The American Choral Directors Association Virginia, Maryland/DC & Delaware and The Musical Source present:

George Mason University Fairfax, Virginia

August 7-9, 2014

A Special Note from the Musical Source:

The Musical Source is delighted to be able to help unite the ACDA forces from our richly talented Mid-Atlantic area in producing this event that has become a summer tradition. Our warm appreciation goes out to all the ACDA members who helped coordinate the many facets of this unique event. We pride ourselves in being more than just a business...we at The Musical Source strive to be a vital part of our regions musical community and treat teachers and performing artists with the respect they deserve for their dedication to, and their love for, our wonderful art form. Working together we can all help preserve and pass along to the coming generations this precious art form we all know as a way of life.

Jack Ay President, The Musical Source 1-800-2-SOURCE 8555 16th Street Suite 801 Silver Spring, MD 20910 301-587-7401 - Phone 301-587-7415 - Fax findit@musicalsource.com - email www.musicalsource.com

The 16th Annual

Conference Schedule ................................................................ 3-5 Headliners ................................................................................ 6 & 7 CD Order Form ................................................................................ 7 Campus Map .................................................................................. 8 Presenters .................................................................................. 9-10 Masterclass Conductors .............................................................. 11 Accompanists ................................................................................ 12 Voices United 2015 ........................................................................ 13 Special Thanks ............................................................................... 14 Conference Survey ........................................................................ 15 Message from The Musical Source ............................. Back Cover

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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CONFERENCE SURVEY

Please complete and return to the registration desk before you leave. Or to complete a more comprehensive evaluation online please visit http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/DWD9CJR

ABOUT YOU 1. With what state ACDA chapter are you affiliated? MD/DC DE VA OTHER _________ 2. How many times have you attended the Voices United Conference? ______________________________ 3. What is your primary area of music teaching or conducting? _____________________________________ 4. Did you participate in the Conductors Chorus this year? If so please take a moment to provide us with your feedback on the experience. Please rank the following Interest & Reading sessions as follows: 5=outstanding 4= above average 3= average 2= fair 1= below average

INTEREST SESSIONS RATING

Sing With Us! (Page) 5 4 3 2 1 n/a Teaching Historic and Cultural Context Through Choral Music (Caldwell) 5 4 3 2 1 n/a Composers Workshop (Caldwell) 5 4 3 2 1 n/a A Rehearsal Checklist (Apfelstadt) 5 4 3 2 1 n/a Unique Aspects of Conducting Womens Choruses (Apfelstadt) 5 4 3 2 1 n/a Authentic Choral Assessments (Franklin) 5 4 3 2 1 n/a Aural Literacy in the Choral Ensemble (Keene) 5 4 3 2 1 n/a Creating Performances from Found Sources (Hayes) 5 4 3 2 1 n/a Young People Old Music: Crossing the Divide (Kiver) 5 4 3 2 1 n/a Taking the Pain Out of Sight-reading (Beresik) 5 4 3 2 1 n/a Its Not Just Old Music: CPDL (Kelly) 5 4 3 2 1 n/a

READING SESSIONS RATING

Elementary School Reading Session (Freeman/Tynch) 5 4 3 2 1 n/a High School Reading Session (Henderson/Hutchens) 5 4 3 2 1 n/a Middle School Reading Session (Jennings/Markwood/Smith) 5 4 3 2 1 n/a Music & Worship Reading Session (Horton/Patterson) 5 4 3 2 1 n/a Nick Page and Paul Caldwell 5 4 3 2 1 n/a

Thank you for providing us with your feedback! Please feel free to include additional comments in writing

where there is space!

