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The Treble Honor Choir, conducted by Henry Leck, will be comprised of treble voices from elementary through junior high, and the High School Honor Choir will be conducted by Jeffery Redding. For our College Honor Choir, conducted by Joe Miller, we are offering them as two open reb~1 interest sessions, Miller rehearses the college students in· a:. several styles. By doing this we are making it possible for: the students to attend the convention and not be in rehearsals all of the time while preparing for a concert. Like all of us, we are building for the future.

I am proud of our convention committee and thankful f()T · all their dedication, sacrifice, and hard work they have given for this convention. Even if you are within the Central Divi sion, comprised of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio, I hope you will join us. After all, "Chicago (will be) My/Our Kind of Convention."

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Stanley Ritchie has directed and appeared as a violin soloist with many period instrument ensem bles, including the Academy of Ancient Music, Philharmonia Baroque Or chestra, Tafel musik, and the Handel and Haydn Society

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The Indiana University (IU) Classical Orchestra is a period instrument orches tra, celebrating its first season at Indiana University. An outgrowth of the IU School of Music Early Music Institute's long-standing Baroque Orchestra, this Classical Orchestra seeks to establish a

-· -· ~-.~~ ~- historically informed period instrument performing tradition for music of the eighteenth and early nineteenth century that equals the accomplishment of its parent organization, which specializes in music of the Baroque.

The Indiana University Classical Orchestra

conducts choral and orchestral concerts with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and other choirs and orchestras in Britain, Europe, New Zealand, Singapore, and Hong Kong. John Poole is senior lecturer in cho

ral conducting at Indiana University and conductor of the School of Music's Pro Arte Singers and Symphonic Choir. He received his Fellowship Diploma of the Royal College of Organists from Balliol College at Oxford Uni versity in 1955. He served as the conductor of BBC Sym phony Chorus from 1968-74, director of the BBC Singers from 1972-89, chief guest conductor of BBC Singers from 1990-93, and music director of the Groupe Vocal de France from 1990-95. Poole founded the Academie Internatio nale in Parthenay, France. He regularly

Baroque opera, and, on a smaller scale, solo chamber music with other voices and instruments.

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The Indiana University Pro Arte Sing ers is a chamber choir that performs me dieval, Renaissance, and Baroque choral repertory. Founded in the 1960s by Fiora Contino and John Reeves White, the Pro Arte has evolved into a specialized performing organization associated with Indiana University's Early Music Insti tute under previous conductors Thomas Binkley and Paul Hillier. The ensemble has recently expanded its repertoire to include the music of contemporary composers Arvo Part and Giles Swayne. In addition to choral concerts, the mem bers perform early theatrical works and

The Indiana University Pro Arte Singers

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Randy Stenson is a graduate of Con cordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota. He taught vocal and instrumen tal music in pri vate and public schools in North Dakota and Min nesota prior to joining the mu sic faculty of St. Mary's Interna tional School.

Stenson teaches elementary, middle school, and handbell choir. His ensembles

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The St. Mary's Varsity Ensemble, in it's fifth year, is an auditioned extra curricular activity for high school vocal students participating in the Men's Choir at St. Mary's International School in Tokyo, Japan.

The Varsity Ensemble have made con cert tours to the United States, Australia, and New Zealand; won top awards and honors at competitions and festivals in Japan and the United States; and has performed for members of the Japanese Imperial Family. They have appeared on Japanese national television and most recently in concert at Tokyo's St. Mary's Cathedral with internationally acclaimed Japanese-American Opera sensation, John Ken Nuzzo. They performed at the 2004 ACDA Northwest Regional Con vention in Boise, Idaho.

St. Mary's Varsity Ensemble

Orchestra. He is in demand for master classes and workshops throughout the world. Ritchie has held various positions as a modern violinist, including con certmaster of the New York City Opera Orchestra, associate concertmaster of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, and first violinist of the Philadelphia String Quartet. He is a member of Duo Gemin iani with harpsichordist Elisabeth Wright, the Mozartean Players, and Three Parts Upon a Ground.

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in Lithuania. He received the Lithuanian American Community award for contri butions to the field of Lithuanian music. He serves on the board of the North American Lithuanian Music Association and is a member of ACDA. Darius Polikaitis has served as the

artistic director of the Daina va Lithuanian Choral Ensem ble since 1988. Darius Polikaitis has conducted at the World Lithuanian Song Festivals

has performed in the United States and Canada, and has traveled to Lithuania three times to sing in the World Lithu anian Song Festivals.

DAINAVA is home to sixty-five non-professional singers of Lithuanian heritage. The choir specializes in the Lithuanian choral art, performing folk song arrangements and original composi tions by Lithuanian composers. The choir

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With God on Broadway. He went from Broadway to stints with Stephanie Mills, Phyllis Hyman (with whom he served as mu sical director), Whitney Hous ton, and Harry Belafonte. He has performed with Lena Horne in The Lady and Her Music and with James Baldwin's The Amen Corner. He also wrote music for A Chorus Line: The Movie, New Jack City, and Jumpin' Jack Flash.

Wooten has recorded with Surface, Keith Sweat, Jacci McGee, Aretha Frank lin, The Jacksons, Ray Charles, Teddy Pendergrass, James "JT" Taylor, Bernard Jackson, and Mariah Carey. He has been honored with ASCAP Top Ten awards for his compositions.

Robert E. Wooten, .Ir., a Hampton University and NYU educated profes sional musician, got his professional start, at the age of twenty-three, as associate conductor of Your Arms Too Short To Box

The Wooten Choral Ensemble sings gospel music, spirituals, anthems, hymns, Common Meter "Dr. Watts" songs and praise songs. and with that vision the Wooten Choral Ensemble was born. The ensemble also performs broadway and show tunes and jazz. The choir has been featured in productions of The Harlem Nutcracker and Three 'Mo Tenors while having performed in concert arenas across the country.

