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president of Michigan ACDA. He holds a BME and Collegiate
an MM from the University of Southern Mississippi, as
well as PhD in choral conducting and music education
from the Florida State University. Betsy Cook Weber is the Madison En-
dowed Professor of Music and Director
of Choral Studies at the University of
7-9 Treble Choir Houston Moores School of Music and
is also active internationally as a conduc-
tor, clinician, adjudicator, and lecturer. Choirs under
Tammy Carney holds a BME from the Weber’s direction, including the University of Houston
University of Mississippi and an MME Concert Chorale, have been featured at multiple state
from the University of Southern Missis- and national conventions including the ACDA Nation-
sippi. She is the director of choral activi- al Conferences in 2007 and 2017. Weber also served
ties at Long Beach High School in Long Beach, Missis- for eight seasons as director of the Houston Symphony
sippi. Over the past twenty-nine years, her choirs and Chorus, preparing programs for some of the world’s
ensembles have been recognized with numerous awards leading orchestral conductors. In 2013, Weber became
and have performed at the Kennedy Center, Carnegie the first woman to receive the Texas Choral Directors
Hall, Lincoln Center, and the Grand Ole Opry. In 2018, Association’s Texas Choirmaster Award. She serves as
Petal Middle School awarded Carney Teacher of the editor of the Betsy Cook Weber Choral Series with Alliance
Year. She was selected as Clinton Junior High Teacher Music Publishing.
of the Year in 2012. In 2016 she was honored with the
ACDA Ernestine Ferrell Award for Choral Excellence
and the Mississippi Music Educator of the Year Award.
She is an active church musician and clinician conduct- Contemporary A Cappella - Collegiate
ing honor choirs in Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi.

J. D. Frizzell is the director of fine arts
and director of vocal music at Briarcrest
10-12 Mixed Choir Christian School in Memphis, Tennessee.

His ensembles have performed at region-
Jabarie Glass is the associate director of al, national, and international conven-
choral studies at the University of South tions. Winner of the Integrales Composition Contest,
Carolina, where he conducts Univer- Frizzell has had many best-selling compositions and ar-
sity Chorus and Gamecock Chorale and rangements. He also co-authored A Cappella Warm Ups
teaches undergraduate and graduate with Deke Sharon and Teaching Music Through Performance
courses in conducting and choral pedagogy. Choral in A Cappella with Deke Sharon and Marc Silverberg.
organizations under his leadership have been selected He is the president of the A Cappella Education As-
to perform at Southern ACDA Region, Mississippi sociation and the founder of The National A Cappella
ACDA, and the South Carolina MEA. Glass earned Convention. OneVoice, his a cappella group, is a Sony
dual bachelor’s degrees in business management and Recording Artist with over 100 million downloads and
music education from the University of Mississippi, an streams. They have performed at the Emmys and on
MME from the Florida State University College of Mu- America’s Got Talent.
sic, and a doctoral degree in conducting from the Uni-
versity of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance.

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