Time Conference Schedule Harris Theatre

Festival Chorus Room 323

Childrens Chorus DeLaski Hall

8:00-9:30

Registration Continental Breakfast in the lobby of Harris Theatre

9:45-10:00

Welcome/Warm-up/Conference Sing Lisa Billingham (VA), Isaac Borocz (MD/DC), Duane Cottrell (DE)

10:00-11:00 Reading Sessions: High School - Harris Theater Clinicians: Melodie Henderson (VA), Ben Hutchens (MD/DC) Presider: Bill Podolski (VA) Elementary - PAB rm. 327 Clinicians: Ann Freeman (DE), Bonny Tynch (VA) Presider: Marty Lassman (DE)

11:00-11:15 BREAK 11:15-12:15

Interest Session: Sing With Us! Clinician: Nick Page Presider: Michael Wu (MD/DC)

12:15-12:30 BREAK 12:30-1:30 Interest Session:

Teaching Historic and Cultural Context Through Choral Music Clinician: Paul Caldwell Presider: Mary-Hannah Klontz (VA)

1:30-2:30 LUNCH ON YOUR OWN 2:30-3:30 Interest Session:

Composers Workshop Clinician: Paul Caldwell Presider: Joe Eveler (VA)

3:30-3:45 BREAK 3:45-4:45

Interest Session: A Rehearsal Checklist: If Then Clinician: Hilary Apfelstadt Presider: Lisa Billingham (VA)

4:45-5:00 BREAK 5:00-7:00

Conductors Chorus Rehearsal Hilary Apfelstadt, conductor Presider: Bill Podolski 6:00-7:00

Registration 5:30-6:30 Registration

7:00-9:00 Rehearsal with Paul Caldwell

6:30-9:00 Rehearsal with Nick Page 7:00 Networking Reception

Brions Grill at University Mall 10621 Braddock Rd., Fairfax VA 22032

2014 ACDA VOICES UNITED SCHEDULE Thursday, August 7 SPECIAL THANKS

The Musical Source Jack Ay, President ACDA State Presidents ACDA State Treasurers Lisa Billingham, VA Joe Eveler, VA Isaac Borocz, MD/DC Michael Turnblom, MD/DC Duane Cottrell, DE Marty Lassman, DE ACDA State Presidents-Elect Bill Podolski, VA Ben Hutchens, MD/DC David Lockhart, DE GMU Hosts Center for the Arts Staff Dennis Layendecker, Chair, School of Music Julie Thompson, Executive Director Stanley Engebretson, Director of Choral Activities Lesley Irminger, Scheduling and Events Coordinator Lisa Billingham, Director of Choral Music Education Jessica D'Angelo, Concert Hall Production Manager Julie Womble, Business and Operations Manager Dan Hobson, Arts Support Production Manager Kevin McCarthy, Staff & Operations Director Adrianna Daugherty Smith, Harris Theater Technical Director Micah Stromberg, Tom Terlecki, Ian Schmidt, Billy Kessinger, Joe Sheppard - Center for the Arts Elizabeth Katz, Front of House Manager Registration Planning Committee Support Philip Keirstead, VA Emi Eiting, VA Bill Podolski, VA Interest Session Coordinator Reading Session Coordinator Cera Babb, DE Marty Lassman, DE Masterclass Coordinator Networking Dinner Coordinator Stephen Caracciolo, MD/DC CJ Redden-Liotta, VA Festival Choir Coordinator Children's Honor Choir Coordinators Mary-Hannah Klontz, VA Michael Wu, MD/DC Jane Thessin, MD (co-chair) Linda Scott, VA Cafe & Banquet Program Design Bill Podolski, VA Joe Eveler, VA ACDA Collegiate Chapter Student Workers Ariauna Heck, coordinator (GMU) Purev-Ochir Arslanbaatar (GMU), Ocie Shaquan Banks (GMU), Jacob Devol (VCU), Miranda Lansberry (GMU), Madelyn Magnotti (LU), Sara Martin (GMU), Byron Smith (GMU), Sophie Smith (GMU), Chad Steffey (GMU), Aaron Todd (JMU)

GMU George Mason University; JMU James Madison University LU Longwood University; VCU Virginia Commonwealth University

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Plan now to attend the

17th Annual ACDA Voices United Conference

August 6-8, 2015 at

George Mason University

with

Amazing Headliners Awesome Interest Sessions

Tons of Music Festival Chorus

Childrens Honors Chorus Conductors Chorus

and much, much more!

