WE WOULD LIKE TO INVITE YOU to the annual Crimson Hawks Invitational Choral Conference, to be held at Indiana University of Pennsylvania on Tuesday, October 8, 2019. This year’s conference will feature clinicians Gerrit Scheepers, interim director of choral activities at IUP, and Deanna Joseph, director of choral activities at Georgia State University.

Students will take part in intensive rehearsals and high-quality performances and meet fellow musicians from the region. CHICC also presents

an opportunity for students to audition for admission to the IUP Music Department and earn a potential scholarship award. Teachers can earn continuing education units (ACT 48 or graduate credit) by attending the various sessions. We are enthusiastic about meeting and working with you and your students. Please contact us with any questions.

Sincerely,

Gerrit Scheepers, Interim Director of Choral Activities Indiana University of Pennsylvania 724-375-2390

Craig Denison,Associate Director of Choral Activities and Music Education Indiana University of Pennsylvania724-357-7918craig.denison@iup.edu

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT• Great choral music

• New friends and interaction with colleagues

• Unique experience of singing in a gender choir

• No required auditions; music provided

• Audition for IUP Music Department

• Potential scholarship awards

• Fun souvenirs, performance T-shirt

• Single meal card for lunch on campus

• Teacher workshops and ACT 48 credit provided

• Final concert Tuesday evening by all singers

Gerrit Scheepers is the newly appointed Interim Director of Choral Studies. He will conduct the University Chorale and teach undergraduate and graduate conducting.

Scheepers is in the final stages of his doctoral studies in choral conducting at the University of Washington, where he served as assistant conductor of the university’s Chamber Singers. He holds a bachelor of music from the University of Pretoria (South Africa) in choral conducting and music history, and he earned a master of music from Missouri State University.

Scheepers founded the Armonia Chambers singers in 2012, a group he conducted through 2014, when he relocated to the United States. The choir was renamed the Pretoria Symphony Chorus in 2018. He is also the founding artistic director and current conductor of the Brooklyn Choral Artists, a professional chamber ensemble operating in Pretoria.

7th-12th Grade Men’s Honor Choir Clinician

GERRIT SCHEEPERS

Scheepers has presented internationally as a clinician and a conductor. He has presented at summer and regional conferences and led numerous reading sessions hosted by the American Choral Director’s Association, the National Association for Music Education, and the National Collegiate Choir Organization. He was also selected to present a poster session at the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, in 2018. He has also worked as guest conductor and clinician for various high schools and festivals across the United States, Europe and South Africa.

Scheepers was awarded a conducting fellowship at the Sarteano (Italy) Chamber Choir Workshop in 2012. He was also selected as one of six fellows to attend the Melodious Accord Melody Studies program in 2015. In 2018, he was guest conductor with the reknowned Ave Chamber Choir in Slovenia. Engagements for the 2018-2019 academic year included a visiting faculty exchange with the University of Ljubljana, where he taught undergraduate and graduate choral conducting.

Recent major choral-orchestral works Scheepers conducted include: Bach’s Cantata BWV 184 – Erwünschtes Freudenlicht (2014), Schubert’s Mass in G major (2014), Vivaldi’s Gloria (2014), and Haydn’s Missa in tempore belli (2013).

7th-12th Grade Men’s Honor Choir Clinician

GERRIT SCHEEPERS

Dr. Deanna Joseph is an associate professor of music and the director of choral activities at Georgia State University School of Music, where she conducts the University Singers and leads the master’s program in choral conducting. In 2015, she was the recipient of the College of Arts and Sciences’ Outstanding Teacher Award at Georgia State, where she was selected out of a pool of more than 800 faculty.

