Complete bios can be found at www.acda.org/western Special Guests IIncheonncheon CCityity CChoralehorale

CChanticleerhanticleer

Chanticleer will present an interest session and evening perfor- mance at this conference. They are also performing at the Central The Incheon City Chorale was reorganized Division conference. Their photo and bio can be found on page 30. in 1995 by the current music director, Hak-won Yoon. Through regular performances, diverse repertories and consistent record production, the chorale is recognized for and revered for WWestoneston NobleNoble their beauty and musicality.

Weston Noble is a highly accomplished Hak-Won Yoon is the artistic director and conductor of Incheon and honored American music educator and City Chorale. He is a conductor, professor, composer, and clinician. conductor. Now the Johnson Professor Emeri- He graduated from the College of Music at Yonsei University with tus of Music, he had a fi fty-seven year tenure a major in composition. He studied choral conducting and voice at as a conductor and teacher at Luther College Lowell University Graduate School. He received an honorary doc- in Decorah, Iowa. Noble has received acclaim toral degree of church music from Midwest University. from across the country and the world as the conductor of the Luther College Nordic Choir from 1948 to 2005. He is a charter member of ACDA.

Conference Finale Concert TThehe ArizonaArizona ChoirChoir

The Arizona Choir is the pre- mier graduate choral ensemble CConductoronductor at the Univer- sity of Arizona William Hatcher resides in Escondido, School of Music. California, having retired in 1999 from the Recent perfor- University of Iowa after 43 years of conduct- mances include ing and teaching choral music. He was the Brahms’s Ein National President of ACDA from 1991–93, deutsches Requiem, Bach’s monumental St. Mat- and also served as Chair of the ACDA Endow- thew Passion, Mozart’s C Minor Mass, and Terry ment Trust. Riley’s Sun Rings.

Bruce Chamberlain, conductor of The Arizona Choir, is on sabbatical during the spring semester. Christopher Thomas, will prepare The Arizona Choir under Chamberlain’s guidance. Christopher is a graduate of Millikin

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University and taught high school choral music for several years in NNorthernorthern ArizonaArizona UniversityUniversity Illinois. He graduated summa cum laude with the MM in choral conducting at The University of Arizona and is presently completing SShrinehrine ofof thethe AgesAges ChoirChoir degree requirements for a DMA.

AArizonarizona StateState UniversityUniversity SymphonicSymphonic ChoraleChorale

Symphon- ic Chorale is Arizona State University’s premiere cho- ral ensemble. The Northern Arizona University Shrine of the Ages Choir, This group is founded in 1933, received national recognition through its annual comprised of participation in the NBC radio broadcasts of the Easter Sunrise highly-select Service from the South Rim of the Grand Canyon (also known singers (pri- as the “Shrine of the Ages”). Shrine has maintained a tradition of marily graduate voice, conducting, and music excellence performing at state, divisional, and national conventions education majors) performing a diverse range of of ACDA and MENC. accompanied and a cappella literature, including masterworks from Renaissance to the Twenty- Edith A. Copley, director of choral studies and conductor of the First Century. Shrine of the Ages Choir, is on sabbatical during the spring semester. Ryan Holder, the associate director of choral studies at NAU and Gregory Gentry is director of choral performance at Arizona conductor of High Altitude, will conduct and prepare the Shrine of State University’s school of music, where he administers the graduate the Ages Choir in her absence. His photo and bio can be found on and undergraduate choral conducting programs. He is in his fourth page 55. season as chorus master with the Phoenix Symphony.

Honor Choirs HighHighSh School l TrebleTbl

Jeffery L. Ames serves as director of Cheryl Dupont is the artistic director choral activities at Bel- of the New Orleans Children’s Chorus and mont University. His Youth Chorale. Although prior appointments in- she is known throughout CCollegiateollegiate clude assistant director the United States for of choral activities at her work with children’s Weston Noble will be the conductor of Baylor University and choirs, she is equally the Collegiate Honor Choir. He is a special director of choral activi- experienced at working guest at this conference. His photo and bio ties at Edgewater High with mixed choirs on can be found on page 52. School and Lincoln High the high school, college, School in Florida. and adult levels.

