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Shoreline Community College
Participating Choirs
Chamber Chorale
Conducted by Anjali Chudasama
University of Montana
Chamber Chorale Oregon State University
Conducted by Stevie J. Hirner Chamber Choir
Conducted by Steven Zielke
Eastern Washington University
Symphonic Choir Boise State University

Conducted by Kristina Ploeger-Hekmatpanah Meistersingers
Conducted by Richard Hutton
University of Portland
Singers Pacific Lutheran University
Conducted by David De Lyser University Chorale

Conducted by Raul Dominguez

2026 ACDA Northwestern Region Conference

S pecial E v en ts
Special Events

Music in Worship Service Stephen Michael Newby holds the Lev H.
Prichard III Endowed Chair in the study
of Black worship and professor of music
Break Forth, Sing Together! and serves as ambassador for the Black
Gospel Music Preservation Program at
This will be an eclectic event emphasizing singing Baylor University. He formerly served as minister of
together with a variety of music suitable for places of worship at Peachtree Presbyterian Church in Atlanta,
worship. Featured presenter Dr. Stephen Newby will GA; and as director for the Center for African Ameri-
lead a massed choir and audience in a community sing can Worship Studies at Trevecca Nazarene University
event based on the music of pioneer gospel musician in Nashville, TN. He held a tenured professor of music
Andrae Crouch. This portion of the event will be based post at Seattle Pacific University, where he also served as
on research for the 2025 book, Soon and Very Soon: The director of university ministries, director for the Center
Transformative Music and Ministry of Andrae Crouch, coau- for Worship, and senior advisor to the university pres-
thored by Newby and Robert Darden and published by ident for missional excellence. Newby holds music de-
Oxford University Press. grees from Madonna University, the University of Mas-
sachusetts at Amherst, the University of Michigan, and
an MA in theology from Seattle Pacific Seminary.

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