingers (choral conducting) from Ball State and a BM MMEA state music convention in Osage in performances at the Kennedy Center (magna cum laude) from Heidelberg College. Beach, Missouri. and Constitution Hall for the 1995 ACDA She has served on the Indiana, Colorado, National Conference in Washington, D.C. and Central Division ACDA boards and the Jesse Diaz is a gradu- Bode has been artistic director for Cho- National Collegiate Choral Organization ate of Millikin Uni- ral Arts, a semi-professional chorus based in board. She is currently the Colorado ACDA versity in Decatur, IL Seattle, since 2007. In 2010, Bode and Choral Women’s Choir Representative and is on where he received Arts won the Margaret Hillis Award for the SWACDA Conference planning com- a BME with a vo- Choral Excellence from Chorus America. In mittee. Burleson is an active festival clinician cal emphasis. Upon addition, Choral Arts’ CD, Mornings Like This, and conference speaker, and has chaired graduation, Diaz ac- won the American Prize for choral recorded festival repertoire development committees cepted the position music in 2010. Choral Arts’ latest CD, a live in Indiana. She has presented at CMEA and of director of choirs performance recording of Frank Ferko’s IMEA state conferences, the College Music at Crete-Monee High School. He spent two Stabat Mater, was released in the spring of Society National Convention, the Festival years as director of Crete’s award-winning 2011 by Loft Records. 500 International Choral Conference (New- show choirs, the Cavaliers and Faces. Most foundland), and the Villa-Lobos International recently, he was the director of three com- Festival. Her research on the Sacred Choral petitive show choirs for the Sullivan School Music of Villa- Lobos received publication in District, including the Sullivan Singers, New the Choral Journal. International concert per- Generation, and the Sullivan Singers, Jr. formances include Prague, Eisenach, Vienna, Under his direction, these choirs captured Budapest, London, and Paris. numerous Grand Champion titles and ad-

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ditionally were awarded many Caption Awards including Best ing from University of North Texas. She is the organist/pianist/ Vocals, Best Choreography, Best Costumes, Outstanding Soloist, accompanist for the First Christian Church in Chickasha, OK. and Best Crew. One of his choirs was the winner of a national title in 2010, taking home Unisex Grand Champion at the Fame Chicago National Show Choir Competition. Diaz continues his education with graduate coursework at Ball State University Vocal Improvisation and Choral Warm-Ups: in Muncie, IN where he is currently working towards an MME. Strategies and Perspectives He was the graduate assistant the Ball State University Singers. For the past three summers, he has been on staff at The Little This session will explore connections between group vo- Theatre-on the Square, an equity theatre in Sullivan, IL. He cal technique/warm-ups and vocal improvisation, with speciﬁ c serves as the music director for the Little Theatre’s “Broadway strategies & techniques that can be easily inserted within the Bootcamp” summer program. existing framework of rehearsals.

Patrick K. Freer is associate professor of choral music education at Georgia The Successful State University (GSU), where he Collegiate ACDA Student Organization conducts the GSU Men’s Chorus. He holds degrees from Westminster Choir College and Teachers College, Columbia There are countless beneﬁ ts for a college music student to University. He recently presented semi- be a member of ACDA. This session is designed for college nars and conducting masterclasses at the students and for anyone who works with college students to Rotterdam Conservatory, the Gehrels help institute or resurrect student ACDA chapters at universi- Muziededucatie, Aristotle University, the University of Alcalá ties. We will celebrate successful ACDA student chapters in de Henares, and James Madison University. the SWACDA division and their stories. Strategies will also be Freer is academic editor and chair of the Editorial Board given for encouraging retention of collegiate music students. for the Music Educators Journal. His publications include Getting Started with Middle School Chorus (named Outstanding Aca- Julie Yu is the clinician for this session. Her photo and bio can demic Title by Choice) and the critically acclaimed DVD series be found on page 88. Success for Adolescent Singers.

Technology to Change Your Life: Voice Building “P90X”-style: Extreme Warm-ups, Starting Monday Aural Skills, and Movements that Build Vocalism and Musicianship in Rehearsals This session will focus on some very powerful uses of technology you can implement it immediately which will make a Do you use the same warm-ups at the beginning of each signifi cant impact on the quality of your choral program. rehearsal? Do your singers simply “go through the motions” of warm-ups? Warm-ups can become a routine, mundane part Jan Hanson currently serves as professor of daily rehearsals. However, the fi rst few minutes of each of music at the University of Science and rehearsal are the most valuable in building vocalism and musi- Arts of Oklahoma, where she directs cianship among your singers. Learn and experience components the Concert/ Chamber Choirs and of the voice-building sequence, movements and gestures that has served as the conductor for music bring voice-building to life, and aural skills that can motivate and theatre and opera productions. Hanson challenge all levels of musicianship. Discover how short-term teaches coursework in conducting, success during the fi rst precious minutes of each rehearsal can music history and literature, and music provide long-term benefi ts for every singer in your choir. methods. She has adjudicated for the Oklahoma Arts Institute, ACDA/OCDA, and OMEA. She com- Carolyn S. Cruse is the clinician for this session. Her photo and

2012 Division Conferences - Interest Sessions - Interest Conferences Division 2012 pleted her BS at Texas Women's University, her MM in choral bio can be found on page 91. conducting from Indiana University, and her DMA in conduct-

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What's New in Technology working with twenty-fi rst century music to use technology for music educators for for the Choral Director students. Be current. Be informed. 17 years. Morales is senior manager for Ro- meo Music, a music retail company in Dallas, Peggy Morales is Texas, devoted to personally helping music An overview of cool new technology educators fi nd and purchase appropriate gadgets and easy to do accompaniment a music educator with an all-level BME hardware and software to fi t their needs solutions for all choral directors. Keep up and their budgets. to date in amazing recording devices, sound from Missouri State solutions, accompaniment solutions, wireless University and MA in microphones, visual assessment tools, sight piano performance singing, ear training, AP theory software, from the University keyboard theory, and more. See, hear, and of Denver. With a compare practical technology innovations varied musical back- for the twenty-fi rst century music director ground she has specialized in practical, easy

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Geoffrey Boers is director of choral Jo-Michael Scheibe chairs the Thorton ors activities at the University of Washing- School of Music’s Department of Choral ton in Seattle, where he is the Mary K. and Sacred Music at the University of Shepman Endowed Professor of Music. Southern California, where he conducts Under his direction, the choral program the USC Chamber Singers, teaches at the University of Washington (UW) choral conducting and choral methods, has developed into a community of nine and supervises the graduate and un- ensembles conducted by four faculty and dergraduate choral program. He is the many graduate students, with nearly 600 national president of ACDA. He served students participating. Boers conducts the UW Chamber Sing- also ACDA as the Western division president from 1991– 93 ers, the university’s premier ensemble of graduate and advanced and as the National R&S Chair for Community Colleges from singers. He also teaches graduate choral conducting and choral 1980–89. Ensembles under his leadership have performed pedagogy, and serves as faculty advisor to the choral community at six ACDA national conferences, two MENC national con- at the university. He is the recipient of the University of Wash- ventions, and various regional and state conventions. From ington’s Royal Research Foundation Grant. Recent engagements 1993–2008, Scheibe was the director of choral studies at the have taken him to Australia, China, Thailand, across Canada and University of Miami’s Frost School of Music. He has had other in Alice Tulley Hall, Carnegie Hall, and Kennedy Center. Boers is faculty appointments at Northern Arizona University in Flag- the conductor of the Tacoma Symphony Chorus and conducts staff, Long Beach City College, Vintage High School in Napa, the Tacoma Symphony in numerous performances each season. California, and Huntington Beach High School. He received his DMA from the University of Southern California, and his BA and MM from California State University at Long Beach, which presented him with a distinguished alumnus award. Scheibe has served as music and artistic director of several community choral organizations, including the Master Chorale of Call for South Florida, the Tampa Bay Master Chorale, and the Long Beach Master Interest Session Proposals/ Chorale. He has directed music ministries Performing Group Auditions in churches. Most recently at Choral Information for the Gables Congregational Church, where he 2013 National Conference conducted the Chancel Choir and Vocal Ensemble, which appeared at the 2002 is on page 7 ACDA Southern Division Conference in Nashville. Suggestions for Interest Session Proposal Topics for the 2013 National Conference Treble are on page 137 Angela Broeker is the conductor for this choir. Her photo and bio can be found on page 23.

Women's

Pearl Shangkuan is the conductor for this choir. Her photo and bio can be found

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7th - 10th Grade Men's Chamber choir, and conducted major choral College as the ﬁ rst recipient of the Weston works accompanied by the Musica Sacra H. Noble Choral Award for excellence in the Chamber Orchestra in Denver. ﬁ eld of choral music. Jerry Blackstone is Larson was recently honored by Luther director of choirs and chair of the conducting department at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre, and Dance, where he conducts the Cham- ber Choir, teaches conducting at the gradu- Become the ate level, and administers a choral program of eleven choirs. He has won two Grammy Complete Choral Conductor Awards as chorusmaster for the recording of William Bacom’s Songs of Innocence and Experience. His Chamber Choir performed at the 2003 ACDA National Conference and 2006 NCCO Convention. He was named conductor and music director of the University Musical Society Choral Union. Choirs prepared by Blackstone have appeared under the batons of Valery Gergiev, Neeme Järvi, Leonard Slatkin, John Gr aduat Adams, Helmuth Rilling, James Conlon, e stud ent Va siliki Ts Nicholas McGegan, Rafeal Frühbeck de ouva co nductin g the Sym phonic Ch Burgos, Peter Oundijian, and Yitzak Perlman. oir and Scholarship Orchestra

Achieve Excellence through CHORAL CONDUCTING FACULTY world-class professional training at one William Jon Gray, Chair Church and Community of the most acclaimed music institutions Director of Graduate of our time, with top faculty in all major Carmen Helena Téllez, Choral Studies fields and the finest music research library Richard Larson was in the United States. Michael Schwartzkopf named “Choral Con- Robert Porco ductor of the Year” Two Associate Instructor in 1989 by Colo- positions open for the Richard Tang Yuk rado ACDA. He has 2012-2013 academic year. Susan Swaney served as adjunct Katherine Strand Full tuition remission and Chancellor’s Professor Emeritus professor at the a competitive stipend with Jan Harrington, Lamont School of health insurance. Music, University of 2012 AUDITION DATES Denver, the University of Northern Colo- Podium Time: Conduct a choral ensemble Jan. 13, 14 | Feb. 3, 4 | March 2, 3 rado, and Metropolitan State College. He every day in conducting class. Conduct holds his BA from Luther College, Decorah, recitals with the top choirs in the School Iowa, and his MME from the University of of Music and a scholarship orchestra. Colorado. Conducting and Teaching Opportunities: He has directed Kantorei in regional A cappella chamber choir repertoire; large ACDA conferences in 2002 and 2010, and choral/orchestral works; opera conducting/ conducted Kantorei at a National ACDA opera chorus master; early music; new music; collegiate show choir; Latin American conference in 2003. His third national ensembles; world music; youth and children’s Living Music ACDA performance was in 2011. He di- choruses; teaching undergraduate rects the Augustana Lutheran Chancel and conducting classes. music.indiana.edu

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Trio Mediaeval Award from Chorus America. The Rose Ensemble's sixteenth- anniversary season highlights include appearances at Cornell Concert Series (Ithaca, NY), University of Vermont Lane Series, Oslo Nor- The National Gallery (Washington, D.C.), Secrest Artist Series way’s Trio Medi- (Winston-Salem, NC), J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, CA), aeval polyphonic and a collaboration with Piffaro, The Renaissance Band (Phila- repertoire fea- delphia, PA and MN). The Ensemble has released 9 recordings. tures medieval music from Eng- Jordan Sramek is founder/artistic direc- land and France, tor of The Rose Ensemble. He is active contemporary as a musician, scholar, teacher, and arts works written entrepreneur. He studied early vocal for the ensemble, and traditional Norwegian ballads and songs. performance and harpsichord at the Trio Mediaeval made its U. S. debut in 2003 and has em- College of St. Scholastica in Duluth. barked on multiple North American tours. The trio performs Sramek has led musical workshops and new music and collaborates with a multitude of contemporary master classes in universities in the Unit- composers. This ensemble performs throughout Europe, giv- ed States, and has advised arts groups, ing concerts and radio broadcasts and appears in numerous boards, and administrators throughout the world. Through his festivals. work with The Rose Ensemble, he has developed several award- Their fi ve albums on ECM Records feature performances winning educational programs. of a diverse repertoire. Their fi rst release, Words of the Angel, immediately charted on Billboard’s Top 10 Bestsellers list and was the April 2002 Stereophile “Recording of the Month.” The trio’s third recording, Stella Maris (2005), features twelfth and KEYNOTE SPEAKER thirteenth-century music from England and France and the world premiere recording of Missa Lumen de Lumine by Korean composer Sungji Hong. A Worcester Ladymass, is a reconstruc- DDennisennis ShrockShrock is director of choral tion of a thirteenth century votive Mass to the Virgin Mary, activities at Texas Christian University based on surviving manuscripts from a Benedectine Abbey in and author of Choral Repertoire and Per- the English Midlands. formance Practices in the Classical Era. In addition, he is editor of two anthologies: Music for Choral Conducting Classes and Choral Scores. The Rose Ensemble, Before his appointment at Texas Christian University, he served as visiting Saint Paul, MN professor of music at Boston University (2009–10), director of choral activities and graduate choral studies at the University Founded in of Oklahoma (1978–2006), and assistant professor of music 1996, The at Westminster Choir College (1973–78). He has also been a Rose Ensem- frequent lecturer, guest conductor, and clinician, most recently ble reawakens serving as Artist-in-Residence and member of the Conducting the ancient Institute at Westminster Choir College (2010), guest lecturer with vocal mu- and conductor at Yale University (2009–10), guest conductor sic that stirs of the Dallas Symphony Chorus (2010), lecturer at American the emotions, Choral Directors National Conferences (2009 and 2011), and challenges the conductor at the Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia National Convention mind, and lifts (2009). Shrock received his BME from Westminster Choir Col- the spirit. The Saint Paul, Minnesota, group tours internationally lege and his MM and DMA in choral conducting from Indiana with repertoire spanning 1,000 years and 25 languages, includ- University. ing new research in Middle Eastern, European, and American 2012 Division Conferences - Headliners Conferences Division 2012 vocal traditions. They were recipients of the Chorus America Margaret Hillis Award for Choral Excellence in 2005 and fi rst- prize winner at the 2007 Tolosa International Choral Compe- tition in Spain. Jordan Sramek received the 2010 Louis Botto

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Arizona State University Box Elder High School Symphonic Chorale Madrigals

Box Elder High The Arizona School (BEHS) State Univer- Choirs have a sity (ASU) Sym- longstanding phonic Chorale tradition of ex- is the premiere cellence, and mixed ensem- feel fortunate ble at the Her- to be part of berger Institute a community School of Mu- that values and sic, and is com- supports music programs. BEHS Madrigals have received su- prised of select music majors and experienced singers from perior ratings at region and state festivals for nineteen years, around the university. and were featured at the 2002 Utah MEA Convention. They Each year, the Symphonic Chorale joins with other ASU were invited to perform at the 2002 ACDA Western Division choirs and the ASU symphony orchestra to present a major Conference in Hawaii. They have performed for the opening work. Recent performances have included Walton's Belshaz- of the Utah state legislature on three separate occasions, and zar's Feast, Tito's Say by Arizona composer James DeMars, continue to perform extensively throughout northern Utah. In Durufl e's Requiem, On the Transmigration of Souls by John Adams, 2006, BEHS Choirs were selected as one of three participating Mendelssohn's Elijah, Bloch's Sacred Service, Mahler's Symphony choirs in the Carnegie Secondary Choral Festival. No. 2, Prokofi ev's Alexander Nevsky and Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem. Claudia Bigler is the director of choirs at Gregory R. Gentry is the director of Box Elder High School, in Brigham City, choral performance at the Arizona State Utah. She received her initial training University School of Music, where he at Brigham Young University. Bigler has conducts the Symphonic Chorale, teaches served as choral chair of the Utah MEA, graduate conducting, choral literature and and is a past state President of Utah score study, and oversees eight other cho- ACDA. She recently retired from singing ral ensembles. He earned his BME from with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. the University of Denver and his MM and DMA from the University of Missouri- Kansas City Conservatory of Music. As chorus master with the Phoenix Symphony, Gentry pre- California State University Fullerton pared the Phoenix Symphony Chorus for the world premiere University Singers of Mark Grey’s Enemy Slayer: A Navajo Oratorio in February 2008 (Naxos, 2009), with a Navajo/English libretto by Laura Cal State Fuller- Tohe. He reprised his work as chorus master in July 2008 with ton’s University the Colorado premiere of Enemy Slayer: A Navajo Oratorio at Singers have the Colorado Music Festival. In February 2009, Gentry made performed with his Phoenix Symphony conducting debut with Stravinsky’s the Hollywood Symphony of Psalms. Bowl Orches- Gentry is president of the Arizona state chapter of ACDA, tra, the Pacifi c and founding director of Southwest Liederkranz. He is an active Symphony Or- member of Chorus America, NAfME, NCCO, CMS, and is the chestra, and faculty advisor to ASU’s ACDA student chapter. Andrea Bocelli. The ensemble has toured in Italy, Spain, Germany, Australia, and most recently Eastern Europe. 2012 Division Conferences - Performing Choirs - Performing Conferences Division 2012

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Robert Istad is direc- University, Long Beach. He is the conductor giate Vocal Jazz Ensemble” in their division by tor of choral studies of the University and Chamber Choirs. He DownBeat Magazine. Pacifi c Standard Time at California State has prepared choirs for the Cincinnati Sym- competed at the Monterey Next Genera- University, Fullerton. phony, the Long Beach Symphony Orchestra, tion Jazz Festival in both 2009 and 2011, and He has prepared cho- the Los Angeles Master Chorale, the Pacifi c were awarded fi rst place both times. ruses for Esa–Pekka Symphony and the Pasadena Pops. Talberg Salonen and the Los is music director of First Congregational Christine Guter is Angeles Philharmonic, Church of Los Angeles, where he conducts the director of vo- Carl St. Clair and the the Cathedral Choir and the Cathedral cal jazz at the Bob Pacifi c Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Singers. Cole Conservatory Davis and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Talberg earned his BM in choral con- of Music at California Nicholas McGegan and the Philharmonia ducting from Chapman University and his State University, Long Baroque Orchestra, and Keith Lockhart and MM and DMA in choral conducting from Beach. Her teach- the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, as well the University of Cincinnati’s College- ing responsibilities as conductors Bramwell Tovey, Eric Whitacre, Conservatory of Music. He completed a include directing the Giancarlo Guerrero, Marin Alsop, George post-doctoral fellowship with the Cincinnati university’s top vocal jazz ensemble, teach- Fenton, John Alexander, William Dehning, Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Pops, and John DuPrez, David Lockington, and Mark the May Festival Chorus. Manderano. In addition to his role with Cal State Fullerton, Istad is also the artistic director of the Long Beach Camerata Singers and assistant conductor of the Pacifi c Chorale. California State University- Long Beach Pacific Standard Time California State University -

