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2024 ACDA Midwestern Region Conference February 7-10, 2024 Omaha, Nebraska

Ann Howard Jones is professor emerita Tom Trenney is a composer, conductor,
of music at Boston University (1993), organist, preacher, and teacher. He has
where she was director of choral activi- been blessed to serve as minister of music
ties and conducted the Chamber Chorus to First-Plymouth Church in Lincoln, Ne-
and the Symphonic Chorus. She was re- braska, since 2009. In 2019 he became as-
sponsible for the highly regarded graduate program in sociate professor of music and director of choirs at Ne-
choral conducting. She received the Robert Shaw Cho- braska Wesleyan University. Trenney’s choirs have been
ral Award from ACDA (2011) for distinguished profes- honored to perform for state, regional, and national con-
sional accomplishment and service, the Distinguished ferences of ACDA, and they have been award winners
Service to the Profession Award from Chorus America in the American Prize for choral ensembles. He serves as
(2014), and the Metcalf Award from Boston University Music in Worship Chair for Midwest ACDA. Trenney
(2003). She was awarded a Fulbright professorship to has been a featured performer at churches, colleges, and
Brazil. Jones has written extensively on score prepara- concert halls across the country. His choral compositions
tion, rehearsal techniques, and healthy singing in the are published by Augsburg Fortress, Beckenhorst Press,
choral rehearsal. She was awarded degrees in vocal Choristers Guild, E.C. Schirmer/Galaxy, Morningstar,
performance and the DMA in choral conducting from Musicspoke, Pavane, and G. Schirmer. He is a graduate
the University of Iowa. of the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Eastman
School of Music.

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