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ACDA NATIONAL
Alphabetical Listing of Interest Sessions
2025 2025 ACDA National Conference March 18-22, 2025 Dallas, Texas
March 18-22 Dallas, TX Student Conducting Masterclass Participants

The National Student Conducting Masterclass selects Studio’s production of Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Under-
students through a competitive process in the early fall world, and music director of Out of the Blue, a prison
of the even-numbered year. The Collegiate National outreach choir. He received a bachelor’s degree in music
R&R Team serve as the program coordinators. The from Harvard University and master’s degree in choral
selected participants have the opportunity to receive conducting from Yale’s Institute of Sacred Music. He
personalized guidance from esteemed choral directors looks forward to lending his training and diverse expe-
and will conduct the Biola University Chorale (Shaw- rience to conducting works for choir, musical theater,
na Stewart, director) as the demonstration choir at the opera, and orchestra.
2025 National Conference.

Kyra Stahr is a DMA candidate in choral
Graduate conducting at the University of Miami,
and serves as a graduate teaching assistant
and assistant conductor of Seraphic Fire.
Youngeun Kim, a native of South Korea, Stahr is instructor of record for Choral
is a second-year doctoral student in cho- Conducting 1 and the premier treble ensemble, Bella
ral conducting at the University of Arizo- Voce. An active guest conductor, clinician, and present-
na. As a graduate teaching assistant, she er, she has shared her expertise at international confer-
currently serves as the assistant conduc- ences, including the 2023 World Symposium on Cho-
tor of the University Community Chorus. Additional- ral Music, the 2025 ACDA National Conference, and
ly, she is the music director at First United Methodist TMEA 2025 Conference. In 2022 she was selected for
Church and the assistant conductor at Tucson Master- the ACDA Eastern Graduate Conducting Masterclass.
works Chorale. She presented on the Korean female She holds an MM in choral music from the Universi-
composer Hyo-won Woo at the University of Arizona’s ty of Southern California and a BM in vocal perfor-
DEI Choral Literature Intensive in June 2024 and was mance and music education from Miami University.
awarded the Medici Scholarship in 2024. In 2022, Kim Stahr co-founded and co-hosts the podcast conduct(her)
was one of three conductors selected to conduct in the with her sister McKenna Stenson. conduct(her) amplifies
Southern ACDA Region Conference Conducting Mas- the voices of women conductors and composers while
terclass with Dr. Eugene Rogers. Kim completed a BM exploring the gender divide in the choral music field.
in vocal performance and MM in choral conducting
from Ewha Woman’s University in South Korea, and
earned a second master’s degree in choral conducting Alissa Ruth Suver has an active career as
from the University of Louisville. a teacher, conductor, and singer. She sings
with professional choral ensembles around
the country, including the Santa Fe Desert
Sydney Mukasa is a conductor, tenor, Chorale, Skylark, Ensemble Altera, Con-
and pianist from Baltimore, Maryland. spirare, Ensemble Iona, ensemble viii, The Crossing,
He is currently in his third year of doc- and True Concord. In the past year, she has been select-
toral study in choral conducting at the ed for conducting masterclasses at Eastern ACDA (Jason
University of Michigan School of Music, Max Ferdinand, clinician) and the Norfolk Chamber
Theatre & Dance. Studying in the studio of Dr. Eugene Music Festival (Jeffrey Douma, clinician). She also has
Rogers, Mukasa has recently served at the University a wealth of middle and high school choral teaching ex-
as music director of Arts Chorale, assistant conductor perience, most recently at Timber Creek High School
of the Men’s Glee Club, chorus director of the Opera in Fort Worth, Texas. She holds a BME from Capital

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