In 2017, the University Singers, under Joseph’s leadership, won first place in the renowned Marktoberdorf International Chamber Choir Competition while on a concert tour of Austria and Bavaria. In 2013, the University Singers competed in La Florilège Vocal de Tours where the choir placed second overall in the mixed choir category and Joseph was honored with the Prix du chef de choer (conducting prize). The Georgia State University Singers have been invited to perform at two southern division conventions of the American Choral Directors Association and at

7th-12th Grade Women’s Honor Choir Clinician

DEANNA JOSEPH

two conventions of the Georgia Music Educators Association during her tenure at GSU, and the Georgia State University Choirs have been hired to sing two productions of David Bintley’s Carmina Burana with the Atlanta Ballet, in 2013 and 2017. The choir’s professional recording, Evening Hymn (Gothic Records), is distributed internationally by Naxos and is available for purchase or streaming on all the major music distribution outlets. The disc has been featured several times on National Public Radio’s program, With Heart and Voice.

Joseph is an active guest conductor and headline clinician, and she has conducted all-state and honor choirs in more than 12 states. She is a frequent conductor of choral-orchestral repertoire and has led performances of Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Beethoven’s Mass in C, Mozart’s Requiem, Haydn’s Creation and Lord Nelson Mass, Schubert’s Mass in A-flat and Bruckner’s Mass in D Minor. She has prepared choirs to sing with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the Atlanta Opera, and Andrea Bocelli. One of her small ensembles was featured on a 2016 episode of The Walking Dead.

Joseph’s research in the area of 19th-century choral-orchestral performance-practice has led to invited presentations on the topic at several division conferences of the American Choral Directors Association and at the national convention for the National Collegiate Choral Organization. In 2012, she was selected as one of 25 presenters from 10 countries to speak at the Lund Choral Festival, in Sweden.

Prior to her appointment at Georgia State University, Joseph served on the faculties at Smith College, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Hobart College, and William Smith College.

Joseph holds conducting degrees from the Eastman School of Music, where she was awarded the Walter Hagen Conducting Prize. She is the founder and artistic director of the Atlanta Summer Conducting Institute (ASCI), a weeklong summer conducting master class that draws conductors from across the country.

CRAIG DENISONCraig Denison is the associate director of music education and choral music at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Before that, he served as artistic director of Florida’s Singing Sons Boychoir and director of the Master Chorale at Florida International University. He taught for many years at Saint Mark’s Episcopal School as the director of vocal music. Denison has also served as the music director for the Colorado Children’s Chorale and associate music director and conductor of the American Boychoir. He founded the Schola Cantorum at Westminster Choir College as the assistant professor of choral conducting. He currently serves as the American Choral Director’s national chair for repertoire and standards in boychoirs.

Denison has prepared choirs and acted as vocal coach for numerous international orchestras, opera companies, and a number of world and North American premieres. He has conducted all-state choirs and regional and county-level honors choirs throughout the country and presented at national conferences and symposiums.

His opera productions include The Magic Flute, The Turn of the Screw, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Carmen, La Boheme, Turandot, Tosca, Summer and Smoke, Hansel and Gretel, Amahl and the Night Visitors, Street Scene, and Gloriana, with companies as diverse as Central City Opera to Los Angeles Opera to Florida Grand Opera. He has prepared choirs and soloists for the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Cleveland Symphony, New World Symphony, Colorado Symphony, Berlin Philharmonic, and the BBC Proms. His television and movie work includes Dexter and Interview with the Vampire.

Denison earned his PhD in Music Education from the University of Miami. He holds a Master of Music degree with Distinction from Westminster Choir College and a Bachelor of Music degree from Houghton College. In addition to youth singing, Denison’s research agenda includes male singing, choral pedagogy, technology, and music teacher identity formation.

IUP FACULTY

JOSEPH BAUNOCH

An associate professor of voice at IUP, Joseph Baunoch (bass) trained as an apprentice artist with Toledo Opera and Dicapo Opera of New York City and has performed in more than 50 different operas and 30 opera roles. He has portrayed the title role in Gianni Schicchi, Dr. Bartolo and Figaro in The Marriage of Figaro, Leporello in Don Giovanni, Colline in La Bohème, Timur in Turandot, the secret police agent in The Consul, and Angelotti in Tosca, among others.

Dr. Baunoch has performed with Toledo Opera, New Jersey Association of Verismo Opera, Dicapo Opera Theater, National Lyric Opera, and Opera Worcester and in several opera outreach programs with the Metropolitan Opera Guild, Toledo Opera, and Manhattan School of Music. In 2010, Dr. Baunoch was recognized as a winner in the Classical Singer magazine Convention and Competition in the Profession Division.