The Wooten Choral Ensemble

and Moscow Chamber Choirs, among others.


Peter Jermihov graduated with hon ors from Chicago Musical College with a major in theory and composition. He received a D.M.A. in cho ral music and conducting from the University of Illinois at Cham paign - Urbana.

Jermihov studied at the Musik Hoch- schule in Stuttgart, Germany, the Rocker feller Memorial Chapel at the University of Chicago under Richard Vikstrom, and the Oregon Bach Festival under Helmuth Rilling. He was invited to the Tanglewood Music Center under Leonard Bernstein and Seiji Ozawa as a Conducting Fellow and to the American Orchestra League's Conducting Seminars under Kurt Masur and Leonard Slatkin. Appearing with the Louisville Symphony Orchestra, Jermi hov was selected as a finalist in the Affili ate Artists Conductor's Program.

He was invited to guest-conduct the Russian State Symphony Orchestra, the Moscow Radio and Television Sym phony Orchestra, and the St. Petersburg

The St. Romanos Cappella is a pro fessional chamber choir that performs Orthodox music. The group consists of professional singers and singers from various Orthodox churches. The Cap pella has performed choral masterpieces from a wide range of Orthodox sources Greek, Russian, Serbian, and Ukrainian. The Cappella has sung Rachmaninoff's Choral Concerto V molitvah neusipay ushchuyu and Sviridov's Kursk Songs. The Cappella has been awarded several grants from the Illinois Arts Council. The Cappella exists under the auspices of the Society of St. Ramos.


Joe Miller serves as director of choral studies at Western Michigan University (WMU), having previously held positions as director of choral and vocal activi ties at California State Universi ty- Stanislaus, at Whitman Col lege and Knox ville (TN) West High School. His choirs have per formed at ACDA division and na tion al conven tions, the California MENC convention, and the Midwestern Music Conference. At WMU, he conducts the University Chorale, Collegiate Singers, and Grand Chorus, and teaches graduate and under graduate courses in choral conducting, philosophy, and literature.

In 2002, his WMU Chorale became the first U.S. choir to receive the Grand Prize at the Robert Schumann Interna tional Choral Competition in Zwickau, Germany.

College Repertory Choir

the Oklahoma Arts Institute Summer Arts Program, the Inner City Youth Concert in Tampa, Florida, and the Kentucky ACDA Summer Workshop, and was the High School Honor Choir conductor for the 2005 ACDA National Conven tion in Los Angeles. He received the 2002--03 Teacher of the Year award and the 2003--04 Teacher of the Year award for the National Honor Society at West Orange High School. Redding has served as the R&S co-chair of the Florida ACDA Mixed Honor Choir.

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Jeffery Redding is director of choral activities at West Orange High School in Winter Gar den, Florida. He holds a B.S. in music education from Florida A & M University and an M.M.E. in choral con ducting from Florida State University. His choirs have performed at state, division, and national of ACDA conventions.

Redding conducted and lectured for

High School Honor Choir

specialist in choral techniques, the child's voice and the boy's changing voice.

Henry Leck is choral director, as sociate professor, and director of choral activities at Butler University, Indianapo lis, Indiana. He founded the In diana All-State Children's and Middle/Junior High School Honors Choir, and has conduct ed mixed, men's, women's, junior high, and Chil dren's all-state choirs and festival choirs in nearly every state. In the spring of 2003, he conducted the ACDA National Junior High/Middle School Honor Choir in New York City and on three occasions has conducted National Honor Choirs for OAKE. Leck is widely known as a

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Erick Stark was named artistic direc tor of the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir in May 2002. He has conducted works for the chorus and orchestra, including Monteverdi, Bach, Handel, Beethoven, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Menotti, Britten, and Lauridsen. He made his Carnegie Hall debut in 2002, conducting Mozart's Coronation Mass.

The Symphonic Choir was founded in 193 7, at the request of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra (ISO), in order to make possible performances of the great choral/orchestral works in the classical literature. Over the years, our partner ship with the ISO has remained at the very core of our existence. Together, we have shared the best of human expression with live audiences in our performances of Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart, Haydn, Bach, Berlioz, Mendelssohn, Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Poulenc, Liszt, Verdi, Off, and others.

Indianapolis Symphonic Choir

Under her direction, the GECC received the United States Library of Congress' Local Legacies Award, and the ASCAP Chorus America award for adventurous programming. Ellsworth has served on the Music Panel for the National Endow ment for the Arts. She maintains an active schedule as guest clinician/conductor at workshops and festivals.

Emily Ellsworth has served as artis tic director of the Glen Ellyn Children's Chorus outside of Chicago since 1996. She has prepared the Chorus for performances with the Chi cago Symphony Orchestra, the Berlin Philhar monic, the Ra vinia Festival, four CD record ings, national and regional ACDA conventions, the 2005 national conference of Chorus America, and several international tours.

The Glen Ellyn Children's Chorus (GECC) tours nationally and internation ally. The Chorus's four main ensembles serve 250 children from thirty suburban Chicago communities, with outreach pro grams reaching 1,000 additional children annually. Recent highlights include the premiere of a new choral opera by Imant Raminsh of The Nightingale in May 2005, featured performances on WFMT and WTTW in Chicago, an invited per formance for the 2005 Chorus America National Convention, and a concert tour to the World Children's Choir Festival in Hong Kong and mainland China.

Glen Ellyn Children's Chorus

Church Musicians, MEA, and the Choral Conductors Guild.


