AMEA 2010 Clinicians and Performers
Betsy Cook Weber received the Bachelor of Music degree from North Texas State University, a Master of Music degree from Westminster Choir College (Princeton, N.J.), and a Doctorate of Musical Arts in conducting from the University of Houston. Postgraduate study as a Music Fellow at Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois). Dr. Weber directs the University Chorus and, from time- to-time, teaches various courses in conducting, choral literature, and rehearsal techniques. She served for seven years as Assistant and later Associate, Director of the Houston Symphony Chorus. Her duties with the Houston Symphony Chorus included assisting in the preparation of large choral-orchestral works for conductors such as Christoph Eschenbach, Robert Shaw, Robert Page, Peter Schrier, and Nicholas McKeegan among many others. She is highly sought-after and active as a conductor, clinician, lecturer, and adjudicator. Before coming to the University of Houston, Dr. Weber taught public-school vocal music (K-12). While there, she helped design various curricula, and her choirs received numerous awards and prizes. She was one of the founding directors of the all-district Spring Branch Boys Choir and also directed the Spring Branch Girls Choir. Dr. Weber's research activities include the editing of choral/instrumental works of
the 18th century composer, Michael Haydn. Publications include Litanie della Madonna (1782), "Regina coeli," "Kyrie," and "Dixit Dominus."
The Alabama A&M University Choir continues a choral tradition, which had at its inception during the tenure of William Hooper Council, an ex-slave, who founded the school in 1875.
The choir’s tradition includes an annual Christmas Musicale, which brings hundreds of music lovers from great distances to North Alabama each December.
The choir’s tradition contains a high standard of excellence that is continuing under the present Interim Director, Dr. Horace Carney. Form directors, Richard F. Tucker, Assistant Professor of Music (1989-2002) and Nell Bradford (1947-1989) established this high standard. Each year, the choir is invited to various parts of the country to appear in concert. Past tours and appearances have included Birmingham, Montgomery, Mobile, Anniston, and Phenix City, Alabama.
Other cities include Los
Angeles, CA, Atlanta, GA, ST. Louis, MO, Fayetteville, TN, Indianpolis, IN, Detroit, MI and Chicago, IL. In a previous concert, the press commented that this choral aggregation is one of the finest in the Southeast; however, a minister commented, “Indeed, this sentiment is too limited. The Alabama A&M University is one of the finest choirs in our nation.” In 2007 the choir accepted an invitation to participate in the American Choral Festival held in Leipzig, Germany. It is the first time that a HBCU school has participated in this prestigious music festival. The Alabama A&M University Choir released its first CD in 2006. The recording exemplifies the high standard of excellence in a variety of musical styles. It has been a success.
Bradley Vincent Palmer is co-founder of DoubleStop Percussion, a Birmingham, Alabama-based company providing percussion instruction for all levels of experience in schools across the southeast. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Music Education from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and a Master of Arts from Middle Tennessee State University. His teachers include Eric Hollenbeck and Lalo Davila. He is an active educator, performer, arranger, adjudicator, and maintains a private in- struction studio. He is an alumnus of the Cavaliers Drum and Bugle Corps and Magic of Orlando Drum and Bugle Corps, and is a recipient of the 2000 Drum Corps International World Championship and In- dividual and Ensemble Percussion Ensemble Championship. He has taught as adjunct professor at Mid- dle Tennessee State University and has instructed the Bluecoats Drum and Bugle Corps front ensemble since 2003. Mr. Palmer has presented clinics and masterclasses in Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Ohio, Texas, and Colorado. Mr. Palmer resides in Hoover, Alabama with his wife Heather and their daughter Ella. He endorses Innovative Percussion, Inc.
6 October 2009
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