Visit the Voices United website for more details: www.acdavoicesunited.org

VOICES UNITED 2015

Time Conference Schedule Harris Theatre

Festival Chorus Room 323

Childrens Chorus DeLaski Hall

8:00 Registration Open, The Musical Source Open 9:00-10:00

Reading Sessions: Middle School - Harris Theater Clinicians: Mary Jennings (MD/DC), Jordan Markwood (VA), Gary Smith (DE) Presider: Duane Cottrell (DE) Music in Worship - PAB rm. 327 Clinicians: Tyler Horton (MD/DC), Mark Patterson (VA) Presider: Isaac Borocz (MD/DC)

9:00-12:00 Rehearsal with Paul Caldwell

9:00-12:00 Rehearsal with Nick Page

10:00-10:15 BREAK 10:15-11:15

Interest Session: Unique Apsects of Conducting Womens Choruses Clinician: Hilary Apfelstadt Presider: Bill Podolski (VA)

11:15-11:30 BREAK LUNCH (12:00-1:00) LUNCH (12:00-1:30)

11:30-12:30 Interest Session: Authentic Choral Assessments in the 21st Century Harris Theater Clinician: Brigitte Franklin Presider: Cera Babb (DE) Aural Literacy in the Choral Ensemble: Music as a Language PAB 327 Clinician: Christopher Keene Presider: Duane Cottrell (DE)

1:00-3:00 Rehearsal with Paul Caldwell

12:30-2:00 STATE LUNCH MEETINGS DE MTB 1023 MD/DC MTB 2018 VA The Bistro, lowest level of the Johnson Center

1:30-3:00 Rehearsal with Nick Page in Concert Hall

2:00-3:00

Master Class Clinician: Hilary Apfelstadt Presider: Stephen Caracciolo (MD/DC)

BREAK (3:15-4:15) BREAK (3:15-4:15)

3:00-3:15 BREAK 3:15-4:15 Conductors Chorus Rehearsal

Hilary Apfelstadt, conductor Presider: Bill Podolski (VA)

3:15-4:15 Festival Chorus Open Rehearsal Paul Caldwell, conductor Performing Arts Building

3:00-4:15 Children's Chorus Open Rehearsal Nick Page, conductor Rehearsal in Concert Hall

4:15-4:30 BREAK BREAK (4:15-4:30) BREAK (4:15-4:30) 4:30-5:30 Interest Session:

Beyond the Octoavo: Creating Performance Pieces from Found Sources Harris Theater Clinician: Bryce Hayes Presider: Philip Keirstead (VA) Young People Old Music: Crossing the Divide PAB 327 Clinician: Christopher Kiver Presider: Melodie Henderson(VA)

4:30-5:30 Rehearsal in Concert Hall

4:30-5:30 Rehearsal in Concert Hall

5:30-5:45 BREAK 6:00-8:30

Annual Dinner Banquet GMU Center for the Arts, Main Lobby - Cocktail Half-Hour - Networking Game - Panel Discussion - Buffet Dinner

2014 ACDA VOICES UNITED SCHEDULE Friday, August 8

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2014 ACDA VOICES UNITED SCHEDULE Saturday, August 9

Time Conference Schedule Harris Theatre

Festival Chorus Room 323

Childrens Chorus DeLaski Hall

9:00-10:00

Reading Session: Nick Page and Paul Caldwell Clinicians: Nick Page and Paul Caldwell Presider: Lisa Billingham (VA)

10:00-10:15 BREAK 10:00-12:30 Rehearsal with Paul Caldwell in Concert Hall

10:00-12:30 Rehearse with Nick Page in DeLaski Hall

10:15-11:15

Interest Session: Taking the Pain Out of Sight-reading Harris Theater Clinician: Amy Beresik Presider: Bill Podolski (DE) Its Not Just Old Music: Finding Engaging and Quality Repertoire on CPDL PAB 327 Clinicians: Ryan Kelly Presider: Cera Babb (DE)

11:15-11:30 BREAK 11:30-12:30

Conductor's Chorus Rehearsal Rehearsal on Stage in Center for the Arts Hilary Apfelstadt, conductor

12:30-1:30

LUNCH & settle up with The Musical Source

LUNCH

LUNCH

1:30

16th Annual ACDA VOICES UNITED CONCERT GMU Center for the Arts, Concert Hall

16th Annual ACDA VOICES UNITED CONCERT GMU Center for the Arts, Concert Hall

16th Annual ACDA VOICES UNITED CONCERT GMU Center for the Arts, Concert Hall

Melvin Goodwyn has over 25 years experience as a choral director in Prince William County, Virginia and is the Coordinator of the Performing Arts School at Woodbridge Sr. High School. Choirs under Mr. Goodwyns direction have consistently received superior ratings and gold medal awards at the district, state, and national festivals. With degrees from Westminster Choir College and Catholic University, Mr. Goodwyn has served as president of both the Virginia Choral Directors Association of VMEA and the Virginia Chapter of ACDA.

