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ACDA NATIONAL
Alphabetical Listing of Interest Sessions
2025 2025 ACDA National Conference March 18-22, 2025 Dallas, Texas
Student Conducting Masterclass (Open to Both Tracks)
March 18-22 Dallas, TX S tuden t C onduc ting Mast er class

Undergraduate development and organizational change initiatives for
music-focused organization throughout the United
States. Fox’s compositions and arrangements are pub-
Thursday 10:30 am - 12:30 pm lished by Hal Leonard, MusicSpoke and Brilee Music,
Moody Performance Hall and his book, Yes, You Can: A Band Director’s Guide to Teach-

Auditorium ing Choirs is published by Carl Fischer. He has cultivated
educational partnerships with musical organizations,
such as Hal Leonard, Sounding Spirit, TATI, and the

Graduate Country Music Association Foundation.

Thursday 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Sharon J. Paul holds the Robert M. Trotter
Moody Performance Hall Chair of Music at the University of Or-
egon, where she serves as the department
Auditorium head of music performance and director
of choral activities. Her teaching includes
graduate courses in choral conducting, repertoire, and
Clinicians pedagogy, along with conducting the internationally
award-winning Chamber Choir. Paul has presented in-
terest sessions at regional, state, division, national, and
Jeffrey Douma is the Marshall Bar- international conferences. She appears as adjudicator,
tholomew Professor in the Practice of clinician, conductor, teacher, and honor choir director
Choral Music at the Yale School of Mu- throughout the United States and abroad. Her book,
sic, where he heads the program in cho- Art & Science in the Choral Rehearsal (OUP, 2020), features
ral conducting and conducts the Yale many of the creative and evidence-based teaching strat-
Glee Club, hailed under his direction by the New York egies she has cultivated over her career.
Times as “one of the best collegiate singing ensembles,
and one of the most adventurous,” as well as the Yale
Choral Artists, a professional, project-based ensemble. Julie Yu is professor of music and direc-
He has appeared as guest conductor with ensembles on tor of choral studies at the Wanda L. Bass
six continents and makes frequent domestic and inter- School of Music at Oklahoma City Uni-
national appearances as clinician and master teacher. versity and the artistic director of Can-
He has prepared choruses for such conductors as Wil- terbury Voices. Yu holds a BME from the
liam Christie, Sir David Willcocks, Helmuth Rilling, University of Central Oklahoma, an MM from Okla-
and Marin Alsop and has premiered many new works. homa State University, and a DMA from the Univer-
sity of North Texas. She previously taught at Norman
North High School in Oklahoma, San José State Uni-
Derrick Fox is the associate dean of versity, and Kansas State University. Her choirs have
graduate studies, research, and creative performed for state and regional conferences of ACDA,
endeavors and a professor of choral con- NAfME, DoDEA Europe Honors Music Festival, and
ducting at Michigan State University. He the European MEA. She is a past president of the
has conducted all-state and honor choirs Southwestern ACDA Region and served as an Interna-
and has been in residence at universities across the tional Conducting Exchange Fellow to Kenya.
United States and abroad. He also leads professional

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