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ing private jazz and classical voice lessons, class jazz piano, jazz performing career after college when she sang professionally theory, and a course in solo jazz repertoire and performance. and traveled internationally with the Ray Conniff Singers, The Guter has an active career as a jazz vocalist and studio singer Norman Luboff Choir, and The Carpenters. in Los Angeles. She has performed with Rosemary Clooney, Joe Williams, Maynard Ferguson, Bobby McFerrin, Lionel Hampton, Darmon Meader, Janis Siegel, and Alvin Chea. She also sings in the nationally renowned jazz ensemble, “Vocalogy.” Guter has Clovis East High School worked extensively in studio settings, and has sung on several Women's Chorale Hollywood soundtracks including Wolfman, Ice Age 3, Seven Pounds, Superman Returns, X-Men 3, Happy Feet, Beowulf, Horton The Women’s Hears a Who, and Spiderman 3. She is currently the Vocal Jazz Chorale is the R&S Chair for the California ACDA. She has been on the voice select Wom- faculties of Southwestern Community College (Creston, IA), en’s Choir at Mount San Antonio College (Walnut, CA), Long Beach City Clovis East College (CA), and has taught at Jazz Camp West and Cazadero High School Fine Arts Camp in Northern California. (CEHS). The Chorale includes members from the T-Wolf Chorus, (Cham- ber Choir), Women’s Ensemble, and Concert Choir. They have received consistent Command Performance ratings at every Cantoris Clovis Unifi ed School District Spring Choir assessment. They Sacramento Children's Chorus have performed in Alice Tully Hall in New York City; Davis Symphony Hall in San Francisco; Satterstrom Hall in Anaheim; The Sacramen- Honolulu Symphony Hall in Honolulu; and Carnegie Hall, in to Children’s New York City. Chorus (SCC), a non-profit Dan Bishop is the choral director at 501(c)(3) or- Clovis East High School in Clovis, Cali- ganization, fornia, and an instructor for the Willow provides excel- & International Community College in lence in choral Fresno. He has served as music minister music education and performance opportunities to talented of the Reedley Mennonite Brethren children in the greater Sacramento community Church, Kingsburg Community Church, Singers participate in a progressive program that consists of University Presbyterian, Fresno, and fi ve levels accommodating the various ages (7–19) and perfor- Kingsburg E. V. Free Church. mance abilities. Singers are admitted by competitive audition. He received his BA in vocal and instrumental music educa- Membership is drawn from Sacramento, Placer, Yolo and El tion from Tabor College, in Hillsboro, Kansas, and his MA and Dorado counties where singers attend a variety of public and MM from the Conservatory of Music at the University of Mis- private elementary, middle and high schools. souri, at Kansas City, where he was a graduate assistant in vocal performance. He has done post-graduate work at Fresno Pacifi c Lynn Stevens is artistic director, con- University and California State University–Fresno. ductor, and co-founder of the Sacra- Bishop was the previous Western Division ACDA R&S Chair mento Children’s Chorus (SCC). She has for Senior High School Choirs and has served California ACDA thirty years experience in teaching cho- as All-State Honor Choir Chair for three years. He is the ACDA ral music to children. Stevens received National R&S Chair for Senior High School Choirs. her BA in music from the University of Southern California, and her MM in choral conducting from California State University, Sacramento (CSUS). Stevens conducts the SCC Cappella, the high school choirs; Cantoris, the advanced touring choir; and Cantus, the intermediate choir. Stevens is also on the faculty of the music department at CSUS teaching choral conducting. Also, Stevens enjoyed a 2012 Division Conferences - Performing Choirs - Performing Conferences Division 2012

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Fullerton College Germany, and Austria. They have been a Fullerton College in Southern California featured choir at ACDA Conferences. They since 1985. During that time he has con- Chamber Singers have also competed at the International ducted the 120-voice Concert Choir, the Eisteddfod Music Festival Competition in Chamber Singers, the Collegiate Chorale, Wales, the Seghizzi International Choral the Men’s Chorale, the Women’s Chorale, Competition in Gorizia, Italy, the California the Vocal Jazz Ensemble, and the song and International Choral Competition in San Luis dance troupe, Bravo. Tebay’s choirs have Obispo, California, and The Singkreis Interna- performed throughout the United States tional Choral Competition in Spittal, Austria. and Canada. They have performed at ACDA Conferences, and they have been a guest John Tebay began choir in Mainland China, performing with the his career in 1981 as Beijing University Symphony and the Shanghi the choral director University Symphony. at El Dorado High Fullerton College Chamber Singers is a School in Placen- 32-voice ensemble which has performed tia, California. He throughout the western United States, the has been director Paciﬁ c Northwest, the East Coast, Canada, of choral studies at Mainland China, the United Kingdom, Italy,

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Leavitt Middle School Ensemble has earned superior ratings in the Southern California Chamber Singers Vocal Association (SCVA) Choral Festivals in which it has participated. In 2009, Vocal Ensemble’s recording of Eric Whitacre’s The Leavitt Sleep was selected for the BOHSA Best of High School A Cap- Middle School pella national compilation CD. Vocal Ensemble also performed Chamber Sing- as a featured choir in the Walt Disney Concert Hall through ers are from Las the Los Angeles Master Chorale’s High School Choral Festival Vegas, Nevada. during the same year. In the summer of 2010. Additionally, Vo- The choir has cal Ensemble was the only American choir chosen to perform received all su- in the Festival’s sacred Sunset Series, held in the St. Nicholas perior ratings Orthodox Church. at the Clark County School District Advanced Choral Festivals. The Leavitt Michael Hayden studied music education Chamber Singers are a select ensemble of seventh and eighth at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indi- grade students who perform frequently around Las Vegas. The ana. His MM in choral conducting came ensemble has performed at Chicago Symphony Hall in 2006, from the Eastman School of Music in at the Nevada Music Educators Convention in 2009, for the Rochester, New York. He completed his investiture ceremony of a new federal court judge in 2011, and DMA in choral conducting at Michigan in numerous other area concert appearances. State University in East Lansing, Michigan. He has served on the faculties of Indiana Victoria Ligon, soprano, received her Purdue Fort Wayne and Butler Univer- BM in vocal performance from John sity, where he directed choral ensembles and taught music Brown University, and her MM in vocal education. He has also served as conductor of the Indianapolis performance from University of Ne- Men’s Chorus, the Indianapolis Women’s Chorus, and VOICES vada, Las Vegas. Ligon completed her of Kentuckiana in Louisville, Kentucky. Additionally, Hayden has teaching credentials in Arizona while served as a National Board Director for GALA Choruses. In teaching at Calvary Academy, Scott- 2007, he came to Southern California as the second choral sdale Christian Academy, and Round director at Mira Costa High School in Manhattan Beach. Valley School District in Springerville/ Eagar, Arizona. She sang at the Chicago Lyric Opera before entering the world of choral music education in 1980 in Phoenix, Arizona. Orange County In 1989, she taught at the American Community Schools of Women's Chorus Athens, then on to the International School of Islamabad, Paki- stan. In 1996, she and her family returned to the United States, The Orange specifi cally Clark County School District (CCSD). County Wom- She is in her eleventh year as the choral director at Leavitt en’s Chorus Middle School in Las Vegas. Her choirs have received superior (OCWC) is ratings in every festival since the school’s opening in 2001. one of the top amateur choruses in the region. The ensemble’s performances have featured collaborations Mira Costa High School with outstanding musicians and dancers, and with non-profi t Vocal Ensemble organizations including women’s shelters, the Salvation Army’s anti-human-traffi cking task forces, and Women Helping Women, Vocal Ensemble an organization dedicated to helping disadvantaged women is one of four enter or re-enter the work force. curricular cho- The OCWC’s repertoire has included medieval chants, ral ensembles at multicultural folk songs, classical masterworks, protest songs, Mira Costa High and gospel tunes, and concert themes including “Goddesses and School in Man- Other Working Women,” “Six Degrees of Clara Schumann,” and hattan Beach, “You Can’t Sing That!: Banned Books Set to Music.”

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Eliza Rubenstein be- Children’s Chorus, American River College from this group have taken ﬁ rst place in the came the artistic di- Jazz Bands, Capital Jazz Project, the Camellia Barbershop Harmony Society Far Western rector of the Orange Symphony Orchestra, the Sacramento Youth District High School Quartet Championship. County Women’s Symphony, the CSUS Percussion Group, the Soloists from the choir have also been fre- Chorus in Decem- Sacramento Opera, R.S.V.P., Folsom Sym- quent winners of various vocal competitions ber 1999. She is the phony, and Celebration Arts. in Southern California. The choir has never artistic director of earned less than Superior rating at a festival, the Long Beach Cho- Ralph E. Hughes has and the choirs tour annually, performing lo- rale and Chamber served as conductor cally and internationally in such locations as Orchestra, the director of choral and vocal of the Sacramento England, Ireland, Germany, Austria, Switzer- activities at Orange Coast College, music Master Singers since land, and Mexico. director at Mesa Verde United Methodist 1986. His direction Church, and California-ACDA’s R&S chair has helped fulﬁ ll the Keith Hancock began for women’s choruses. community’s need for his teaching career at Rubenstein studied English literature and a professional-caliber Tesoro High School choral conducting at Oberlin College before chamber choir. Ralph in 2002. Hancock earning her MM in conducting at the Univer- Hughes received his BME and teaching teaches guitar and sity of California–Irvine. She is the co-author credential from California State University, has done the vocal of a book about dog adoption, and for eight Sacramento (CSUS). Hughes has taught direction and played years she was the assistant supervisor of choir, voice, and piano at American River piano for each spring the Irvine (CA) Animal Care Center. She College since 1990. He was awarded his musical. Hancock has presented a session called “Sit, Stay, Sing: MM in choral conducting from CSUS and his served on the Chapman University Conser- What Choral Conductors Can Learn from DMA in conducting from the University of vatory of Music faculty, and he also teaches Dog Trainers” at the 2006 ACDA Western South Carolina. In recent years, Hughes has private piano, voice, and guitar lessons. Division Conference in Salt Lake City. focused on extending the Master Singers’ im- Hancock holds his MA in education and his pact on the community through an emphasis BM in music education and choral conduct- on multi-cultural music and programming ing (Summa cum Laude) from Chapman designed to stimulate interest among the University, where he studied under William Sacramento Master Singers area’s young people. Hall. He was a Presidential Scholar and was awarded the Choral Conducting and the Music Education Awards upon graduating. He has performed several times as a soloist Tesoro High School with the Cypress Pops Orchestra, and on stage at the Orange County Performing Arts Madrigals Center and the Hollywood Bowl. The Sacramento Master Singers have established themselves as the Sacramento area’s premier chamber choir. Established in 1982, the singer’s programs include premieres, classics, and a wide array of musical styles. National and area premieres performed by the Master Singers include Benjamin Brtit- ten’s A.M.D.G., Arvo Pärt’s Te Deum, Robert Levin’s new completion of Mozart’s Requiem, Alfred Schnittke’s Requiem, David O’s Ele- Madrigals is the elite mixed choir at Tesoro ments, and numerous commissions by Linda High School, a comprehensive high school Dawson and Clifford Shockney (composers in Las Flores, California, serving 2300 stu- RISERS, FOLIOS, BOARDS & associated with the choir). dents in South Orange County. The music MORE @ DISCOUNT PRICES! The choir is proud of its collaboration program at Tesoro has been ranked in the FREE MUSIC PRODUCTS CATALOG with many of the Sacramento area’s visual top 100 of all high school music programs and performing artists, including the Sacra- 1-800-280-40701-800-573-6013 by the Grammy Foundation. In 2005, 2010, www.valiantmusic.com mento Philharmonic Orchestra, Sacramento and 2011, the barbershop quartets chosen

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Vox Femina Los Angeles can be heard on several recordings. VFLA has demonstrated its support and encouragement of living composers by com- Founded in missioning 23 new works. January 1997 by Iris S. Levine, Iris S. Levine is founder and artistic direc- Vox Femina tor of Vox Femina Los Angeles. Through Los Angeles her extensive experience with women’s (VFLA) gives choral literature and innovative concert women voice programming, Levine has charted Vox through the Femina on a 14-year journey, building performance its prominence in the choral commu- of quality cho- nity through numerous appearances at ral literature. ACDA conferences and 100 appear- Diverse in culture, age, race, belief, and sexual identity, VFLA is ances throughout the United States, Mexico, and Canada. a chorus committed to commissioning new works and raising Levine is department chair and professor of music at Cal awareness about issues that affect them as a family of women. Poly Pomona University. Levine is the ACDA National R&S Through music, VFLA aims to create a world that afﬁ rms the Chair for Women’s Choirs and is sought after as a guest clini- worth and dignity of every person. cian and adjudicator for choral festivals throughout the country. Vox Femina Los Angeles has established itself as a premier women’s chorus in the United States with a demonstrated ability to perform highly eclectic repertoire, some of which

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ACDA International Conductor Do you think of yourself as an artist in rehearsal or only when you walk on stage to perform? When do you stop wor- Exchange Program rying about your choir competing, about the media, the ticket Guest Scholar sales, the programming, the reviews, and become the artist conductor you were meant to be? Visiting the Western Division Conference under the auspices This session is for all conductors from beginner to profes- of ACDA's International Conductor Exchange Program, Cuban sional … honest gestures from shoulders to elbows, wrists, and choral conductor José Antonio Méndez will provide insight into ﬁ ngers … gestures that powerfully reﬂ ect essence of the music. the vibrant musical culture of Cuba and will share wonderful Less is more, no more energy than for the desired result. Music choral music from his country. is provided or bring a work to be considered and discussed with the clinician.

VVanceance Y.Y. GeorgeGeorge is recognized inter- Breathing New Life into nationally as one of the world’s leading Music of the Renaissance choral conductors. He has conducted in the United States, Europe, Australia, and Asia. He has conducted concerts in New Renaissance choral scores, often with few or no helpful perfor- York, Salzburg, Austria, Sydney, Australia, mance suggestions, can lead to shapeless, uninspired delivery of Minneapolis, Spokane, and Indianapolis, erest Sessions erest this beautiful and expressive music, leaving audiences and choirs and at the Berkshire Choral Festival, and non-plussed, and conductors discouraged in their efforts to the Ventura Bach Festival. educate, inform and entertain. In this hands-on session, Schauer His unique range of musical styles, knowledge of languages, will lead participants to examine and re-think performance of mastery of vocal colors, and synthesis of the choral/orchestral sacred and secular Renaissance works. Simple score analysis tradition has been lauded by audiences, critics, and conductors. will drive decisions on tempo, phrasing, overall shape, dynamics In the words of San Francisco composer Conrad Susa: “Vance and articulation, empowering conductors to craft engaging and creates a choral sonority that is unique to each work he’s asked expressive rehearsals and performances of this rich and highly to perform. His knowledge of vocal colors is unsurpassed.” His accessible body of historical literature. work embodies the legacy of the great maestros and mentors he has known as protégé and colleague, especially Kurt Masur, EElizabethlizabeth SchauerSchauer serves as associate John Nelson, Helmut Rilling, Edo de Waart, Herbert Blomstead, director of choral activities at the Uni- Michael Tison Thomas, Robert Shaw, Julius Herford, Margaret versity of Arizona, where she conducts Hillis, Robert Page, Otto Werner-Mueller, and Mary Pyer. Symphonic Choir and University Com- munity Chorus, and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in choral The Fullerton College Chamber Singers, John Tebay conduc- conducting and methods. Schauer has tor, will be the demonstration choir for this session. Their photos conducted college, community, church, and bios can be found on page 107. honor and public school choirs, and has served as music director of community and university theatrical productions. Schauer holds degrees from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, Westminster Choir Conducting Master Class College, and the University of Michigan. Beginners

DDennisennis ShrockShrock will be the clinician for this session. He is the keynote speaker this conference. His photo and bio can be Conducting Choral Colors found on page 103.

Become the teacher/conductor who reﬂ ects vocal subtle- The Box Elder High School Madrigals, Claudia Bigler conductor, ties of language and style in your gesture. As your group grows will be the demonstration choir for this session. Their photos into the performance, bringing the music up off the page. your and bios can be found on page 104. gesture invites even greater vocal expression and coloring. 2012 Division Conferences - Int Conferences Division 2012

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DDennisennis ShrockShrock will be the clinician for this session. He is the Conductor's Lifestyle keynote speaker this conference. His photo and bio can be found on page 103. At press time, no description was available for this session.