Donald Cotton has been on the staff of the Childrens Chorus of Washington for 17 years and conducts their Young Mens Ensemble and Treble Chorus. He also serves as the principal accompanist for their Concert Chorus and Chamber Ensemble. This is Mr. Cottons 23rd year teaching music in the Diocese of Arlington in Northern Virginia. He is currently at St. Andrew the Apostle Catholic School in Clifton, Virginia. Prior to teaching at St. Andrews, Mr. Cotton taught for 22 years at Queen of Apostles Catholic School in Alexandria, Virginia where he established an exemplary music education program. The schools choir under Mr. Cottons direction had become known throughout the Arlington Diocese for its extraordinary performances. At the invitation of the Archdiocese of Washington, Mr. Cotton has prepared the schools choir for tapings of the televised Christmas Day Mass at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. In 2005 they were invited to sing for Mass at the Arlington Dioceses Pilgrimage to the Shrine. The choir has performed at the White House and on the Millennium Stage at the Kennedy Center. The choir was also invited to participate in An American Cantata: 2000 Voices with the National Symphony Orchestra. Repeatedly, the choir was invited to perform on live television for the annual Worldwide School Childrens Holy Hour at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. Mr. Cotton has also served as accompanist for childrens choral festivals throughout Europe, South America, and the United States. Mr. Cotton received his Bachelor of Music in Piano Accompanying from Shenandoah Conservatory of Music in Winchester, Virginia. Jane Moore Kaye performs in the greater D.C. area as an active collaborative pianist and recitalist. She shares her love of choral music as accompanist for the ACDA Voices United Conference (held annually on the campus of George Mason University) and other area district and state choral festivals where she has accompanied for Weston Noble, Eleanor Daley, Dale Warland, Anton Armstrong, John Rutter, David Brunner and Joe Miller. As organist at Providence Presbyterian Church, she helped oversee the installation of a Lively-Fulcher tracker pipe organ in 2007. In the community, Jane is the Artist Liaison for the chamber music series Music & Arts at Providence. She is vocal coach and accompanist for the University Chorale at George Mason University and accompanist for the Fairfax Choral Society Childrens Choruses. Most recently, Jane was one of two accompanists for the United Choirs of Proms Choral Festival in Prague, Czech Republic under the batons of Andre Thomas and Anton Armstrong. Other highlights of her career have included performances at the White House, the National Cathedral, The Kennedy Center and high-level Pentagon events to include the National Prayer Breakfast and the prayer service following 9/11. Jane earned a BM in Piano Performance at Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas and an MM in Piano Performance at Sam Houston University in Huntsville, Texas. Her teachers, past and present have included Bradford Gowen, Gary Graffman, John Paul, Theodore Guerrant, and William Neil.

ACCOMPANISTS

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GUEST PRESENTERS, CLINICIANS & CONDUCTORS

Dr. Hilary Apfelstadt is the Director of Choral Programs at the University of Toronto. Canadian by birth, she began her music education in Nova Scotia at the age of five. Her degrees, all in vocal music education, are from the University of Toronto, the University of Illinois, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She also has a diploma in piano performance from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. From 1993 2010, she was Professor and Director of Choral Activities at the Ohio State University in Columbus where she also served as Associate Director for the School of Music from 2008 2010. Choirs under her direction have performed at regional and national conventions of the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) and at state and regional conferences of the National Association of Music Education (MENC). She has conducted many honor choirs and all-state choruses throughout the United States and has guest conducted in Canada, Cuba, and England. In February 2009, she conducted the Mormon Tabernacle Choir in a public broadcast of Music and the Spoken Word. She has led choral festivals in Switzerland and Austria, and conducted at St. Peters Basilica in Rome in 2011. She is a frequent lecturer and clinician at professional conferences and universities, and

