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2011 ACDA All-State Honor Choirs
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2011 ALL-STATE HONOR CHOIR EVENT will be Conductors for the 2011 California All-State Honor Choirs: Mixed: Dr. Edith Copley, Professor of Music and Director of Choral Studies at Northern Arizona University
Edith A. Copley joined the Northern Arizona University music faculty in 1990 and is Professor of Music and Director of Choral Studies. She conducts the highly acclaimed Shrine of the Ages Choir and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in conducting and graduate choral literature. The Shrine of the Ages Choir has performed at state, divisional and national conventions of the American Choral Directors Association and the Music Educators National Conference. NAU choral ensembles under her direction have toured internationally to Western Europe, the Peoples Republic of China, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. In addition to her responsibilities at NAU, Dr. Copley conducts the Master Chorale of Flagstaff, an auditioned 100-voice community chorus that performs major choral/orchestral works each spring with the Flagstaff Symphony Orchestra (FSO). In 1999-2000 she served as FSO's resident conductor for their 50th anniversary season. Dr. Copley has conducted numerous choral/orchestral works with the FSO, including Britten's War Requiem, Mozart's C Minor Mass, Orff's Carmina Burana, and Brahms' German Requiem. In January 2011 she will conduct Bach's B Minor Mass. Dr. Copley received her MM and DMA degrees in choral conducting from the College-Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati, a BA degree in music education from Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, and additional graduate studies in orchestral conducting at Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Copley is a past-president of the ACDA Western Division. She has also served as the Arizona ACDA President, Western Division and Arizona Newsletter Editor, and has served as the the program chair for the last three ACDA western division conferences. Prior to her appointment at NAU, she taught secondary choral music for seven years in Iowa and four years overseas in Vienna, Austria. She has also served as the assistant and interim principal conductor of the May Festival Chorus that performs with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Cincinnati Pops. Dr. Copley has prepared choral/orchestral works for Robert Shaw, James Conlon, Jesus Lobez-Cobes, and Erich Kunzel. Dr. Copley has received numerous honors, including NAU School of Performing Arts Centennial Teacher of the Year Award in 1999, Arizona Music Educator of the Year in 2004 and the Arizona ACDA Outstanding Choral Director Award in 2007. Dr. Copley has her own choral series with Santa Barbara Music Publications and is in high demand as a festival clinician and guest conductor in the US. She has also conducted international choral festivals in Germany, the Netherlands, Japan, Luxembourg, Tasmania, Australia, China and Turkey. Men's: Dr. Jameson Marvin, Director of Choral Activities and Senior Lecturer on Music at Harvard University
JAMESON MARVIN just completed 32 years as Director of Choral Activities and Senior Lecturer on Music at Harvard University. He conducts the Radcliffe Choral Society, Harvard Glee Club, and the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, and teaches courses in Choral Conducting, Masterpieces of Choral Literature, and Renaissance and Baroque Performance. Under his direction since 1978, these ensembles have risen to be among the premier collegiate choruses in the United States. Dr. Marvin has expanded a choral environment rich enough to attract thousand of students over the past thirty years, from the beginning singer to the advanced musician. Throughout his career he has conducted some 80 symphonic-choral works. His mastery of the choral art is reflected by his distinguished international reputation as a conductor, teacher, author, performance scholar, editor, composer, and arranger. His choral ensembles have appeared at eight National Conventions of the American Choral Directors Association. Dr. Marvin has written important monographs on many choral topics that include: The Conductors Process (Pendragon Press), Mastery of Choral Ensemble (EC Schirmer), Renaissance Choral Performance (Oxford University Press), Choral Intonation (ACDA Choral Journal). Beginning in 1979 he served for 16 years on the National Committee for the Selection of Fulbright Fellows in Conducting. His many folk song arrangements and some 40 editions of Renaissance choral music appear in numerous publications. For nine years Dr. Marvin was Director of Choral Music at Vassar College and Music Director of the Cappella Festiva Chamber Choir and Orchestra. While on sabbatical leave, he was a Visiting Scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge University and Stanford University. He has held teaching/conducting appointments at Bard College, Lehigh University, University of Illinois, and Stanford University, and has taught seminars in choral rehearsal techniques, style analysis and interpretation, and conducting at major graduate choral programs throughout the United States. Dr. Marvin was raised in Glendale California and received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Music Theory/History and Composition from the University of California, Santa Barbara, a Master of Arts in Choral Conducting and Early Music Performance from Stanford University, and the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Choral Music from the University of Illinois. The Boston Globe calls Jameson Marvin, "a musician of consummate mastery". Women's: Sigrid Johnson, Conductor of the Manitou Singers at Saint Olaf College
Sigrid Johnson is an artist in residence on the music faculty at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, where she conducts the Manitou Singers, a 100-voice first-year women’s chorus. She is also the associate conductor of VocalEssence, a Minneapolis choral ensemble that presents both rarely heard and newly commissioned works for chorus and orchestra. Johnson maintains an active schedule as a guest conductor and clinician at workshops, choral festivals, and all-state music festivals around the world. She is a member of the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA), the MENC: National Association for Music Education, the International Federation for Choral Music (IFCM), and Chorus America. She conducted the Manitou Singers in three performances at the ACDA National Convention in San Antonio, Texas, in 2001, and most recently, they performed at the ACDA North Central Convention in Minneapolis in 2010. In 2006, Johnson was awarded the prestigious F. Melius Christiansen Lifetime Achievement Award for her lifelong conducting experience and for providing outstanding contributions and distinguished service to choral music in Minnesota. Johnson was a featured lecturer at both the Eighth World Symposium on Choral Music in Copenhagen, Denmark in 2008 and the Sixth World Symposium on Choral Music in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 2002. She has been invited to lecture on choral tone at the Ninth World Choral Symposium on Choral Music in Argentina in 2011. She was also a member of the esteemed jury for the Béla Bartók International Choral Competition in Debrecen, Hungary in 2006, and she was a featured lecturer and clinician at the 2004 Australian National Choral Association conference. Johnson has served as conductor of the Dale Warland Symphonic Chorus, associate conductor of the Dale Warland Singers, and conductor of the National Lutheran Choir of Minneapolis. She has prepared symphonic choruses for Neemi Jarvi, Sir Neville Marriner, David Zinman, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, Gerard Schwarz, Edo de Waart, and Leonard Slatkin, among others. In 1999, Johnson was honored with the College of Fine Arts and Humanities Leadership Award from her alma mater, St. Cloud State University. In 1998, Johnson led the renowned St. Olaf Choir while the ensemble’s conductor, Anton Armstrong, was on sabbatical leave. She has also served as associate conductor of the St. Olaf Choir during its tours of Australia and New Zealand, Central Europe, Norway, and the British Isles. 2010 ALL STATE ORDER FORM FOR CDs/DVDs (.pdf format)
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