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Janet Galván
Featured Clinician
Janet Galván, Professor of Music at Ithaca College, conducts the Ithaca College Women’s Chorale, the Ithaca College Chorus, and is Artistic Director for the Ithaca Children’s Choir. She received the New York Outstanding Choral Director Award in 1995.
Galván has conducted national, regional, and All-State choruses throughout the U.S., from university and high school mixed choirs to children’s choirs. Galván is also the conductor of the North American Children’s Chorale that performs annually in Carnegie Hall. In 2002, she conducted the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. She has been a guest conductor for the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra and the Young People’s Chorus of New York City.
Galván has also served as master teacher and clinician at national, regional, and state conferences of ACDA and MENC. She has presented workshops in Brazil, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Canada, and the 2002 World Symposium on Choral Music.
Galván’s expertise in treble repertoire led to an association with Roger Dean Publishing Company in the origin of two choral series. She is also the advisor to Latin Accents, with Boosey & Hawkes. Galván was a member of the Grammy Award-winning Robert Shaw Festival Singers during Shaw’s final years.
Kerri Lynn Nichols
Featured Clinician
Kerri Lynn Nichols has been a student and teacher of Orff-Schulwerk for over 20 years, receiving her master level Orff certification from the University of Memphis and attending the international course at the Orff Institut in Salzburg, Austria. Nichols is a singer-songwriter, recording artist, dancer-choreographer, and accomplished percussionist. Her compositions have often been commissioned for community projects with children and she has created new choreography for dance companies such as Kaleidoscope and Enertia of Seattle. Nichols has taught all ages in both the public and private sectors and is now a frequent presenter and clinician for state and national conferences. She has extensive experience collaborating with diverse populations, including special needs students and at-risk communities, and developing cultural awareness programs.
As an adjunct professor for several universities, she designs and implements courses for educators. She founded the performing groups Diversity, Voices, Synergy Dance Group and Zo Kwe Zo Percussion Ensemble. Currently, she is the director for The Songlight Children’s Choir, Rhythm of Life Youth Choir, and The Celebration Singers at First United Methodist Church Of Olympia.
Marie Stulz
Featured Clinician
Marie Stulz has devoted most of her life to the training of young singers in the classics. A published composer as well as the author of Innocent Sounds: Building Choral Tone and Artistry in Your Children’s Choir—A Personal Journey, she is a leading authority on training treble voices. She has created an extensive choral literature project for the Choral Excellence Press. Stulz has been the choral researcher at Spectrum Music in Lexington, Mass., for over 25 years and has been writing a quarterly newsletter, The Choral Room, since 1991. She is the founder of three major arts organizations: The Treble Chorus of New England, The Young Opera Company of New England, and The Young Classical Singers. Stultz has written numerous articles for major music periodicals and has received an ASCAP recognition award every year since 1996. She has made many guest conducting appearances throughout the U.S. and in Europe.
Sister Lorna Zemke
Featured Clinician
Dr. Lorna Zemke is Director of the Kodály programs and Director of Graduate Music at Silver Lake College, Manitowoc, Wisc. Zemke worked with Katinka Daniel in piloting one of the first Kodály programs in the U.S. She was among the first generation of Americans to be trained in the Hungarian system of music education; her master’s thesis and doctoral dissertation were among the first Kodály-related studies published in English.
An experienced teacher at all levels, Zemke has taught graduate and undergraduate courses, presented workshops, clinics, demonstrations, and lectures throughout the U.S. and beyond for many years. She was co-founder of the Midwest Kodály Music Educators of America, co-chair of the first Organization of American Kodály Educators (OAKE) national conference, and later served as president of both organizations.
Zemke is a charter member of the International Kodály Society and was among the five Americans invited to Hungary in 1972 to help plan the first International Kodály Conference.
Zemke received the first Outstanding Achievement Award from OAKE in 1985 and received its Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002 and the 2004 Music Educator of the Year Award from the National Pastoral Musician’s Association.
Music Specialist,
PreK-5, The Blake School, Hopkins, MN
Jan Baker
Music Specialist,
University Park Elementary, University Park ISD
Jan Lancaster
Music Specialist
Margaret Wills Elementary, Amarillo ISD
Anna Langley
Music Specialist
Colony Bend Elementary, Fort Bend ISD
Schultz Shining Star Orffestra
Jane Lamb, Director
Paschal Elementary Orff Instrumental Ensemble
Joe Zurovec, Director
Shields Steel
Diane Magier, Director
Houston Boychoir
Carole Nelson, Director
Mitchell Intermediate Honor Choir
Connie Horton, Director
Cyndie Lowry, Director
Arlington All-City Boys and Girls Choir
Barbara Keaton and Susan Malone, Directors
The West Texas Children’s Chorus
Susan Brumfield, Director
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