Choral Journal • January 2010 53 Complete bios can be found at www.acda.org/western Performing Choirs

CCrystalrystal Children’sChildren’s ChoirChoir ConcertConcert ChoirChoir

Crystal Chil- AAmericanmerican RiverRiver CollegeCollege VocalVocal JazzJazz EnsembleEnsemble dren’s Choir was founded in The the San Fran- Ameri- cisco Bay Area can River in 1994 with College the mission of Vocal providing excel- Jazz En- lent choral music education semble throughout a child’s life, and has re- to blend the best of Eastern ceived and Western musical traditions. acclaim nationally and internationally. Member- Since then, Crystal has grown ship ranges in size from 6 to 8 members and is to over a thousand members determined almost entirely on how successfully and continues to provide its members a warm, a student can hear extended jazz harmonies. loving, and fun community in which to sing.

Arthur Lapierre is currently the director of vocal jazz ensembles Jenny Chiang co-founded Crystal Children’s Choir in 1994 and at American River College, where he also teaches studio voice, jazz has served as artistic director ever since. In the summer of 2000 history, and jazz/pop styles He directed the Berklee College of Music and the spring of 2005, she studied choral conducting with Charlene Jazz Ensemble and served as the ACDA Eastern Division R&S Chair Archibeque at San Jose State University. for Jazz/Show Choirs. Karl Chang is the co-founder of two choirs in Silicon Valley, California. He has received his MS in engineering from University of Texas and an MBA from Santa Clara University. He is the President AAzusazusa PacificPacific UniversityUniversity Men’sMen’s ChoraleChorale of Crystal Children’s Choir.

HHarvard-Westlakearvard-Westlake HighHigh SchoolSchool ChamberChamber SingersSingers

Established with the 1991 merger of Harvard and Westlake Schools, the Harvard-Westlake Chamber The Azusa Pacifi c’s Men’s Chorale is com- Singers have maintained a prised of mostly freshmen men from all disci- sterling reputation through- plines and majors offered at APU, this 70-voice out California. The choir ensemble performs regularly at churches, was featured in convention schools and civic organizations around the performances for CMEA in United States. They performs regularly at Dis- 1997, ACDA Western Divi- neyland’s annual Community Artist’s Showcase. sion in 2000, and ACDA National in 2005.

Harold Clousing director of the Men’s Chorale, teaches Applied Rodger Guerrero conducts the Bel Canto, Voice, recruitment, and career development at Azusa Pacifi c Univer- Chamber Singers, Jazz Singers and Wolverine sity and is choral director at Glenkirk Church in Glendora, California. Chorus and teaches Voice and Sight Singing classes at Harvard-Westlake High School. He is an Idyllwild Summer Arts Faculty member and Director of Music at Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church.

54 Choral Journal • January 2010 Complete bios can be found at www.acda.org/western March 3–6, 2010 2010 Western Division Conference - Tucson

MMountainountain ViewView HighHigh SchoolSchool A CappellaCappella ChoirChoir MMurrietaurrieta ValleyValley HighHigh SchoolSchool ChamberChamber SingersSingers

The Mountain View High School A Cappella Choir consists of 130 junior and senior students The Murrieta Valley High School Chamber who have been recognized for their excellence Singers are an elite ensemble comprised of in academics, leadership, athletics, and the thirty-four select singers. In 2008, they received performing arts. Their repertoire ranges from 1st place in the small choir division at the pres- classical to broadway and from contemporary tigious Golden State South Choir Competition. to Renaissance music. They have toured New York, San Francisco, and Italy.

