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2011 Hawaii Choral Festival®
March 12, 2011
The festival will be held at the Hawaii Convention Center. The event will be held as part of the Honolulu Festival. Approximately 10,000 spectators attend the Honolulu Festival at the Hawaii Convention Center. Dr. Janet Galvan will be the guest conductor and clinician for the festival. Workshops are included and a joint performance of all the choirs will be part of the program.
Dr.
Janet Galván, Professor of Music at Ithaca College, conducts the Ithaca
College Women's Chorale, the Ithaca College Chorus, and is Artistic
Director for the Ithaca Children's Choir. Dr. Galván’s contribution to
choral music was recognized by her New York colleagues in 1995 when she
received the New York Outstanding Choral Director Award. In 2007 she was
awarded the Excellence in Service Award by Ithaca College.
In great demand as a guest conductor, Dr. Galván has conducted all-state
and larger regional honor choral festivals throughout the United States.
She conducted the first college/university Women’s Honor Choir at the
Eastern Division American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) Conference
in February of 1994, the first Western Division children’s Honor Choir
in 1996, and the third ACDA National Children’s Honor Choir in 1995. She
was the 6th national honor choir conductor in the over 40-year history of
ACDA. Dr. Galván is also the conductor of the North American Children's
Chorale which performs annually in Carnegie Hall. In 2002 she conducted
the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Her own choral groups have been chosen to
perform at national, regional, and state music conferences, invitational
choral festivals, and in concerts in the United Kingdom and Europe.
Galván has also served as master teacher and clinician at national,
regional, and state conferences of the American Choral Directors
Association (ACDA) and the Music Educators National Conference (MENC). She
has also been featured at workshops in Brazil, the United Kingdom,
Belgium, Canada, and the 2002 World Symposium on Choral Music. Galván has
been recognized as one of the country’s leading conducting teachers, and
her students have received first place awards and been finalists in both
the graduate and undergraduate divisions of the ACDA biennial National
Choral Conducting Competition.
Dr. Galván was one of the invited authors for GIA’s second edition of
Teaching Music through Performance in Choir. Dr. Galván's expertise in
treble repertoire led to an association with Roger Dean Publishing Company
in the origin of two choral series. She is also the series advisor to
Latin Accents, a series with Boosey & Hawkes. Dr. Galván contributed
a chapter on movement in the choral rehearsal to GIA’s The School Choral
Program: Philosophy, Planning, Organizing and Teaching. Dr. Galván was a
member of the Grammy Award-winn ing Robert Shaw Festival Singers during
Mr. Shaw's final years.
April 2, 2011
The
festival will be held at the Pearl City Cultural Center. Rodney
Eichenberger will be the guest conductor and clinician. Rodney Eichenberger is Professor Emeritus at Florida State University. He has conducted 80 All State Choirs and guest conducted and lectured at more than 85 universities in the United States, Australia and New Zealand. His international appearances include guest conducting the Korean National Chorus, International High School Honor Choirs in Tokyo and Berlin and conducting workshops in Argentina, Brazil, France, Norway, Sweden, Scotland, Austria, Korea, Australia and New Zealand. His instructional videos on choral conducting, “What They See Is What You Get”, published by Hinshaw Music and “Enhancing Musicality Through Movement”, published by Santa Barbara Press are widely used in collegiate conducting classes. He is a graduate of St. Olaf College with advanced study at the Universities of Denver, Washington and Iowa. Before his appointment at Florida State University he taught at the University of Washington and the University of Southern California.
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2011 Hawaii Band & Orchestra Festival®
March 1
2, 2011The festival will be held at the Hawaii Convention Center. The event will be held as part of the Honolulu Festival. The Honolulu Festival started 15 years ago and has grown to be the premier cultural event in Hawaii. The festival includes ethnic performances, events and exhibits at various venues throughout Honolulu. The major events will be held at the Hawaii Convention Center. Dr. Robert Foster will be the artistic director and clinician for the festival.
Dr.
Robert E. Foster, Professor of Music and Assistant Chair of the Department
of Music and Dance at the University of Kansas will be the Artistic
Director and Clinician for the March 13th festival. He is
also the conductor and musical director of the award winning Lawrence City
Band. Under his leadership, the KU Marching Band was awarded the Sudler
Trophy for Collegiate Marching Bands, and his Symphonic Band performed at
numerous national and regional conventions, including for MENC, the
American Bandmasters Association, College Band Directors National
Association, and others.
Dr. Foster is Vice President of the John Philip Sousa Foundation, and is
former President of the American Bandmasters Association, the National
Band Association, the Southwest Division of the College Band Directors
National Association and the Big Twelve Conference Band Directors
Association. He also served as Chairman of the North American Band
Directors Coordinating Committee. He continues an active career as a guest
conductor, adjudicator, author, composer, arranger, and editor. In 2006 he
was inducted into the National Band Association Hall of Fame.
An active guest conductor and adjudicator, Dr. Foster has served as
conductor or adjudicator in 37 different states, Canada, Mexico, Japan,
Singapore, and throughout Europe.
Dr. Foster grew up in Texas where his father was president of TMEA, and
where he was a product of the band movement in Texas. He played in All
District and All Regional Bands, and he played in seven consecutive TMEA
All State Bands, 1951 - 1957, before there were restrictions on how early
one could audition for those groups. Upon graduating from the University
of Texas he taught at O. Henry Jr. High School in Austin, and in Lamar
High School in Houston before joining the faculty of the University of
Florida as trumpet teacher and assistant band director.
April
2, 2011The festival will be held at the Pearl City Cultural Center. Workshops will be included for participating groups. James Swearingen ill be the artistic director and clinician for the festival.
In addition to his teaching responsibilities, Mr. Swearingen manages to be
very active as a guest conductor, adjudicator and educational clinician.
Appearances have included trips throughout the United States, as well as
Japan, Australia, Europe, Canada and The Republic of China.
Swearingen's numerous compositions for band have been enthusiastically
received by school directors, student performers and audiences worldwide.
With over 400 published works, he has written band compositions and
arrangements that reflect a variety of musical forms and styles. Many of
his pieces, including 76 commissioned works, have been chosen for contest
and festival lists. He is a recipient of several ASCAP awards for
published compositions and in 1992 was selected as an Accomplished
Graduate of the Fine and Performing Arts from Bowling Green State
University. Most recently, Mr. Swearingen received the 2002 Community
Music Educator Award given annually by the Columbus Symphony Orchestra. He
is a member of numerous professional and honorary organizations including
OMEA, MENC, ASBDA, Phi Beta Mu and Pi Kappa Lambda. In March of 2000, he
was invited to join The American Bandmasters Association, considered to be
the most prestigious bandmaster organization in the world.
Many of Mr.
Swearingen's most popular band compositions have been recorded by the
prestigious Washington Winds and are available
at www.JamesSwearingen.com. His recordings include In All Its
Glory, Exaltation, Celebration For Winds And Percussion,
The Light of Dawn, and the newest release, Flight of Valor.
Menlo-Atherton Jazz Band
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