Jon Hurty is associate professor of music, director of choral activities and chair of the mu sic department at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois. Before coming to Augustana, he was director of choral activi ties at Concor dia University in Irvine, California. He completed his B.M.E. at Bethany College in Linds borg, Kansas, his M.M. at California State University- Northridge, and his D.M.A. at the University of Illinois. He has served as a guest conductor and clinician throughout the United States for ACDA, the Association of Luthera~

The Augustana Choir has performed in Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall in New York, and The Ordway Theatre and Orchestra Hall in the Twin Cities. In 1985, the Choir gave a special perfor mance at the Royal Palace in Stockholm Sweden. The Choir presents off-campu~ performances each year as part of the Choir's concert program. Students in the Augustana Choir also participate in the Handel Oratorio Society. In the summer of 2005, the choir toured the Peoples Republic of China.

Augustana Choir


The Millikin University Choir cele brates a broad variety of styles and genres and has gained a reputation for its varied approach to tone. They have received invitations to sing for ACDA and MENC conventions. Annual tours have included the United States, Scandinavia, Russia, Mexico, the Caribbean, and a tour to the cathedrals of England. The 2005--06 sea son will include the choir's third concert collaboration with The Choir of Clare

The Millikin University Choir

the University of Missouri-Columbia. Rayl's recent appearances include the national convention of Brazil's choral conductors, The Phenomenon of Singing Symposium in Newfoundland, the Ne braska High School All-State Choir, and the Wisconsin All-Collegiate Choir. He has conducted honor choirs at the Uni versity of Wis consin-Madison, the University of Iowa, Law rence University, Chadron State College in Nebraska, and Central Mis souri State University. He has given presentations and workshops for the national meeting of the College Music Society, ACDA's North Central Divi sion, VanderCook College of Music, Columbus State University (Georgia), and Drake University.

David Rayl served for twelve years at

The University Chorale appeared at the 2006 ACDA Central Division Convention, which marks its fifth perfor mance at an ACDA convention, including the 1983 and 1989 national conventions. In 1992, the Chorale appeared in concert for the Mozart Bicentennial Masses-In Concert Series at Lincoln Center. The ensemble has appeared at Chicago's Orchestra Hall, for the CBS Radio Net work's Cavalcade of Christmas Music, and at the Eisteddfod (Wales) Interna tional Choral Festival. The Chorale has performed with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in performances of Handel's Messiah, Bach's Mass in B-Minor, and Mozart's Requiem.

Michigan State University Chorale

ing from the University of Southern California. Currently, Sperry is assis tant professor of music at Miami University where he conducts the Men's Glee Club, Collegiate Chorale, and Global Rhythms Ensembles. He is the artistic administrator of the Arad Philharmonic Chorus in Arad, Romania, where he appears as a guest conductor of the orchestra and chorus.

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Ethan Sperry earned a B.M.E. in philosophy from Harvard College and an M.M. and D.M.A. in choral conduct-

The Miami University Collegiate Chorale has sung at St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City to St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City, and performed live on the ABC and Fox Networks. The Cho rale gives regular concerts with Miami's Global Rhythms-a student ensemble that plays world music on Western instru ments. Since their first collaboration in 2001, the Collegiate Chorale and Global Rhythms have been invited to perform at the Nassau Coliseum in New York City.

Miami University Collegiate Chorale and Miami Global Rhythms

Stark is associate professor of music at Butler University. He directs the But ler Chorale and Madrigal Sing ers and teaches conducting, choral literature, and honors avia tion history. A graduate of Wa bash College, Stark received an M.M. and D.M. in choral conducting from Indiana University. He was president of the Indi ana affiliate chapter of ACDA.

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The Oberlin College Choir is a highly select ensemble chosen from students at the Oberlin Conservatory and Oberlin College. The choir, founded by Olaf C. Christiansen in 1929 and Jed by Robert Fountain and Daniel Moe, has won criti cal acclaim for performances in the Unit ed States and abroad, and has performed in the Kennedy Center and Carnegie Hall. In recent years, the choir has sung regu larly with the Cleveland Orchestra. This season, the choir will sing Mendelssohn's Midsummer Night's Dream with Felicity Lott and perform Terry Riley's Sun Rings

Oberlin College Choir

MENC. She is the Central Division R&S Chair for Show Choirs.

Patricia Wiehe received her B.S. and M.M. from Ball State University. She began her teaching career in MSD Wash ington Town ship in 1967. She has taught at North Cen tral High School since 1981. Wiehe directs five of the ten North Central choirs. Her gospel choir, the Northernaires, was the featured choir at the IMEA Conference in 2005. Her top women's choir, the Descants, was named Indiana Women's Show Choir Champi ons this past March. Accomplishments include 1999 BSU Outstanding Music Alum, a finalist for Indiana's Teacher of the Year in 2004-05, past president of ICDA, and member of ACDA and

MENC convention. They have been the Indiana State Concert Choir Champions for the last six years and for ten of the last sixteen years. This past March, they were winners of the inaugural ISSMA Show Choir Competition.


The Counterpoints, originated in 1958 as Indiana's first show choir, is the top concert and show choir at North Central High School in Indianapolis, Indiana. They consist of fifty singers/dancers, a pianist and a percussionist, and feature ten additional students in their band for show choir competitions. The Counter points have performed at three ACDA division conventions and a national

North Central High School Counterpoints

Brad Holmes, in his fifteen years at Millikin University, has overseen the growth of the choral program to six choirs and a va riety of smaller vocal ensembles involving 275 students and six staff. Holmes guest conduct ing schedule has included all state and district festivals and church music clinics throughout the United States. He has conducted choirs in thirty countries in Europe, South America, East Asia, the South Pacific, and Australia. He has served as a Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University and will return to England in the summer of 2006 for a series of engagements on American choral music.