Rosemary Mathews was a professional opera singer for many Jaclyn Johnson received her BMs in conducting and music edu- years and has performed 20 leading operatic roles. In 1996, after cation from the Chapman University and is currently working on a many years of teaching at universities and colleges, she began her masters in conducting at California State University, Long Beach. She career as a music educator in the public schools. is the music minister at Upland First United Methodist Church and is one of the co-directors at Arrowbear Music Camp. MMountount SanSan AntonioAntonio CollegeCollege ChamberChamber SingersSingers NNorthernorthern ArizonaArizona UniversityUniversity HighHigh AltitudeAltitude

Northern Ari- zona University’s High Altitude is one of the pre- miere vocal jazz ensembles in the Southwest. This select vocal jazz ensemble offers During the past fi fteen years the Chamber an opportunity for Singers has been extremely active, winning advanced, in-depth study of vocal jazz in a variety numerous awards and receiving special per- of styles. formance invitations; including performances at fi ve ACDA national and division conventions and three California Ryan W. Holder is the associate director of State Conventions. choral studies at Northern Arizona University. He directs the Women’s Chorale, Northern Voices and High Al- In 2001, Bruce Rogers became the fi rst choral director in titude vocal jazz ensembles, teaches undergraduate and graduate United States history to have two different choirs perform at the conducting and choral methods, supervises choral student teachers, IAJE National Convention and the ACDA National Convention, and and serves as the adviser for the NAU student chapter of ACDA. he achieved this honor again in 2005. He has presented lectures, reading sessions, clinics, and guest conducted all-state and collegiate honor choirs in twenty-one states.

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SSanan RamonRamon ValleyValley HighHigh SchoolSchool TrebleTreble ClefClef

PPhoenixhoenix BoysBoys ChoirChoir

San Ramon Valley High School is located in Danville, California, 20 miles east of San Francisco. The Treble Clef Choir is the advanced women’s choir at the school and they are known for their excellence in singing and high placement at festi- Founded in 1947, the Phoenix Boys Choir vals and competitions. develops character, discipline, leadership, global awareness, and a strong commitment to excel- Ken Abrams is in his twenty-sixth year as the director at San lence through our mission to educate boys age Ramon Valley High School where he directs six choirs. He is the 7–14 in the art of singing, performing the fi nest past-president of the California ACDA. and has been the artistic music in the boychoir tradition, and enhancing director of the Danville Girls Chorus. Arizona’s cultural reputation.

Georg Stangelberger became the artistic director of the Phoenix Boys Choir in 1999 after gaining international experience with the Vienna Boys Choir. He holds a masters degree in choral conducting SSchofieldchofield MiddleMiddle SchoolSchool MadrigalMadrigal SingersSingers and bachelor degrees in orchestra conducting and vocal accompani- ment and is the Western Division R&S chair for Boychoirs.

RRiversideiverside CityCity CollegeCollege ChamberChamber SingersSingers

The Schofi eld Middle School Madrigal Singers are from Las Vegas, Nevada. They are a select group of seventh and eighth grade students who were selected to perform at the Nevada Music Educator’s Association Convention in 2007 and The Riverside City College Chamber Singers are honored to be performing for the ACDA Western Division is comprised of the top singers from the college. Convention in March 2010. They perform in concerts and festivals through- out the year and are also the resident carolers Deborah Muhlenbruck-Fleischer is in her ninth year as the choral for the historical Mission Inn Hotel in Riverside director at Schofi eld Middle School. She received her MM in voice during the holiday season. from UNLV and received her BM in voice from NAU, Flagstaff. She is the chairperson for the ACDA/CCSD Middle School Honor Choir John Byun is the director of choral and vocal activities at Riv- and the NMEA Middle School All-State Choir. erside City College, where he directs the Chamber Singers and the Vocal Jazz Ensemble. He is the artistic director of the Temecula Valley Master Chorale and is one of the co-directors of Arrowbear Music Camp.

56 Choral Journal • January 2010 Complete bios can be found at www.acda.org/western March 3–6, 2010 2010 Western Division Conference - Tucson

TThehe ChoralChoral ProjectProject UUniversityniversity ofof ArizonaArizona SymphonicSymphonic ChoirChoir

Symphonic Choir is a select ensemble car- rying on a fi fty-year tradition of excellence in The Choral Project’s musical programming choral music at The University of Arizona. The includes early music, world music, contemporary group performs formal concerts on campus works, gospel, spirituals, and jazz. The Choral and as part of Tucson-area concert series, as Project performs throughout the Bay Area, well as on performance tours throughout the and received awards from the 2007 California United States. International Choral Competition, and the 58th International Eisteddfod, Llangollen, Wales. Elizabeth Schauer is associate director of choral activities at The University of Arizona, where she conducts Symphonic Choir, and Daniel Hughes serves as artistic director and conductor of The University Community, and teaches courses in conducting and choral Choral Project. He directs Menharmonics—a men’s chorus and techniques. Her choirs have been invited to perform at events of Amaranth—a vocal jazz ensemble. He holds an MA in Conducting ACDA, MENC and College Music Society. from San José State University.

