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2026 ACDA Southwestern Region Conference March 4-7, 2026 Albuquerque, New Mexico

MB Krueger is the director of choral ac- and community ensembles in Texas, Colorado, and
tivities at Metropolitan State University, Michigan and received her doctorate from Michigan
where she directs the Chorale, Univer- State University.
sity Treble Choir, and University Basso
Choir, and teaches basic and advanced
conducting. She earned her bachelor’s degree at Mich-
igan State University, where she was a National Mer- Folk Roots, Global Reach
it Scholar, and her master’s degree from Miami Uni-
versity in Oxford, Ohio. Krueger served ten years on Folk traditions in singing practices have stood as
the board of Colorado ACDA and has been a regular a building block for community, culture, and artistic
presenter at various clinics and conferences through exploration around the world. By including a myriad
CoACDA and CMEA. She is also active as a clini- of disparate repertoire within your musical selection,
cian for high school honor choirs and choral festivals. your ensemble will experience a spectrum of sound,
Krueger is a member of St. Martin’s Chamber Choir heritage, and commonality. To introduce these topics,
and St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church Choir, and has also Thai, Korean, and United States folk selections are
sung professionally with the Santa Fe Desert Chorale, placed under the magnifying glass. Within each ex-
the Santa Fe Opera, and the Baroque Chamber Or- ample, an overview of cultural significance, historical
chestra of Colorado. background, and musical traditions will be reviewed
to demonstrate a variation of commonalities and indi-
vidually unique traits by respected culture-sharers who
bring unique expertise. Session attendees will receive
Fight, Flight, and Forte: supporting materials that not only outline the promo-
Cultivating Vocal Courage tion of global folk music in the choir room but will act
as a vehicle toward individual confidence in varied rep-
It is harder than ever to help students “put them- ertoire collections.
selves out there.” Risk-taking is integral to vocal de-
velopment, and yet students are more risk averse than Samuel Sherman is pursuing his DMA in
ever. In this interactive session, teachers will learn choral conducting at the Frost School of
what is going on in students’ brains and bodies during Music at the University of Miami, serving
risk-taking, how we got here, and what we can do to as a graduate teaching assistant. Sherman
help our choristers sing better and live bravely. holds a BM in vocal performance from
the University of Northern Colorado and an MM in
Clelyn Chapin serves as the associate di- conducting from the University of Denver’s Lamont
rector of choirs at University of North- School of Music. Recent engagements include working
ern Colorado, where she leads choral as a guest choral clinician in New World Symphony’s
ensembles and teaches courses in choral BLUE Project, leading the Denver Philharmonic and
music education. In addition to her work Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic in the International
at UNC, Chapin conducts the Denver Women’s Cho- Conducting Institute workshop and competition, and
rus, a 180-voice treble choir founded for members and serving as the assistant conductor of the Master Cho-
allies of the LGBTQ+ community with a focus on so- rale of South Florida.
cial justice programming. Her research focuses on cre-
ating collaborative, efficient rehearsal spaces; her work Jisu Oh is a DMA candidate and teach-
is available in Choral Repertoire by Women Composers (GIA, ing assistant at the University of Miami
2025). Before beginning at UNC, she spent fourteen Frost School of Music. She earned a BA
years teaching and conducting secondary, collegiate, in choral conducting with a vocal minor

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