is a mentor to many young conductors and choral educators. Dr. Apfelstadts research areas include leadership styles among conductors, and choral repertoire, particularly by Canadian composers. She has published over seventy articles on choral music in various refereed journals, and wrote two chapters in Wisdom, Wit and Will: Women Conductors on their Art, (GIA, 2009). She serves on the editorial boards of The Choral Scholar, the official publication of the National Collegiate Conductors Organization (NCCO), and the ACDA Choral Journal, and is also the choral column editor for the Canadian Music Educator. She is an advisory board member for AIRS (Advanced Disciplinary Research in Singing), a project funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. A past national president of ACDA, Dr. Apfelstadt sang with the Robert Shaw Festival Singers for several years and recorded two CDs for Telarc with the Singers in France.

Paul Caldwell has been Artistic Director of the Youth Choral Theater since 2001. Under his leadership, the organization has achieved a new level of recognition and more than doubled in size and scope. His focus on contemporary repertoire, multi-media and interdisciplinary performance projects, and music from diverse world cultures garnered national recognition when he was awarded the Chorus America/ASCAP prize for Adventurous Programming in 2006. Paul recently accepted a permanent summer post as resident conductor for the Sing A Mile High Childrens Choral Festival in Denver, appearing in alternate years with Rollo Dilloworth. The 2012 season also marks this third engagement as a conductor for the Vocalizze Choral Festival in Lisbon, Portugal. Other upcoming appearances include conducting an honor choir for the American Choral Directors Association and a return to the Crescent City Choral Festival in New Orleans. Paul composes and arranges music collaboratively with Sean Ivory. Their work is a staple in the repertoire of ensembles worldwide and has been performed at Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, the Chicago Symphony Center, the Sydney Opera House, and throughout Europe, Asia, and Africa. In the past three years, the National Endowment for the Arts has funded three different commissioning projects which enabled them to create new works for American choruses. Paul is a member of Chorus Americas Board of Directors (Executive Committee) and chairs the organizations Programs and Education Committee. He also serves on the Advisory Board of the New Orleans Childrens Chorus. In 2008, he was recognized for his contribution to the choral community nationwide at the National Performing Arts Conference when he was selected as the recipient of Chorus Americas Michael J. Korn Founders Award for Philanthropic Contribution to the Arts.

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MASTERCLASS CONDUCTORS

Native to Richmond, VA, Jacob Devol is a junior at Virginia Commonwealth University, pursuing a degree in Music Education with a concentration in Vocal-Choral music with a minor in Religious Studies. In addition to his studies, he is employed as a vocalist at First Presbyterian Church in Richmond, VA and as a pianist at St. Michaels Catholic Church in Glen Allen, VA. Starting in the Fall of 2014, he will also be teaching voice lessons at Powhatan Music and Sound, in Powhatan, VA. Choral music has been an intriguing passion of his for some time now; he loves how the choral performance can create an immersive, transcendent experience among singers. He enjoys the collaborative nature of the art, in which the director and the musicians must maintain excellent communication in order to have a successful and fulfilling performance. He hopes most to work in secondary music education, while possibly directing a church music ministry. Lucas Link hails from Baltimore, Maryland and is a student at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) where he studies composition with Dr. Linda Dusman, conducting and choral performance with Dr. Stephen Caracciolo, and voice with Joseph Regan. In addition to his studies, Lucas will begin serving as a tenor choral professional at Baltimore's Old St Paul's Episcopal under the direction of John Smedstad in the Fall. He has been fortunate to work as a workshop composer with the Baltimore Choral Arts Society and the Princeton Singers, and as a studying conductor he recently had the great privilege to conduct the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in a workshop given by New York Philharmonic Associate Conductor, Case Scaglione. After graduating with a degree in Composition from UMBC, he plans to study conducting in graduate school.