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Hilary Apfelstadt is professor and director of choral activities at The Ohio State Univer sity, where she conducts the Chorale and Women's Glee Club, teaches conducting and repertory courses, and coordinates the graduate con ducting program. She holds degrees from the University of Toronto, the University of Illinois, and the University ofWisconsin Madison. Her collegiate ensembles have performed for both MENC and ACDA. A frequent clinician, Apfelstadt has guest conducted throughout the U.S., and in Canada, England, and Cuba. She has published numerous articles in various professional journals.

Former President of Central Division ACDA, she is now national president elect, and will serve as president from 2007-09. In addition to her duties at OSU, she is director of music at Lin worth United Methodist Church in Columbus.

our lOOth anniversary in 2003. Mem bers represent a variety of majors and classes on campus, including all freshmen women vocal majors. The group sings concerts on campus each quarter, and has travelled throughout the midwest, often collaborating with other women's choirs. The Women's Glee Club has a tradition of exemplary student leader ship, including direction of Ladies First, a select ensemble from within the group. Although WGC has sung for OMEA and MENC conferences, this marks our first appearance at an ACDA convention.

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The Ohio State University Women's Glee Club was founded in 1903. "Here's to Song," our first CD, commemorated

The Ohio State University Women's Glee Club

served as chorus master for the Grand Rapids (Michigan) Symphony, and cho rus master and conductor in residence at the Brevard Music Center. Floyd has pre pared choirs for Robert Shaw, Margaret Hillis, Robert Page, Franz Weiser-Most and Robert Spano.

Hugh Ferguson Floyd is director of choral activities at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music and at the Interlachen Arts Camp. At Oberlin, Floyd conducts the Oberlin Col lege Choir, the Oberlin College Singers, the Oberlin Musi cal Union, and, in rotation, the Oberlin Chamber Orchestra. Floyd is a gradu ate of Furman University, the Eastman School of Music, and the University of Michigan. Prior to Oberlin, he was a conducting assistant with the Charlotte (North Carolina) Symphony and director of the Oratorio Singers of Charlotte. He

with the Kronos Quartet.

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The Wheaton College Concert Choir has toured throughout the United States.

Under Paul W. Wiens, the choir has performed music of diverse styles and ethnic traditions. The choir has made multiple appearances at ACDA state, regional, and national conventions.

The choir performs masterworks with the West Suburban Choral Union-most recently, the Brahms Requiem, Mozart's C Minor Mass, Bach's St. Matthew Passion, Schubert's Mass in Eflcu, and Wheaton College Artist Series performances of Mendelssohn's Elijah, Britten's War Re quiem, and Handel's Messiah under the direction of John Nelson.

Recent concert choir recordings in clude Alleluia! and Life and Death. Dur ing the 2005--06 season, the ensemble will perform the Monteverdi Vespers throughout the Midwest.

Wheaton College Concert Choir

Joe Miller is the conductor of the Western Michigan University Chorale. He is also an honor choir conductor for this convention. More information about him can be found on page 44.

tion in New York City. In May 2004, the Chorale was featured on the opening concert of the Irving S. Gilmore Inter national Keyboard Festival performing Stravinsky's Svadebka. The Chorale has been featured on National Public Radio's Performance Today.

Western Michigan University won the Silver Medal at the European Grand Prix in Varna, Bulgaria. During its 2002 Eu ropean tour, it became the first U.S. choir to be named Grand Prize Winner of the Robert Schumann International Choral Competition in Zwickau, Germany. The Chorale has performed for national, regional, and state ACDA conventions, most recently the 2002 national conven-

Western Michigan University Chorale

Cory Jones is co-director of the RTHS Concert Choir. He directs other tradi tional and vocal jazz ensembles at RTHS and has served as adjunct faculty at Northern Illi nois University. Jones received his B.M.E. in music education from Bradley University and is pursing his M.M. at NIU. He holds the positions of State Vocal Jazz Chair for the Illinois Music Educators Association (IMEA) and District Vocal Jazz Representative for IMEA District VIII. He has received honors from the IAJE and IMEA and is published under UNC Jazz Press. Jones serves as a clinician and adjudicator in Northern Illinois.


David Cannon is the director and coordinator of choral activities at Ro chelle Township High School where he has served for the past twelve years. As an ed ucator and clini cian, Cannon is known through out the region for his energetic passion for the choral art, and his demanding standards of excellence. He cites among his strongest influences Richard & Kay Hoffland, Craig Arnold, Steve Zegree, and Kirby Shaw. A published arranger, Cannon has produced and recorded several compact discs with the RTHS Concert Choirs and the nationally award-winning "Midnight Voices" vocal jazz/madrigal ensemble.

In the Rochelle Township High School (RTHS) Concert Choir, students are expected to have mastered the funda mentals of vocal production and music reading. Music history, and theory are stressed as a part of the learning process. Most of the group's typical repertoire is unaccompanied and ranges from four to eight parts. Along with presenting special concerts with university choirs each year, the group has performed at many special events in Illinois and remains active by touring every spring.

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Marie Palmer is in her eighteenth year of teaching secondary choral mu sic in Indiana. She currently teaches at Zionsville Middle School. She is the choral director at Carmel Christian Church in Car mel, director of the ICC Young Men's Chorus, and serves as President of the Indiana Choral Directors Asso ciation.

Palmer serves as a clinician, adju dicator, and guest conductor for events throughout Indiana and conducted the 2001 and 2003 IMEA All-State Middle School/Jr. High Honor Choirs and the Indianapolis Premiere of "Sing For the Cure." Her choirs performed at the 1998 and 2004 IMEA State Conventions, the 1999 Division Convention, and 2000 ACDA Central Division Convention.

