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Trent Buglewicz is a choir teacher at Robert Istad is a Grammy Award-win-
Linn-Mar High School, where he has ning conductor and director of choral
spent the last ten years. In addition to studies at CSU Fullerton, where he was
directing the advanced mixed chorus, recognized as CSUF’s 2016 Outstanding
Chamber Singers, since the fall of 2020, Professor. He is also artistic director of
he also conducts Fortis, Cantemus, and the extra-cur- Pacific Chorale. His artistry can be heard on Mahler’s
ricular show choir Tenth Street Edition. He received Eighth Symphony with the Los Angeles Philharmonic
his BME from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in conducted by Gustavo Dudamel on Deutsche Gram-
2014 and now lives in Cedar Rapids with his wife, Lexi mophon (2021), for which he was awarded the Gram-
Robson-Buglewicz. Buglewicz avidly enjoys watching my Award for Best Choral Performance, and other re-
the Yankees play baseball, struggles to play golf, and cordings. He serves on the executive board of Chorus
loves his students and colleagues at Linn-Mar. America and dean of Chorus America’s Conducting
Academy.
California State University-Fullerton Texas Woman’s University
University Singers Concert Choir

California State University-Fullerton’s University
Singers, led by Dr. Robert Istad, perform all over world The Concert Choir at Texas Woman’s University
and collaborate with Los Angeles Philharmonic and in Denton, TX, is a forty-five-voice, select treble choir
Pacific Symphony. They performed at the 2013 ACDA consisting of undergraduate and graduate students ma-
National Conference; 2013 NCCO Conference; and joring in a variety of disciplines. It is the premier choral
2012, 2018, and 2023 Western ACDA Region Con- ensemble at TWU, which is a co-educational state insti-
ferences. Recent tours include Rwanda, South Africa, tution primarily for women. In support of the univer-
Eastern Australia, Spain, Scandinavia, and Russia. sity’s female focus initiative, music by female composers
They perform with conductors Gustavo Dudamel, Carl is frequently featured on the Concert Choir’s programs,
St. Clair, David Newman, and John Williams; and are as well as a wide span of literature from masterworks to
heard on Sony Records’ John Williams and Steven Spiel- modern innovations. Since the founding of the choral
berg: The Ultimate Collection and Yarlung Records’ Nostos: program in 1905, the choir has presented at regional
The Homecoming of Music. and national conferences and at international events.

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