2011 AVA All-State Clinicians
Santa Barbara Music Publishing. It has been featured at music educators' conventions from Ohio to Hawaii. In addition, Johnson maintains an active schedule as an adjudicator and guest conductor
for high-school and High School SATB Chorus
Jefferson Johnson is Director of Choral Activities at the University of Kentucky where he conducts the University Chorale,UKChoristers, and Men's Chorus. He also teaches advanced choral conducting, choral methods and literature, and directs the graduate program (MM and DMA degrees) in choral music. A native of Atlanta, Johnson received the Bachelor ofMusic degree from the University of Georgia (magna cum laude, 1978), the Master ofMusic fromthe University of Tennessee (1981), and the Doctor of MusicalArts degree fromtheUniversity of Colorado (1992). While living in Atlanta, Johnson was also a member of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus and Chamber Chorus conducted by Robert Shaw.
Johnson is presently Music Director of the Lexington Singers . The 180-voice community chorus annually performs major works with the Lexington Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2000 the chorus performed Mozart's Requiem with theViennaMozartOrchestra in the famous Hofberg Palace and sang the evening mass at the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris. In 1999 the Lexington Singers celebrated its 40th anniversary with a performance inNewYork City as Johnson made his Carnegie Hall debut conducting the Singers and orchestra in Faure's Requiem.
Dr. Johnson's recently released video "
Ready...Set...Sing!" is published by
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collegiate choirs throughout the United States.He has recently conducted honor choruses inAlabama, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, New York, North Carolina, and SouthDakota.He has also been a clinician for theACDA-National Convention (Washington, D.C.), ACDA-Central Division (Detroit, MI), ACDA-Southern Division (Charleston, SC and Orlando, FL), North Carolina ACDA,MichiganACDA,OhioACDA, Georgia ACDA, Kentucky ACDA, and Iowa ACDA. The University of Kentucky Chorale, under Dr. Johnson's direction, has performed at regional and state conventions ofACDAandMENC.
taken himtoAlabama, Florida, Kansas, Ohio,
Illinois, Connecticut, West
Virginia, Iowa, Nebraska, Arizona, SouthDakota, Indiana andMichigan, as well as his home state ofWisconsin.
He is most proud of his three children who have college degrees inmusic. Two are choral conductors while the third is working for "havefunorgohome." In his spare time, you will find Paul on the golf course, working out at the fitness center or spending time with his grand twins, Hailey and Riley.
High School SSAChorus
High School TTBB Chorus
PaulGulsvig taught vocalmusic for 33 years, and retired in 2006 from Onalaska High School in Onalaska, Wisconsin, where he taught for 28 of those 33 years.
Paul Gulsvig has begun a new career with a newcompany,More ThanMusic. Paul's new career includes; retreat presenter, show doctor, motivational speaker, leadership workshops for high school, in-serviceworkshops for school districts and show choir adjudication. He has been able to assist awide variety of schools,
Jeffrey Clayton is in his eleventh year as Vocal Department Chair at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts in Jacksonville, Florida. He is honored to be a member of a faculty that has been awarded two consecutive GOLD GRAMMY AWARDs
from the
Grammy Foundation and last year (2010) being awarded the top prize as the National GRAMMY Signature School—the best high school music program in the United States! In April of 2008 Mr. Clayton was awarded the prestigious Gladys Prior Award for Career Excellence in Teaching.
including elementary,
middle & high schools, college and graduate programs. His expertise has
His choirs, ensembles, and soloists have earned countless superior ratings at district and state festivals as well as performing for live television specials. His Chorale Women have been the opening choir for the Florida Chapter of the American Chorale Directors Association (ACDA) convention. They performed for the 2010ACDASouthern
February 2011
Jefferson Johnson
Jeffrey Clayton
Paul Gulsvig
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