Dr. Baunoch received his doctor of musical arts from Michigan State University, where he performed in a live webcast as the Capitan in Daniel Catan’s opera Florencia en el Amazonas, and traveled to China to perform at the Shenyang Conservatory. He has sung in master classes with legendary mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne, baritone Haijing Fu, and Marlena Malas and has studied voice with former Metropolitan Opera tenor Richard Fracker, David Okerlund, Ted Puffer, and Spiro Malas. Dr. Baunoch’s students have performed with Kansas City Lyric Opera, Delaware Valley Opera, Undercroft Opera, and the Pittsburgh Baroque Ensemble, as well as with the Bel Canto Institute in Florence, Italy, and the Orvieto Art of Song summer program in Orvieto, Italy.

MARY LOGAN HASTINGS Mary Logan Hastings (soprano) joined the music faculty at IUP with a doctor of musical arts in vocal performance from the University of Maryland, and an extensive professional career in opera; she was the leading coloratura soprano at Germany’s prestigious Nationaltheater Mannheim. Dr. Hastings’s career has taken her from American opera houses in Seattle and Arizona to additional European houses, such as the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf, Städtische Bühnen Frankfurt am Main, Staatstheater Stuttgart, Opera voor Vlaanderen Antwerp, Théâtre du Capitole Toulouse, and Théâter Basel. She performed as Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos, Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier, Gilda in Rigoletto, Musetta in La Bohème, Amina in La Sonnambula, and Die Königin der Nacht in Die Zauberflöte. Dr. Hastings’s solo work includes appearances with the Berliner Philharmonische under the baton of Christoph von Dohnányi, and performances with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Michael Gielen, Michel Plasson, Daniel Barenboim, Donald Runnicles, and the late Jean-Pierre Ponnelle and Robert Shaw.

Included in her concert repertoire are the Four Last Songs of Richard Strauss; Rachmaninoff’s “Vocalise”; Brahms’s Requiem; Mahler’s Eighth Symphony, Fourth Symphony, and Rückert Lieder; Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony; and Haydn’s Die Jahreszeiten. Dr. Hastings has performed recitals and given master classes in Croatia, Slovenia, and China. She continues to perform, lecture, and adjudicate throughout the United States and can be heard on recordings that include songs composed by Alexander Zemlinsky, David Diamond, and Jack Stamp.

IUP FACULTY

OLIVER LO

Oliver Lo (tenor) has sung a diverse concert repertoire, spanning from tenor solo in Bach cantatas and Handel’s Oratorio to Mendelssohn’s Elijah and Orff’s Carmina Burana. Some of his operatic roles include Basilio and Curzio in Le nozze di Figaro, Jacquino in Fidelio, Nemorino in L’elisir d’amore, Roméo in Roméo et Juliet, Fenton in Falstaff, and Sam in Susannah. He was national finalist for the 1999 Rehfuss Singing Actor Awards at Orlando Opera.

As a music educator, he has brought operas and musicals to thousands of students in the United States and Hong Kong. Selected directing credits include Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, Gilbert and Sullivan’s Trial by Jury and The Pirates of Penzance, Puccini’s La Bohème, Strauss’s Die Fledermaus, Frank Loesser’s How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying, and Elton John and Tim Rice’s Aida. He was the founding director of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) Summer Musical and Staff Choir, and he was also the stage director for Opera Hong Kong summer and outreach programs for five years.

After graduating with distinction from the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts, Dr. Lo received a full scholarship and earned his doctor of musical arts in vocal performance (minor in directing) at the Eastman School of Music. Dr. Lo was tenured associate professor and director of Opera Theatre at the East Tennessee State University and taught at HKUST, where his course “Music, Drama, and Theatre” received the inaugural Common Core Course Excellence Award in 2012. Dr. Lo serves as director of Opera/Music Theater at IUP.

