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Anyone Can Arrange Music! origines, and the music of neighbor- ern pop and rock songs, participants
ing countries such as Indonesia, and will be exposed to unique ways to
(And Everyone Should) the Pacifi c Islands, Australian choral insert technical instruction into their

composers have found a rich and daily warm-up routine.
We need to stop viewing arrang- unique voice that is distinctively Aus-
ing as an advanced skill that can tralian. This interest session focuses Holly Grefe is in her
only be taught or engaged in after on presenting Australian choral lit- 23rd year as director
a student has learned suffi cient mu- erature that is accessible to choirs of choirs at Lafayette
sic theory and notation skills. More of diff erent ages and capabilities, High School in Lafay-
than any other activity, arranging including children’s choruses, high ette, Louisiana. During
music for your choir will make you school and university choirs, com- her tenure, her students have accu-
a better director, and teaching your munity choirs, and semi-professional mulated over 180 district, state and
students to arrange will make them ensembles. national awards. Her choirs have
better musicians. Come learn how, been selected to perform at multiple
in this session with Garrett Breeze, Kym Scott is the di- Louisiana ACDA State Vocal Con-
one of a select few who has made a rector of choral activ- ferences, as well as the 2016 South-
full-time career out of arranging and ities at West Virginia ern ACDA Region Conference.
orchestrating. University, where she Grefe earned her MME from the
conducts four choirs, Florida State University. In 2013,
Garrett Breeze is a teaches conducting, choral tech- she was named Lafayette Education
Nashville-based com- niques, and choral literature, and Foundation’s High School Teacher
poser and arranger oversees the choral conducting grad- of the Year.
whose credits include uate program. She regularly presents
film and television, at state, regional, national, and in- Victoria Qualls Atkins

Broadway stars, Grammy-winning ternational conferences. Scott is cur- has recently begun a
classical artists, and many of the top rently the immediate past president new path as executive
high school music programs in the and collegiate honor choir chair for director of Chorale des
United States. He has more than ACDA West Virginia. Amis in Lafayette, LA.
1,000 choral arrangements current- For 13 years, Atkins served as direc-
ly in circulation. He holds a bache- tor of choirs at LJ Alleman Fine Arts
lor’s in media music from Brigham Magnet Academy. Under her direc-
Young University and a master’s in Begin with the End in Mind— tion, LJA choirs consistently earned
commercial composition and ar- One Warm-Up at a Time! superior ratings at district and state
ranging from Belmont University. music assessments. LJA choral en-
How many times have you eff ec- sembles were selected as a featured
tively taught your choral literature, choir at the Louisiana ACDA State
only to realize your kids sound great Conference in 2012. In 2014, Atkins
Australian Choral Repertoire
but look bored? This session will pro- was named Middle School Teacher
for All Age Levels vide multiple creative choral warm- of the Year by the Lafayette Educa-
ups that promote expressive singing, tion Foundation.
Through the vast and diverse musicality, aural skills, and esprit des
Australian landscape, the traditions corps. Using solfege, canons, and
and sounds of the Indigenous Ab- commercial jingles, along with mod-

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