2012 AVA All-State Clinicians


High School SATB Chorus


chapter of the American Choral Directors Association, and is the recipient of a “Crystal Apple” award for excellence in teaching at Emory University and the “American Prize” in Choral Conducting. He holds degrees in voice and conducting from Houghton College, Westminster Choir College, and Indiana University.


Eric Nelson is Director of Choral Studies at Emory University, where he conducts the Concert Choir and the University Chorus. He also teaches graduate Choral Conducting, Methods and Literature. In addition, Dr. Nelson is the Artistic Director of


the Atlanta Sacred Chorale, a


professional chamber choir specializing in sacred a cappella repertoire, and the Minister of Music at the historic 2nd de Leon Baptist Church in Atlanta.


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He has conducted choirs throughout North America


and Europe, including


performances in London, Rome, Krakow, Berlin, Leipzig, Prague, Moscow, Washington, D.C., Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and the Sydney Opera House. His choirs have appeared at six American Choral Directors Association conventions, including the Concert Choir’s performance at Chicago’s Orchestra Hall for the National Convention in 2011 and the Atlanta Sacred Chorale’s performance in Winston-Salem for the Southern Regional Convention in 2012. His ensembles have been praised for their ability to combine a high level of technical precision with warmth of musical expression.


Dr. Nelson’s compositions have been sung by choirs throughout the United States, including performances for the American Choral Director’s Association, the Music Educators National Conference,


churches, colleges and


of Kentucky. He holds a Bachelor’s of Music Education degree from Briar Cliff University in Sioux City, Iowa.


At Southern Miss, John teaches choral conducting, choral procedures, and choral literature, directs the Concert Choir, Spirit of Southern, Men’s Chorus, and the Southern Miss Gulf Coast Civic Chorale. His ensembles have been selected to perform at various state and regional conferences and concert series.


the


Association of Lutheran Church Musicians, the Presbyterian Association of Musicians, the American Guild of Organists, and for numerous


universities. Dr. Nelson is past President of the Georgia


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He founded the Festival of Choirs on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, which comprises the Civic Chorale and area high schools in a non-competitive concert. The Southern Experience Show Choir and Choral Camp was founded under Flanery’s guidance with over 500 junior high and high school students and teachers attending in its first four years.


John has served ACDA in various positions, currently serving as the Mississippi Chapter President. He has a new choral series with Colla Voce publishing company. He is also the church choir director at St. Thomas


High School SSA Chorus


John Flanery is Assistant Choral Director and Associate Professor at the University of Southern Mississippi. His Doctor of Musical Arts and Master’s degrees are both in Choral Conducting from the University


Aquinas Catholic Church in Hattiesburg.


As a high school music educator in the state of Iowa for nine years, John conducted concert choirs, madrigal dinners, show choirs, jazz choirs, and many other ensembles. John is a regular clinician and judge throughout


the Midwest and


Southeastern United States. He and his wife, Juliane, have four children, Elias, Cecelia, and Josephine, and Lucinda.


Dr. Janet Galván, Professor of Music at Ithaca College, conducts the Ithaca College Women's Chorale, the Ithaca College Chorus, and is Artistic Director for the Ithaca Children's Choir. Her New York colleagues


recognized Dr. Galván’s


High School TTBB Chorus


contribution to choral music in 1995 when she received the American Choral Directors Association


(ACDA) New York


Outstanding Choral Director Award. In 2010, she founded the chorus UNYC that has performed with the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra conductor).


(Lanfranco Marcelleti,


In demand as a guest conductor, Galván has conducted national, regional, and all-state choruses throughout the United States in venues such as Carnegie Hall, Washington’s Constitution Hall, Minneapolis’ Symphony Hall, Pittsburgh’s Heinz Hall, and Nashville’s Schermerhorn Symphony Center. She has conducted her own choral ensembles in Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, and Avery Fisher Hall as well as in concert halls in Ireland, Italy, the Czech Republic, Austria, Canada, and Spain. Her choral ensembles have also appeared at national, regional, and state music conferences. She has conducted the chamber orchestra, Virtuosi Pragneses, the


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Eric Nelsobn


John Flanery


Janet Galvan


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