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Frank F. Eychaner is a clinician for Matt Hill joined the Jace Kaholokula Saplan is a clinician
this session. His bio and photo are Peru State College fac- for this session. His bio and are on
on page 109ß. ulty in September 2014 page 130.
as director of choral
John Martin Petzet activities. He founded Joshua Palkki is a clinician for this

is associate profes- the nonprofit Sing Omaha in 2007, session. His bio and photo are on
sor and director of which serves as the nation’s only page 47.
choral activities at K-12/adult choral arts organization,

the University of Ne- offering eight choirs that serve more
braska-Kearney. He has conducted than 350 singers annually, and two
honor choirs in Louisiana, Colora- studio locations enrolling 150+ stu- Come Together:
do and Nebraska and has worked dents in weekly lessons. Hill earned Fostering Meaningful
in Mexico with the Universidad an MM at Oklahoma State Univer- Collaborations between
Autónoma De Ciudad Juárez and sity and a DMA at the University of
Tlaxcala Canta. He has presented Nebraska. He serves ACDA as the Composers and Conductors
interest sessions in 15 states and National Community Choirs R&R
Mexico. He recorded Alexandre Chair. Breaching the divide between
Grechaninov’s Passion Week with composers and conductors can be
the Kansas City Chorale, which daunting. If you’re a conductor,
won a Grammy for Best Engineered Choral Intersectionality: what’s the best way to encourage
Classical Album. composers inside and outside of your
Gender, Race, and
chorus to write successfully for your
Reimagined Excellence singers? If you’re a composer, how
do you approach conductors with
Choir IS a Community:
When singers exercise their agen- your music, turning an initial impres-
Community Choirs Best Practices cy to draw upon all components of sion into a life-long collaborative re-
their identity, the entire choral com- lationship? Composer and conductor
Community choirs are the last munity benefi ts. Named by Kimber- Zanaida Robles and composer Dale
and best vehicle for keeping singers lé Crenshaw, intersectionality is a Trumbore will present strategies that
and audiences engaged with choral concept to describe how race, gen- reach across the composer-conduc-
music. Community choir conduc- der, and other characteristics “inter- tor divide, resulting in meaningful
tors are the nucleus of all activity sect” with one another, resulting in collaborations for conductors, sing-
in their choirs and must be experts systems of power and oppression. ers, and composers. Participants will
in many fields to be successful. This Rooted in existing scholarship in leave this session feeling empowered

presentation will bring to bear my anti-racist, decolonial, gender-af- to work together to contribute to the

fifteen years of experience as the firming, and LGBTQIA± inclusive choral repertoire.
founding artistic/executive director pedagogies, this session will synthe-
of one of the nation’s largest non- size these concepts toward a unifi ed, Zanaida Stewart Ro-

profit choral organizations, Sing intersectional approach that ensures bles is a fi erce advocate
Omaha. Our ten choirs of 400+ that all singers’ identities can be cel- for diversity and inclu-
singers give nine concerts each sea- ebrated in choral spaces. Attendees sion in music education
son and are contracted as the offi - will participate in active music mak- and performance. She
cial choirs for the Omaha Sympho- ing and discussion and leave with is in demand as a vocalist, conductor,
ny. practical strategies to implement in clinician, and adjudicator for compe-
their choral communities. titions, festivals, and conferences. She

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