2014 AVA All-State Clinicians
High School SATB Chorus
Daniel Bara is the Director of Choral Activities and Professor of Music at the Hugh Hodgson School of Music at the University of Georgia where oversees seven university choral ensembles as well as the graduate choral conducting program. His university choirs have performed for state, regional, and national conventions of ACDA and MENC, and the ECU Chamber Singers completed two professional recordings for the Gothic Records label (Greater Love, 2007; Eternal Light, 2010). His conducting students have advanced into the live rounds of the ACDA National Conducting Competition and other ACDA sponsored conducting master classes, and former MM and DMA conducting students now hold
collegiate conducting
appointments at Susquehanna University, New England Conservatory, Miami University of Ohio, University of Idaho, and William Jewell College. Dr. Bara was the recipient of the UNC Board of Governors Distinguished Professor for Teaching Award and the Robert L. Jones Award for Outstanding Teaching. Prior accolades include the Walter Hagen Conducting Prize given at the Eastman School of Music, and the ACDA National Student Conducting Competition (Graduate Division) awarded at
the National
Convention in San Antonio, TX in 2001. Dr. Bara is Past-President of NC-ACDA, has held the Artistic Directorship of the New York State Summer School of the Arts – School of Choral Studies (2007-2009), and has served as conductor of the World Youth Honor Choir at Interlochen Arts Camp (2004-2006). He is in regular demand as a guest conductor and clinician, with recent or upcoming engagements with all-state or regional honor choirs in
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Arkansas, Alabama, California, Louisiana, Colorado, Massachusetts, Vermont, Virginia, New York, West Virginia, South Carolina, and Georgia. Dr. Bara holds the DMA degree in conducting from the Eastman School of Music, organ and conducting degrees from the University of Michigan, and is a graduate of Interlochen Arts Academy. He is the Youth and Student Activities Chairman for the Southern Division Chapter of ACDA, and served as the Performing Choir Chair for the Southern Division ACDA Convention in Winston-Salem in 2012. At UGA, Dr. Bara conducts the UGA Hodgson Singers and the University Chorus.
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U.S. military music ensemble. Dr. Palant sits on the board of directors of the Intercollegiate Men's Choruses and has served on the state board of the Michigan chapter of the American Choral Directors Association and Youth First Texas, where he was founder and conductor of Dallas PUMP!, a choir serving at-risk youth. Dr. Palant holds degrees from Michigan State University, Temple University, and the University of Michigan.
Russian-American conductor Elena Sharkova is recognized nationally and internationally as an inspirational, versatile, and effective conductor, choral clinician, music educator, and lecturer. She has conducted professional, university, youth, and community choirs and orchestras in 17 coutries across North America, Asia, Eastern and Western Europe, Russia, and the Middle East. Ms. Sharkova has served as a jury member at numerous national and international music
festivals and competitions. An expert on Russian choral
Jonathan Palant is a conductor, music educator, and writer. In addition to being minister of music at Kessler Park United Methodist Church in Dallas, Texas, he is an active guest conductor and clinician throughout the United States and around the world, and has served as visiting professor of music at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Kentucky, and at Richland College, Dallas, Texas. From 2007 to 2011, Dr. Palant served as artistic director of Dallas' Turtle Creek Chorale and founder of the Partners In Harmony Chorus. Under his leadership, the Turtle Creek Chorale enjoyed milestone events including the Texas premiere of Night Passage, a one-act opera by Robert Moran based on the arrest of Oscar Wilde in London, and the premiere of the Turtle Creek Chorale commissioned work Our Better Angels, composed by Andrea Clearfield, with text by Robert Espindola. Another first was the Chorale's performance with the United States Army Chorus and the Dallas Wind Symphony-marking the first GALA-affiliated chorus appearance with a
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music, Elena has lectured extensively on its repertoire and performance practices and conducted several U.S. premiers of Russian contemporary Sharkova
compositions. Elena
professional artists; some of most notable conducting
regurlarly appears with engagements
include
Symphony Silicon Valley, Kronos Quartet, and spring 2012 series of performances with Grammy Award winning “Orchestra of Voices” male choir Chanticleer as one of the ensemble’s 2011-2012 Guest Music Directors. As a soprano, Elena Sharkova has performed and recorded with one of Russia’s finest professional choirs Lege
February/March 2014
Daniel Bara
Jonathan Palant
Elena Sharkova
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