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Honor Choir Conductorsors
Honor Choir C onduc t

Gospel Junior High/Middle School
An SSAATTBB choir of 10th-12th graders An SATB choir of 6th-9th graders

Raymond Wise, a native of Baltimore, Jessica Nápoles is interim chair of music
Md., earned a BM from Denison Univer- education and associate professor of cho-
sity (Granville, Ohio). He did additional ral music education at the University of
studies in opera, art, and German at the North Texas. She teaches undergraduate
Institute for European Studies in Vienna, coursework in choral methods, conducts
Austria, and in African American History, Music, and the Concert Choir, and mentors graduate students in
Dance at San Francisco State University in San Francis- research. A native of Florida with a Cuban-American
co, California. Wise earned an MME, Ohio Teacher’s background, Nápoles taught middle school chorus in

Certification, and DME from the Ohio State University. the public schools of Miami and Orlando, FL. She re-
Wise currently serves on the faculty of Indiana Universi- ceived her BME, MME, and PhD in Music Education
ty in Bloomington, Indiana, where he serves as professor from the Florida State University. Prior to her appoint-
of practice in the African American African Diaspora ment at UNT, she taught at the University of Utah for
Studies department and instructs courses in African 11 years. Nápoles is a member of ACDA’s Research &
American music. Wise is an ordained minister and has Publications Standing Committee and will serve as the
served as a church musician for more than 40 years. assistant conference chair for the 2023 ACDA National
Conference.

High School Grades 10-12 SATB

An SSAATTBB choir of 10th-12th graders Eastern Region Registration Information

Eugene Rogers is a two-time Michigan Register at acda.org/region-conferences
Emmy Award winner, a 2017 Sphinx
Medal of Excellence recipient, and a 2015 Early Registration ends
Grammy Award nominee. He is recognized 11:59 PM CST January 13, 2022
as a leading conductor and pedagogue
throughout the United States and abroad. In addition Attendee $280 Retired $200 Student $100
to being the founding director of Exigence, Rogers
is the director of choirs and an associate professor of
conducting at the University of Michigan. Recently, he Registration after 11:59 PM CST January 13, 2022

was named as the fifth artistic director of the two-time
Grammy Award-winning ensemble, The Washington Attendee $315 Retired $240 Student $150
Chorus (Washington, D.C.). Rogers holds a BME from
the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and an On-site registration
MM and DMA from U-M. He currently serves on the
board of Chorus America and is the former national One-Day $150 (only available on-site)
chair of the ACDA’s Diversity Initiatives Committee.

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