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

H onor C hoir C onduc t ors
Honor Choir Conductors

Elementary High School TB

Melissa Trevino Keylock serves as artistic Giselle Wyers is the Donald E. Petersen
director and executive director of the San Endowed Professor of Choral Music at
Diego North Coast Singers. She taught the University of Washington, as well as
eleven years at the Princeton Girlchoir, conducting the fifty-voice Concord with-
and previously worked at American Boy- in the Columbia Choirs consortium. As
choir School, Rider University, and the Indianapolis a guest conductor, Wyers has led honor choirs and all-
Children’s Choir. She founded the annual Princeton state choirs in fourteen states and in Canada, as well
Girlchoir Children Making a Difference benefit con- as working with semi-professional ensembles across
cert, raising over $30,000 for non-profits. She has Europe. She serves as an editorial board member for
taught public and private school, including K-12 vocal Choral Journal as well as a member of ACDA’s Stand-
music and AP Music Theory. Throughout her career, ing Committee on International Activities. She has
Trevino Keylock has served in state and regional lead- composed thirty choral works, often on texts situated
ership positions with ACDA. She holds an undergradu- around her ardent love and pervasive concern for pro-
ate degree from Wheaton College and an MM from tecting nature.
Butler University, and directed the Butler University
Women’s Glee Club. She completed her Kodály stud-
ies at Capital University.
Middle School Mixed

Brandon A. Boyd is the director of choral
High School SA activities and the graduate choral con-
ducting program and associate professor
David Rayl recently retired as director of choral music education at the Univer-
of choral programs and senior associate sity of Missouri-Columbia. As an active
dean for graduate studies and research composer and arranger, his music is sung regularly by
and creative endeavors at the Michigan ensembles throughout the United States and abroad.
State University College of Music. In his He is the curator and editor of the Brandon A. Boyd
twenty-one years at MSU, he mentored over 130 grad- Choral Series, a choral series with Hinshaw Music
uate students in choral conducting. Under his baton, Publications. His music also appears in the catalogs of
MSU’s University Chorale appeared at the 2007 ACDA Gentry Publications, Hinshaw Music Company, Morn-
National Conference. He also prepared the Chorale for ingStar, GIA, and Kjos Music Press. In addition, he is
eight sets of performances with the Detroit Symphony the executive choral editor of Gentry Publications. He
Orchestra and regularly served as guest conductor with holds two degrees from Florida State University (PhD
the Lansing Symphony Orchestra, leading large-scale and MM) and earned a BME (emphasis in piano) from
choral-orchestral works. Rayl received MSU’s Uni- Tennessee State University. Boyd also serves as a mem-
versity Distinguished Faculty Award (2013) and the ber of the National ACDA Composition Initiatives
Simmons-Chivukula Award for Academic Leadership Committee.
(2019), and the College of Music’s Withrow Award for
Excellence in Teaching (2009).

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