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7:30 AM - 5:00 PM share strategic tools to address those from underrepresented groups that
moments efficiently and effectively. are waiting to be “discovered.” Their
Registration Open The session will also include a hand- music is unique as they are unique.
Duke Energy CC 3rd Floor out with a substantive guide to each This session will detail the process
of the “Deep Dive” octavos to keep
of commissioning and premiering.
Grand Ballroom Pre-Function Lobby with your scores for future reference. Specific attention will be given to de-
This will include IPA for foreign lan- veloping an experiential understand-
8:30 AM - 2:00 PM and guage pieces, composer biographies, ing of composer’s cultural and lived
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM a rehearsal guide, and where possible, experience. The UTPB University
composer comments about their Choir will perform brief selections
Exhibits Open repertoire. and excerpts of commissioned works.
Duke Energy Convention Center Presenter: Matt Hill Reginald Wright and Julio Morales
will be co-presenters.
Grand Ballroom A & B and
Grand Ballroom Pre-Function Lobby Frank F. Eychaner, presenter

Interest Sessions University of Texas Permian Basin
8:00 AM - 8:50 AM Choose from five options Choirs, Insight Choir

Exhibitor’s Showcase Brandon Boyd, presider
1 Choir and Composer
Oxford University Press Collaborations—Commissioning Member, National Standing
Committee for Composition Initiatives
as a Cultural Bridge
Duke Energy CC 2nd Floor Duke Energy CC 3rd Floor

Meeting Rooms 260-262
Junior Ballroom D 2 Choral Songs from the African
Editor Marques L. A. Garrett pro- Diaspora in Latin America
motes landmark anthology of music The University of Texas Perm- Duke Energy CC 2nd Floor
by Black composers. ian Basin Choirs commission four to
eight new works each year. Composer South Meeting Rooms 230-233
collaborators are chosen for their
Community Choirs excellence and for their ability to From the sixteenth to the nine-
R&R Deep Dive bring a different lived experience to teenth centuries, African people were
the ensemble through their music. involuntarily brought to the “New
Duke Energy CC 3rd Floor Because the University is a Hispanic World.” After their arrival, their Af-
Junior Ballroom B Serving Institution, about half of the rican cultures mixed with the local
commissions are collaborations with cultures in which they landed and
This repertoire-focused session Hispanic composers of the United new forms of music sprouted. With
will provide historical, theoretical, States and Latin American coun- the recent reckoning in our music and
and performance practice guidance tries. Recent collaborators include choral education circles, it is time to
for 5 to 6 titles from the Community Reginald Wright, Eduardo Cota start acknowledging and celebrating
Choirs Virtual Reading Session. We Magallanes, and Julio Morales. the significant contributions of the
will discuss the most efficient ways to The thread that connects all of African diaspora in Latin America
introduce and teach each selection, these collaborations is the reality in our choral world. In this lecture/
identify likely “trouble” spots, and that there are incredible composers reading session, participants will learn

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