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Christopher G. Keene is a conductor, songleader, private coach, and speaker working in the Boston area. He recently presented at Maine and Massachusetts Music Educators Conferences and has conducted the Maine District III Honors Elementary Choral Festival for the last 2 years. Keene firmly believes everyone can sing, and proves it in Community Sings with amateur audiences ranging from dozens to hundreds. Keene is a level III certified Kodly educator through the New England Conservatorys Kodly Music Institute. He leads music programs at the Dover Church while maintaining an active private studio and working for a boutique professional-development consulting firm, helping people from all walks of life improve and grow. For more information, videos of events, and contact info, please visit www.christophergkeene.com. Dr. Ryan Kelly is assistant professor of music and associate director of choral activities at West Chester University of Pennsylvania. He directs Mastersingers, Cantari Donne, and Vocal Jazz Ensemble and teaches courses in conducting, choral music, and voice. He is a nationally active adjudicator, clinician, and conductor; his 2013-2014 conference appearances include the Southwest Division American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) Conference and the state conferences for Pennsylvania ACDA, South Carolina ACDA, Florida Music Educators Association, and Georgia Music Educators Association. In October, he will present an interest session for the National Association for Music Education at their National In-Service Conference in Tennessee. He is also Pennsylvania ACDA R&S Chair for Student Activities. Dr. Kelly earned his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in choral conducting from Michigan State University where he was awarded their Research Enhancement Award. He also has degrees from the University of Oklahoma and Houston Baptist University. In Michigan, he was artistic director for the Holland Chorale and in Texas, director of choral activities at Kilgore College and chorus master for Opera East Texas. His research is regularly published in professional journals and his critical performance edition of Carl Faschs Missa voci a 16 will be published by Carus-Verlag in 2014. He is an active composer with works published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers. Dr. Kelly is also an experienced church musician and organist, serving as organist at Proclamation Presbyterian Church in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Dr. Christopher Kiver is director of choral activities at Pennsylvania State University where he directs the Concert Choir and Mens Glee Club, oversees the graduate choral conducting program and teaches classes in choral conducting and choral literature. He is founder and director of The Orpheus Singers and serves as Director of Music at the University Baptist and Brethren Church in State College. Kiver is a graduate of the University of London, Florida State University and the University of Michigan where he received the D.M.A. in choral conducting. Choirs under Kivers direction have performed at state and regional conventions of the American Choral Directors Association and the National Association for Music Education. He has taught at the Westminster Choir College Summer and Saturday Seminar programs, and appeared as guest conductor, clinician and adjudicator in the United States, Australia, China and New Zealand. Kiver is immediate past-president of the Pennsylvania chapter of the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA), and serves as Repertoire and Standards Chair for Mens Choirs for ACDA National and the Eastern Division. A native of England, he has received numerous prizes and scholarships including a Fulbright Award, and the 2002 Sydney World Choral Symposium Foundation Scholarship.

PRESENTERS

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Nick Page is a Boston based composer, conductor and author who is best known for his song leading. Nick has led sings at throughout North America and Europe. He has been commissioned to compose choral piece for both childrens and adult choirs. His COMIC BOOK OPERA was premiered at Lincoln Center in June, 2011. In 2007, Nick conducted his Nursery Rhyme Cantata at Carnegie Hall and he has conducted at countless honor choir festivals in North America and abroad. Nick was a conductor with the Chicago Childrens Choir in the 1980s and since 1990 has conducted Bostons MYSTIC CHORALE whose concerts always feature audience sing-along. He has over eighty published choral pieces from Hal Leonard, Boosey & Hawkes, Transcontinental, earthsongs, Colla Voce, Roger Dean and Alliance including his SING WITH US songbook and choral

series from Hal Leonard. He is also the author of SING AND SHINE ON, a book on song leading (World Music Press) and MUSIC AS A WAY OF KNOWING (Stenhouse).

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The three conference performances are being recorded in-house and will be available on CD. Each copy will include program information and all performers names. CDs are $10.00. If you would like copies please fill out the portion below and mail, fax or email it to Soundwaves the address below. CDs can also be ordered at

www.soundwaves.org. Just search for ACDA United. Your order will be mailed to you along with an invoice.