The California State University Fullerton University Singers, Ryan W. Holder is the associate director Rob Istad conductor, will be the demonstration choir for this of choral studies at Northern Arizona session. Their photos and bios can be found on page 104. University, where he directs the Wom- en's Chorale, Northern Voices and High Altitude vocal jazz ensembles, teaches undergraduate and graduate conducting Expanding the Repertoire: and choral methods, supervises choral A Fresh Look at Programming and Literature student teachers, and serves as the adviser for the NAU student chapter of for Male Chorus the American Choral Directors Association. erest Sessions erest Holder has given lectures and presentations at local, state, This session will focus on programming and repertoire ideas and regional ACDA and MENC conventions, and his ensembles for male chorus that may typically be overlooked. The follow- have been invited to perform throughout the Southwest Holder ing questions will be explored: What repertoire makes a male serves as the Arizona State College and University R & S Chair, chorus concert interesting? How does a conductor ﬁ nd the bal- the Western Division program and advertising chair, and on the ance between literature that is challenging yet accessible? What ACDA National Committee on Technology. pieces help to build an audience (and keep them coming back)? This session is intended for anyone interested in male chorus, either in high school, university, or community settings. Part of this session will include reading through excerpts of little-known, Latin American Rhythm but useful works for male chorus. The purpose of this session is in Your Blood to broaden the horizons of male chorus conductors. Attendees will gain a deeper knowledge of male chorus repertoire, and a clear idea of how to use it. Explore the world of Latin American rhythms including the nuances, regional variances, and ways that will help teach these CCameronameron F.F. LaBarrLaBarr, a native of Rich- rhythms to singers. The clinician will help you discover the mond, Missouri, is assistant professor of various instrumental combinations for each style. Unravel this choral music at Lee University in Cleve- eclectic world of rhythms in a fun and interactive workshop, land, Tennessee, where he conducts and take home a valuable wealth of resources and information. Choral Union and teaches choral conducting, literature, and methods. Prior Cristian Grases is the assistant professor to his appointment at Lee, he served as of choral music and conductor of the conductor of the University of North USC Thornton Concert Choir. Born in Texas Men’s Chorus and taught under- Venezuela, he earned his MM from the graduate conducting. LaBarr holds a BME from Missouri State Simón Bolivar University, where his prin- University and an MM and DMA from the University of North ciple teachers were Maria Guinand and Texas, where he studied choral conducting and orchestral con- Alberto Grau, and his DMA from the ducting. LaBarr has worked as a guest conductor and clinician University of Miami. He has previously for various conferences and festivals across the midwestern and served as interim director of choral ac- southern United States. tivities at Central Washington University and assistant professor in choral music at California State University. Grases currently serves as minister of music at St. James’ Episcopal Church in South Pasadena, California. 2012 Division Conferences - Int Conferences Division 2012

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Grases has participated in festivals, work- onstrated as singers positions are changed shops, and events as a guest conductor, clini- MMovement:ovement: tthehe KKeyey ttoo MMakingaking cian, adjudicator, and conducting pedagogue YYourour ChoirChoir SSoundound GGood!ood! in North and South America, Europe, and CCharleneharlene ArchibequeArchibeque is one of America’s Asia. Most recently, he guest conducted in This session will cite recent research foremost choral con- France, Denmark, The Netherlands, Indone- into how movement helps people learn and ductors and teachers. sia, China, and Venezuela. retain ideas, concepts, and sounds. The clini- The famed San Jose Grases was the founder and artistic di- cian will be demonstrate movement of the State University Cho- rector of Amazonia Vocal Ensemble, based singers’ bodies in vocalizes, as they rehearse a raliers took fi rst place in Miami, with a focus on Latin American piece, and as they perform music, and move at seven International repertoire. He also served as conductor the singers into different positions both on Competitions, includ- for the Women’s Chamber Ensemble of the and off the risers. Subtle movements—such ing the Choir of the World in Llangollen University of Miami, was the assistant con- as turning the head slightly—fi nger move- Wales at the famous Eisteddfod. She has ductor of the Miami Symphony Orchestra ments, hand and arm movements, modifi ed presented choir clinics and conductors’ under Eduardo Marturet, and the conductor tai-chi, and other current uses of the body workshops throughout the United States of the Young Musician’s Orchestra. in the act of learning and performing will be and Australia, England, Canada, and most of In 2004, Grases was selected by the explored. Differences in timbre will be dem- International Federation for Choral Music as one of a fi ve-member committee for the Songbridge Project, together with renowned choral masters and chaired by the creator of the project, Erkki Pohjola (Finland). He was selected to be part of the Board of Directors of the International Federation for Choral Music in 2008. In addition, Grases is currently University of St. Thomas the Ethnic and Multicultural R&S chair of the for ACDA's Western Division. Choral Music

Mentoring in the Ensemble Arts: Helping Others Find Their Voice

This session examines the mentor/protégé dynamic and its critical impact on the lives of ensembles and their conductors. Drawing from research and personal experience, Dr. Angela Broeker, Director of Choral Activities this presentation gives a portrait of a rarely discussed aspect of the conductor’s life. The Summer 2012 Graduate Courses goal of the session is to help the conductor Visit www.stthomas.edu/music/graduate/academics/courses realize the full potential of the mentor/ protégé relationship and to assist mentor Featuring Master of Arts degree Degree Programs Master of Arts and protégé in achieving the best possible in Music Education, Choral in Music Education beneﬁ ts of these relationships. Concentration choral • instrumental • kodály piano pedagogy • orff Online Graduate Application Tim Sharp will be the clinician for this ses- www.stthomas.edu/music/graduate sion. His photo and bio can be found on Bachelor of Music page 48. music education • performance Bachelor of Arts

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Europe. She has conducted hundreds of honor choirs in 43 tions for interfaith programs, which are not directly tied to wor- states and six provinces of Canada. She is active in ACDA and ship, but are based instead on visual presentation of great art, has presented major interest sessions, served on many panels, theological discussion, and performance of music, all based on and her choirs have performed at 30 state, division, and national a pre-selected topic (such as Creation, Social Justice, the Psalms, conventions. After retiring from San Jose State University in etc.). This session will suggest ways to plan and implement such 2005, she returned in 2010 to conduct both the Concert Choir an event, and also briefl y explore other possible non-worship and Chamber Singers. She holds degrees from the University formats for interfaith activities centered on the arts. of Michigan, San Diego State, and a DMA from the University of Colorado. She is editor of the Charlene Archibeque Choral NNickick StrimpleStrimple is a faculty member at Series with Santa Barbara Music Publishers. the USC Thornton School of Music and director of music at Beverly Hills The Clovis East High School Women's Chorale, Dan Bishop Presbyterian Church. He is author of conductor, will be the demonstration choir for this session. Their Choral Music in the Nineteenth Century photos and bios can be found on page 106. (2008) and Choral Music in the Twentieth Century (2002). Strimple is recognized for his work with music related to the Holocaust and has lectured on the Music Literacy subject at Yale University, Oxford University, the Krakow Jewish Culture Festival, and other institutions. Strimple has conducted the London Symphony Orchestra, the Chorus and Orchestra erest Sessions erest Teaching music notation in the choral classroom can be of the Polish National Opera, and the Nuremberg Symphony. diffi cult at times. Gather the tools to eradicate music illiteracy He has also worked as arranger for Frank Sinatra, Rod Stewart, and get your singers excited about reading music. From Kodály Air Supply, and other leading artists. hand signs to examples in modern rock, your students deserve a fun approach to sight reading. Where Are All the Boys? Peter Steenblik is director of choral music at Jordan High School in Sandy, Utah. He directs fi ve choral groups and Would you like more boys in your children's choir? This ses- an English handbell choir. Steenblik holds sion deals with the challenge of recruiting boys into a children’s a BME in choral education and an MM in choir, and retaining them and meeting their needs once you get choral conducting from the University of them. (Naturally, the ideas presented will work for girls as well!) Utah. A member of the Mormon Tab- ernacle Choir, he is an active participant Diane Simons is the artistic director of in community arts and often provides the South Bay Children’s Choir, at El music direction for community theaters. Since 2005, he has Camino College in Torrance, California. been the director for the Utah Ambassadors of Music European She previously taught at the high school tour. His students have recently appeared in concert with the and elementary schools in El Segundo Utah Symphony, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Ballet West, for 33 years. She is the R&S Chair for and the University of Utah choirs. Steenblik has a love for music Children’s and Community Youth Choirs and a talent for working with young people. He is known for for the Western Division. Her choir his enthusiasm, dedication, and high standard of choral singing. has performed at ACDA and CMEA conventions.

Mandy Brigham is in her tenth season Planning and Implementing as the associate artistic director of the Los Angeles Children’s Chorus (LACC). Interfaith Programs In addition to conducting LACC’s Inter- mediate and Preparatory Choirs, she is It is relatively easy for disparate faith communities to coop- responsible for overseeing the organiza- erate in social action projects. But it is much more difﬁ cult to tion’s musicianship and vocal coaching create effective and meaningful interfaith services of worship programs. She has prepared the chorus because various obstacles—including exclusivity—are inherent for collaborations with the Los Angeles 2012 Division Conferences - Int Conferences Division 2012 in all denominational worship. This session will provide sugges-

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Philharmonic, the Hollywood Bowl Or- striking inﬂ uence the Italianate style had on Jordan Sramek will be the clinician for this chestra, and the Long Beach Symphony. In Polish composers of the time. Mikolaj Ziel- session. His choir, The Rose Ensemble will be addition to her work at LACC, Brigham is enski, most notably, may have even studied the demonstration choir. They are headliners the vocal music teacher at Balboa Boulevard with Giovanni Gabrieli; his choral works at this conference. Their photos and bios can Magnet School in Northridge. display typical Venetian inﬂ uence, but with a be found on page 103. sound that is somehow still Polish. Looking Steven Kronauer is for a double-choir-blowout alternative to the the conductor of tradition at St. Mark’s? Look no further than the Young Men’s Zieleński and his compatriots Rohaczewski Ensemble of the and Mielczewski! Los Angeles Chil- dren’s Chorus and the ACDA Western Division R&S Chair for Male Choirs. He CChorTeachhorTeach started his singing career with a ten-year engagement at the Bavarian State Opera wwww.acda.org/publications/chorteachww.acda.org/publications/chorteach in Munich Germany, and actively continues A ggreatreat rresourceesource fforor cchoralhoral ddirectorsirectors aatt aallll llevels.evels. his career as a soloist in the United States. Kronauer earned his DMA from UCLA in NNewew articlesarticles appearappear quarterly.quarterly. operatic and choral conducting. Currently, he teaches voice and German diction at the HHereere areare somesome ofof thethe articarticlleses Bob Cole Conservatory of Music at CSU ccurrentlyurrently postedposted onon ACDA’sACDA’s WebWeb site.site. Long Beach. ""ChoirChoir Lite:Lite: LessLess Time,Time, StillStill Fulfilling"Fulfilling" Valerie Quiring is the artistic director of ""DisciplineDiscipline inin thethe Classroom"Classroom" the Bach Children’s Choir in Frenso, Cali- ""HelpingHelping CoreyCorey MatchMatch Pitch"Pitch" fornia. She has been an elementary music ""NewNew BridgesBridges toto MulticulturalMulticultural ChoralChoral Music"Music" specialist with Clo- ""RhythmicRhythmic IntegrityIntegrity inin ChoralChoral Rehearsals"Rehearsals" vis Unified School District, taught el- ""SerenitySerenity forfor thethe MiddleMiddle SchoolSchool ChoirChoir Director"Director" ementary and middle school vocal music at Fresno Christian Schools, and was the artistic ""TenTen PositivePositive ThingsThings toto DoDo forfor Yourself"Yourself" director of the Central California Children’s Choir for seven years. Quiring is an active ""TheThe 'Call':'Call': TeachingTeaching SingersSingers toto Project"Project" member of ACDA. Her choirs have performed at numerous ACDA and California ""TheThe BestBest ThingsThings inin LifeLife AreAre Free,Free, EspeciallyEspecially ChoralChoral Music"Music" Music Educator’s Association conferences. ""TransformativeTransformative CollaborationsCollaborations withwith OtherOther Choirs"Choirs"

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Janet Galván is professor of music at Lynne Gackle is associate professor Ithaca College, conducts the Ithaca of ensembles and associate director College Women’s Chorale, the Ithaca of choral activities at Baylor University ors College Chorus, and is artistic director (Waco, TX), where she conducts the of the Ithaca Children's Choir. Galván Baylor Bella Voce (Women’s Ensemble) has conducted honor choruses and the Baylor Concert Choir. She is throughout the United States in venues an active clinician, conductor, and adju- including Carnegie Hall, Washington’s dicator for choral clinics, honor choirs, Constitution Hall, Minneapolis’ workshops, and festivals throughout the Symphony Hall and Pittsburgh’s Heinz Hall. Under her United States and abroad. direction, her own choral ensembles have performed in Gackle is a past president of ACDA-Florida and the ACDA’s Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall and Avery Southern Division. Additionally, she has served in various R&S Fisher Hall, and in venues in Ireland, Italy and Spain. Galván roles within ACDA, including National R&S chair for Children’s also has guest-conducted the State Philharmonic of Bialystok, Choirs and Southern Division chair for Women’s Choirs. She Poland, the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, the Madrid Chamber currently is a member of the editorial board of ACDA’s Choral Orchestra and the New England Symphonic Ensemble in Journal. choral/orchestral performances. Galván has been a clinician Gackle is the editor of the Lynne Gackle Choral Series with in the United Kingdom, Canada, Belgium, and Brazil and at Colla Voce Music and also Artistry for the Developing Singer with national and regional choral music education conferences and Walton Music. She is the author of Finding Ophelia’s Voice, Open- tthe World Symposium on Choral Music. ing Ophelia’s Heart: Nurturing the Adolescent Female Voice, pub- She has two choral music series with Roger Dean Publishing lished by Heritage Music Press. Gackle is a member of ACDA, and is the series advisor to Latin Accents, a series with Boosey MENC, the Texas Music Educators Association, the Texas Choral & Hawkes. She was a member of the Grammy Award-winning Directors Association, ISME, and NATS. She received her BME Robert Shaw Festival Chorus during Shaw’s ﬁ nal years. from Louisiana State University and her MM and PhD from the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida.

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Paul Rardin will be the conductor of this honor choir. His photo and bio are on page 52.

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Conspirare Craig Hella Johnson is the founder and artistic director of the fi ve-time Grammy Award-Nominated choral Founded in ensemble Conspirare. He also serves 1991 to pres- as creative director and conductor for ent a summer the Victoria Bach Festival. classical mu- Johnson was artistic director of sic festival in San Francisco-based Chanticleer from Austin, Texas, 1998–99 and has served as guest con- Conspirare ductor with several ensembles including the Taipei Male Choir, has rapidly the Berkshire Choral Festival, the Austin Symphony, San Antonio grown to Symphony, Santa Fe Symphony, and Chicago’s Music of the Ba- become an roque. From 1990–01, Johnson served as the director of choral internationally recognized, professional choral organization. Led activities at the University of Texas at Austin and from 2000–04, by founder and artistic director Craig Hella Johnson, Conspirare he was the music director of the Houston Masterworks Chorus. is comprised of two performing ensembles and an educa- A composer and arranger, Johnson works with G. Schirmer tional program. A professional chamber choir (“Conspirare” Publishing on the Craig Hella Johnson Choral Series. His works or “Company of Voices”) of singers from around the country are also published by Alliance Music Publications. is presented in an annual concert series in Austin, other Texas A native of Minnesota, Johnson studied at St. Olaf College, communities, and locations in the United States and abroad. the Juilliard School, and the University of Illinois, and earned The Conspirare Symphonic Choir of professional and volunteer his doctorate at Yale University. As the recipient of a National singers performs one or more large choral/orchestral works Arts Fellowship, Johnson studied with Helmuth Rilling at the annually. The Conspirare Youth Choirs is an educational program International Bach Academy in Stuttgart, Germany. for singers ages 8-16, who learn and perform in two separate ensembles, Kantorei and the Conspirare Children’s Choir. Conspirare produced its fi rst commercial recording, through the green fuse, in 2004 on the Clarion Records label. A second CD, Requiem, also on Clarion and since reissued by Harmonia Mundi, was released in 2006 and Grammy® nominations for Best Choral Performance and Best Engineered Classical Album. A third recording, Threshold of Night, was released worldwide in September 2008. Threshold of Night received Grammy nominations for Best Choral Performance and Best Classical Album. In Oc- tober 2008, in cooperation with Austin’s public television station KLRU, Conspirare fi lmed a PBS television special, A Company of Voices: Conspirare in Concert, that was broadcast nationally in March 2009 and is available on CD and DVD. A Company of Voices received a Grammy nomination for Best Classical Crossover Al- bum. Conspirare’s latest CD Sing 2012 Division Conferences - Headliners Conferences Division 2012 Freedom! African American Spirituals was recorded last October and released September 13, 2011 by Harmonia Mundi.

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BUENOS AIRES TO BLUEGRASS: Aaron Mitchell is director of choral AMAZING MASS MUSIC studies at Indiana University-Purdue Uni- versity in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He was previously director of choral activities Indiana University/Purdue University - at the University of Regina in Saskatch- Fort Wayne ewan, Canada, where he also led the University Orchestra. Recent highlights Choral Union and University Singers include being guest conductor of the 2011 International Music Camp, the 2010 Northern Montana District Honor Choir, and the 2009 Saskatchewan All-Province Honor Choir. He led the University of Regina Chamber Singers in a performance for the 2010 As- sociation of Canadian Choral Conductors National Convention. Mitchell has prepared choirs for choral-orchestral performances with the Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic, the Regina Symphony Orchestra, and the Fort Wayne Philharmonic. He holds degrees from the University of Cincinnati's College- ChoralCChh Union is Indiana University/Purdue University-Forth Conservatory of Music, Temple University, and Brigham Young WWorth’s (IPFW) community choir, open both to students and University, and has had additional studies with Dale Warland. tththeh community. Founded in 2005, the ensemble performs a vvavarietya of choral works, from choral-orchestral masterworks ttoo shorter selections. The University Singers is a large, auditioned choral ensemble, South Bend Chamber Singers oopenp to all students. Both ensembles frequently combine and ccollaborateo with IPFW’s Community Orchestra in the perfor- mmance of choral-orchestral works. The choirs also frequently The South Bend Chamber Singers, an ensemble-in-residence jjoino with the Fort Wayne Philharmonic, most recently in Orff’s at Saint Mary’s College (Notre Dame, IN), is celebrating its CCaCarminaa Burana, Poulenc’s Gloria, and A Rodgers and Ham- 23rd concert season. Over the past 22 years the Singers have mmerstein Celebration with the Philharmonic Pops. presented major works from the standard repertoire, yet the ensemble concentrates primarily on works by living composers and regularly commissions new works and unusual and complex arrangements, most of which have been published and continue to be performed by choirs throughout the world. The choir has collaborated with numerous

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Bexley High School titled, Celebrate America, the Many Voices One Song Music Marathon, and caroling at various community establishments Vocal Ensemble and on the grand staircase at the FOX Theatre in Detroit. They have also performed in concert with the University Vocal Ensemble of Michigan Men’s Glee Club, the Cantata Academy Cho- is one of fi ve rale, the Warren Symphony Orchestra, and the Macomb choirs at Bex- Symphony Orchestra. ley High School. They have Kent Wattleworth directs four shared perfor- choirs, four extra-curricular en- mances with sembles, teaches music theory, and ensemblese from The Ohio State University, Capital University, is the musical director for the school OhioO University, and Baldwin Wallace College. Vocal Ensemble musicals at Chippewa Valley High hash performed at ACDA and MENC state conferences. Since School. Wattleworth has also pre- 2003,2 they have toured throughout the United States and pared choirs for performances with Europe,E performing in notable locations such as Carnegie Hall the Warren Symphony Orchestra, anda St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City, St. Mark’s in Venice, the Macomb Symphony Orchestra, St.S Nicolas in Prague, St. Stephen's Basilica in Budapest, and St. and the Michigan Opera Theatre Orchestra at the Detroit Stephen’sS Cathedral in Vienna. Opera House. Additionally, he is in his second year of teaching Secondary Choral Methods as an adjunct professor at Amy Johnston Blosser is in her ninth Oakland University. He holds degrees from Hope College year as choral director at Bexley High and Oakland University, and has taught music for fourteen School. She conducts fi ve choirs, serves years at every grade level from kindergarten to college. as vocal music director for annual musical productions, and is the fi ne arts department chair. She holds an MM in choral conducting and a BME from The Cincinnati Children’s Choir Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, where she studied with Hilary Ap- The Cin- felstadt,ffee James Gallagher, and Robert J. Ward. She also serves as cinnati thetthh Director of Traditional Music at Linworth United Methodist Children’s ChurchC in Columbus. Currently National Chair for Repertoire Choir anda Standards for ACDA, Blosser previously served as the (CCC), En- NationalN R&S Chair for Senior High School choirs. semble-in- Residence at the Uni- versity of Chippewa Valley High School Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, was founded in 1993 and serves 500 young singers from Ohio, Indiana, and Varsity Choir Kentucky. CCC has twice recorded with the Pops and has toured Europe, Scandinavia, and the United States as well as The Chippewa performing at state, regional, and national conferences. CCC Valley High is a recent winner of the Scripps-Corbett Award in the artist School Varsity category, the region’s most prestigious award in the arts. Choir is the top performing vo- Robyn Lana is the conductor of the Cincinnati Children’s cal ensemble in Choir. Her photo and bio are on page 81. the school. The Varsity Choir hhas performed at many local venues such as the Clinton TTownship Festival of the Senses, the PBS television special 2012 Division Conferences - Performing Choirs - Performing Conferences Division 2012

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Scott Hochstetler is assistant professor Hilliard Darby High School of music at Goshen College, where he Symphonic Choir teaches in the vocal and choral areas. He is also the newly appointed director of the St. Joseph Valley Camerata. As a The Hilliard scholar, his work on Vaughan Williams Darby Sym- has been published by the Choral Jour- phonic Choir nal, and he is the co-author of the IPA has per- Pronunciation Guide to Translations and formed for Annotations of Choral Repertoire, German Texts. Hochstetler holds seven Ohio a DMA in choral conducting from Michigan State University, Music Educa- a double MM in conducting and voice from the University of tion Associa- Michigan, and a BA in music and biology from Goshen College. tion/NAfME conventions in the last eight years. The choir has worked with such notable conductors as James Gallagher, Don- ald Neuen, Ann Howard Jones, Eric Whitacre, and with Craig Jessop for the 2011 National Memorial Day Choral Festival. Greenville College Choir Michael G. Martin is director of choral activities at Hilliard Darby High School The Greenville and a graduate of The Ohio State Uni- College Choir versity, earning his BME and an MCA was founded in in conducting. He has studied with 1927 by Robert conductors such as James Gallagher, W. Woods and Hilary Apfelstadt, Maurice Casey, Ann has attained a Howard Jones, and Craig Jessop. He had reputation for the honor of studying with and serving performing sa- as accompanist for the late Robert Shaw. He is also a published cred choral music of the highest quality. Membership consists of composer with Alliance Music, Houston, Texas, Lawson Gould, undergraduate students from various ﬁ elds of study. Greenville and Alfred Publications. Martin has served as adjunct professor College Choir performances include guest appearances with at various universities. He is director of music at Upper Arling- the Boston Camerata at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis in ton Lutheran Church and serves on the board of the Ohio November 2009 and a performance at the American Kantorei Choral Directors Association. at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis in April 2011.

