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2026 ACDA Northwestern Region Conference March 4-7, 2026 Tacoma, Washington

Learn how to help your students understand the role cast. He serves ACDA as the Northwest Region mem-
of their voices and find freedom and balance no matter bership chair and as a member of Washington ACDA’s
where or how they sing! Diversity Initiatives Committee.

Matthew Myers serves as associate di- Alisa Toy is an award-winning coloratu-
rector of choral activities at Washington ra soprano who hails an impressive thir-
State University, where he conducts the ty-year performing and teaching career.
University Singers and Treble Choir and Internationally, Toy soloed in Great Brit-
teaches choral methods, conducting, and ain, Canada, Pakistan, and Italy, includ-
vocal pedagogy. He earned his DMA in choral con- ing a concert for Pope Benedict XVI with the Rome
ducting at Louisiana State University, MM in choral Symphony Orchestra. She works as lecturer in voice
conducting from Northern Arizona University, and at Washington State University. She currently serves
BA in vocal performance/music education from Lu- as the assistant conductor of the Palouse Choral So-
ther College. Prior to his time at WSU, he taught choir ciety and served as the artistic director for the Colum-
at The American International School of Muscat in bus Choral Society for seven years. She holds an MM
Oman; Boylan Catholic High School in Rockford, Illi- in vocal performance and choral conducting from the
nois; and the University of Alabama. He conducts the University of Idaho and a BME from Mississippi Uni-
Palouse Choral Society and cohosts the Choir Fam pod- versity for Women. She taught K–12 music in public

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