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Zionsville Middle School Girls Choir

The Zionsville Middle School Girls choir sings a wide variety of literature and alternates every other year between

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Young Naperville Singers (YNS) was founded in 1984 as an activity dedicated to promoting choral artistry among boys and girls. The choir consists of five abil ity-based ensembles and a boys choir, with members ranging in age from six to seventeen, and a membership of 220

Young Naperville Singers

appearances at ACDA central division in music educa conventions and at the 1989 ACDA nation with honors tional convention. from Northern Il-

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Angie Johnson has been a conductor with Young Naperville Singers for seven years. She is an active clinician, accom panist, and private teacher. Johnson re ceived a B.M.E.

singers. YNS has participated in the Chil dren in Harmony Choral Festival and the Crescent City Choral Festival. Highlights of the 2005 season included performing the children's opera Brundibar, singing at the Rotary International Centennial Con vention, and participating in the Niagara International Music Festival. YNS has commissioned works by Mary Goetze, Rollo Dilworth, and David Brunner.

lege. He directs the Wheaton college choir, the West Suburban Choral Union, and teaches conducting and sight sing ing. He holds a D.M.A. from the University of Iowa under Don Moses, taught at the University of Wisconsin - Madison with Robert Foun tain, and sang with the Atlanta Symphony Chamber Chorus under Robert Shaw. He has made numerous

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Artistic Director: We seek an individual experienced in teaching and rehearsing a variety of musical styles and genres, with demonstrated success in working with the child's voice and in producing and conducting performances of exceptional quality. Our new Artistic Director is inspirational and energetic with exceptional leadership qualities, and interacts well with children at all skill levels.

Education Director: Our curriculum follows the principles of Kodaly pedagogy, Gordon Music Learning Theory, and the VoiceCare Network. We seek an individual who is dynamic, trained and experienced in these disciplines, and also in curriculum development. Our new Education Director works well with our education faculty and with children ages 6 to 17.

Both positions may be combined for the right candidate. Competitive salaries commensurate with experience; health, dental, vision, and life insurance plans available. Full descriptions of our music education and performance programs, mission and philosophy may be viewed by visiting: www.ccmsings.org

Interested persons should send cover letter and resume to: Ramona Galey, General Director, Children's Chorus of Maryland, 100 E. Pennsylvania Ave., Suite 202, Towson, MD 21286 Fax: 410-494-4673 Email: [email protected]

Children's Chorus of Maryland

Christine Jordanoff, director of choral organizations and professor of music educa tion at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Penn sylvania, is in her twentieth year as artistic direc tor of the Chil dren's Festival Chorus (CFC), a 150-voice, three-tiered ensemble of children ages eight-fifteen. The choirs are in residence at Duquesne where they provide a living laboratory for the music education depart ment. The CFC performs regularly with the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Pittsburgh

Explore the concept of"embouchure" for singers. Teach your singers to become independent as they learn to listen to, analyze, and describe their own sounds resulting in beautiful, resonant, and healthy singing.

Creating Beautiful Tone in the Choral Rehearsal

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The Bradley University Chorale has performed in the United States and Eu rope. In the recent past the Chorale has toured in Germany, Austria, Hungary, Italy, Poland, the Czech Republic, Eng land, Ireland, Wales, and Denmark. The Chorale performed at the 2002 ACDA Central Division Convention in Chicago and has presented clinics for Illinois MEA conventions on three occasions.

Bradley University Chorale

cisco Bay area, and taught at Houghton College in New York. He returns to Haiti each summer to direct a music program for Haitian youth.


John Jost, professor of music at Brad ley University in Peoria, has been direc tor of choral activities at Bradley since 1989. He co-di rects the Peoria Bach Festival and has served as principal sec ond violinist and principal violist of the Peoria Symphony. He received Brad ley's First-Year Teacher Award in 1990, the Charles Put nam Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2004, and the 2005 Bradley Parents Association Award of Excellence

The Bradley Chorale has performed throughout the United States and taken five European concert tours. His choirs have performed for state and regional ACDA and MENC conventions. Jost serves as the Illinois ACDA R&S Chair for College and University Choirs and coordinates the annual Illinois ACDA Collegiate Choral Festival.

Jost received his B.M.E., M.M., and D.M.A. from Stanford University. Before joining the Bradley faculty, he taught instrumental music in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, served as a church music director and public school teacher in the San Fran-

In this session, John Jost and the Brad ley University Chorale will present a va riety of choral articulation styles, showing various ways a text can be colored and brought to life. Differences between cho ral and solo vocal articulation styles will be discussed. The Bradley Chorale will present selections representing different eras and styles, demonstrating appropriate types of articulation for each selection.

Articulation in Choral Performance Practice


The Wheaton College Women's Cho rale has sung in this country, Europe and the British Isles. The Chorale is composed of sixty students representing many states and a variety of academic majors. The choir maintains a busy con cert schedule on the Wheaton College campus and beyond. The public concert experiences are undergirded by a rigorous rehearsal schedule and social activities which strengthen the bonds of friendship and fellowship. In addition to ministry in churches around the nation and campus appearances, the Women's Chorale has appeared at ACDA regional and national conventions.

Wheaton College Women's Chorale

Hopper taught public school music in the Chicago area and choral conducting and voice at the University of Minne sota (Morris). Hopper was awarded the 2000-01 Senior Teaching Achievement Award at Wheaton College. She is ac tive nationally as a guest conductor and clinician and is past president of Illinois ACDA. In 2004-05, Hopper was in vited to conduct the Illinois ACDA High School Honor Choir and the Michigan Collegiate Women's Choir Festival. She will be conducting the New York All-State Women's Choir and the ACDA Western Division Women's Honor Choir in 2005-06.