Jeffrey S. Wilson received his BM in piano from Augustana College (Rock Is- Illinois Wesleyan University land, Illinois). He earned his MM in choral music and his DMA in choral conducting Collegiate Choir and literature from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has The Illinois Wes- extensive experience as a church musi- leyan University cian and has traveled throughout the Collegiate Choir midwestern and northwestern United tours domesti- States and Western and Eastern Europe as a concert vocalist cally annually, and accompanist. In addition to his duties as conductor of the and since 2000 Greenville College Choir, Chamber Singers, and the Greenville has performed Choral Union, Wilson teaches voice, conducting, and choral in Italy, Russia, techniques, and serves as chair of the music department. He is Lithuania, Lat- organist and director of the Sanctuary Choir at the Greenville via, Estonia, and Free Methodist Church. Spain. The Collegiate Choir has performed at IMEA conferences and the 2008 ACDA Central Division Conference. The Choir maintains an annual choral commission series. In 2013, the Choir 2012 Division Conferences - Performing Choirs - Performing Conferences Division 2012

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will join the King’s Singers for the premiere Scott Buchanan Michael Bennett is of a work written for the two ensembles by serves as director choral director at La- Philip Lawson. of choral activities fayette (IN) Jefferson in the school of mu- High School, where J. Scott Ferguson sic at Indiana State he directs Varsity is the director of University. Originally Singers, A Cappella, choral activities and from New Jersey, Accents, and also chair of the voice and Buchanan earned his teaches advanced choral department BME from Bradley class piano. Bennett is a graduate of the at Illinois Wesleyan University, his MME from the Florida State Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, University. He is an University, and his PhD in music education where he received his BME in organ perfor- active clinician, festival from the Conservatory of Music at the mance and his MM in organ performance conductor, and adju- University of Missouri-Kansas City. In May and choral conducting. As a concert organist, dicator at international choral competitions, 2010, he served as the artistic director of Bennett has performed across the Midwest and has presented choral workshops and the National Memorial Day Choral Festival and East Coast, playing in cathedrals and for lectures in the United States, Europe, and at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. chapters of the American Guild of Organ- South America. He has published articles Choirs under his direction have performed ists in more than ten states. His most recent on Slovak choral music in the Choral Journal throughout the United States, Europe, and collaboration was with the choirs of Vassar and is the compiler and editor of the Slovak in Asia. At Indiana State, Buchanan conducts College, where he made his discography Choral Series, published by Alliance Publica- the select Concert Choir, Sycamore Singers, debut in a live performance of Mozart's tions. Ferguson conducts the Chapel Choir Masterworks Chorale, and teaches conduct- Requiem, K.626. at Second Presbyterian Church in Blooming- ing, choral methods, and literature at the ton, Illinois, and is organist and cantor at St. graduate and undergraduate levels. He has Joseph Catholic Church in Chenoa, Illinois. served on the Indiana Music Educators As- sociation Board of Directors and serves as Millikin University vice president of the Indiana Choral Direc- tors Association. One Voice Indiana State University Concert Choir Lafayette Jefferson High School Varsity Singers

OneVoice is the ﬂ agship ensemble of the A select ensemble of 48 voices, the Indiana vocal jazz program at Millikin University. The State University (ISU) Concert Choir per- Varsity Singers of Lafayette Jefferson High group has been specially recognized by Down forms a varied repertoire of choral music School is an auditioned group of 46 musi- Beat magazine several times and has been from all styles and genres. The ensemble cians in grades 10–12. It is the premiere invited to perform at various educational serves as an ambassador for the ISU school concert choir at Jefferson High School. Var- conferences and collegiate jazz festivals in of music, performing 25 concerts a year for sity Singers performed with the New York the United States, including the 2008 ACDA both on- and off-campus events. The choir City Chorale and Chamber Orchestra in the National Conference, the 2012 Jazz Educa- tours frequently. Additionally, the group Inaugural Christmas at Carnegie program tors’ Network, 1989 and 2001 IAJE Interna- has been invited to perform at the state in December of 2003. The choir recently tional Convention, the UNC/Greeley Jazz conference of the Indiana Music Educators performed at New York City’s Cathedral of Festival, and four times at the Illinois Music Association and the summer conference of St. John the Divine in March 2011. Educators Association state conference. the Indiana Choral Directors Association.

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Stephen Widenhofer is director of the Excellence in Teaching, Shining Star Award, Wal-Mart Teacher of school of music at Millikin University in the Year and the Lilly Creativity Fellowship Grant. Decatur, Illinois. He is also founder of First Step Records, Millikin’s own record label and publishing company, which is run by students as a hands-on learning Northern Illinois University experience. Widenhofer is active as a Chamber Choir guest clinician and conductor throughout the Midwest and has directed The Northern numerous IMEA District Jazz Choirs and the all-state honors Illinois Univer- jazz choirs from Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Indiana in 2012. sity Chamber He holds undergraduate and master’s degrees from Ball State Choir is a select University and his DA from the University of Northern Colo- 24-voice vocal rado. Widenhofer is on the music staff at St. Paul's Lutheran ensemble whose Church in Decatur and performs regularly as keyboardist with membership is the Millikin Faculty Jazz Group. comprised of vocal performance and music education majors at the graduate and undergraduate level. In December 2007, Chamber Choir premiered a new choral work by Sir John Tavener that was commissioned specifi cally for this ensemble. North Central High School Under Johnson's leadership the Chamber Choir was invited King’s Court Singers in 2006 to serve as the resident chapel choir at Worcester Cathedra in Worcester, England. The choir has performed at The King’s international choral festivals in Sweden and Denmark in 2004, Court Sing- and Poland in 2002. ers learn and present vari- Eric A. Johnson is director of choral ac- ous genres of tivities at Northern Illinois University and music each founding music conductor of Cor Can- year, including tiamo, a semi-professional choir based madrigal mu- in the Chicagoland metropolitan area. sic, concert choir pieces, and show choir numbers. In addition, Johnson has collaborated with many the choir sings at the MIC Choral Festival, Ball State Music leading composers and commissioned Festival, the North Central Holiday Show, Pacers games, and new works from Sir John Tavener, Jaakko other athletic events. King’s Court competes in ISSMA Solo and Mäntyjärvi, and Stacey Gibbs. Johnson Ensemble; ISSMA Organizational State Qualifi cation Competi- has served as a guest conductor of the Clare College Chapel tion, where the ensemble has received gold ratings and high Choir in Cambridge, England, taught at Makumira University in marks; and Music in the Parks, where they were awarded fi rst Tanzania, and directed guest choral residencies at Canterbury place in the Madrigal Division. and Worcester Cathedrals. With published music through Santa Barbara Music Publishing and articles in the Choral Journal, he Joyce J. Click is a graduate with a BME is active nationally as a clinician and conductor and is a past from Butler University and holds her president of the Illinois-ACDA. MME from Butler and MS from Indiana University with a certifi cation in special education. She has taught for 32 years in the Metropolitan School District of Washington Township. She has taught music at all levels K–12 and has served ACDA on the Web as an adjunct college professor at Butler www.acda.org and Depauw. She has received numerous awards for her teaching, including Washington Township Teacher of the Year, Semi- fi nalist for Indiana Teacher of the Year, Golden Apple Award for 2012 Division Conferences - Performing Choirs - Performing Conferences Division 2012

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An ensemble of 40 voices, University Cho- Northwestern University Robert A. Harris is rale is the most selective of Northwestern professor of conduct- University Chorale University’s Bienen School of Music’s choral ing and director of ensembles. Membership is drawn from choral organizations upper-level undergraduate and graduate at the Bienen School students. University Chorale frequently col- of Music at North- laborates to perform choral works calling western University for chamber orchestra or wind ensemble. and has held visit- On May 27, 2012, University Chorale ing professorships at (with NU’s University Chorus) will be joined Wayne State University, The University of by members of England’s Bournemouth Texas in Austin, and the University of South Symphony Chorus at Chicago’s Millennium Africa in Pretoria. Harris has worked with Park to present the American premiere of the Republic of China’s Taipei Philharmonic British composer Richard Blackford’s Not in Choral and Conducting Workshop, South Our Time, a recently composed oratorio for Korea’s Inchon City Chorale and Hong tenor and baritone soloists, children’s choir, Kong’s Choral Festival Youth Chorale. He mixed chorus and orchestra. has presented conducting master classes and

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lectures in South Africa and Argentina. As a composer, Harris the Choral Journal, including “The Poet Sings: Choral Settings of has received thirty commissions. Emily Dickinson’s Poetry.” Associated with the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin, Ireland, she has composed music for several dramatic productions.

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The Southern Chamber Singers Illinois Univer- The Cham- sity Carbondale ber Singers of (SIUC) Con- Stoney Creek cert Choir is High School the premier regularly per- choral ensem- form with the ble of the uni- Detroit Symphony, the Detroit Chamber Winds, and at the versity. Touring Detroit Opera House. Additionally, they have been featured internationally and throughout the region, this ensemble has four times at the Michigan Music Conference and performed recently appeared at Chicago’s Orchestra Hall, Cedarhurst Arts at the 2010 ACDA Michigan Conference. They are frequently Center, and in multiple concerts in the Peoples’ Republic of called upon to combine with collegiate choirs for major works. China. Annually, the Choir joins the Southern Illinois Symphony Orchestra and other choral ensembles for two masterworks Brandon Ulrich has taught instrumental concerts, most recently performing Handel’s Messiah, Pou- and choral music at Stoney Creek High lenc’s Gloria, and Mendelssohn’s Elijah. A signiﬁ cant focus of School since the school’s opening in the ensemble is the premiering of new works through annual 2002. In addition to his teaching du- participation in the SIUC school of music Outside the Box ties, he is a DMA candidate in choral Festival, which brings numerous prize-winning composers and conducting at Michigan State University. professional ensembles to campus. Joining with the SIUC Wind He was recently chosen to conduct the Ensemble, the Concert Choir premiered The River Merchant’s 2011 Michigan School Vocal Music As- Wife a work for choir, winds, and mezzo soprano by faculty sociation (MSVMA) TTBB State Honors composer Kathleen Ginther at Orchestra Hall in Chicago in Choir and frequently presents sessions at music conferences. April 2011. He serves on the MSVMA Executive Board, where he oversees the summer workshop. An advocate for new music, he estab- Susan Davenport is director of choral lished the Stoney Creek Commissioning Project, which annually activities, associate professor of music, premiers several new works. His compositions are published and assistant director of the school of through Colla Voce and Musicatus Press. music at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. She conducts the Concert Choir, Chamber Singers, and Choral Union, teaches graduate and under- University of Cincinnati graduate conducting, choral literature, College-Conservatory of Music and methods, and administers the choral program. As assistant director of the school of music, she is Chamber Choir director of undergraduate studies and oversees recruiting and The University of marketing for the school. Before joining the SIUC faculty, she Cincinnati Col- was coordinator of choral activities at Texas Woman’s Uni- lege Conserva- versity (TWU) in Denton, Texas. She holds her BME in music tory of Music education from Campbellsville University (KY), her MM from Chamber Choir Western Kentucky University, and her DMA in choral conduct- is a graduate- ing from Texas Tech University, where she was a DeVitt Jones based ensemble Scholar. While at Texas Tech, she was the founding conductor of forty voice and of the Texas Tech Women’s Chorale and served as assistant

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performing masterworks and miniatures. University of Michigan United States Navy Last season the CCM Chamber Choir performed Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610, Women's Glee Club Sea Chanters Stravinsky’s Les Noces, and the regional premiere of Schnittke’s a cappella masterwork, Concerto for Choir, and this season performs a staged production of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, Berlioz’s Damnation of Faust, El- lington’s Sacred Service, and Hindemith’s Apparebit. CCM Chamber Choir has performed Handel’s Dixit Dominus for ACDA Founded in 1893, the University of Michigan national, Si placet works of Josquin at for Women’s Glee Club (WGC) involves un- AMS national, Bach’s Mass in B Minor in dergraduate and graduate women from all Portugal, and Midwest premieres of Phillip degree programs. The choir enjoys an active Glass’s Symphony No. 5 and Tan Dun’s Water schedule, including 1–2 concerts per semes- Passion After St. Matthew. ter, football tailgate sings, service projects, As the offi cial chorus of the United States informal singing engagements, retreats, social Navy, and one of fi ve performing units of the Earl Rivers is profes- events, and regional and international tours. United States Navy Band, the Sea Chanters sor of music, direc- The WGC also invites hundreds of high promote the Navy’s proud heritage of the tor of choral studies, school choir students to Vocal Arts Day each sea. The repertoire of this twenty-voice cho- and head of the divi- year to sing and learn with club members rus, accompanied by piano, bass, and drums, sion of ensembles and gain exposure to the university campus. encompasses all types of choral music, and conducting at including sea chanteys, patriotic selections, the University of Julie Skadsem is as- folk songs, sacred hymns, and the diverse Cincinnati College- sociate professor of sounds of opera and Broadway. These sing- Conservatory of choral music educa- ing ambassadors have appeared throughout Music (CCM). CCM’s graduate conducting tion and conducting the United States on concert tours, and program holds the Dale Warland Singers at the University of perform frequently at the White House, the Score Library and Archives and has been Michigan. She has Vice President’s house, and for dignitaries at recognized by U.S. News and World Report earned her BA from Washington embassies. as among the top fi ve programs in the St. Olaf College, her United States. Music director of Cincinnati’s MME from Florida Casey Elliott, Mu- Vocal Arts Ensemble for twenty seasons, State University, and her PhD from Univer- sician 1st Class, is Rivers’s recent conducting activities include sity of Missouri-Kansas City. She is a member a native of Borger, the Festival of the Aegean in Syros, Greece, of the VoiceCare Network and is certifi ed Texas, joined the South Korea's Inchon City Chorale, Carn- in Dalcroze eurhythmics, Orff-Schulwerk and Navy Band in 2005 egie Hall, and residencies at the Sichuan Kodály. Skadsem has performed regionally after completing her Conservatory in Chengdu, China, and the and internationally with the Women's Glee BME and MM in Taipei International Choral Festival in Tai- Club over the past six years and under her choral conducting wan. Rivers is artistic director USA for the direction, the Women’s Glee Club com- from Texas Tech Uni- World Choir Games in Cincinnati. pleted a European tour in Vienna, Austria, versity. She studied voice with Karl Dent and as a participant and featured ensemble in Kathy McNeil, and conducting with John the International Haydn Festival (July 2009). Dickson. She was a featured soloist at the 2004 ACDA Southwestern Division Con- ference. In 2008, Elliott was selected to be ACDA National Symposium an associate enlisted conductor of the Sea Chanters. She also performs with the Sea on American Choral Music Chanter women’s ensembles The Anchor June 29 & 30, 2012 Sisters and The Navy Blues, and was named sailor of the quarter for the second quarter Washington, D.C. of 2008.

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Georgina Todd joined the Navy Band has now made appearances as a conductor and soloist. He has in 1993. She is the unit leader for the led the Valparaiso University Chorale in four residencies at the Sea Chanters. Todd was born in Eugene, St. Thomas Church, Leipzig, performing a broad spectrum of Oregon, and grew up in a military fam- repertoire, including many motets and cantatas by J. S. Bach. He ily, living in England, Germany, and New has conducted numerous all-state choirs in the United States York. She earned her BA in 1985 from and internationally has led the Leipzig Baroque Orchestra and Wells College in Aurora, New York. the Hugo-Distler-Chor (Berlin). He has performed his signature She studied applied voice at George role as a Bach Evangelist, with ﬁ fty performances to his credit Mason University and later at American in the United States and internationally. University, where she received professional training in opera performance via the Crittenden Opera studio. In 1997, she won the Northern Virginia Music Teachers Association Competition. Todd has been a featured soloist on numerous performances West Ottawa High School with Sea Chanters and Navy Band and made appearances with Select Women’s Ensemble the Mount Vernon Orchestra, the Chesapeake Orchestra, and two full opera productions with the Northern Virginia Chamber Opera. Her solo engagements include operatic performances The West Ot- for the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of the Navy, the tawa Select Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Chief of Naval Women’s En- Operations. semble was established in 2007 as one of five choirs at Valparaiso University West Ottawa High School in Holland, Michigan. In the past two years, they Bach Choir have performed at the ACDA Michigan conference and the Michigan Music Conference. The Bach Choir of Valparaiso Pamela Pierson has worked with young University is singers for 35 years and has guided many an auditioned diverse groups of students. Her ensem- ensemble serv- bles perform 100 times a year and sing ing the Bach in venues as varied as retirement homes, Institute at Val- weddings, corporate events, aircraft paraiso University (VU). Comprised of VU faculty, staff, and carriers, cathedrals, caves, Ground Zero members of the wider Chicagoland community, the choir made and The Grand Ole Opry. Since 2005, its debut in the 2001 performance of Bach’s St. Matthew Pas- her groups have performed in Toronto, sion and participated in the inauguration of the Bach Institute Chicago, Cleveland, Nashville, New York City, and Milwaukee. in January 2004, performing Bach’s Mass in B Minor, both under An active adjudicator and clinician, she is supervisor of state the direction of Helmuth Rilling. The Bach Choir performed at events for the Michigan School Vocal Music Association, and will the opening worship of the 2006 American Guild of Organ- conduct this year’s SSAA state honor choir. She received her ists’ National Convention. Performing motets by J. S. Bach, Felix Bachelors and Masters from Michigan State University. Mendelssohn and two world premieres, their performance was reviewed in The American Organist as offering “ﬂ awless diction, impeccable intonation—rich and stunning.”