TTucsonucson ChamberChamber ArtistsArtists UUniversityniversity ofof UtahUtah SingersSingers

Tucson Chamber Artists (TCA) is a versatile ensemble of professional musicians dedicated Since their inception in 2003, The University to enriching lives through the transformational of Utah Singers have won international acclaim power of classical music. Now in its sixth season, through concert tours and competitions. In TCA accomplishes its mission primarily through the performance of 2006, they won the European Grand Prix Inter- masterworks and the diverse music of America. national Choir Competition in Tolosa, Spain as a result of winning the Grand Prize at the 2005 Eric Holtan holds degrees in music from Gustavus Adolphus Florilège Vocal de Tours International Choir Competition in France. College, University of Iowa, and University of Arizona. In addition to TCA, Holtan is assistant director of the Tucson Symphony Orchestra Brady Allred is the fi rst recipient of the Ellen Neilson Barnes Chorus, and Minister of Music, Art, and Liturgy at Dove of Peace Presidential Endowed Chair for Choral Studies at The University of Lutheran Church in Tucson. Utah in Salt Lake City. He conducts The University of Utah Singers and A Cappella Choir and directs the MM and DMA programs in choral conducting.

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Grey Brothers teaches music history, tion of ranges, use of head tone, coping with world music, church erratic shifts, identifying potential technique music, and voice at problems, and an examination of solutions Westmont College for continued healthy singing. Members of in Santa Barbara. He the Tucson Arizona Boys Chorus will serve TThehe A CCappellaappella PPassionassion is Minister of Choral as a demonstration group representing and Congregational individual voices at all stages of the voice ooff EEarlyarly MMexicoexico Music at Trinity Epis- change process. Responsorial settings of the Passion may copal Church in Santa serve both as engaging concert repertoire Barbara. Julian Ackerley will be the clinician for and as meaningful contributions to Christian this session. He is also presenting a session worship. This interest session will begin with for the Southwestern Division conference. a brief historical overview of the choral Pas- His photo and bio can be found on page 51. sion focusing on the development of the BBoysingers—Mattersoysingers—Matters thatthat MatterMatter responsorial type. The discussion will then turn to the intensely emotional settings of the Passion composed in Spain in the Being a boy in today’s world is sometimes CConductingonducting MasterclassMasterclass sixteenth century and brought to the New challenging. This session will examine how to World during the Viceregal period. A group be successful in dealing with boys in choirs. Charlene Archibeque will serve as clini- of Passions composed in Mexico City and The clinician will discuss methods for keeping cian for the Conducting Masterclass, giving its environs in the late sixteenth and early boys engaged and overcoming stereotypes feedback, suggestions, and instruction about seventeenth centuries will then be discussed as well as offering practical suggestions for technique, interpretation, formal concepts, and recorded excerpts of these pieces will recruitment, retention, group management, and sensitivity to the selected students. be presented. Finally, issues of performance and repertoire selection. How athletics can will be addressed. exist in a boy’s life will also be explored. Charlene Archibeque studied conducting Special emphasis will be given to dealing with with Elizabeth Green, at the male changing voice including explora- the University of Michi- gan and Lynn Whitten at the University of Colorado. She won the Best Conductor award at the Gorizia Interna- tional Competition in 1996 and the Grand Prix in Tallin, Estonia in 1994.

The Mount San Antonio College Cham- ber Singers will serve as the demonstration choir for this session. Their photo and bio can be found on page 55.