Soundwaves Recording 4708 Surfside Dr. Huron, OH 44839 Mail@Soundwaves.org Office: 419-433-4918 Fax: 567-623-6024

NAME: _____________________________ ADDRESS: _________________________________________

CITY: _______________________________ STATE: __________ ZIP: ___________ EMAIL: ______________________ PHONE _____________________ CD QUANTITY:_________

GUEST PRESENTERS, CLINICIANS & CONDUCTORS

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PRESENTERS

Amy J. Beresik is the choral director at Dorseyville Middle School in the Fox Chapel Area School District where she has three grade-level ensembles and two award-winning Honor Choirs. Under her direction, the DMS Girls Chamber Chorus has received exclusively Superior ratings in competition and was invited to sing for the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association Annual Conference in 2013. The choirs have been featured in annual competitions as well as many local and regional events. Amy has worked with vocal and instrumental students of all ages, both privately and in the classroom. She has prepared youth choruses for performances with the Duquesne University Pappert Womens Chorale, the Fox Chapel Area School Districts 2005 & 2012 performances of Carmina Burana, the Pittsburgh Concert Chorales 2007 performance of John Rutters Mass of the Children as well as Jr. versions of several Broadway shows. Mrs. Beresik will also be featured as the guest conductor for the PMEA District 5 Elementary Songfest in March 2014. She studied Music Learning Theory with Dr. Richard Grunow (Eastman School of Music) and Dr. Chris Azzara (Hartt School of Music/Eastman School of Music) and has used the principles to develop practical curricula for general music, choral, and theory classes. Most recently, Mrs. Beresik has served as a clinician for music education methods classes at Grove City College as well as PMEA and ACDA professional development sessions. Session topics have included directing the MS choral program, the boys changing voice, repertoire selection, conducting, and teaching literacy using the principles of Music Learning Theory. Brigitte Franklin is a choral music educator, accompanist, and life-long lover and performer of music. Brigitte received her Bachelors Degree in Choral Music Education (Magna Cum Laude) from the Florida State University in 2006. She began her teaching career at University High School in Orlando, Florida where she taught choral music and piano to over 300 students. She then moved to Maryland in 2009 and taught general music and chorus in the District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) at Columbia Heights Education Campus. It was there that she discovered a need in the public schools for more progressive music education practices - the use of small ensembles, reflective teaching, musical relevance, and appropriate assessment strategies to reach a wider and more varied student population. She received her Masters Degree in Music Education from Boston University in 2011. Brigitte currently teaches choir and guitar at Col. E. Brooke Lee Middle School in Silver Spring, Maryland. Dr. W. Bryce Hayes maintains an active career as a conductor, teacher, church musician, pianist, accompanist and singer. As a choral conductor Bryce is currently assistant professor of Choral Music Education at James Madison University where he works with the Treble Chamber Choir, a select chorus of 28 women, The University Men's Chorus, a non auditioned men's ensemble of 40 university-wide students, Kor, a select men's ensemble of 12, and the combined University Chorus, an ensemble of 100+ singers from across the campus. In addition to his choral conducting responsibilities at JMU, Bryce teaches graduate choral literature, undergraduate conducting, and various music education classes. A New Jersey native, Dr. Hayes hails most recently from Minneapolis, Minnesota where he completed the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in conducting from The University of Minnesota. Bryce studied choral conducting with Kathy Romey and Matthew Mehaffey, and instrumental conducting with Craig Kirchhoff and Mark Russell Smith. While a resident of the Twin Cities Dr. Hayes led the acclaimed ensemble One Voice Mixed Chorus as a Guest Conductor for the fall 2010 season, served as the Choral Director at Woodbury United Methodist Church, and was the founder and Instructor of the ensemble, Campus Singers at the University of Minnesota. Prior to his time in Minnesota Dr. Hayes received a Master of Music degree in Choral Conducting from Temple University in Philadelphia where he was honored with the Elaine Brown Leadership Award for commitment to improving the community through the choral art. During his time in Philadelphia Dr. Hayes also served as an intern conductor with the Mendelssohn Singers. Bryce's career began with a Bachelor of Music degree in music education summa cum laude from Westminster Choir College following which he served as the Director of Upper School Choral Music at Princeton Day School in Princeton, New Jersey and the Director of the Cantores ensemble from The Princeton Girlchoir.

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