Christopher M. Cock is director of cho- Western Michigan University ral and vocal activities at Valparaiso Uni- Cantus Femina versity. He holds the Duesenberg Chair in Lutheran Music, and is director of the The Treble Clef Club (1909), the ﬁ rst women’s ensemble at Bach Institute. Cock appeared at Carn- Western Michigan University (WMU), has evolved into Cantus egie Hall in 2009 as conductor of the Femina, a dynamic group of auditioned voices specializing in rep- New England Symphonic Ensemble—he ertoire written for women. The ensemble sings a wide variety

2012 Division Conferences - Performing Choirs - Performing Conferences Division 2012 of literature and takes pride in performing new works. During

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Wheaton College Central Division Vice President. Women's Chorale

the 2011–12 academic year, Cantus Femina performed at the NCCO national conven- The Wheaton College Women’s Chorale tion in November and the ACDA Central has sung for audiences in the United States, Division Conference. In 2006, Cantus Fe- Europe, and the British Isles. Composed of mina performed with Tapestry, a professional sixty students representing many states and women’s ensemble from Boston, in a shared a variety of academic majors, the Chorale’s concert presented by the Michigan Festival central goal is to worship God with its mu- of Sacred Music. sical offerings, to uplift audiences through shared ministry, and to enrich the college experience for ensemble members. In addi- Delores Gauthier is tion to ministry in churches around the na- professor of music tion and campus appearances, the Women’s at Western Michigan Chorale has appeared in recent years at University, where she regional and national ACDA conferences. chaired the profes- They performed for the Wheaton College sional education area Artist Series—joining 400 other singers and for eleven years. She the Wheaton College Symphony Orchestra teaches graduate in Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem under the and undergraduate baton of John Nelson in the fall of 2010. choral and general music education courses, conducts the Women’s Chorus, and is the Mary Hopper is coordinator of intern teachers for the school professor of choral of music. music and director Gauthier received her BS in music educa- of performance stud- tion from Eastern Illinois University and her ies at the Wheaton the MS and DE from the University of Illinois College Conserva- Champaign–Urbana. Also recognized as a tory of Music. She vocal health and music education clinician, conducts the Men’s she has made presentations at international, Glee Club and the national, regional, state, and local levels in- Women’s Chorale. Hopper holds degrees cluding presentations on vocal education from Wheaton College and the University at the Creative Arts in Psychotherapy, of Iowa, where she studied with Don V Mo- Education and Medicine Conference in St. ses. Before coming to Wheaton, she taught Petersburg, Russia. Gauthier served as the public school music in the Chicago area and R&S Chair for Women’s Choirs for the state choral conducting and voice at the Univer- of Michigan and as the Michigan state advisor sity of Minnesota (Morris). An active church for the Collegiate Music Educators National musician, she presently serves as minister Conference. She is a member of ACDA, of music at Immanuel Presbyterian Church, NCCO, NAME, and Michigan MEA. Warrenville, Illinois. She has served ACDA as Illinois chapter state president, and is ACDA

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ACDAACDA InteIntInternationaler Conductor Catch-as-Catch-Can: Exchange Program Rounds, Canons, and Part-Song Resources Guest Scholar A demonstration choir will show various styles of rounds and part songs (catches) that will enhance the teaching of VisitingV the Central Division Conference under the auspices intonation, style, and part independence. Audience members ooff AACDA's International Conductor Exchange Program, Cuban will also participate in singing partner songs and quodlibets. cchoralho conductor José Antonio Méndez will provide insight into tthehe vibrant musical culture of Cuba and will share wonderful Joyce J. Click will be the clinician for this session. Her choir, the cchoralho music from his country. North Central High School King’s Court Singers, will be the demonstration choir. Their photos and bios are on page 126.

Actions Speak Louder Than Words Choir is … One of the most important, yet underdeveloped, teaching ttotoolsoo is our ability to clearly represent what we mean musically The Meanings of the Choral Experience tthroughhrro gesture. Often in rehearsals, we send confl icting mes- Grades 7-12 ssagesagge to the ensemble. We tell the choir one thing but show ssomethingom else entirely. Creating consistency between what the While music making is essential to the choral experience, eensemblens is told and what they are shown will lead to more the meanings found by choral students in grades 7–12 are far eefffi ccient rehearsing and a better response from the ensemble. from confi ned to notes, rhythms, or vocal technique. Through TThThishis session will focus on ways to improve personal conducting a session using the responses of 200 choral students, the pre- ttetechniqueecch while developing singers’ responsiveness to it. It will senter will discuss the dominant themes of meaning found by ccoconsiston of three major components: basic technique and how these singers. Utilizing the students’ own words, session attend- ttoo ppractice; how to apply gesture into every rehearsal—sight ees will explore positive and practical means of applying this rrereading,eaad warm-ups, and the learning of repertoire; and how to information when planning instruction and shaping the choral sshareha gesture ideas with the singers. rehearsal environment. Robert L. Sinclair has served Vander- will be the clinician for this session. Her Cook College of Music as director of Andrea Ramsey photo and bio can be found on page 73. choral activities since 2001. He is an active choral clinician and adjudicator for junior high and high school students from across the nation and abroad. In January of 2010, he served as conductor A Conductor’s Guide to the Preparation of of the Illinois All-State Choir. He has pre- J. S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion. sented sessions to the Music Educators AssociationAss in Texas, Illinois, and Ohio, the Illinois ACDA chapter, Using the forces of the University of Cincinnati College- andand the Southwestern Division and Southern Division of ACDA. Conservatory of Music’s Chamber Choir, Philharmonia Or- HeHe served ACDA as the Program Chair for the 2006 Central chestra, and student soloists, this session will identify for the DivisionDiv Conference and currently serves as the Central Divi- conductor the necessary steps and important considerations sion’ssioon R&S Chair for Youth and Student Activities. in the rehearsal process of Bach’s masterwork. The session will illuminate the conductor’s tasks in initial, separate rehearsals of the chorus, orchestra, and soloists through the conductor’s responsibilities in rehearsals immediately prior to performance. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter Salient musical issues will be addressed: for the chorus—text, American Choral phrasing, and articulation; for the orchestra—Baroque bowing Directors Association and articulation; and for the soloists—secco and accompanied recitatives and singing with obbligato instruments. The session will isolate sections of diverse textures of the work to show 2012 Division Conferences - Interest Sessions - Interest Conferences Division 2012 TimothySharp how to unify phrasing and articulation among chorus, orchestra, and soloists. Attending this session will enable conductors to

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better understand their role, responsibili- Exploration of Bulgarian Culture ties, and stylistic challenges in preparing any From Choir Director major Bach work for performance. Through Choral Music: To Choral Artist: Interpretation of A Conducting Master Class Earl Rivers will be the clinician for this ses- Secular Folklore and sion. His choir, the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music’s Chamber Sacred Orthodox Tradition Three select master’s-level conducting stu- Choir, will be the demonstration choir. Their dents will lead the Indiana State University Concert Choir under the supervision of photos and bios are on page 128. This presentation is a fast-paced, in- Bruce Chamberlain. teractive, educational, and entertaining introduction to Bulgarian music. It is an Bruce Chamberlain examination of Bulgarian musical folklore, is director of the its characteristics according to song types, Demystifying Tucson Symphony folklore regions, rhythm and meter, scales, the Adolescent Orchestra Chorus and modes. Specifi c examples will illustrate and director of cho- Choral Student the performance practice of Bulgarian ral activities at the music. The attendees will experience the University of Arizona joy of learning and performing indigenous This session has been designed to School of Music. He folk dances. The intended audience includes inform teachers working with adolescent brings to these posi- choral music educators of every level inter- singers. Discussion will feature practical and tions 30 years of professional and collegiate ested in incorporating multicultural music applicable techniques for working with and experience. A summa cum laude graduate and traditions into their curriculum. The ses- meeting the needs of this student popula- of the Indiana University Jacobs School of sion allows the audience to catch a glimpse tion. Emphasis will be placed on teacher Music with bachelors, masters and DMus of the original, opulent, and multifaceted awareness of key adolescent characteristics degrees, Chamberlain studied conducting culture of this small Balkan country. including the adolescent ego, the impact of with Julius Herford, Margaret Hillis, and John emotional components of the adolescent Nelson, piano with Menachem Pressler, Wal- Madlen Batchvarova choral student, and the importance of cho- lace Hornibrook, and Nicholas Zumbro, and is a successful con- ral teacher fl exibility. Physiological changes has continued choral/orchestral conducting ductor, pianist, singer, that occur during male and female vocal studies with Helmuth Rilling, Andrew Davis, music educator, clini- mutation will also be discussed, and selec- and Robert Page. tion of choral repertoire for changing voices cian and adjudicator. and practical methods of accommodating A Grammy Award voice changes within existing repertoire. winner with the Atlanta Symphony Bridget Sweet is Chorus, she is a assistant professor clinician and conductor. In 2009, she made of music education her conducting debut at Vienna’s Musikv- Tropp Music Editions at University of Il- erein Golden Hall. Batchvarova has led proudly presents linois in Urbana- workshops, scholarly presentations, interest Champaign, Illinois, sessions, and reading sessions in the United where she teaches States, the University of Coimbra in Portu- music education gal, the University of Granada in Spain, the pedagogy, including Academy for Music, Dance, and Fine Arts in choral methods and literature, middle Plovdiv, and the Thracian University in Stara school general music methods, and gradu- Zagora, Bulgaria. As a pianist, she released ate courses in music education. Sweet has her fi rst recorded album, Duetti Capricciosi worked extensively with adolescent singers with organist David Lamb. Batchvarova is Scholarly editons and recordings as a teacher, clinician, and adjudicator. Her director of choral programs at Hanover of lost masterpieces of eighteenth century liturgical music. research interests include characteristics of College in Indiana, where she conducts the exemplary choral music teachers, teacher choral ensembles and teaches conducting, (224) 649-6000 education, female and male adolescent music history, and voice. voice change, and motivation of adolescent www.GalantMusic.com singers.

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TheThhehHi HisHistorytoryofthe offth the Future: Tomorrow's Choral in choral conducting and PhD in music education from Kent Leaders as Ten-Year-Olds Today State University.

TheTThh choral experiences, training programs, rehearsals, and ppeperformancese we are building today will mold the lives of our Learning to Improvise in nnenextex generation of choral leaders. Are we grounded in a set ooff core values and creating relevant pedagogies and programs the Vocal jazz Ensemble: ffoforor twenty-fi rst century realities, or are we nostalgically re-living Proven Teaching Strategies oononlyn what had meaning to us in a previous century? This session, for Choral Directors ddedesignedes to be more practical than philosophical, will review tththehe foundation on which we work as choral leaders and will eexexplorexp how our core values must be adapted to new realities. This session will present hands-on strategies for teaching beginning improvisation in the vocal jazz ensemble. The practi- TimTTiim Sharp will be the clinician for this session. His photo and cal and enjoyable strategies are based on 20 years of research biobbiio can be found on page 48. into the development of vocal improvisation skill that has been successfully applied to secondary and collegiate vocal jazz ensembles and vocal jazz methods courses. These proven strategies are accessible to the choral director with little to no jazz or erest Sessions erest The Kids Can Sing Too! improvisation experience, and will also provide innovative ideas to the experienced vocal jazz director. Numerous aural and Developing a Choir notated musical examples will be provided, which will give the in the Elementary School: choral director musical inspiration and pedagogical confi dence. Patrice Madura (Ward-Steinman) is a This session will help teachers to establish or develop a professor of music education at the In- choircho in the elementary school and will answer the following diana University Jacobs School of Music, questions.qquue What age or grade level is best to start choral singing? where she teaches choral, vocal jazz, WhatW is the best range for students at this age? How can you fi t and research methods. Previously, she a cchoir into a general music program or the school day? Should has taught at the University of South- youyyoou audition an elementary choir? What type of literature can ern California, Oberlin College, and helphheel establish a solid foundation of choral technique? How do Indiana University-Purdue University at I ggegete them to want to sing something other than Justin Bieber? Fort Wayne, and in public elementary ChoirCChh is for more than just middle school, junior high, or high through high schools. She is the author of four books: Becom- schoolsscch students—the kids can sing too! ing a Choral Music Teacher, Music Education in Your Hands: an Introduction for Future Teachers (co-authored with Michael Mark), Ann Usher is professor of music at The Madura’s Danceland: Images of America, and Getting Started University of Akron, where she teaches with Vocal Improvisation, and the editor of Advances in Social- graduate and undergraduate choral Psychology and Music Education Research. Madura has presented music education classes, supervises workshops on vocal jazz improvisation at conferences in the student teachers, and directs the Uni- United States and abroad, and she serves on the editorial board versity Singers. Usher also directs the of the Journal of Research in Music Education. Cleveland Orchestra Children’s Chorus, a select choir of fi fth through ninth graders, which performs throughout tththehe year with the Cleveland Orchestra. Usher is a past Chair ooff tthe Ohio Music Education Association (OMEA) Adjudicated Making the Case for EEvEventsve Committee and was co-chair for the 2006 OMEA Pro- Your School Choir ffefessionales Conference. She served for six years as the Junior High RR&R&S& Chair for the Ohio Choral Directors Association and for Recognizing the ever-increasing pressures on choral music ffofourou years as the Youth & Student Activities chair for OCDA. education—time in the school day, focus on standardized test- UUsUshers has served as a guest clinician/conductor/adjudicator ing, funding—Chorus America has created an advocacy guide

2012 Division Conferences - Int Conferences Division 2012 ffoforor many organizations in Ohio and nationally. She received designed for K–12 choir teachers. “Making the Case for Your hheherer BME from the University of Northern Iowa and her MM

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School Choir” provides evidence that choral from his two year collaboration with Rev. The United States Navy's Sea Chanters will singing is an integral component of a com- Sululu. be the clinicians for this session. Their photo plete and competitive education, that choral and bio can be found on page 129. singing builds community, and that choral Seth Ole Sululu is an singing has intrinsic value. With a host of Evangelical Lutheran ready-made tools and data from 40 sources, Church of Tanzania learn how “Making the Case” will make it easy (ELCT) Northern The Theatrical Rounds to be a proactive advocate for your school Central Diocese of Bob Applebaum choir program. (Arusha- Tanza- nia) minister, and a We all know that children love to act Catherine Davies will be the clinician for this graduate choral con- and that rounds are great pedagogical tools session. Her photo and bio can be found on ducting student at used in choirs all the time. In “The Theatrical page 45. Northern Illinois University. Having earned Rounds” by Bob Applebaum, we ﬁ nd both degrees in theology (1998), Bachelor of Di- of these elements in one package. In this vinity (2004), and BA in Music (2008) from session, the Chicago Children’s Choir will Makumira University in Tanzania, Sululu is a share with you a few of these sophisticated, well-known music educator, choral conduc- Rehearsal: yet accessible pieces that delight singers tor, director, music arranger, and composer in and charm audiences. The wide range of It’s Why We Get Paid Tanzania. He has been adjudicator for ELCT difﬁ culty in these songs give appropriate (two sessions) choir competitions in different dioceses in choices for elementary through junior high Tanzania, a guest conductor and performer school choirs. The Collegiate Repertoire Chorale in Tanzania and outside Tanzania (performed in six concerts in Germany, 2007). Sululu has will expose singers to new repertoire and done several presentations about Tanzanian Daniel Wallenberg techniques within a collaborative context has been a conduc- music and has researched and taught tradi- with other collegiate choristers. The clini- tor at the Chicago tional Tanzanian and Western classical music cian will lead the choir through a range of Children’s Choir in Tanzania. His research in collecting and musics exploring a variety of choral so- since 1993 and has analyzing Maasai folk songs has resulted in norities. The sessions will experiment with worked with every the publication of The Traditional Music of techniques suitable to the creation of these level of the choir the Ilkisongo Maasai of Northern Tanzania, sounds. The format allows for an upbeat from the In-school a multi-media anthology about this unique and energetic pace without the pressure to the Concert Choir. music culture in Tanzania. and logistical concerns of performance. He is the conductor of the Rogers Park and Humboldt Park Neighborhood Choirs, and Paul Rardin will be the clinician for this session. Eric A. Johnson is a clinician for this session. is also on the faculty of the Music Institute of His photo and bio can be found on page 52. His choir, the Northern Illinois University Chicago, where he has conducted the Music Chamber Choir, will be the demonstration Institute Chorale since 1987. He is the direc- choir. Their photos and bios are on page 126. tor of choirs at the Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation and is the artistic director of Tanzanian Choral Traditions “Zemer Am,” the Chicago Jewish Choral Festival. A native of Bogotá, Colombia, Wal- This session will introduce conference Teaching Authentic Pop Styles lenberg holds degrees in choral conducting attendees to the rich culture and traditions to the Traditional Choir from the Rubin Academy of Music in Jeru- of vocal and choral music in Tanzania and salem, and Brigham Young University. He has provide performance practice techniques conducted choral groups throughout the for authentic and exciting performances. In- The U.S. Navy’s Sea Chanters are called world and has many choral arrangements. formation will be presented through lecture, upon to sing a wide array of repertoire; from video of Tanzanian choirs, and performance the most serious choral literature to pop by the Northern Illinois University Chamber music of the present day. The members of Choir. Rev. Sululu comes to America with a the ensemble will demonstrate how they lifetime of experiences as a performer, com- move effortlessly between divergent styles poser, conductor, and teacher throughout in a manner that is stylistically and musically Tanzania. Co-presenter Johnson will provide viable and healthy for the singer. insights on performance practices gleaned

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Sacred Honor Choir Collegiate Repertoire Honor Choir

Bruce Chamberlin will be the conductor of this choir. His photo Paul Rardin will be the conductor of this choir. His photo and

ors and bio are on page 133. bio are on page 52.