Mary Hopper, professor of choral music and conducting at Wheaton Con servatory of Music, directs the Men's Glee Club and the Women's Chorale, and is coordinator of the Perfor mance Studies Area. She holds degrees from Wheaton Col lege and the University of Iowa, where she studied with Don Moses.

This presentation will help choral conductors locate helpful resources for researching choral music by Black composers, including an overview of the Center for Black Music Research at Co lumbia College in Chicago. The Wheaton College Women's Chorale will perform selections by Dett, Dawson, Hailstork, Price, and Johnson.

Expanding the Repertoire: Uncovering a Neglected American Music Genre

Black Composers Writing for Women's Voices

Randy Stenson will be the clinician for this session. He and the St. Mary's Vocal Ensemble are headliners for this convention. Their photos and bios can be found on page 41.

practiced by the male choirs of St. Mary's International School in Tokyo, Japan. Ad ditionally, current research regarding the influence of movement on male learning and implications for recruitment will be discussed.

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Based on the conducting principles of Rodney Eichenberger, the session will focus on the relationship of movement to improved choral tone, intonation, rhythm, phrasing, and ways of extending movement to develop a gestural language for ensemble performance. The session will demonstrate movement rehearsal techniques that may be applied to per formance "shaping" which encourage singer ownership and self-assessment as

Developing Movement in the Choral Ensemble

Christine Jordanoff will be the clini cian for this session. She is also present ing another session at this convention. Her photo and bio can be found on page 51.

Learn simple and effective ways to infuse energy into your choir's sound through physical warm-ups and move ment techniques that connect the voice to the body.

Creating Physical Energy in the Choral Rehearsal:

An Elementary Focus Session

Opera, and other prominent professional groups.

Jordanoff has introduced the CFC to an innovative approach to choral educa tion, based on the Kodaly concept of mu sic education and influenced by Dalcroze Eurhythmics and Music Leaming Theory. A popular guest conductor for choirs of all ages, her work is documented in the Choral Triad Video Workshop, distrib uted through MENC Resources.

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Susan Moninger has sung jingles for companies such as United Airlines, Mc Donald's, and Green Giant, among others. She is the direc tor of student choral acti vi ties at Elmhurst College and frequently ad judicates and conducts at nu merous competitions and all-state fes tivals in the United States and Europe.

This session will be a demonstra tion/lecture of jazz styles with Elmhurst College vocal jazz ensemble Late Night Blues. It will include Swing, Latin, Be bop, and other styles.

Getting the Most from Your Vocal Jazz Rhythm Section

Daniel R. Melamed is associate pro fessor of music and director of graduate studies at the Indiana University School of Music. He is the author or editor of four books on J. S. Bach. The most recentis titled Hearing Bach s Passions. His article on the genesis of Mo zart's Abduction from the Sera glio appeared in the 2003--04 Mozart Jahrbuch. He serves as associate editor of the Journal of Musicology.

the Metropolitan Hall in Tokyo.

Carles Riera is the director of the Escola Municipal de Miisica J.M. Ru era in Granollers (Barcelona). He teaches a course on historical performance, or ganized by "La Caixa" Founda tion in different Spanish cities, since its begin ning. He is on the faculty of the Conservatori Superior de Miisica del Liceu in Barcelona and has been invited as a musical adviser by the Paris Conservatoire, the Course "Forma tion superieure au metier de l'orchestre classique et romantique" in Saintes (France) and "la Caixa" Fellowships Committee in Barcelona and Madrid, among others. He has played in the Frick Collection in New York, the Sidney Opera House in Australia, the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, Amsterdam's Cocert gebouw, Paris Opera (Palais Garnier) and Theatre des Champs Elisees, Koln's Philharmonia, Santa Ceciliain Rome, and

Stanley Ritchie will be a member of the panel. He is the conductor of the In diana University Classical Orchestra who are headliners for this convention. His photo and bio can be found on page 40.

John Poole will be a member of the panel. He is conductor of the Indiana University Pro Arte Singers who are headliners for this convention. His photo and bio can be found on page 40.

Towers. He was founding member and conductor at the Dartmouth Conducting Institute at Dartmouth College. In addi tion to directing the University Singers, Harrington teaches graduate conducting and acts as advisor to all the graduate students in the choral department.


Jan Harrington is in his thirty-sec ond year as professor of conducting at the Indiana University School of Mu sic, where he is chair of the cho ral department. He conducts the school's Uni versity Singers, whose repertoire extends from the Renaissance to the Twentieth century. Har rington conducts orchestral concerts and opera and, for ten years, he was conductor of the Indiana University Contemporary Vocal Ensemble.

Harrington holds degrees from South ern Methodist University and from Indi ana University. He was director of choral activities at the University of Oklahoma, in Norman, Oklahoma and a faculty member of the State University of New York at Fredonia. He was a member of the faculty at the Aspen Choral Institute from 1979-82 and conducted at the Aspen Music Festival. He was co-founder and music director of Music Festival at Gray

The presentation will combine lecture with demonstration from early music professionals to help inform conductors of aspects of style relating to performance of music of the Classical period and, specifically, issues relating to the Mozart Requiem. In particular, the session dem onstrates aspects of phrasing, articulation, and sound relating to preparation of the music as revealed through the experience of performing with period instruments, and will offer suggestions about apply ing this experience to performance with modern players.

