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2024 ACDA Southwestern Region Conference

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

She serves as chair-elect for Colorado all-state choir its 69th annual performance of Handel’s Messiah, a
and previously served on the Colorado ACDA board. longstanding University tradition.
Branton holds music degrees from St. Olaf College
and Colorado State University. Jerron A. Liddell is the director of cho-
ral activities at the University of Arkan-
sas at Pine Bluff. He holds degrees from
the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff,
Graduate University of Central Arkansas, and is
currently pursuing a PhD at University of Memphis.
Kristina Caswell MacMullen will be the clinician for Liddell has taught at levels from elementary to college,
this masterclass. Her photo and bio are on page 85. including Dollarway High and Robert F. Morehead
Middle Schools in Pine Bluff, and North Little Rock
Middle School in North Little Rock, Arkansas. He has
University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff assisted with the Voices of Central Arkansas (VOCA)
Vesper Choir Children’s Choir and served as assistant director of the
University Chorus at University of Central Arkansas.
Liddell has an extensive background in gospel music
and currently serves as minister of worship at St. Luke
Baptist Church in North Little Rock, AR.

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Attendee $375 Retired $270 Student $135
The University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff Vesper
Choir is internationally recognized among Histori-
cally Black Colleges and Universities for its diverse Registration after 11:59 PM CST January 15, 2024
repertoire and excellent performances. This ensemble
was founded in the 1946 by Professor Ariel Lovelace Attendee $400 Retired $300 Student $135
and conducted for more than forty years by Professor
Shelton J. McGee. It has a rich choral tradition that in- Guest Registration $375
cludes numerous performances on radio and television,
as well as performances across the United States and One-Day Registration $185 (only available on-site)
over the internet. The Vesper Choir presents entertain-
ing and varied programs of classical choral literature,
spirituals, choral jazz and commercial music, and gos-
pel selections. In December 2022, the Choir presented

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