Women's Honor Choir Collegiate Chamber Honor Choir Hilary Apfelstadt will be the conductor of this choir. Her photo Edward Maclary will be the conductor of this choir. His photo and bio are on page 57. and bio are on page 38. 2012 Division Conferences - Honor Choir Conduct Choir - Honor Conferences Division 2012 136 CHORAL JOURNAL Volume 52 Number 6 Suggestions for Interest Session Proposal Topics for the 2013 National Conference

The focus of the 2013 National Conference of the Ameri- can Choral Directors Association will be "Advocate, Remember, and Teach" (ART)

With this theme in mind, particular consideration will be given by the steering committee to interest sessions on the following topics for all ages and types of choirs:

-- Interest Session Proposals on the topics of Advocacy -- Interest Session Proposals on the topics of Remembrance -- Interest Session Proposals on the topic of Teaching and Pedagogy

In your Interest Session Proposal, describe how your interest session will ﬁ t into one of these categories.

General information With the above broad topics in mind, on interest session 2013 National Conference Programming further suggests consideration of proposals the following particular themes for those with speciﬁ c knowledge or focus: and performing advocacy of choral music in society; group auditions advocacy of choral music in schools, faith communities, or community in general; is on page 7. choral music related to the legacy of John F. Kennedy ; choral music related to the theme of "remembrance" in general ; aspects of Benjamin Britten's War Requiem; choral music related to ﬁ lms on the theme of "remembrance;" teaching choral music; and advancing vocal/choral singing pedagogy.

Interest sessions will not be limited to the above suggestions, but special consideration will be given to proposals incorporating any of the above themes or topics.

March 15 - 18, 2012

Northwestern Division Seattle, Washington

KammerchorKammK Stuttgart the World Choral Festival in Incheon city, the International Mu- sic Festival of Tong-Young, and the International Choral Festival The Kammerchor in Missoula, Montana. The choir represented Korea at the 6th has gained a repu- World Symposium on Choral Music in Minneapolis, and was tation as one of invited by the Papal Court to perform in the Vatican and during the foremost Eu- the Church Music Festival in Rome in 2011. ropean vocal ensembles. Based on Shin-Hwa Park serves as director of the the stylistic needs Ansan City Choir, professor of music at of an individual concert, the number of singers varies from a Ewha Womans University, and vice-pres- vocal ensemble of 16 to an oratrio chorus of 80. The choir's ident of the Korean Choral Directors repertoire ranges from early music through the music of today. Association (KCDA). He received his Of their 70 records and CDs, many have been awarded the BM and MM in church music and vocal German Record Critics Award, the Edison, and the Diapason music from Yonsei University in Seoul, d'Or. The Stuttgart Chamber Choir has commissioned a large Korea, and his DMA in choral literature number of world premieres of contemporary compositions. and conducting from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Since 1995, Park has taught courses in Frieder Bernius founded the Kammerchor choral conducting, literature, oratorio, and choral performance Stuttgart with the intention of raising un- at ﬁ ve Korean undergraduate and graduate institutions, includ- accompanied choir music to the level of ing Yonsei University and Jung-Ang University. He also delivers professional orchestral music. Since 1977, more than 40 lectures each year. Bernius has collaborated with leading Park directs the 180-member Calvary Choir of Young-Nak orchestras in order to reach an acoustical Presbyterian Church in Seoul. He has served on the jury for balance between the vocal and instrumen- the Takarazuka International Chamber Chorus Contest in Japan tal parts in the choral-symphonic literature. and World Choir Championship in Korea. He is very committed to performing music In 2004, Park became the ﬁ rst winner of the Ulrim Grand of various periods in an authentic style. Prize and received the Ansan Art Prize. The following year he His great success in Germany and abroad encouraged him to was recognized as one of the Best Professors at Ewha Womans proceed in this style of interpretation. With the Kammerchor, University, and, in 2007, he was awarded the Korean Music Prize. he has won prizes at several international competitions. He is a guest conductor in Germany and at many European radio stations, and conducts his ensembles at many important musical festivals. Lo Cor de la Plana from Marseilles

Lo Còr de la Plana (pro- nounced “loo quar dey la Ansan City Choir plan”) is a Marseilles choir from the quarter “La Plaine.” The Ansan City six singers, accompanied by Choir is com- percussions (bendirs and posed of 40 pro- tamburello), handclapping, fessional singers and foot-stomping. who are selected Founded in 2001, the group devoted itself to the systematic through com- re-creation of the popular Occitan patrimony. Their singing petitive audition. ranges from all the repertoires, religious or unbridled, repetitive The choir has re- or occasional, all of which, very often, takes place at the same corded 36 CDs and its repertoire includes music from the time! These singers go everywhere, in churches, factories, bars , Renaissance through contemporary literature, from folk songs or theatres, and do not hesitate to mix the bafﬂ ing paganism of

2012 Division Conferences - Headliners Conferences Division 2012 tot spirituals and pop music. The Ansan City Choir is known for the ancient Occitan heritage with the concerns of Marseilles’s its clarity of tone, balance, blend, and authentic interpretation musicians of today. of the repertoire. The Ansan City Choir has performed at major music festivals, including the Korea Choral Festival, the Goyang Choral Festival,

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Capital High School Jubilettes Chorale and the Helena Chamber Singers. She received her degree from Montana State University.

Eagle High School Sonous

Sonous is the premier vocal Jubilettes is a select treble choir, grades 10–12. Literature per- ensemble at Ea- formed by this choir includes early Renaissance music, sacred gle High School and secular music from the Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and in Eagle, Idaho. twenty-ﬁ rst century eras, folk music, contemporary popular This 60-mem- songs, show tunes, and sacred and secular major works. Ju- ber auditioned bilettes perform eight concerts annually, and participate in touring ensemble consists of juniors and Seniors, and focuses community events throughout the school year. In recent years, on a quality choral literature from the Renaissance to vocal jazz. Jubilettes have also performed in New York City, San Francisco, and Chicago. Seth McMullen has been the director of choirs at Eagle High School since Darcy Schulz has taught music in the 2003, where he conducts six choral Helena School District for 22 years, the ensembles. McMullen received a BA in last eight of which have been as director music education from Whitworth Col- of choirs at Capital High School. She is lege, and an MM in choral conducting active as a festival clinician and maintains from Northern Arizona University. He is a private vocal studio in Helena. As a the chancel choir director at Boise First performer Darcy has sung with many United Church of Christ, and sings tenor groups including the Helena Symphony in Male Ensemble Northwest.

The Esoterics

The Esoterics, now in its Choral Conductor nineteenth season, has drawn national and international praise for performing new and Faculty Vacancy rarely-heard choral music, and for commissioning settings of Tenure-Track Position, Open Rank poetry, philosophy, and spiritual Appointment effective August 2012 writings from around the world. The Esoterics has performed The Indiana University Choral Conducting Department invites applications from 300 concerts, premiered more accomplished choral conductors who can mentor very gifted young conductors and than 100 new unaccompanied singers in a highly competitive and professionally oriented educational environment. Responsibilities include conducting ensembles, teaching choral conducting works in over 50 languages, technique, and leading graduate seminars in choral literature. and mastered the most vir- tuosic choral works of the last Review begins February 1, 2012 century. To date, The Esoterics has released twelve CDs and has toured the British Isles, For information: Spain, and Finland. In recogni- music.indiana.edu/ tion for its choral innovation, faculty/positions.shtml The Esoterics and founder Eric Indiana University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Banks have been honored four 2012 Division Conferences - Performing Choirs - Performing Conferences Division 2012

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JEN convention in New Orleans. The group Vancouver High School and McLoughlin has many CDs available. Middle School for ﬁ ve years before moving to Heritage, where he has been for the past Dave Barduhn is in his nine years. He is serving as the R&S Chair 24th year of teaching for Women’s Choirs for Washington ACDA. at Mt. Hood Com- munity College. As a performer, he has played piano with Kokopelli Youth times with the ASCAP/Chorus America such notable jazz art- Award for the Adventurous Programming ists as Mark Murphy, of Contemporary Music. Diane Shuur, and several Stan Kenton Alumni bands. He is better Eric Banks complet- known for his jazz arranging for Stan Kenton, ed his BA in com- Bud Shank, Bobby Shew, Richie Cole, and position at Yale and The Four Freshman. His groups have per- earned an MM and formed at many IAJE National Conventions, DMA in choral stud- and MENC and ACDA Conferences. Dave’s ies and music theory group Genesis has won many awards from at the University of Downbeat magazine, the IAJE Journal, and Founded in 1996, Kokopelli embarks Washington. Banks most of the more prestigious jazz festivals upon its seventeenth season this coming fall. was awarded a Ful- in West. Dave taught at the Frank DeMeiro The ensemble’s members range in age from bright Fellowship to study contemporary jazz camp for 20 years. 14 to 23 and come from across Canada. In choral culture in Stockholm, where he per- addition to many North American cities, formed with the Swedish Radio Choir and the choir has toured to Norway, Denmark, the Eric Ericson Chamber Choir. Sweden, Germany, Malaysia, Namibia, South Heritage High School Africa, Botswana, and Zambia. Kokopelli is Concert Choir often the ambassador for the choir associa- Genesis tion, The choir most recently was featured at Festival 500 and toured across Newfound- Mt. Hood Community College land in July 2011.

Scott Leithead is the founder of the Kokopelli and TIME Jazz Associations. Scott has worked as The Heritage Concert Choir is a select a clinician, guest di- group of singers ranging from grades 9–12. rector, and evaluator The group has won numerous awards at at events in North choral festivals around the country and The Mt. Hood Community College vocal America, Europe, ensembles coming out of the group have jazz ensemble, Genesis, is in its 45th year of Asia and Africa. He has conducted provin- won several state awards at Washington’s jazz performance. Being an original pioneer cial/state honour choirs in Nova Scotia, New State Solo Ensemble Contest. in vocal jazz education, they have accepted Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Sas- invitations to be the featured group at katchewan, British Columbia and Montana. is director jazz festivals and conventions from coast Joel Karn Scott has a passion for music from southern of choirs at Heritage to coast and have won many awards over Africa and he has been hired to work with High School in Van- the years, including prestigious “db” Awards choirs in South Africa and Namibia on couver, Washington. from Downbeat Magazine and the col- numerous occasions. In 2008/09, Scott was He received his BM lege sweepstakes at the Lionel Hampton on sabbatical in Namibia, where he worked and ME degrees from and Gene Harris Jazz Festivals. They have with the Mascato Youth Choir and numerous Portland State Uni- appeared at many national music confer- other choirs in southern Africa. versity. Karn directed ences including MENC, ACDA, and 7 IAJE the choirs at Fort conventions. In 2011, they appeared at the

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national audiences, always remembering to spread the mes- Impressions sage of male singing. They have performed at ACDA national Meadowdale High School conferences in Washington, D. C., and San Antonio; and several Northwest regional conferences. The Impres- sions have been invited to perform at Mirinesse Women’s Choir WMEA state conferences and an MENC Northwest Division Conference. Consistently placing fi rst at jazz festivals throughout the Pa- cifi c Northwest, the Impressions received the 2011 Downbeat Student Music Award for Outstanding Performance in the Mirinesse is Old English for “joyful women.” Since 2006, High School Vocal Jazz Ensemble category. The Impressions is Mirinesse Women’s Choir has thrilled audiences in Seattle and comprised of sixteen singers, a fi ve-piece rhythm section, and around northwest Washington with the beautiful sound of two sound technicians. healthy, classically-trained, adult women’s voices singing challenging and diverse repertoire from historic and contemporary Jeff Horenstein is in his tenth year of sources around the world. The singers of Mirinesse are an teaching, currently serving as the choir auditioned group of women, ages 21–70, who share their love director at Meadowdale High School in of music, and strive to model the highest level of musicianship, the Edmonds School District. Horen- artistry and individual vocal ability. Mirinesse performed at the stein earned his BM in music education 2009 ACDA National Conference in Oklahoma City. and MM in choral conducting from Central Washington University. An avid Beth Ann Bonnecroy’s foundation as arranger of vocal jazz and choral music, a singer and extensive experience as he is published through Sound Music a voice teacher shape her priorities in Publications. In demand as a clinician and adjudicator at choral conducting. She conducts Vivace, the and jazz festivals, Horenstein also performs with his contem- middle-school level of the Northwest porary vocal ensemble, Groove For Thought. Girlchoir, and conducts the Chancel Choir and handbell choirs at Phinney Ridge Lutheran Church in Seattle.

Male Ensemble Northwest Rebecca Rottsolk served as artistic director of the Northwest Girlchoir from Male Ensem- 1982–2001, building one of the most ble North- respected youth choral organizations in west (MEN) America. She also a choral series for Al- was formed liance Music Publications and conducts in Longview, two community choirs on the Olympic Washington, Peninsula. in 1982, the brainchild of Howard Me- harg, who wanted to form a singing group and encourage young males in public schools to sing in choirs of all kinds. In the years since its inception, MEN has appeared in concerts from local churches and auditoriums to regional and 2012 Division Conferences - Performing Choirs - Performing Conferences Division 2012

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school. The chorus excels in presenting Brian E. Hoskins re- Nelsen Middle School new and challenging literature for middle ceived his BA in mu- Concert Chorus school and showcases exceptional young sic education from musicians and students. Washington State In 2006, the chorus performed with University and his New York jazz pianist/composer Pete Mal- MME from New inverni and New York vocalist Jody Sand- York University. He haus in the West Coast premiere of Joyful! is the choral direc- a gospel suite for choir and jazz ensemble. tor at Nelsen Middle The chorus has also premiered Carry On School and Lindbergh High School in by Seattle folk artist Wes Weddell and Renton, Washington, where he teaches 6 The Road Not Taken by Seattle composers choirs and students from 6th to 12th grade. The Nelsen Middle School Concert Chorus, Scott Warrender. The chorus performed Previously, Hoskins was a conductor in a public school chorus that represents the at Seattle’s Paramount Theatre for the residence, satellite school conductor, and in- ethnic and cultural diversity of the Renton Washington Junior Achievement Hall of termediate chorus conductor for the Young community, is open to all students at the Fame induction ceremony. People’s Chorus of New York City, studying

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withith FFranciscoi NNúñez.úñ AsA a pianist, he has accompanied six 1925, it was the third Lutheran college choir to tour extensively MENC all-state choirs and two ACDA honor choirs. Hoskins throughout the country. The Choir of the West has toured to is the ACDA Multi-Cultural Perspectives R&S Chair for the Europe, Scandinavia, Japan, and China, and has been selected to state of Washington. appear at several regional and national conferences of MENC and ACDA. Most recently, the Choir of the West competed at the 2011 Harmonie Festival in Lindenholzhausen, Germany, winning two gold certifi cates and one silver. Phoenix, the choir’s Opus 7 Vocal Ensemble most recent commercial compact disc, placed second in the collegiate division of the 2011 American Prize competition. Since its inception, Opus 7 Richard Nance is the sixth conductor of Vocal Ensemble the Choir of the West at Pacifi c Lutheran has established University, where he has worked since a reputation for 1992. Nance holds degrees from West featuring a di- Texas State and Arizona State Universi- verse range of ties. He has been a member of ACDA new and rarely since 1977, and has held many state performed and division offi ces. He currently is vice works, along with time-honored classics of choral literature. president for the Northwestern division. Formed in 1992 with 7 singers, Opus 7 specializes in nine- Nance’s choirs have appeared at several ACDA and MENC teenth- through twenty-fi rst-century unaccompanied choral regional and national conferences. He was awarded the 2002 music. A resident ensemble at St. James Cathedral in Seattle ACDA Raymond Brock Commission. His choral works are since 1994, Opus 7 is dedicated to performing the works of lo- regularly performed throughout the United States and abroad. cal and regional composers, regularly commissioning new choral compositions. In addition, since 2000, Opus 7 has fostered new talent in the fi eld of choral music through their unique Student Choral Composition Awards Program. Pacific Lutheran University Loren W. Pontén, is the founder and ar- Chorale tistic director of Opus 7 Vocal Ensemble. He has been an active conductor in the Pacifi c Northwest for 25 years. A cham- The Pacifi c Lu- pion of contemporary choral music, he theran Univer- and Opus 7 have commissioned 25 new sity Chorale is choral works and premiered countless a mixed choir others. Since 1989, he has been on the comprised pri- faculty of Midsummer Musical Retreat, a marily—though week-long festival workshop for adults. not exclusively—of freshmen and sophomore singers spanning Pacific Lutheran University a variety of academic disciplines. The choir tours regionally and appears on PLU Christmas compact discs. The Chorale has Choir of the West recently performed for conferences of the Washington Music Educators Association (2010) and American Choral Directors The Choir of Association (2006). the West is the premier choral ensemble Brian Galante is associate director of of the Depart- choral activities at Pacifi c Lutheran Uni- ment of Music versity, where he conducts the Universi- at Pacific Lu- ty Chorale, Men’s Chorus, and University theran Univer- Singers. He also teaches undergraduate sity. Founded in courses in vocal pedagogy, choral meth- 2012 Division Conferences - Performing Choirs - Performing Conferences Division 2012 ods and literature. Galante received his

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DMA from the University of North Texas. Seattle First Baptist prize in the 1994 He earned his MM and BME degrees from AGO National Young Louisiana State University. Recent choirs Sanctuary Choir Artists Competition under Galante’s direction have presented in Dallas. Since then, invitational performances at the Washington Plymouth Church (UCC) he has performed MEA and Northwest MENC Conferences. in 48 states with He is a past-President of Louisiana, and is Chancel Choir many of the nation’s the associate conference chair of the 2013 top orchestras and ACDA National Conference in Dallas. internationally in Sin- gapore, Japan, Russia, France, England, and Korea. He teaches at the University of Washington and holds degrees from East- Pacific Youth Choir man School of Music and Indiana University. Chamber Choir Vicky Thomas has been the director of choral music at Seattle First Baptist since 2006, where she also conducts the Handbell choir and three orchestral concerts a year. She previously led church music programs for fourteen years at two Lutheran congrega- tions and taught elementary music in the Pacifi c Youth Choir (PYC), a community The Sanctuary Choir from Seattle First Bap- public schools. She is on the adjunct faculty of 240 singers, was established in 2003 by tist (SFB) and The Chancel Choir from Plym- of Trinity Lutheran College. She earned her artistic director Mia Hall Savage. In their brief outh (UCC) join together in a 100-voice BA from Yale University, her MA from the history, they have gained a reputation for choir to lead an interfaith worship service. University of Washington. quality that has led to collaborations with Plymouth and SFB are downtown churches Oregon’s top musical organizations: includ- founded in 1869. A recent bequest to each Henry Mollicone is ing: Oregon Symphony Orchestra, Portland church enabled them to come together to the composer of Youth Philharmonic, Oregon Ballet Theater, commission a new choral/orchestral work World Premiere Whitebird Dance, Portland Chamber Or- from opera composer Henry Mollicone. work at the Worship chestra, Trinity Choir, and Pink Martini. They The work, which employs texts from various and Music service. have performed at ACDA national and faith traditions to focus on earth ministry, His Beatitude Mass division conferences. will be premiered at the NWACDA confer- for the Homeless, has ence. In addition to their primary mission of been performed by Mia Hall Savage has providing music for weekly worship, both choirs including the 20 years of cho- choirs perform major sacred musical works Monterey Symphony Chorus, the Bristol ral education ex- including the Brahms’s Requiem, Mozart’s Phoenix Choir (England), the Rackham perience. She has Requiem, and Rutter’s Requiem (Plymouth Symphony Choir (Detroit), the Georgetown degrees from Univer- Chancel Choir) and Durufl e’s Requiem, Chorale (Washington, DC) and the Seattle sity of Oregon with Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, Ramirez’s Misa First Baptist Church Choir (Seattle, WA), has continuing studies in Criolla, and Mollicone’s Beatitude Mass for raised over $100, 000 dollars for organiza- Stuttgart, Germany. the Homeless (SFB Sanctuary Choir.) In addition to PYC, she conducts Coventry tions that serve the homeless. Misa de los Inmigrantes [Mass for the Immigrants] had its Singers at Trinity Cathedral, Portland, and Douglas Cleveland has been the director world premiere by the San Jose Symphonic has conducted treble choirs at Oregon All of music and organist at Plymouth Church Choir in March 2010. The world premiere of State, Pacifi c University’s Music in May, and in Seattle since September of 2004. He a major choral orchestral piece on interfaith other clinics and festivals. conducts the Chancel and Handbell choirs earth ministry debuts in March of 2012. His at Plymouth, and has had an active interna- compositions Misteria, for piano solo, and tional concert career. Cleveland won fi rst