Finding the Requiem through Mozart's Ears


The North Park University Choir has become one of the hallmarks of the North Park University. Their repertoire is drawn from the great composers of sacred and secular music, reflecting styles from the Renaissance to the Modern period, which

North Park University University Choir

North Park University School of Music in Chicago, Illinois. He received his D.M.A. in conducting performance at North western University. Dil worth is a con tributing author for the Essen tial Elements for Choir and the Experiencing Choral Music textbook series for Music Express!Teach ers Magazine. An active conductor, com poser, educator, and clinician, Dilworth has taught choral music at the elementary, secondary, and university levels. He has performed in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia. His research interests include African-American music and music edu cation curriculum and instruction. Dil worth is an active member of the MENC, the NANM,ACDA, and Chorus America. He currently serves on the ACDA Central Division R&S Chair for Ethnic and Mul ticultural Perspectives.

Rollo A. Dilworth is associate pro fessor of music and director of choral activities and music education at the

This presentation will highlight art songs, spirituals, and gospel works that are composed and arranged by African American composers. The purpose of this presentation is to demonstrate how text, context, and symbolism are impor tant factors that affect how these pieces have been set as well as how they are to be performed. Rehearsal and conducting strategies will be offered. The North Park University Choir will perform excerpts from the repertoire selected for analysis and discussion.

Interpreting Text, Context, and Symbolism in the

Performance of African-American Art Songs, Spirituals, and Gospel Music

ent of numerous honors and awards for outstanding group, soloist, and combo at the Collegiate Showcase Festival, Purdue University Jazz Festival, Kansas Univer sity Jazz Festival, Western Michigan Uni versity Jazz Festival, and the University of Colorado Jazz Festival. The group was also selected to perform in Poland at the Universitas Cantat 2000, a prestigious international collegiate choral festival. In addition to giving concerts frequently in the Chicago area, the group has been invited to perform at the International As sociation of Jazz Educators Convention, Illinois Music Educators Association All-State Music Conference, and John Jacobson's "America Sings" Festival. This spring Late Night Blues will be the featured guest artist in New York at the Manhattan Center for Fame Events.

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Late Night Blues is the vocal jazz en semble from the department of music at Elmhurst College, Illinois, The students' non-stop energy, talent, and professional standards have brought them elite status as one of the most exciting collegiate vo cal jazz ensembles in the United States.

Late Night Blues has been the recipi-

Late Night Blues Jazz Ensemble

Doug Beach has been commissioned to write numerous pieces for high school all-state groups, most recently for Alabama, Indiana, Illi nois, Iowa, and Delaware.

U n d e r Beach's direc tion, the Elm hurst College Jazz Band has toured Europe, twice at the invitation of the U.S. State Department, and has ap peared with many jazz greats. Among his many awards are a 1995 ASCAP award in composition and a Grammy for the New York Voices recording of his arrangement of Cottontail.

Moninger, co-founder of Showchoir Camps of America, was just named to Who's Who Among Teachers in Universi ties and Colleges.

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SEGUIN • TEXAS

Dr. Douglas Boyer Director, TLU School of Music 800.771.8521 • 830.372.6869

[email protected]

For additional information

For specific qualifications of each award, please visit the TLU

Web site at www.tlu.edu.

• Performance Awards for Non-Majors Up to $2,000 per year. Audition required.

• Jones Fine Arts Award for Music Majors Up to $ 4,000 per year Audition required.

Scholarships for Music Majors

• Da capo Award in Music Up to $14,000 per year Audition and interview will take place on campus during the Pacesetter event on Feb. 19.

SCHOOL OF MUSIC

International Championship. Smotzer was the youngest director to win an In ternational medal by directing the Cincin nati Western-Hills Chapter and he has the distinction of being the JAD Director of the Year and Coach of the year. He sings bass with The News.

David Smotzer attended Bowl ing Green State University (BGSU), with majors in musical theater and political science, where he studied un der Richard Mathey. While at BGSU, he be came involved in a barber shop quartet as the tenor in the Rapscallions. The "Raps" won the Johnny Appleseed Dis trict (JAD) championship in 1981, and in 1984, was awarded the SPEBSQSA

Thomas More Scott has an M.M. in choral conducting from Bowling Green State University, the Choirmaster cer tification from the American Guild of Organists, and an M.M. in li turgical theol ogy from the University of Notre Dame. He is a teaching fellow at Kent State Univer sity, where he is completing his Ph.D. His choirs have sung at The Vatican in Rome, The Duomo in Florence, San Marco in Venice, and The Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi, Italy.

•Examples of different styles of men's singing, as presented by the Men of Independence

<Using barbershop in a cross-curricular program

<Using barbershop to teach solid vocal technique

• Attracting men to your program using barbershop music


• The advantages of teaching/singing close harmony

• Programming barbershop music in your concert

<Using barbershop as a sight-reading tool

• How to use choreography with your chorus

• Using barbershop as a recruiting tool

This workshop will enable directors to introduce barbershop harmony into the repertoire of their male, female, or mixed chorus. It features the exciting sounds of the perennial JAD Divisional Champion Men of Independence, from Cleveland, Ohio, as the demonstration choir. The session will feature:

Introducing Barbershop Harmony

into Your Program (And How To Attract More

Men To Your Choirs)

include contemporary arrangements of African-American spirituals. They have toured the North American continent ex tensively, presenting concerts at concert halls, schools, churches, government institutions, and community centers. The choir has embarked on foreign tours to Hungary, Poland, Sweden, Russia, Esto nia, South Korea, Scotland, and England. The choral department, as part of its mis sion, has successfully generated program ming that is innovative and creative; the depth and breadth of such artistic music offerings have received acclaim from au diences around the country. This season's ensemble consists of fifty-ti ve singers representing a wide variety of academic majors. This is Rollo Dilworth's eighth season as conductor of the North Park University Choir.


