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February 9-12, 2022 Boston, Massachusetts

Lisa Graham is in her eighteenth season as Sandra Snow is professor of choral con-
music director of the Metropolitan Cho- ducting and music education at the Mich-
rale. Familiar to Boston audiences, she has igan State University College of Music.
worked with the Handel and Haydn So- Under her direction, the MSU Women’s
ciety, the BSO, and has toured with and Chamber Ensemble has appeared as fea-
served as cover conductor for the Boston Pops for eight tured performers at ACDA conferences at state, regional,
seasons. Graham is the Evelyn Barry Director of Cho- and national levels. Snow is the artistic director of the
ral Programs at Wellesley College, a founding member CME Institute for Choral Teacher Education and found-
and lifetime honorary member of NCCO, and she was er and artistic director of the project-based women’s en-
the 2021 winner of the American Prize Dale Warland semble, mirabai.
Award in Choral Conducting. Her MA and DMA were
earned at the University of Southern California.
A. Jan Taylor, Conductor
This BLUE TRACK SATB choir will begin rehearsals
Wednesday evening and perform Friday evening.
Directors’ Choruses and

Conducting Master Classes Program to include the ACDA Eastern commissioned
work by John L. Cornelius and works by Lela Ander-
A brand-new feature of the 2022 ACDA Eastern son, Uzee Brown, Glenn Burleigh, R. Nathaniel Dett,
Conference is the implementation of Directors’ Cho- Marques L. A. Garrett, Edward Margetson, and Undine
ruses for all conference registrants. Every attendee will Smith Moore
choose one of four Directors’ Choruses to participate
in when registering for the conference. The rehearsals A. Jan Taylor is associate professor and di-
are scheduled in a way that will not conflict with other rector of choral music activities at Prairie

interest sessions or choral performances. There will be View A&M University. A native of Hous-
about 6 hours of rehearsal culminating in fi nal perfor- ton, Taylor attended the High School for the
mances as part of our plenary concerts. Each chorus has Performing and Visual Arts, and received a
commissioned a work that it will premier. In addition, BM from the University of Houston, an MA from Prairie
each conductor will also serve as the clinician for our View A&M University, and a DMA in Conducting from
conducting master classes; during those master classes, the University of Houston. Taylor has taught general mu-
volunteers from each directors’ chorus will serve as the sic, piano, and trained choirs in elementary, middle, and
“demo choir” and sing pieces from their respective rep- high schools in the Houston Independent School District.
ertoire. Taylor frequently lectures on the performance practices
and preservation of the African American spiritual.
Sandra Snow, Conductor
This ORANGE TRACK SSAA choir will begin re-
hearsals Thursday morning and perform Saturday late Craig Hella Johnson, Conductor
afternoon. This BLUE TRACK SATB choir will begin rehearsals
Wednesday evening and perform Friday evening.
Program to include the ACDA Eastern commissioned
work by B. E. Boykin and works by Melissa Dunphy, Program to include the ACDA Eastern commissioned
Vicente Lusitano, Sarah Quartel, Zanaida Robles, and work by Moira Smiley and works by Margaret Bonds, Stu-
Brandon Waddles. art Churchill, Eriks Esenvald, Orlando Gibbons, Craig
Hella Johnson, Shawn Kirchner, and Roy Ringwald.

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