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FlowersFl off theh Soul,S l a song cycle for soprano solo and piano trio, Seattle Pro Musica were recently given their New England premieres at the New- Women’s Schola port Music Festival (Newport, RI), with Metropolitan Opera soprano Teresa Cincione, and concert pianist, Daniel del Pino. Seattle Pro Mu- sica Women’s Schola is a cho- Seattle Jazz Singers ral ensemble conducted by The Seattle Jazz Karen P. Thom- Singers have as. Seattle Pro performed in Musica has ap- numerous Puget peared on NPR’s Saint Paul Sunday, and is ranked by American Sound area jazz Record Guide as “among America’s very best choirs.” clubs includ- The Women’s Schola of Seattle Pro Musica specializes in early ing Jazz Alley, and contemporary music for women’s voices. They perform Melody Lane music from around the globe in dozens of languages, and have (Bremerton), appeared at international festivals such as the World Festival of Patty Summers’ Women’s Singing, Canada’s Festival Vancouver, American Guild Jazz Club, Kitsap Golf and Country Club, and Triple Door. Jazz of Organists Conventions, and at ACDA conferences. festival performances include Vancouver Wine & Jazz Festival, Envision Jazz Festival (BC), Powell River Jazz Festival (BC) and Karen P. Thomas, artistic director and DeMiero Jazz Festival (Edmonds). The Seattle Jazz Singers were conductor, has conducted at interna- featured in concerts with the Everett, Vancouver, and Cascade tional festivals in Europe and North Symphonies performing a commissioned 45-minute medley America, and has lectured or presented of Gershwin favorites. They also presented the work with the sessions for ACDA conferences, Chorus Cascade Youth Symphony at the Benaroya Theater in Seattle. America, the American Guild of Or- ganists, the Seattle Symphony, and the Frank DeMiero, dubbed “the Vince Lom- Alliance International Festival. She has bardi of Vocal Jazz,” studied voice/con- received awards from the NEA, Chorus ducting with Ralph Manzo. He received America, American Academy & Institute, and ASCAP, among his BA degree in education from Eastern others. A prize-winning composer, her compositions are per- Washington University and his MM in formed internationally by groups such as The Hilliard Ensemble. conducting from Central Washington University. The Frank DeMiero Jazz Camp served 6000 students during its 25 years of existence. He hosts a series for educational television called Inside the Musician’s Studio, is St. Mary’s International School the NW ACDA R&S Jazz Choir Coordinator, and is a voting Varsity Ensemble member of Grammy. He is conductor of the Seattle Jazz Singers and the Sno-King Community Chorale. The St. Mary’s Var- sity Ensemble, with members ranging from grade 9 to grade 12, ACDA National Symposium meet for twenty min- on American Choral Music utes each day and are encouraged to realize June 29 & 30, 2012 their music through Washington, D.C. expressive movement. The ensemble per- Register at www.acda.org formed at the 2005 and 2010 ACDA Na- 2012 Division Conferences - Performing Choirs - Performing Conferences Division 2012

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tional Conferences, the 2004 and 2008 Ensemble, International Show Choir, and NWACDA Conferences, and the 2006 teaches elementary general music. Sten- Central ACDA Conference. In their twelve son is a graduate of Concordia College in year history, they have won top awards and Moorhead, Minnesota, where he studied and honors at competitions and festivals in Japan sang under Paul J. Christiansen and Larry L. and the United States. The group is also Fleming. He earned a MME at VanderCook involved in the Tokyo community through College of Music while studying with Robert charity work, notably Refugees International. Sinclair. Men’s and Women’s Ensembles, and repre- Randy Stenson is sent the ﬁ nest singers/musicians in the choral instructor of vocal department. Past honors and awards include: music at St. Mary’s Union High School NWMENC Conference performance International School Chamber Choir (2011), Select Men’s Ensemble - 2nd Place in Tokyo, Japan, (WMEA State Contest 2011), Select Men’s where he conducts The Union High School Chamber Choir Ensemble - 1st Place (WMEA State Contest the St. Mary’s Men’s consists of 41 students. All Chamber Choir 4 years running, from 2008-2011, San Fran- Choir, Varsity Male students are also members of the Select

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cisco Heritage Festival - Choral Sweepstakes Award Winner District in Vancouver, Washington since 1990. (2009), Vancouver, BC Heritage Festival - Choral Sweepstakes Award Winner (2008).

Mikkel Iverson, bass-baritone, received The University. of Wyoming his BA in education from Paciﬁ c Lu- Singing Statesmen theran University, and his MS in education from Portland State University. He has appeared as a soloist with the The University Oregon Symphony, Salem Symphony, of Wyoming Metropolitan Youth Symphony, Portland (UW) Sing- Symphonic Choir, Oregon Repertory ing Statesmen Singers, Paciﬁ c Lutheran University Sym- is a 72-voice phony Chorus, Oregon State University Symphony Chorus, and non-auditioned the Peter Britt Music Festival. Iverson has sung professionally male choir with Choral Cross-Ties, Male Ensemble Northwest, Portland representing a Opera Chorus, and the Norman Luboff Choir. In his 34th year wide variety of as a music educator, Iverson has taught in the Evergreen School backgrounds and academic disciplines. The UW Singing Statesmen have enjoyed invitations to the Wyoming Music Educators conference and for collaborations with Wyo- 2012 Worship & Music Conferences ming’s Bar-J Wranglers and the Cheyenne Symphony Orchestra. The ensemble regularly tours the Montreat 2012 state and region promoting the Theme: In God’s Abundance, Living, Moving, Being tradition of male singing through Location: Montreat, NC school clinics and collaborations. Dates: June 17-23 and 24-30, 2012 Conference Director: Jane Cain Nicole La- Faculty: Robert Rimbo, Preacher; Donna Giver Johnston, martine Liturgist; Jonathan Willcocks, Adult Choir; Jonathan became Dimmock, Organ Recitalist; Phillip Shoultz, Senior High director Choir; James Wells, Middler Choir; Vincent Oakes, Children’s of choral Choir; Kay Cook, Handbells; Andrew Donaldson, Routley activities Lecturer; Will Young and Anne Wilson, Service Organists; at the Uni- Friends of the Groom, Drama; Pam Hardiman, Visual Artist; Carol Krueger, Sight Singing, Vocal and Conducting versity of Techniques; Mark Britt, Instrumental Wyoming in 2008. She serves as Wyoming ACDA president and has chaired Mo-Ranch/PAM 2012 the 2009 National ACDA Col- Theme: Our Hope for Years to Come legiate Chamber Choir and the Location: Hunt, TX 2011 National ACDA Women’s Dates: June 17-23, 2012 Honor Choir. She earned her BM Conference Director: Terry Price in vocal performance from New Faculty: Bradley Ellingboe, Adult Choir; Al Fedak, Routley Mexico State University and her Lecturer; Anna Laura Page, Advanced Handbells; John Wurster, MM in vocal performance and Preacher/Presider; Rob Frazier, Organist; Erich Thompson, DMA in choral conducting from Liturgical Arts; Eric Moellering, Instrumental Music; Teresa Stricklen, Bible Study the University of Arizona.

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University of Puget Sound Vancouver Cantata Singers Willamette University Dorian Singers Chamber Choir

The Dorian Singers is an auditioned, all- For 54 years, the Vancouver Cantata Singers female chamber choir of 36. Now in its (VCS) has upheld the fi nest tradition of cho- The Willamette Chamber Choir is a second decade, the Dorians are committed ral singing. Twice, under the recent leadership 44-voice ensemble open by audition to to learning choral music though a combined of artistic director Eric Hannan, the group all students. Repertoire consists of a wide understanding of vocal technique, sound has been awarded the Healey Willan Prize, variety of literature selected from the Re- production, and ensemble mastery. Mem- Canada’s highest honour in choral singing. naissance through the contemporary period. bers of Dorians represent a wide range VCS has also become known for innovative In the summer of 2004, the choir toured of classes and majors. In recent years, the collaborations with local and international South Africa at the request of Archbishop Dorians have participated in exchanges with artists, ensembles, and non-traditional part- Desmond Tutu. The choir performed at the area colleges and in 2010 they were featured ners. The choir regularly commissions new 2006 NWACDA Regional Conference in on the Society of Composers Regional works from composers, ensuring the presen- Portland, Oregon, and in May 2006, traveled Conference. tation of a rich variety of choral music from to New York City to perform Haydn’s Mass the Renaissance to the present day. in the Time of War in Carnegie Hall. Their Anne Lyman joined most recent CD is a double disc titled New the University of Eric Hannan has di- Moon which was released in the fall of 2010. Puget Sound in 2008. rected VCS since She has conducted 2002. Under him, the Wallace Long has choirs at Pacifi c Lu- Vancouver Cantata been director of cho- theran University, the Singers have estab- ral activities at Wil- University of Iowa, lished their position lamette University in and Cornell College. among the ranks of Salem, Oregon since Lyman holds gradu- Canada’s foremost 1983. Long sings pro- ate degrees from the University of Iowa and choral ensembles, fessionally with Male Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music. nourishing a passionate commitment to cho- Ensemble North- She is the founder of Canonici, Tacoma’s pro- ral excellence. As VCS artistic director, Eric west. In 1993, he fessional early music ensemble, and serves has led collaborations with many national became a member of the Festival Singers of as artistic director of the Seattle Bach Choir. and international performers, and has led the Robert Shaw Choral Institute, perform- She has been recognized for her performing VCS to several fi rst place wins in the Na- ing and recording with them at Carnegie and scholarly activities by the Fulbright Foun- tional Competition for Canadian Amateur Hall, and in France. His groups, which include dation, the Society for Seventeenth Century Choirs. Hannan is currently on the music the vocal jazz group Willamette Singers, have Music, and the Tacoma Arts Commission. faculty at Douglas College, directing the performed for state conferences of OMEA, choral program and teaching singing. NWACDA, two national IAJE conventions, and an MENC national conference.

National Leadership Conference June 6 - 10, 2012

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Building Voices Through Collaboration: Chasing Phrases! Insights from a Studio Voice Teacher and Moving Away from the Note:) Choral Conductor Chasing Paradigm in your Choral Rehearsal

Collaboration between voice teachers and choral conduc- This interest session offers some creative rehearsal strate- tors is one of the best ways to develop a choral sound. A suc- gies based on the concept that composers often leave “musical cessful university team will lead you through an investigation of clues” in their scores for us to discover and help bring the music new ways to affect change by fi rst applying studio approaches to to life. These clues—found in text-settings, melodic shapes, technical issues and then addressing their application in a choral harmonies, rhythms, and even the printed expressive markings setting. You will learn by personally applying pedagogical sug- (dynamics, articulations etc.)—can be the sources that inform gestions to your own voice and observing the changes in tone and inspire us to implement new strategies in our rehearsals. through a quasi-master class session. Come prepared to sing! All of the ideas presented in this session are universal, and can be modifi ed and applied across all levels of choirs. Choristers Lori Wiest is director of choral activities from 5 to 85 years old can latch on to these concepts and enjoy at Washington State University, where making them a part of their choral experience. she conducts the WSU Concert Choir and Madrigal/Chamber Singers and Graeme Langager is director of choral erest Sessions erest teaches undergraduate and graduate activities at the University of British choral conducting. Wiest is associate Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. He was dean of the graduate school at WSU. previously head of the choral programs She received her BS in music education at the University of Arkansas and at from North Dakota State University, Cuesta College. Langager earned his her MM in choral music from Arizona State University, and her BMUS from Capilano University, his MM DMA in choral conducting and music theory from University from California State University, Long of Arizona. She is President of Washington ACDA. Beach, and his DMA from the University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music. He has served Julie Anne Wieck is associate professor as ACDA R&S Chair in Arkansas and California, and on the of music at Washington State University. national board of NCCO as representative for Arkansas. She teaches studio voice, diction, and vocal literature, while also directing the opera and musical theatre productions. Choral Roots and Rhythms: She received her BME from the Univer- sity of South Dakota-Vermillion, taught From Africa to Gospel public school for two years and then completed both an MM and DMA in The choral community has shown a tremendous interest in vocal performance at University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Wieck, world music, particularly music with rhythmic roots. This session performs in opera and musical theatre, and as a soloist with or- is designed to give participants an experience of singing choral chestras. She has traveled internationally, performing in Canada, music from African and Gospel roots. Participants will become Russia, Ukraine, Austria, the Czech Republic and Hungary. She the “demo” choir in order to explore characteristics such as im- is an active recitalist, adjudicator, and clinician and a member of provisation, spontaneous part-singing, fl exible forms, and more. NATS and NAfME. Performance techniques will include tonal color, scooping, “blue” notes, groove, soloing, clapping, the gospel choir “sway,”modifi ed vowels, use of diphthong, and more.

Brian Tate is a Vancouver choral director and composer/arranger. He is music director of the City Soul Choir in Vancouver and the Island Soul Choir in Parksville, BC, each with 100 voices. As an arranger and percussionist, Tate 2012 Division Conferences - Int Conferences Division 2012 has had a lifelong interest in music of

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the African Diaspora, and has toured and Tim Sharp will be the clinician for this ses- Creating Music in Alaska studied in Cuba and West Africa. He gives sion. His bio and photo an be found on choir workshops and clinics internationally, page 48. Individual student instruction, ensemble and many of his choral works are published. focus, literature, concert programming and concert presentations will be covered specifi cally accented for the small, remote Choir is … school program. Creative Classroom The Meanings of the Choral Management: Stop Disciplining Stan Harris is a band Experience, grades 7-12 director, choir direc- and Start Teaching! tor, and orchestra The purpose of this session is to em- Managing a classroom is about commu- director at Palmer power those who work with students in nicating clear and consistent expectations. High School, Palmer, grades 7–12 with an understanding of what With fewer resources, less support from Alaska. He has con- students discover and come to value in parents and administrators, and more pres- sistently produced the artistic choral experience. Over 200 sure on recruiting, the success of music pro- outstanding music responses were collected from singers. grams depends on classroom management groups in a remote These fi ndings have practical application more than ever. Through creative lesson area of the world, Palmer, Alaska. Besides and relevance for educators as they plan for planning, a high level of student responsibil- being a professional fi sherman, Harris is con- instruction and shape their rehearsal envi- ity, and an insistence on excellence every sidered a true educator, teaching by example. ronment. Through a presentation utilizing the day, the classroom will become a healthy, His music program is highly respected. This students’ own words, this session will speak safe environment for musical exploration. choral programs exists an extreme weather most directly to current and future 7–12 This workshop will provide techniques to areas of the world, in one of the most dif- grade choral music educators. help organize and streamline management. fi cult locations, just outside of Anchorage. These time-saving tools may be tailored to Andrea Ramsey will be the clinician for this each unique situation and instructor. Learn session. She is also presenting a session for to take the focus away from discipline and another conference. Her photo and bio can put it back on teaching. This workshop will Cued Speech be found there on page 73. provide ten guidelines to help teachers for the Choral Conductor formulate their own personalized classroom management plan. Teaching the sounds of language is often

Collaboration in the Ensemble Lauren E. Whitham Arts: Working and Playing Well earned her MM in with Others choral conducting from Western Wash- ington University Ensemble directors are masters of collab- (WWU) with Leslie By oration within the rehearsal room, but how Guelker-Cone, and Paul Brandvik about outside this environment? One of the her BME from Pa- Author of keys to a successful program in the twenty- cific Lutheran Uni- The Compleet ﬁ rst century is the ability to collaborate with Madrigal Dinner versity with Richard Nance. During her Booke other groups and organizations. This session time at WWU Lauren taught undergradu- THIRTY SCRIPTS, each containing All outlines the four keys to collaboration: (1) ate courses in aural skills and keyboarding, DIALOGUE (including greeting, toasts, festivi- Indentifying/Creating a Unifying Goal; (2) and directed the University Men’s Chorus, ties, and humorous Renaissance play) necessary Inciting a common value of teamwork; (3) University Women’s Chorus, and WWU’s for A SUCCESSFUL MADRIGAL DINNER! Speaking the language of collaboration; and premier choral group, Western Voices. From For complete info: VISIT OUR WEB SITE: (4) Initiating and enjoying the results of col- 2008–10, Whitham was the choral director www.madrigaldinner.com laboration. This presentation is built on the at Spanaway Junior High (SJH) in the Bethel application of these collaborative tools in School District. In 2010, under her direction, knight-shtick press, llc the presenter’s experience as association the SJH Men’s Concert Choir performed at Box 814, Bemidji, MN 56619-0814 administrator as well as choral conductor. the WMEA Conference in Yakima. 218-586-2270 [email protected]

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dauntingd for the choral music educator. By supplementing the • What works in the public domain are useful for a male chorus uuse of the IPA with Cued Speech—a gestural system of labels program? (Not just the ones available on CPDL) tththat describe the sounds of language—a choral music educator mmay be able to reach additional students and more success- This session is intended for anyone interested in male chorus, ffufully empower students to recall and execute the sounds of either in high school, university, or community settings. llanguagesa used in sung music. Cued Speech is a method for communicating the sounds CCameronameron F.F. LaBarrLaBarr will be the clinician for this session. He is oof language through a series of hand gestures, similar to sign also presenting a session at another conference. His photo and llanguage.a Though typically used by and among people with a bio can be found on page 112. vvavariety of language and hearing needs, this system will in fact bbe equally valuable in the music classroom or voice studio. By aadadapting this tool for choral rehearsals, music educators may Elementary mmore easily program repertoire with challenging foreign lan- gguguage texts that would otherwise be unrealistic to introduce to Vocal Jazz Concepts sststudent musicians due to the amount of time it takes to teach tththe sounds of foreign languages in rehearsal. Participants in this interactive session will learn vocal jazz styling, how to work with an elementary rhythm section, and Emilie Amrein is assistant professor of improvisation skills. Handouts and resources for literature will erest Sessions erest music and director of choral activities at be provided. Lake Forest College and artistic director of the Chicago Choral Artists. She Natalie Wilson has a BA in music educa- holds her BS in music and Italian from tion from Western Washington Universi- the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana ty and an MS in education from Portland University, her MM in choral conducting State University. She has taught in the from the University of Arizona, and her Camas School District for 27 years. DMA in conducting from the University Wilson taught 6th–12th grade choir oof Minnesota. Amrein is the founding director of The Alchemy and vocal jazz for 18 years and conduct- PProject, a Minnesota non-proﬁ t organization that promotes ed award winning choirs at both levels. ccocommunity engagement through high-quality, interdisciplinary As an elementary teacher since 2001, aararts events she has directed jazz choir in grades 3– 4 and 5–6. Currently, she is teaching grades K–5 elementary music appreciation and NicoleN Lamartine will be a clinician for this session. Her choir, grades 3–5 Grass Valley Vocal Jazz. Her ensemble, previously thetth University of Wyoming Singing Statesman, is performing at named JDZ Jazz, performed at the 2006 IAJE NY Conference, thistth conference. Her photo and bio can be found on page 148. the 2006 NW ACDA Conference as a demonstration group, and at the 2006 WMEA Conference. Wilson has been published in the Jazz Education Journal and Choral Journal. She writes arrangements and original songs. Expanding the Repertoire: A Fresh Look at Literature and Programming for Male Chorus Jazz Choir Round Table: This session will discuss programming and repertoire ideas We Have the Questions, forffo male chorus that may typically be overlooked. The following You Bring the Answers! questionsq will be answered:

• What repertoire makes a male chorus concert interesting? With Kirk Marcy, the National R&S Jazz Choir Chair, Frank De- Miero the NW R&S Jazz Choir Chair and a state R&S Jazz Choir • How does a conductor ﬁ nd the balance between challenging folks, four topics to be discussed include: What is a Jazz Choir and doable? Chart, The Balanced Choral Program, Improvisation/Scatting in The Classroom, the Rhythm Section and Why I Am Scared That

2012 Division Conferences - Int Conferences Division 2012 • What pieces help to build an audience (and keep them I Will Not Be Able to Teach Them, and My Jazz Choir. coming back)?

