Greetings Friends! Now that we are all back following the winter holiday, I hope you are all finding early success and reasons to love your singers (and your conductors)! This is an extremely busy time for all of us and with the ACDA Division Conferences beginning in just about three weeks, there seems to be […]
ICEP Spotlight – 2016 Conducting Fellows Dr. Jason Bishop & Sun Young Yun
Greetings Friends! In this second installment of the ICEP Spotlight on ChoralNet, it is my pleasure to introduce 2016 ICEP Exchange Conducting Fellows Dr. Jason Bishop from the United States and Sun Young Yun from South Korea. Please help me in congratulating both Dr. Bishop and Ms. Yun in their selection for the 2016 ICEP exchange. […]
ICEP Spotlight – 2016 Conducting Fellows Dr. C. Michael Porter & Dr. Yoonchung Chang
Greetings and Happy New Year! The 2016 ACDA Division Conferences are quickly approaching and it is my pleasure to introduce the ICEP Conducting Fellows from the United States and South Korea as part of a special 7-part series for the ICEP Spotlight on ChoralNet. In this first phase of the 2016 exchange, ACDA will host an ICEP Conducting Fellow from South […]
ICEP Spotlight – Emily Williams Burch
While we talk about music being the international language, nothing brings that home more than participating in a music exchange program. According to ACDA (American Choral Directors Association) staff, “the International Conductors Exchange Program (ICEP) is committed to leading the world in the creation of opportunities for intercultural and artistic dialogue with these choral […]
ICEP Spotlight – Dr. Giselle Wyers
This September, I was fortunate to be one of the conductors selected by ACDA to take part in an exchange with the ICEP (International Conductors Exchange Program). I was very excited when I first heard about this program a few years ago, when I was asked to serve on the NW Division Steering Committee for […]
ICEP Spotlight – Dr. Joshua Habermann
Parents all have favorite stories about their children that they share when company comes over. These tales are usually brought out to illustrate some defining and possibly amusing character trait. In my case my mother tells the story of asking me what I wanted for my fifth birthday, and her surprise when I told her […]