CContemporaryontemporary A CCappella:appella: FFromrom tthehe RRadioadio ttoo tthehe CClassroomlassroom

This session will walk teachers through the basics of bringing contemporary a cappella to their campus, covering a wide range of topics, including starting a group, rehearsal pedagogy, transferable skills, re- cordings, charts/arrangements, performance

58 Choral Journal • January 2010 Complete bios can be found at www.acda.org/western Nordic Choir 2010 Winter Concert Tour opportunities, vocal percussion, podcasts, CASA—The Contemporary A Cappella Craig Arnold, conductor Society, and Web resources.

Kimberly Barclay Drusedum is direc- tor of the Green Valley High School Choirs in Henderson, Nevada. She received a BM in Music Education from UNLV and a masters in Educational Administra- tion from The University of Phoenix.

Brad Pierson is in his fi fth year as a teacher in the Clark County School District (CCSD) in Las Vegas, Nevada, and currently serves as the cho- ral director at Desert Oasis High School. Brad has served as the CCSD Director’s Choice Honor Choir Chairperson, and as a co-chair for the CCSD’s Honor Choir and Honor Jazz Choir.

DDevelopingeveloping a VVocalocal CColorolor PPalettealette fforor VVariousarious Sunday, January 17 Sunday, January 24 Saturday, January 30 Saint Mark’s Episcopal First United Methodist Prince of Peace Lutheran CChoralhoral WorksWorks Cathedral Church Church Seattle, Wash. San Diego, Calif. Brooklyn Park, Minn. With the infl ux of choral music from Monday, January 18 Tuesday, January 26 (Twin Cities) around the world, choral directors have the Pacific Lutheran Red Hill Lutheran Church Sunday, January 31 opportunity and the challenge of incorpo- University Tustin, Calif. Zumbro Lutheran Church rating a vast array of choral colors in their Tacoma, Wash. Wednesday, January 27 Rochester, Minn. musical performances. The voice is capable Tuesday, January 19 Hope Lutheran Church Saturday, February 20 of changing tone color, singing with healthy Willamette University Palm Desert, Calif. Mount Olive Lutheran technique in both the modal and head-voice Salem, Ore. Thursday, January 28 Church Weston, Wis. registers, executing contrasting dynamics, Wednesday, January 20 Catalina Foothills High performing melismatic passages with great First Presbyterian Church School Sunday, February 21 agility, achieving precise intonation and blend, Medford, Ore. Tucson, Ariz. Bethel Lutheran Church and producing non-traditional vocal sounds. Friday, January 22 Friday, January 29 Madison, Wis.

Through recordings and audience partici- Grace Lutheran Church La Casa de Cristo pation, this session will present techniques Palo Alto, Calif. Lutheran Church For tickets and more that develop a vocal color palette for various Saturday, January 23 Scottsdale, Ariz. information, visit http:// music.luther.edu. choral styles. The audience will experience Ascension Lutheran techniques for appropriate posture and Church breathing, head- and chest-voice resonance, Thousand Oaks, Calif. fl exibility and agility, range and dynamics,

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WWelcomingelcoming TTheirheir HHearts:earts: Shane Troll is the associate artistic di- rector of the Cantible IImaginativemaginative WWaysays ttoo BBeginegin A Youth Singers and the bright and dark vocal colors, and overtone CChildren’shildren’s ChoirChoir RehearsalRehearsal director of music at singing and hear the application of these Pinewood Elementary techniques to specifi c choral works. This session will explore diverse and School. He oversees stimulating ways in which a conductor can the third through sixth Peggy Dettwiler is professor of music effortlessly begin the rehearsal insuring that grade classroom music and director of choral each child is welcomed, challenged, and, program and fi ve chil- activities at Mansfi eld most importantly, having fun. The clinician dren’s choirs. University, where she will demonstrate effective musical activities conducts the Concert that can be used prior to the traditional Choir, Festival Chorus, warm-up time. Activities will include songs, and Mansfi eldians. She canons, movement, body percussion, partner HHowow ToTo GrowGrow A ManMan ChoirChoir holds a DMA from activities, and team/group building exercises. This session will center on marketing the Eastman School All of these activities will be taught with ac- techniques and tools used to grow a men’s of Music in Rochester, tive participation of the attendees. chorale ensemble from 22 members to 70 New York. in one year. What’s your dream? This ses-

