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2024 ACDA Northwestern Region Conference January 24-27, 2024 Spokane, Washington

community to bring inspiration, innovation, and im- instrumentalist and lifelong singer currently in the alto
pact to your choirs. section of the Oregon Repertory Singers and the com-
poser-in-residence for the Oregon Repertory Singers
Oregon Repertory Singers Youth Choir Youth Choir. Her music for choirs, chamber ensembles,
soloists, and orchestras has been performed across North
America. She is the proprietor of Sirensong Publishing,
the primary distributor of her work.

University Choir and Orchestra:

Repertoire and Impact

The University Choir and Orchestra is a public rela-
tions ensemble for the university. Along with great classi-
The Oregon Repertory Singers Youth Choir serves cal repertoire, many composers today are arranging for
over 160 young singers in three locations (Inner SE choir with the addition of orchestra. This session will ex-
Portland, Beaverton, and Vancouver) with a growing plore the dynamic impact of this type of ensemble along
staff of passionate educators. We meet singers in their with the challenges it poses in logistics such as travel, set-
communities, providing music education, literacy skills, up, and needed sound reinforcement. The performance
and mountaintop musical experiences. Artistic Direc- portion of the program will feature hymn arrangements,
tor Aubrey Patterson actively partners with area school gospel, and classical repertoire.
programs as a choir clinician and sight-reading special-
ist.
Northwest Nazarene University
Aubrey Patterson (she/her) taught for Choir and Orchestra
twelve years as a director of choirs in
Oregon public high schools. She is cur-
rently the artistic director for the Oregon
Repertory Singers Youth Choir in Port-
land, as well as the director of Voces Auream at Lewis
and Clark. Patterson’s Oregon high school programs
have earned five state championships. Patterson enjoys
adjudicating, clinician work, and premiering new and
commissioned works with her ensembles. She enjoys
the outdoors, being in water in any capacity, and ad-
ventures with her partner, Nathan; goldendoodle, Zoey Northwest Nazarene University Choir and Orchestra
Jane; and new addition, Silas William. is one of our lead ensembles for music in the churches
and fulfills the role of public relations for NNU. Under
Stacey Philipps writes music to share the direction of Dr. Philip Miller, this ensemble features
the thrill of creation, collaboration, and over 100 students from a wide variety of majors across
performance influenced by modal har- the campus. They perform extensively throughout the
monies, folk songs, hymns, shape note region and internationally. Their dynamic concerts fea-
music, and the melodic and rhythmic ture music from hymn settings, contemporary Christian,
elements of the world around her. Philipps is a multi- gospel, classical choral/orchestral repertoire, and a cap-

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