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Hawaii Choral Festival®
March 3, 2012, March 31, 2012, April 15, 2012

Dr. Miguel Felipe

Dr. Miguel Felipe will be the guest conductor and clinician for the March 3, 2012, choral festival. Dr. Felipe is the director of choral activities at the University of Hawaii. He also serves as artistic director of the International Meeting on Choral Music in Ribeirao Preto, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Most recently, he was visiting director of choral activities and assistant professor of music at Oberlin College & Conservatory and artistic director of the Boston Choral Ensemble. He was the interim choral director and visiting lecturer of music at Mt. Holyoke College, associate director of choral studies at The Boston Conservatory, and assistant conductor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum at Harvard University. He has conducted choirs at the University of Cincinnati, Boston University, The Boston Conservatory, Brown University and Harvard University. He has led community choirs in Maine, Massachusetts and Ohio and has served as a clinician and adjudicator throughout the Eastern United States, in South America and Southeast Asia. 

Dr. Felipe studied at Interlochen Arts Academy where he earned a diploma in piano and graduated from the University of Cincinnati where he earned a bachelor of music degree. After relocating to Boston, he attended the Pierre Monteaux School and studied conducting at Boston University where he earned his graduate degree.

Dr. Eph Ehly

Dr. Eph Ehly will be the guest conductor and clinician for the March 31, 2012 choral Festival. Dr. Ehly is one of America’s most revered choral conductors. He 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. 

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.

Dr. Janet Galvan

Dr. Janet Galván will be the guest conductor and clinician for the April 15, 2012 festival. She is 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 when she received the New York Outstanding Choral Director Award. She has been 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, the first Western Division children’s Honor Choir, and the ACDA National Children’s Honor Choir. 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.

Dr. Galván has 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 World Symposium on Choral Music. Dr. 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-winning Robert Shaw Festival Singers during Mr. Shaw's final years.

 

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Hawaii Band & Orchestra Festival®

March 3, 2012, March 31, 2012, April 14, 2012

Dr. Jeffrey Boeckman

Dr. Jeffrey Boeckman will be the clinician for the March 3, 2012 festival. He is the Director of Bands at the University of Hawai’i. He conducts the Wind Ensemble, teaches conducting and wind literature, and oversees the entire UH Bands program.

Prior to this appointment, Dr. Boeckman served for five years as the Director of Bands at California State University-San Bernardino, where he conducted the Symphonic Band, Chamber Winds, Chamber Orchestra, and pit orchestra for the Opera Workshop. Dr. Boeckman also served on the faculties of both Texas A&M University-Commerce and Roanoke College in Virginia. For five years, he was the Director of Instrumental Music at Shasta High School in Redding, California, where he led the bands, orchestra, and chamber ensembles in acclaimed performances at festivals and on national and international tours. Dr. Boeckman also directed the Redding Symphony Youth Orchestra for three seasons, and served as guest conductor for the Redding Symphony Orchestra.

He has served as an adjudicator and clinician at concert, marching, and solo festivals across the country, and as a guest conductor of honor bands in several states. His scholarly work has been presented at the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles (WASBE) International Conference and the California Music Educators Association (CMEA) State Conference, and has been published in the Journal of Band Research; his book A Counterpoint of Characters: the Music of Michael Colgrass was recently published by VDM Verlag.

Dr. Boeckman holds degrees from the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Arizona, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. 

James Swearingen

James Swearingen will be the artistic director and clinician for the March 31, 2012 festival.

Mr. Swearingen's talents as a performer, composer/arranger and educator include a background of extensive training and experience. He has earned degrees from Bowling Green State University and The Ohio State University. Mr. Swearingen is currently Professor of Music, Department Chair of Music Education and one of several resident composers at Capital University located in Columbus, Ohio. He also serves as a staff arranger for the famed Ohio State University Marching Band. Prior to his appointment at Capital in 1987, he spent eighteen years teaching instrumental music in the public schools of central Ohio. His first teaching assignment took him to the community of Sunbury, Ohio. He then spent fourteen years as Director of Instrumental Music at Grove City High School where his marching, concert and jazz bands all received acclaim for their high standards of performing excellence.

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.

Jay S. Gephart

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