60 Choral Journal • January 2010 Complete bios can be found at www.acda.org/western March 3–6, 2010 2010 Western Division Conference - Tucson sion will provide accessible ideas that will SSinginginging TThehe WWords:ords: cal ways to improve performance by focus- bring results. Members of the Azusa Pacifi c ing on the emotional meaning of the text. University Men’s Chorale will serve as the TThehe TTextext aass a MMeanseans ttoo demonstration choir. David Schildkret is on sabbatical from CCompellingompelling PPerformanceerformance his position as profes- Harold Clousing will be the clinician sor of choral music for this session. Members of his choir, the Our engagement with text in choral at Arizona State Uni- Azusa Pacifi c University Men’s Chorale, music is usually to think about a series of versity. He is serving will serve as the demonstration choir for technical questions: are the vowels correct? this year as Visiting this session. Their photos and bios can be Are the consonants together? While these Scholar at Salem Col- found on page 54. are important issues, they overlook the lege in Winston-Salem, essential meaning of the words. Attention North Carolina, and to signifi cance in a text produces more as Interim artistic director of the Piedmont LLocomotion:ocomotion: TThehe UUsese ooff spontaneous and expressive performances. Chamber Singers. With the help of a demonstration choir, EEurhythmicsurhythmics iinn tthehe the clinician will demonstrate a series of The Murrieta Valley High School Cham- CChoralhoral RehearsalRehearsal concepts, questions, and exercises partly ber Singers will be the demonstration choir adapted from the world of theatre and de- for this session. Their photo and bio can be This session will use volunteer partici- veloped extensively in rehearsal with groups found on page 55. pants to demonstrate how the incorpora- at a variety of levels. These will show practi- tion of eurhythmics in the choral rehearsal can lead to more musical performance. Tak- ing three varied choral works, this session will show how to build better rhythmic accuracy in the choir, how eurhythmics can enhance ensemble singing, how it can ener- gize slow music and long notes, and how one can build shape and motion into the musical phrase using specifi c kinds of movement. Au- dience participants will not only be able to see this process used in a live demonstration, but will be shown how to apply eurhythmic movement to their own rehearsals, with suggestions for use with their own choirs.

David P. DeVenney has established a rep- utation as a conductor and scholar. He holds degrees in conducting from Iowa State Uni- versity, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and University of Cin- cinnati College-Con- servatory of Music.

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Christopher Borges is the director of eration, arrangements, text sources, music the Bakersfield High sources and editions, using actual examples School Choirs. He has from the literature. Guidance will be given also taught elementary on how to determine which information is music and spent four editorial, and how to make informed deci- SStarttart wwithith WWhathat TTheyhey KKnow:now: years directing middle sions about tempos, dynamics, articulation, SSuggestionsuggestions fforor school (grades 5– 8) vo- etc. for music from various time periods and cal music in the Bay area. traditions. The information to be presented SSuccessfuluccessful SightSight ReadingReading will be most helpful for conductors who have a masters or bachelors degree (or Teaching our students to sight-read is like less) in music. teaching them to fi sh: we can either catch WWhat’shat’s onon thethe Page?Page? the notes for them or teach them to catch DDeterminingetermining AAuthenticuthentic Elizabeth Schauer will be the clinician them on their own. But we have to start with for this session. Her choir, the University of what they know. They might be able to sing VVersusersus EEditorialditorial IInformationnformation Arizona Symphonic Choir, is performing at a major scale in tune, but ask them to read oonn tthehe CChoralhoral SScorecore this conference. Her photo and bio can be “one” and they become mute. Maybe they found on page 57. are okay sight reading anything that moves This session is appropriate for direc- stepwise, but ask them to skip a third and tors of all types of choirs, especially those it’s the Great Wall. This sessions gives sug- who make use of music from Choral Public gestions for teaching sight-reading at levels Domain Library (cpdl), arrangements, or from the beginning to the advanced, using a older editions of music found in their choral choir of young signers sight-reading material libraries. Topics include various kinds of trans- in real time. lations, transcription, transposition, translit-

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