AVA All-State 2008 Clinicians
High School SATB Kenneth Fulton is the Sanders Alumni Professor of Choral Studies and Chair of the Division of Ensembles and Conducting in the College of Music and Dramatic Arts at Louisiana State Univer- sity where he conducts the LSU A Cappella Choir, teaches undergraduate and graduate choral con- ducting, literature, and methods and guides the graduate degrees in choral conducting. He has been named as one of LSU's Distinguished Professors and in January 2006, he was awarded an Alumni Professorship, the university's most prestigious endowed teaching professorship. He is also Cho- rusmaster for the Baton Rouge Symphony Chorus and Artistic Director/Conductor for the Linz International Choral Festival in Linz, Austria where he annually conducts performances with the Festival Orchestra and Chorus. He is editor for the Kenneth Fulton Choral Series published by Al- liance Music Corporation. Fulton has conducted performances in some of the most prestigious performance venues in the world including Carnegie Hall in New York, Symphony Hall in Boston,
the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., the Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, the Mozarteum, and the Brucknerhaus in Austria. In addition, he has conducted the LSU A Cappella Choir in invitational performances in Notre Dame (Paris) and the Vatican (Rome), in six successful European tours of the Netherlands, France, Germany, England, Wales, Scotland, Aus- tria, the Czech Republic, Italy, and Switzerland. Prominent performances by his choirs include appearances for three national and six divisional ACDA Conventions, a national MENC convention as well as performances for national meetings of the College Music Society, the Sonneck Society, the American Musicological Society, and the American Society of University Composers. Fulton has conducted invitational clinics including all-state, and Honor Festival choruses, conducting master classes, and conductor/teacher workshops in forty different states and in Europe. He has published articles on the choral music of William Walton, Don Carlo Gesualdo, and William Byrd in the Choral Journal and the AGO Magazine and served for six years as an editor of the National Editorial Board for the Choral Journal. He has held a wide variety of professional offices and is a past President of the Southern Division of the American Choral Directors Association, the Texas Choral Di- rectors Association and the Louisiana ACDA. Graduates of the graduate degrees in choral conducting at LSU now hold choral positions at all levels of choral music from secondary public schools to college/university positions in eighteen dif- ferent states. Fulton holds advanced degrees from Texas Tech University (MME - Ph.D) and an undergraduate BME from the University of North Texas. He has held appointments at LSU in Baton Rouge, Texas State University (formerly South- west Texas State University) in San Marcos, the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, Texas Tech University in Lubbock, and in public school choral music.
High School TTBB Jeffrey Richard Carter,
a native of the Kansas City, Missouri area, is Associate Professor of Music Performance at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, a doctoral institution numbering approximately 18,000 students. He is a versatile conductor and teacher whose performance experience and training ranges through nearly 1000 years of western musical tradition, and who has gained success with university en- sembles, amateur choral groups, show choirs, volunteer church choirs, and festival choruses. His performing and educational endeavors have taken him to the continents of Asia, South America, and Europe, in addition to the continental United States. At Ball State, Dr. Carter leads University Singers, while concurrently serving as Associate Director of the School of Music. Ball State Uni- versity Singers toured throughout the People's Republic of China in May 2005, garnering rave re- views and standing-room-only audiences at several venues in Beijing, Shijiazhuang, Deyang, and Shanghai. Dr. Carter is recognized nationally as a leading proponent of show choir as part of a comprehensive music curriculum. He leads the Missouri All-State Show Choir in July 2006, and the Alabama All-State Show Choir in January 2007. In 2005-2006 Dr. Carter assumed the national chairmanship of the Youth and Student Activi- ties Repertoire and Standards Committee for the American Choral Directors Association . He traveled to Alaska to direct a district festival chorus, led University Singers in various concert performances in the Midwest, and returned to Shanghai on a short-term visiting professorship. In May 2006 he led sixteen Ball State students on a three-week East Asia Studies Pro- gram immersion experience to China, a trip he will repeat in 2007.
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