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topics as why we warm up, what a Region. His choirs consistently re- by participants featuring jazz impro-

daily warm-up plan looks like, and ceive first division ratings at Concert visation using the blues scale and
some common mistakes that we all Choir, Vocal Jazz and Show Choir techniques presented earlier in the
make and how to avoid them. At- Contests. He has also been involved session. Repertoire examples will be
tendees will examine a number of in church music for over 35 years. practical for the K–12 and collegiate
diff erent exercises that address vocal vocal music educator and will span
challenges, and explore which keys all age and ability levels.
and ranges work best for your choirs.
A middle school choir will demon- Your Singers Can Improvise Sarin Williams is the
strate these warm-ups! This session (and You Can Teach Them)! director of choral ac-
will provide ideas and warm-ups to tivities and associate
help you build your young voices in Using accessible vocal jazz reper- professor of music
a healthy, effi cient way. toire for elementary, junior high, and at Wabash College,
high school/collegiate vocal ensem- Crawfordsville, Indiana, where she
Dan Andersen is an bles, this presentation will feature ac- directs the men’s Glee Club and
active clinician, festival cessible techniques for teaching and T-Tones. Williams earned her DMA
conductor, and judge learning vocal jazz improvisation. at the University of Missouri-Kan-
and has served as guest The session will begin with an in- sas City, an MM at the University
conductor for the Indi- teractive demonstration of the blues of Missouri-Columbia, and a BME
ana All-State Vocal Jazz Choir, the scale and how to easily improvise at Bradley University in Peoria, Illi-
Indiana All-State Middle School around it. The body of the session nois. Williams is an active clinician
Honor Choir, and the Kentucky will then focus on participants sing- and educator with both choral music
All-State Junior High Honor Choir. ing and improvising within accessi- in general and vocal jazz in specifi c.
He has served as the Middle School ble literature applicable to their own
R&R Chair for the Central ACDA classroom. Pieces will be performed

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