Jeffrey Pappas holds a B.M.E in vo cal performance from Northern Kentucky University, an M.M. in choral conducting from the University of Illinois, and a D.M.A. in choral conducting and peda gogy from the University of Iowa.

He is the director of choral activities at Ball State University, where he conducts the Chamber Choir, teaches upper-level

This presentation will be a pedagogi cal and practical application of Gregorian Chant in the choral rehearsal. Participants will explore the expressive, tonal, and rhythmic elements of this music and how those elements can be transferred to Re naissance music. Notational issues will be addressed, including how to modernize the notation should a conductor choose to do so. A rhythmic method for teaching chant, with an added emphasis on word stress, will be presented.

Participants will conduct and sing chant, using the techniques outlined in the presentation, and will be given the necessary resources to find other chants for future study and performance.

Sing Using Chant? You've Got to Be Kidding

Maire Palmer is the conductor of the Zionsville Middle School Girls Choir who are performing choir for this con vention. Her photo and bio can be found on page 50.

al "Circle the State with Song Festivals." This past year she was the conductor of the Indiana Music Educators Association Middle School Honor Choir, and is cur rently the Indiana "Circle the State with Song" chairperson. Brewer also serves as the Middle School R&S Chair for the Indiana Choral Directors Association.

Jane Brewer is a graduate of Otter bein College in Westerville, Ohio, and Indiana Univer sity. She is cur rently teaching at Center Grove Middle School North, a commu nity southwest of Indianapolis; this is her thirty-first year of teaching. She has worked as a clinician around the state of Indiana at area festivals and has conducted sever-

Dan Andersen is in his twenty-third year of teaching. He is a graduate oflndi ana Purdue Uni versity in Fort Wayne where he studied voice with Joe Mey ers and conduct ing with John Loessi. Andersen taught high school choir for eighteen years and is in his fifth year of teaching middle school choir at Center Grove Middle School Central. At the high school level his choirs were well known throughout the Midwest, consistently receiving first division ratings at concert, jazz, and show choir contests. While at Center Grove High School, his choir placed tenth and fourth at the ISSMA State Concert Choir Competition. Currently he is active as a tenor soloist, clinician, festival conductor, and judge. He has many former students who are actively involved in careers in music, many in education.

and Palmer teaches at Zionsville Middle School, Zionsville Community School Corporation.

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Dan Andersen, Jane Brewer and Marie Palmer are experienced middle school choir directors. They have expertise to share with other middle level choral directors. Anderson and Brewer teach middle school vocal music in the Center Grove Community School Corporation

In a mini-festival atmosphere, session participants will observe clinicians work with a demonstration group of young male vocalists with a wide variety of typical voice changing stages. Teacher participants in the session will observe the boys in action and be involved in a question-answer time on topics such as recruiting and auditioning boys, ranges and physical characteristics of the chang ing voice, selecting appropriate music and repertoire, and hints for tried and true re hearsal techniques for boys. Participants will leave the session with a packet of resource information about the changing voice and other pertinent materials.

Just Guys

The Men of Independence, a bar bershop harmony chorus has won its divisional contest every year since its inception. Their repertoire includes the songs of the past, current barbershop favorites, and the standard men's chorus repertoire, including Salvation is Created, Brothers, Sing on, and Freedom Come.

The Men of Independence

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Music Contact International 1-800-624-0166

vocal jazz, and research, Madura joined the Indiana University faculty in 2003 after eight years at the University of Southern Cal ifornia, where she was asso ciate professor and chair of the Music Education Department. She has conducted various choral ensembles while on the faculties of the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music and Indiana University-Purdue Univer sity at Fort Wayne. Previously, she taught choral and general music to grades K-12 in California, and worked extensively as a pianist. She has published articles in a variety of professional journals. Madura's book Getting Started with Vo cal Improvisation is published by MENC. She regularly presents workshops and research on vocal jazz improvisation at national and international music educa tion conferences.

Patrice Madura (Ward-Steinman) is an associate professor and chair of the music education department at the Indiana University School of Music in Bloomington. A specialist in choral music education,

Hands-on strategies for teaching the basic principles of authentic improvi sation within the vocal jazz ensemble rehearsal setting. Areas of focus include swing, scat, blues, modes, repertoire and accompaniment. Applicable to middle, high school, and college choir directors, choral methods teachers, or anyone inter ested in vocal jazz. Strategies are based on the presenter's research and teaching experience.

Teaching Vocal Jazz Improvisation: Essentials for

Choral Music Educators

Chair and president-elect of the Mis sissippi CDA. He is the Indiana Choral Directors Association R&S Chair for Music and Worship and the ACDA Cen tral Division Membership Chair.


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undergraduate conducting, masters and doctoral level conducting, and adminis trates the cho ral area. He was the director of choral activities at Mississippi State University, and was the di rector of cho ral activities at Clarke College in Dubuque, Iowa. He has also served on the faculty of Otterbein College in Westerville, Ohio.

His choirs have performed in the Mid west, in Southern California, Colorado, Atlanta, and New Orleans. In May 2003, they toured France and Italy. The Ball State University Chamber Choir will be a featured choir at the 2006 Indiana Music Educators Conference.

Pappas was invited to present at the International Vocal Symposium in St. John's, Newfoundland in 2005. He guest conducted the Mississippi All-State Choir and in 2004 he conducted the Kenai Alaska Choral festival.

In 2006, he will be making his Sym phony Hall debut in Chicago. He will appear as the guest conductor of the Rothenburg, Germany, Choral Festival.

He was the Iowa and Mississippi ACDA R&S Chair for Four-Year Col leges and Universities and Membership

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