One of the most active and versatile conductors in America today, Peter Eklund possesses a unique ability to work effectively with musicians at all levels of performing capability and experience. His con- certizing/clinician schedule averages 60 national and international con- certs annually and includes a wide array of professional, liturgical, festival, col- legiate, and student ensembles throughout North America and Europe. His academic choirs have performed on numerous American Choral Directors Association regional and nation- al conventions where their frequency of performance set unprecedented national records. Eklund has conducted his choirs in many of the world's greatest performance venues including, Carnegie


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Hall, Washington DC's Kennedy Center, National Cathedral, and Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis, St. Mark's Basilica in Venice, Christ Church in Oxford, Mozart's Salzburg Cathedral (where he conducts yearly), Paris's Notre Dame (also conducting yearly), St. Stephen's in Vienna, St. John the Divine and Alice Tully Hall in NYC, and in other famous cathedrals, abbeys, and performance halls in New York, Chicago, London, Coventry, Canterbury, Chartres, Reims, Rouen, Mt St. Michel, Lucerne, Metz, Strasbourg, Paris, and Verona. He divides his time among three roles: conductor, guest lecturer, and teacher/mentorand is the Director of Choral Activities at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he heads the Masters and Doctoral choral conducting programs, conducts the nationally rec- ognized University Singers, and conducts the nationally renowned University of Nebraska Varsity Men's Chorus. However, his greatest role of all is that of husband to Teresa and father of their four sons: Ben, Bryant, Brady and Brantley. In his spare time, he is an occasional golfer (actually having scored a hole-in-one), and a reluctant but diligent gardener.


Bob Jones High School Patriot Singers is a select vocal ensemble of students in grades ten through twelve. The Patriot Singers perform in at least four con- certs annually, and are often called upon to perform at additional school and community events. The Patriot Singers recently appeared with the Huntsville Symphony, Huntsville Community Chorus, and chorus- es from The University of Alabama in Huntsville and The University of North Alabama in widely acclaimed performances of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. Having won competitions in Branson, Orlando, Washington, D. C., and Williamsburg, the ensemble will perform in Carnegie Hall in April, 2008. The members and direc- tor are honored to be invited to perform for the AMEA convention.


Peter Rovit (BM with High Distinction, Indiana University; MM, Hartt School; DMA, SUNY at Stony Brook) was among the last students of Josef Gingold at Indiana University where he also studied Baroque violin with Stanley Ritchie. His other teachers have included Mitchell Stern, Philip Setzer, Cho-Liang Lin, and Donald Weilerstein. Dr. Rovit has been the recipient of numer- ous awards and scholarships including the Kuttner Scholarship at Indiana University, the C.V. Starr Scholarship at the Juilliard School, and the Aspen Music Festival's String Fellowship. As a chamber musician, recitalist, and soloist he has performed throughout the United States and at the Spring in Saint Petersburg Festival in Russia. Performances have included concert appearances with the International Sejong Soloists and on Baroque violin with the Rebel Ensemble and with Harpsichordist Robert Edward Smith. He has been a recipient of the prestigious Montgomery Symphony Fellowship in Alabama which involved performing as concertmaster and soloist with the symphony and giving numerous concert appearances throughout the area. Before coming to


the University of Alabama Dr. Rovit was on the string faculty of the University of Oklahoma, a member of the Quartet Oklahoma, and Associate Concertmaster of the Oklahoma City Philharmonic. He has performed with such musicians as Andrew Jennings, Felicia Moye, Katherine Wolfe, Volkan Orhon, Christina Jennings, Ricardo Morales, Larry Combs, and the Emerson Quartet.


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