8:00 a.m. Registration8:30 a.m. Rehearsal/sectionals10:30 a.m. Break (at conductor’s discretion)11:00 a.m. Rehearsal/sectionals

Noon Lunch break

1:30 p.m. Rehearsal3:30 p.m. Break (at conductor’s discretion)4:00 p.m. Rehearsal5:00 p.m. Dinner break (on your own)6:15 p.m. Dress rehearsal 7:30 p.m. CHICC concert

7th-12th Grade MEN

SCHEDULE8:00 A.M. REGISTRATION BEGINS IN FISHER AUDITORIUM LOBBY.

8:00 a.m. Registration8:30 a.m. Rehearsal/sectionals10:30 a.m. Break (at conductor’s discretion)11:00 a.m. Rehearsal/sectionals

Noon Lunch break

1:30 p.m. Rehearsal3:30 p.m. Break (at conductor’s discretion)4:00 p.m. Rehearsal5:00 p.m. Dinner break (on your own)6:15 p.m. Dress rehearsal 7:30 p.m. CHICC concert

8:00 a.m. Registration9:00 a.m. Session 1 †10:30 a.m. Break 11:00 a.m. Session 2 †

Noon Lunch Break

1:30 p.m. Attend rehearsal3:30 p.m. Break4:00 p.m. Session 3 †5:00 p.m. Dinner break (on your own)6:15 p.m. Dress rehearsal 7:30 p.m. CHICC concert

* Teachers are not required to attend. If students will be attending without a teacher, please notify Dr. Denison (craig.denison@iup.edu).

† Details about ACT 48 sessions will be available at a later time.

7th-12th Grade WOMEN

7th-12th Grade *TEACHERS

SCHOLARSHIP AUDITIONCHICC presents an opportunity for students to audition for admission to the IUP Department of Music, and to earn a choral scholarship to IUP for the 2020-2021 academic year.

Auditions are open to all high school seniors who attend CHICC. Students planning to be music majors should prepare two songs from memory—one English and one Italian art song. An accompanist will be provided.

Additional information available at: IUP.edu/VoiceAudition.

MORE INFORMATION

STUDENT SELECTION PROCESSEach school is invited to bring balanced SATB (soprano, alto, tenor, and bass) quartets to participate in the festival choirs. This will help to ensure two balanced ensembles. Students should display exemplary rehearsal behavior. If possible, priority should be given to students who will continue to sing in college. Please limit selection to those students who work hard in rehearsal.

If you have a need to bring a group that is not balanced with voice parts, permission must be sought from Dr. Denison (craig.denison@iup.edu).

FAQHOW SHOULD STUDENTS DRESS? School-appropriate clothing should be worn for all rehearsals, and the CHICC T-shirt and jeans or khakis should be worn for the concert (no shorts for performance).

WHAT IF THEY NEED TO BE LATE/LEAVE EARLY?It is important that all conference attendees assist productivity by being present and keeping distractions at a minimum. Please consult with the clinicians before allowing any student to arrive late or depart early from any rehearsal or event.

WHERE IS PARKING?Parking passes will be available before CHICC. Further information will be provided.

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EARLY PAYMENT$30 per student (no cost for teachers)Postmarked by Monday, September 23, 2019

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REGULAR PAYMENT$40 per studentPostmarked after Monday, September 23, 2019

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Make checks or money orders payable to IUP Music Department. Or, register online at IUP.edu/Chicc.

If registering by mail, send to:Dr. Craig DenisonIndiana University of Pennsylvania422 South 11th StreetIndiana, PA 15705

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CRIMSON HAWKS CAVALCADE OF CHOIRSYou are invited to attend the annual Crimson Hawks Cavalcade of Choirs on Tuesday, April 29, 2020. The IUP choral area is excited to host an event in which your choir will have the opportunity to perform for other high school singers in a noncompetitive environment. Each ensemble will sing in IUP’s beautiful Fisher Auditorium and will be professionally recorded. In addition, choirs will receive written and verbal feedback from IUP faculty members. Additionally, each choir will receive direct instruction via an on-stage clinic.

Find more information at IUP.edu/Cavalcade.

ACT 48 SESSIONSFive hours of ACT 48 sessions will be provided