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Kirk Marcy is a re- coma School of the Arts, Michigan State Uni- University of Montana. She also has attended spected composer/ versity, and the University of Puget Sound. the VoiceCare Network’s IMPACT course. arranger/educator and member of the music faculty at Ed- Putting It All Together: monds Community It’s Not Magic: College. He is head Simple, Effective Strategies for Getting the Most Out Of Your of jazz instruction, Singers and Rhythm Section conducts the Sound- Building Full, Energized Tone in sation Jazz Choir, and the Symphonic Choir. Middle and High School Choirs A 1983 Summa Cum Laude graduate of Developing a “total” ensemble will be the focus of this session. Materials and information University of Northern Colorado, Marcy This workshop is meant to share a strat- will be demonstrated and explained. Vocal- has taught vocal and instrumental music on egy that has worked well for the two clini- ists and well as instrumentalists will work public school and college levels. He toured cians. Terry Annalora developed a series of together to create a balanced presentation. with the Four Freshmen, is a member of warm-ups which were incredibly effective for Male Ensemble Northwest, (MEN), and a him in building mature, full, energized tone. Jeff Horenstein will be the clinician for this member of Just 4 Kicks. Marcy composes He employed this series of exercises daily session. His choir is performing at the con- and arranges for Sound Music Publications. and helds students accountable for doing ference. His photo and bio can be found on them well. His former student, Wilkerson, page 142. experimented with other warm-ups and Interpretation: found that Annalora’s warm up produced the desired results unlike the others. This From Score Marking session is practical and will show participants Recruiting and to Performance how to make these exercises effective for their own ensembles, in addition to showing Retaining Singers:

audiovisual evidence as to the effect they Making a Plan That Maintains or This session will offer conductors some have on the Miles City ensembles. of the key techniques for studying and Grows Your Program—Even in marking scores including phrasing, breathing Terry Annalora spent Tough Economic Times schemes, dynamics, tempos changes, and 32 years a music edu- rubato considerations etc. These techniques cator, with the last 24 This session is about maintaining your will lead to expressive interpretation based being at Custer Coun- program from year-to-year and recruiting on the elements of music and text, resulting ty District High School for future success with practical applications in precise and expressive conducting tech- (CCDHS) in Miles in the high school choral classroom. niques and a more rewarding performance City, Montana. He is for ensemble and audience. the assistant principal has at CCDHS. He has a Kurt McKee taught choral music Paul W. Schultz has masters degree in vocal performance. His for the last 20 years accrued a distin- choirs appeared at two Northwest MENC in Washington Public guished career as a and one Northwest ACDA Conference, and Schools and abroad. teacher and conduc- performed at Carnegie Hall and the National “Recruiting has al- tor. He received a Festival in Washington DC. He has been the ways been a passion BME and MA from president of the Montana Choral Director’s for me—because of Central Michigan Association and the Montana MEA, and has this, I have tried just University, a PhD in won awards for excellence in teaching. about every idea under the sun to recruit music education from and maintain singers. I have also taught Michigan State University. He founded the Lindsey Wilkerson with some degree of success at every level, Northwest Repertory Singers in 2001. His just fi nished her fi fth from elementary through senior citizens. choral ensembles have received acclaim for year of teaching and In recent years with the horrible economy, their standards in repertoire, interpretation, her second year as I have seen programs struggle, get cut, or and musicianship. choral director at lose signifi cant funding. I have been able to Schultz taught in the public schools of CCDHS. She has build a program wherever I go, in whatever Michigan and served on the faculties of Ta- a degree in music environment. I hope this session can help education from the

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both newer and seasoned teachers fi nd ways to thrive, even Alan C. McClung is a member of the in tough budget times. “ University of North Texas (UNT) Col- He has been an active ACDA member for the past 20 lege of Music faculty, where he conducts years, serving as NW division Male Choir and Multicultural UNT’s Concert Choir, teaches under- R&S Chairs, and served twice as the general organizing chair graduate choral conducting, secondary for NW division Honor Choirs. choral methods, and supervises student teachers. He holds his BMED from West Virginia University, an MM in choral conducting from the University of Illinois, Should I Take My Choir Urbana/Champaign, and a PHD in music education from Florida on a Retreat? State University. McClung's professional experience includes teaching and conducting at all levels. His college choirs’ performances include MENC Conferences and an ACDA-Southern A retreat can have the activities necessary to bring a group Division Conference. He has conducted a variety of state and together socially, emotionally, and musically. Retreats are also region honor choirs and served as guest conductor for the helpful any time of the year. Organization is of utmost impor- Landesjungenchor from Koblenz, Germany. tance. The clinician will present in lecture form and conclude An active member of ACDA and MENC, he has served as a with a question and answer session. A DVD will be available national delegate to ACDA's International Conductor Exchange to the fi rst 150 in attendance. The DVD will include taped with Germany and Sweden. He is the author of Movable Tonic: A erest Sessions erest examples from Rex Putnam retreats 2007-08. Sequenced Sight-Singing Method, a 2008 GIA publication, and director of the Cambiata Institute of America for Early Adolescent John Baker graduated from Oregon Vocal Music, established on the campus of the UNT in 2009. College of Education in 1979, and became choir director at Rex Putnam High School in Milwaukie, Oregon, in 1980. Baker received his MME from Strength, Balance, Core: Western Oregon State College. In the fall of 2008, he was festival clinician at The Benefit of Pilates the Bangkok International Choir Festival for the Choral Conductor held in Bangkok, Thailand. He has a sight- reading/theory program which is used at many high school and Even the most innately musical conductors sometimes middle schools throughout the Northwest. The Rex Putnam A struggle with the transfer of musical expression into physical Cappella Choir and Choralaires have performed at state and movement. Effective gestural communication requires the regional ACDA Conferences and MENC state conventions. utmost in body awareness, subtlety of movement, balance, The A Cappella Choir performed at the 2011 ACDA National posture, and strength. It should come as no surprise, then, that Convention in Chicago, Ill. After thirty one plus years at Rex conductors often develop postural defi ciencies and shoulder Putnam High School, Baker retired in the spring of 2011. issues. In this session, the presenters will introduce conditioning exercises expressly indicated for the choral conductor. Exercises will address strengthening the core and lower back for better Sight-Singing Skills: balance and stability, strengthening and coordinating the muscles of the upper back and chest to protect the shoulders, and Isolating Pitch Successfully developing a regimen of “preventative maintenance” to assist a lifetime of healthy conducting. To teach sight-singing successfully, teachers must place their pedagogical skills in an appropriate order, identify the necessary Brian Galante will be a clinician for this session. Her choir, the tools, and isolate the sequential strategies. Using a movable tonic Pacifi c Lutheran Chorale, is performing at this conference. His format, the clinician will help participants discover the steps photo and bio can be found on page 144. and techniques required to teach pitch development skills and notation reading skills. Echo-sing, hand signs, audiation, modifi ed Kristi Galante holds her MM in choral staff, dictation, and composition are fundamental techniques. conducting and BME from Louisiana Transfer strategies to all major, natural minor, and chromatic State University. After teaching middle scales will be included. school and high school choral music and 2012 Division Conferences - Int Conferences Division 2012 singing in professional choral ensembles for several years, she has recently found

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a new passion in teaching group exercise ments in the planning of worship for Lent, Jeshua Franklin, a classes and private Pilates sessions. In 2011, Holy Week, and Easter. graduate student at Galante completed her certifi cation in BASI University of Wash- (Body Arts and Sciences International) Valérie Nicolet-An- ington, is pursuing Pilates. derson is an assistant his DMA in cho- professor for Fuller ral conducting with Seminary North- a music education Surveying the Wondrous Cross: west in Seattle, cognate. As a teach- Washington, where ing assistant, Franklin Christ’s Atonement Through she teaches the New directs the University Singers, a 100-voice the Eyes of Hymnody and Testament. She is non-auditioned undergraduate choir. He is interested in Pauline Historical Choral Music director of music at Steel Lake Presbyterian studies and recent approaches that focus on Church in Federal Way, Washington. He has the political circumstances of the apostle’s served on the faculties of Modesto Junior Led by New Testament scholar Valérie mission. Her publications include an article College, Bethel College, and Southwestern Nicolet-Anderson and choral conductor and on this thematic: “Becoming a Subject: The Michigan College. Highlights of his conduct- doctoral student Jeshua Franklin, this session Case of Michel Foucault and Paul,” in Journal ing career include premiering a new setting will briefl y highlight historically understood for Cultural and Religious Theory vol. 11 no. 1 of a Dave Brubeck work with the Moravian atonement theories, consider the drama of (Winter 2010): 127–41. Philharmonic Orchestra and the Bowling various passion oriented texts, and delve into Green State University Choral Society. the interpretational effects of diverse musical settings. Participants will also be encouraged to consider these sometimes confl icting ele-

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STUDENT EVENTS – ENDLESS SONG Creative Classroom Management: Stop Disciplining and Start Teaching!

Students are not only exceedingly important in supporting An interest session designed for students presented by the NW Division baord with the running of the NW Division Lauren E. Whitham. A description of the session and a photo conference, there are sessions speciﬁ cally designed for our and bio of Whitham can be found on page 151. s future choral educators. For the past two conferences, 25 and then 45 students from 4 and 7 Colleges and Universities respectively have served in widely varying, but all vital roles to help make the NWACDA Should I Take My Choir conferences a success. For more information on being a worker, contact Gary Weidenaar – President-Elect and Program Chair on a Retreat? of the 2012 NWACDA Conference (Gary.Weidenaar@gmail. com). Students who work 8 hours or more have their registra- An interest session designed for students presented by John tion comped! We are expecting from 50–60 students to serve Baker. A description of the session and a photo and bio of Baker as workers this year. can be found on page 154. udent Event udent SESSIONS

The Choral Quiz Bowl

Inaugurated at the 2010 conference, teams of 4 students, each from a separate university, showed their knowledge in areas which included choral music, NW ACDA history, and general knowledge. (Who knew that most car horns in the ♭ United States are pitched at a G ??) Not only was great fun had by both the audience and participants, but acquaintance- Call for ships were struck up! It was a success—and is back for the Interest Session Proposals/ 2012 conference! Performing Group Auditions Information for the 2013 National Conference Student/Mentor Round Table is on page 7 Three ﬁ rst or second year teachers, each with their major choral or education professor, will be the resources for ques- Suggestions for tions from current college students who are not yet in the teaching profession. Interest Session Proposal Topics for the 2013 National Conference are on page 137 Choir is … The Meanings of the Choral Experience, grades 7-12

An interest session designed for students presented by Andrea Ramsey. A description of the session and a photo and 2012 Division Conferences - St Conferences Division 2012 bio of Ramsey can be found on page 151

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Christy Elsner will be the conductor for this honor choir. Her Giselle Wyers is assistant professor of ors photo and bio can be found on page 85. choral studies and voice at the Univer- sity of Washington (UW), where she conducts the University Chorale and teaches courses in choral conducting Men's and voice. As a guest conductor, Wyers has led high school honor choirs in Andre J. Thomas, the Owen F. Sellers New York (Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Professor of Music, is director of choral Center), Idaho, Connecticut, Alaska, and activities and professor of choral music Vancouver, Canada. In 2011, she guest conducted community education at Florida State University. A and professional ensembles in Seattle, Boston, Montana, and previous faculty member at the Univer- Germany, including a performance with the award-winning sity of Texas, Austin, Thomas received his Chamber Choir of Europe. BA from Friends University, his MM from Wyers is a leading national ﬁ gure in the application of Laban Northwestern University, and his DMA movement theory for conductors. For ﬁ ve years, she has team- from the University of Illinois. He is in taught summer choral conducting courses with James Jordan at demand as a choral adjudicator, clinician, and director of honor Westminster Choir College, and she has contributed chapters and all-state choirs throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, to two texts with Jordan related to Laban movement, both New Zealand, and Australia. published by GIA Publications. Thomas has conducted choirs at the state, division, and na- As a composer, Wyers has a number of works available tional conventions of the MENC and ACDA. His international through Santa Barbara Music Publishing Company as part of the conducting credits are extensive. They include conductor and Giselle Wyers Choral Series. Her works have been performed in clinician for IFCM, summer residency of the World Youth Choir South America, across Europe, Canada, and the United States. in the Republic of China and the Philippines, winter residency of Her work The Waking was recorded by Choral Arts Ensemble the World Youth Choir in Europe, and a premier performance on the Gothic Records label. by an American choir (Florida State University Singers) in Viet- Wyers’s dedication to exposing audiences to the music of nam. He has been the guest conductor of such distinguished contemporary American composers has led to publications in orchestras and choirs as the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra various national journals. She is especially interested in exploring in England, guest conductor for the Berlin Radio Choir in Ger- how modern composers use music as a form of peacemaking many, the Netherlands Radio Choir, the Charlotte Symphony, and social justice. “Waging Peace through Intercultural Art in Tallahassee Symphony, China’s People’s Liberation Orchestra, Kyr’s Ah Nagasaki,” appears as the cover article of the May and the Czech National Symphony Orchestra. 2008 Choral Journal, and discusses how the act of creating and Since 1988, he has served as artistic director of the Tallahas- premiering a musical work can serve as a gesture of reconcili- see Community Chorus. Thomas has distinguished himself as a ation between cultures. composer and arranger. Hinshaw Music Company, Mark Foster Wyers holds her BME from UC Santa Cruz, where she Music Company, Fitzsimons Music Company, Lawson Gould, founded the San Lorenzo Valley Community Chorus and Or- Earthsongs, Choristers Guild, and Heritage Music Company chestra. She earned her MM from Westminster Choir College, publish his compositions and arrangements. where she founded the Greater Princeton Youth Chamber Thomas has produced two instructional videos What They Orchestra, and her DMA in conducting from the University of See Is What You Get on choral conducting, with Rodney Eichen- Arizona, where she studied with Maurice Skones, and minored berger, and Body, Mind, Spirit, Voice on adolescent voices, with in historical musicology with John Brobeck. Anton Armstrong. His recent book Way Over in Beulah Lan’. Understanding and Performing the Negro Spiritual has quickly become a major source in this area of study. The African Diaspora FFollowollow uuss oonn FFacebookacebook andand TTwitterwitter Sacred Music honored Thomas as a Living Legend. In 2011, Thomas’ dedication to and accomplishments in the American Choral choral arts were recognized by his peers in Chorus America, Directors Association when that organization presented him with its Distinguished Service Award. He is a past president of the Florida ACDA and TTimothySharimothySharp ACDA’s Southern Division. 2012 Division Conferences - Honor Choir Conduct Choir - Honor Conferences Division 2012

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Youth Dilworth is a contributing author for the Essential Elements for Choir and the Experiencing Choral Music textbook series, both Rollo Dilworth is associate professor published by the Hal Leonard Corporation/Glencoe/McGraw- of choral music education at Temple Hill Publications, and for Music Express!Teachers Magazine. ors University’s Boyer School of Music in He authored a book of choral warm-ups for elementary and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In addition to secondary choral ensembles titled Choir Builders: Fundamental teaching undergraduate and graduate Vocal Techniques for General and Classroom Use. courses in choral music education, he Dilworth has co-authored another choral warm-up book serves as conductor for the University titled Choir Builders for Growing Voices. He frequently serves as a Chorale. Prior to his appointment at guest conductor and/or clinician for honor, festival, and all-state Temple, Dilworth served as director of choirs throughout the United States and abroad. Dilworth choralcchho activities and music education at North Park University in is an active member of MENC, NANM, ACDA, and Chorus Chicago,Ch Illinois, for 13 years. Dilworth holds degrees from Case America. He is a member of the American Society of Compos- WesternWWe Reserve University, University of Missouri-St. Louis, and ers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), and currently serves on NorthwesternNo University. Dilworth has written or arranged 150 the Pennsylvania ACDA State board as the director of Student choralcchho works that are currently in print. His choral compositions and Youth Activities. areaarre a part of the Henry Leck Creating Artistry Choral Series with HalHa Leonard Corporation and Colla Voce Music Company. He hashhaas recently published pieces with the Santa Barbara Music Pub- lishingllish Company as part of the Mary Alice Stollak Choral Series.

Career Moves

The Indiana University invites applications for a choal conductor faculty position. IT is an open rank tenure-track position. More information about this position can be found in the display ad on page 140.

Westminster Choir College has an opening for a position on their organ faculty. It is a tenure-track, rank negotiable position. More information about this position can be found in the display ad on page 86. 2012 Division Conferences - Honor Choir Conduct Choir - Honor Conferences Division 2012

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