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2024 ACDA Western Region Conference

Headliners/Special Events
H eadliners/S pecial E v en ts

tions in ACDA in Delaware and Boston and served as
Conducting Masterclasses Western Region President (1980-82). Huszti was hon-
ored by CCDA with the Howard Swan Award in 2020.
Joseph Huszti, Professor Emeritus,
retired from UC Irvine in 2014 after a
fifty-four-year teaching career, thirty- Iris S. Levine is nationally recognized
seven at UCI. After joining ACDA in for her excellence in choral conduct-
1960 as the 214th member, he continues ing. She is founder and artistic director
to be active as a singer and conductor of the Men in of VOX Femina Los Angeles, L.A.’s
Blaque. During his tenure at UC Irvine, twenty-seven premier women’s chorus. Levine has
international concert tours included prize-winning charted VOX Femina on an impressive journey, build-
performances at the International Musical Eistedfod, ing its prominence in the choral community by way of
the Bela Bartok International Choral Competition, the numerous concerts and appearances at ACDA confer-
Koorfest and the World Choir Games. Huszti headed ences, Chorus America conferences, and more. Under
the Young Vocalists Program at the Tanglewood Festi- Levine’s artistic leadership, VOX Femina Los Angeles
val from 1972 to 1977. Huszti has held leadership posi- has commissioned more than fifty new works for wom-
en’s voices. Levine is faculty emerita at California State
Polytechnic University, Pomona, where she served as
director of choral activities, dean, interim provost and
We’re coming to vice president for academic affairs. She has had former
regional conferences! leadership roles as ACDA state, regional, and National
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Marcela Molina has been affiliated with
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