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March 14, 2009
April 4, 2009
The Hawaii Choral Festival offers performance venues including a joint performance and workshops for participating groups. Workshops are held on Thursday and Friday and the actual performances are held on Saturday. The workshops will be conducted by the festival clinician. Dr. Janet Galvan will be the Guest Conductor and Clinician for the March 14, 2009 Festival, and Dr. Eph Ehly will be the Guest Conductor and Clinician for the April 4, 2009 Festival.. Festival adjudicators will judge all performances and each group will be rated. Each group will receive a professional recording of their performance as well as written and taped comments.
March 14, 2009
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 4, 2009 Punahou Academy Choir-Hawaii
Hawaii Youth Opera Chorus-Hawaii
2009 Hawaii
March 1
Dr. Eph Ehly
is Professor Emeritus at the Conservatory of Music at the University of Missouri - Kansas City. He served as Interim Professor of Choral Music at the University of Oklahoma in 2006-07. More than 90 Doctorate and 100 Masters Degree students have graduated under his supervision. From 1969-1972 he was Director of Choral Activities at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. Prior to that he taught in public schools in Western Nebraska.
The American Choral Directors Journal named Eph Ehly one of the most sought after choral conductors/clinicians. He has conducted over 80 all-state choirs, and over 600 festival ensembles. As a conductor, author, lecturer and clinician, he has appeared in 48 states, Canada, Brazil, Japan, Mexico, several countries throughout Europe and presented on more than 100 college and university campuses.
Ehly is the author of "Hogey's Journey - Living to learn, Learning to teach, Teaching to learn how to live", published by The Lorenz Corporation. Hal Leonard Publishing Company released the first of its kind Video Master Classes which featured Dr. Ehly's philosophies in conducting and rehearsal techniques.
Dr. Ehly was awarded the Faculty Fellowship Award by the UMKC Board of Trustees. He was the recipient of the Mrs. Ewing M. Kauffman Excellence in Teaching Award, as well as the UKC Teaching Award for Excellence and the AMOCO Foundation Outstanding Teaching Award. His alma mater, the University of Nebraska-Kearney, presented him with their first Outstanding Alumni Award and the Gary Thomas Distinguished Alumni Award. He is also a recipient of the Missouri Choral Directors Association Luther Spade Choral Director of the Year Award for his contributions to the choral art in the state of Missouri.
Dr. Ehly received his Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Colorado and his Master of Music degree from George Peabody College, Nashville, Tennessee. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Nebraska-Kearney.
The Hawaii Choral Festival is fortunate to have Mr. Joseph McAlister as its Choral Consultant. He is currently the Director of the Honolulu Chorale. Mr. McAlister recently retired as Executive Director of the Hawaii International Choral Festivals and the Oahu Choral Society and as Manager of the Honolulu Symphony Chorus. In addition he served as Director of Education for the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra overseeing an award winning symphonic educational outreach program. A life member of the American Choral Directors Association, Mr. McAlister is the Repertoire and Standards Chair for Community Choirs for the Hawaii chapter of
ACDA. He is a past-president of both the Alaska and Hawaii Chapters of
ACDA, a past-president of the Alaska Music Educators Association, a former board member of the Hawaii Music Educators Association and a member of the International Federation for Choral Music.
A respected choral educator and adjudicator, Mr. McAlister taught in Alaska's schools as well as on the faculties of the University of Hawaii, Hawaii Loa College, and Punahou School and served as a festival clinician in Hawaii, Alaska and for the Singapore Ministry of Education.
Mr. McAlister holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in music education from California State University at Humboldt and a Master of Arts degree from the University of Hawaii with advanced studies at Alaska Methodist University, Lewis and Clark College, Westminster Choir College and the San Francisco Theological Seminary.
April
5, 2009
The Hawaii Band & Orchestra Festival offers performance venues
and workshops for participating groups. Workshops are held on Thursday and
Friday and the actual performances are held on Sunday. The 2009
performance dates are March 15 and April 5, 2009. The workshops will be
conducted by the festival clinician. Dr. Robert Foster will be the
Artistic Director and Clinician for the March 15th Festival. The Artistic
Director and Clinician for the April 5th Band Festival will be Mr. James
Swearingen, Professor of Music and Department Chair of Music Education at
Capital University in Columbus, Ohio.
Band Festival adjudicators will judge all performances and each group will be
rated. Each group will receive a professional recording of their
performance as well as written and taped comments.
March 15, 2009
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.
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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.
Parade of Bands® During the last two weeks in April, visiting bands will have an opportunity to perform with our local high school bands in the PARADE OF BANDS®
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