State Philharmonic of Bialystok, Poland, the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, the Madrid Chamber Orchestra, and the New England Symphonic Ensemble in choral/orchestral performances. Galván was the sixth national honor choir conductor for ACDA, and was the conductor of the North American Children’s Choir which performed annually in Carnegie Hall from 1995-2007. She was also a guest conductor for the Mormon Tabernacle Choir in 2002. Galván has also been a guest conductor and clinician in the United Kingdom, Canada, Belgium, Austria, the Czech Republic, Greece, and Brazil as well as national and regional choral and music education conferences and the World Symposium on Choral Music. She was on the conducting faculty for the Carnegie Hall Choral Institute, the Transient Glory Symposium in February of 2012.
Galván has two choral music series with the Roger Dean Publishing Company and is the author of chapters in two books, Teaching Music through Performance in Choir, Volume 2 and The School Choral Program: Philosophy, Planning, Organizing and Teaching. She is also the series advisor to Latin Accents, a series with Boosey & Hawkes. Her article on the changing voice was published in the International Federation of Choral Music Journal in August of 2007 and was reprinted in La Circulare del Secretariat de Corals Infantils de Catalunga.
Galván has been recognized as one of the country’s leading conducting teachers, and her students have received first place awards and have been finalists in both the graduate and undergraduate divisions of the American Choral Directors biennial National Choral Conducting Competition. Dr. Galván was a member of the Grammy Award-winning Robert Shaw Festival Singers (Telarc Recordings).
Galván is the founder and faculty advisor of the Ithaca College ACDA Student Chapter. This chapter has won Outstanding Student Chapter at the last three national conventions of ACDA. She is past president of NYACDA.
Dr. Elizabeth Cassidy Parker is the Assistant Professor of Vocal Music Education at the Schwob School of Music at Columbus State University as well as the Artistic Director of the Voices of the Valley Youth Choir. She holds the Doctor of
ala breve
Philosophy degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, as well as bachelors and masters degrees from Oberlin Conservatory of Music. Dr. Parker held the position of Director of Music of a large New York City non-profit where she conducted a children’s choir program of more than 250 voices. She also taught general and choral music at two independent schools in Brooklyn, New York. Dr. Parker’s
choirs have
commissioned works by Daniel Brewbaker, Robert Convery, Malcolm Dalglish and Peter Eldridge, as well as toured Puerto Rico, Spain, and Canada. As a choral singer, Dr. Parker sang with Robert Shaw and
Middle School Mixed Chorus
Middle School Treble Chorus
workshops and clinics for teachers, and her research interests include developmental choral groups, the adolescent voice change, and learning partnerships.
James Conlon at Carnegie Hall. She has presented her research at the American Educational Research Association, NAfME’s National Society for Research in Music Education, the National American Choral Directors Association, the Mayday Colloquium XXII,
the Desert Skies
Research Symposium, and the International Society for Music Education. Dr. Parker is published in Action, Criticism and Theory in Music Education, The Choral Journal, Music Education Research, The Journal of Music Teacher Education and The International Journal of Music Education. Her research interests include the social and philosophical development of adolescent choral singers as well as socialization of pre- service music educators.
Judy Bowers, Professor of Choral Music Education at Florida State University, teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in choral music education, as well as conducting the Women’s Glee Club, a performing group that also provides Adopt- A-Choir and Study-Buddy partnerships with area secondary public school choirs. She has received a University Award for Excellence in Teaching at FSU. As a choral educator, she is an active conductor of all-state and honor choirs across the United States, and in
Professor Bowers holds music degrees from Louisiana State University (Ph.D.) and Texas Tech University (B.M.E.). From 1990-2000, she led the Capital Children’s Choir program at FSU and more recently has developed a community service partnership with an urban middle school. Since 2000, this collaboration has provided additional music ensembles for the middle school students (a jazz band, steel drum ensembles, and a world music choir) while also enriching
the teacher preparation
experiences for Florida State University students. In 2010, this community service partnership was honored locally by the Leon County school district and by the state, via the Florida Campus Compact, an agency designating FSU as the university most engaged in community partnerships for 2010.
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www.alabamamea.org and download the forms you need. Click on “AMEA Forms” located in the menu on the left side of the AMEA home page. Hall of Fame Nomination Form Outstanding Music Educator Nomination Form Outstanding Young Music Educator Nomination Form
Outstanding Administrator Nomination Form Barbara Odom Distinguished Service Award Nomination Form
FAME Registration Form Call for Sessions Form Performance Application Young Composers Competition Application Lobby Performance Application
2005 was awarded the Wayne Hugoboom Distinguished Service Award from Florida ACDA Chapter. Bowers frequently presents
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