a variety of state and regional honor choirs and has served as guest conductor for the award winning Landesjungenchor from Koblenz, Germany. As chorister and soloist, Dr. McClung spent three seasons singing with the Atlanta Symphony Chorus and Chamber Chorus under the direction of Robert Shaw. An active member of ACDA and NAfME, he served as a national delegate to ACDA’s International Conductor Exchange with Germany and Sweden, Georgia’s Music Educator’s State Choral Chair, Missouri’s ACDA Repertoire and Standards Chair for Colleges and Universities, and the R & S Chair for Southwest ACDA’s Student and Youth Activities. As a distinguished choral music educator, he is invited frequently to present at state, divisional, and national music conferences. Additional presentations include master classes at Roehampton University, London, England. Articles by Dr. McClung have appeared in Southeastern Journal of Music Education, ACDA’s Choral Journal, MENC’s Music Educators Journal, Update: Applications of Research in Music Education, and Journal of Research in Music Education. He is the author of Movable Tonic: A Sequenced Sight-Singing Method, a GIA publication, and the director of the Cambiata Institute of America for Early


Adolescent Vocal Music, established on the campus of the University of North Texas in 2009. In 2015, he was named the new managing editor for the publishing company, Cambiata Press. A UNT Honors Professor, and the 2016 host of the Third MS/JH National Conference for Choral Music, he has been invited to present at the Eleventh World Symposium on Choral Music and the International Federation for Choral Music (IFCM) in Barcelona, Spain, July 2017.


MS Treble Alan C. McClung


Mary Biddlecombe serves as Artistic Director of the Blair Children’s Chorus at Vanderbilt University. She conducts each of the six graded choirs of the program, including the Concert Choir (high school girls), Young Men’s Chorus (changed men’s voices), Choristers


(middle school girls), Boychoir (unchanged boys), Training Choir, and the select treble ensemble Chorale. Biddlecombe has taught music at every grade level. Choirs under her


2017 All­State Festival Schedule


Wednesday, March 1, 2017­ 9:00 AM 2:45 PM 4:30 PM 5:00 PM


AVA Board Meeting, Wright Center Basement Male OCS Competition, Brock Recital Hall OCS/OA Picture, Brock Recital Hall


Female OCS Competition, Brock Recital Hall OA Competition, Buchannan Hall 109


Thursday, March 2, 2017­ 8:00­11:30 AM ASSC Rehearsal, Wright Performance Center 10:00­1:00 PM Registration, Wright Basement 1:00­1:45 PM General Assembly and ASSC Performance, Wright Performance Center


2:00­5:30 PM Rehearsal 1 HS SATB, Wright Performance Center HS SSA, Brock Recital Hall HS TTBB, Cooney Hall 305 MS Mixed, DBH 131 MS Treble, Reid Chapel


5:30­7:30 PM Dinner Break 7:30­9:30 PM Rehearsal 2, Same sites as first rehearsal 11:00 PM


Curfew


Friday, March 3, 2017­MIDDLE SCHOOL – 8:30­10:00 AM Rehearsal 3


9:00 AM


MS Mixed Rehearsal, DBH 131 MS Treble Dress Rehearsal, Wright Performance Center General Membership Meeting, Brooks Auditorium


10:00­11:30 AM MS Mixed Dress Rehearsal, Wright Performance Center MS Treble Rehearsal, DBH 131


11:30­1:30 PM Lunch Break 24


1:30­3:30 PM Rehearsal 4 MS Mixed, Reid Chapel MS Treble, DBH 131 Call Time for Concert Middle School Concert


6:30 PM 7:00 PM


Friday, March 3, 2017­HIGH SCHOOL – 8:30­11:00 AM Rehearsal 3 HS SATB, Reid Chapel HS TTBB, Cooney Hall 305 HS SSA, Brock Recital Hall


9:00 AM General Membership Meeting, Brooks Auditorium


11:00­1:00 PM Lunch Break 1:00­2:30 PM Rehearsal 4


HS SATB Dress Rehearsal, Wright Performance Center HS SSA, Brock Recital Hall HS TTBB, Cooney Hall 305


2:30­4:00 PM HS SATB, Brock Recital Hall HS SSA Dress Rehearsal, Wright Performance Center HS TTBB, Cooney Hall 305


4:00­5:30 PM HS SATB, Brock Recital Hall (Same as before) HS SSA, Reid Chapel HS TTBB Dress Rehearsal, Wright Performance Center Middle School Concert


7:00 PM


Saturday, March 4, 2017 11:00 AM


11:30 AM 12:00 PM


HS SATB Warm­Up, Wright Performance Center HS SSA Warm­Up, Brock Recital Hall HS TTBB Warm­Up, Bolding Studio


Call Time for HS Concert, Wright Performance Center All Performers Seated High School Concert


February/March 2017


direction have been invited to perform for conventions of the American Choral Directors Association, as well as symphonic works with significant orchestras. Recent projects have included John Adams’ On the Transmigration of Souls, Mahler’s Third Symphony, Leonard Bernstein’s Mass, Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem, Roger Waters’ Ça Ira, and Gustav Mahler’s Eighth Symphony with the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, and John Rutter’s Mass of the Children with the Vanderbilt Symphony Orchestra and Symphonic Choir. Biddlecombe is in demand as an adjudicator and clinician. She has presented interest sessions and conducted various honor choirs all over the Southeast including the Florida All-State Middle School Treble Choir. A native of Syracuse, N.Y., she holds a Master of Music in Conducting from Florida State University and a Bachelors of Music Education from the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam. Biddlecombe makes her home in Nashville with her husband Tucker Biddlecombe, Director of Choral Activities at Vanderbilt.


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