Young Voices 2009 Clinicians
Girls'
Children's Choir
Mary
Alice Stollak
Mary Alice Stollak is Director of Choral Activities for the Community
Music School at Michigan State University, where she is the Founding
Director of the MSU Children's Choir Program. In February 2006, she
was a double Grammy Award winner ("Best Choral Performance"
and "Best Classical Album") for preparing the MSU Children's
Choir for the critically acclaimed Naxos recording of William Bolcom's
monumental Songs of Innocence and of Experience. She is a recipient
of the Maynard Klein Award for Lifetime Achievement and Dedication
to the Choral Art, given by the American Choral Directors Association
of Michigan. She also was awarded the YWCA Diana Award for her contributions
to the arts in mid-Michigan. In 2006, she received the East Lansing
Educational Foundation Theda Assiff Award for distinguished community
service. Stollak has appeared as festival guest conductor and workshop
presenter in twenty-two states as well as Argentina, Canada, Germany,
Italy and Sweden. Her choirs have frequently appeared at National,
Division and State American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) conventions.
Under Stollak's direction, the MSU Children's Choir performed at the
6th World Symposium on Choral Music in August of 2002 as the official
U.S. representative. The Ellen Taffee Zwilich Symphony No. 4 "The
Gardens" was premiered with MSU choirs, orchestra and the MSUCC
and is recorded on the Koch label. Stollak also prepared choirs for
conductors Leonard Slatkin, Neeme Jarvi and Gustav Meier, as well
as sharing performances with Marvin Hamlisch, Marilyn Horne, and the
Canadian Brass. In the spring of 2007, the MSU Children's Choir performed
the Pulitzer Prize winning work On the Transmigration of Souls, with
composer John Adams conducting the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.Santa
Barbara Music Publishing Company publishes the Mary Alice Stollak
Choral Series, a set of treble choral publications that presents works
by several composers in a variety of musical styles.
Prior to coming to Michigan State University, she was Director of
Choral Activities for the Haslett, Michigan Public Schools for ten
years, and was Associate Professor of Music at the University of Michigan-Flint.
Since 1986 she has been the director of the National High School Music
Institute Choir at Northwestern University.
Mary Alice Stollak served as President of the ACDA Central Division,
ACDA-Michigan and the Michigan School Vocal Music Association (MSVMA).
Boychoir
Randy
Pagel
Randy Pagel,
a native of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, has conducted at Carnegie Hall in
New York City, Orchestra Hall in Chicago, several honor choirs throughout
the country, and at national conventions for the American Choral Directors
Association and Music Educators' National Conference. He has conducted
concerts for former Presidents Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter, and
is scheduled to appear at the White House and Washington's National
Cathedral. He has released several recordings, a music video, received
various state and national teaching awards, was named the University
of Wisconsin-Oshkosh "Outstanding Young Alumni", was inducted
into the Hall of Fame for both Oshkosh North High School and Clark
County School District, and had "Randy Pagel Day" proclaimed
in Henderson, Nevada, and Oshkosh, Wisconsin. A frequent guest clinician,
he is the author of the book The Choral Director's Guide to Sanity...and
Success!
Junior
High Girls Choir
Lori
Hetzler
Dr. Lori Hetzel
is the Associate Director of Choral Activities and professor of Choral
Music Education at the University of Kentucky where she conducts the
Women's Choir and the a cappella group "Paws and Listen."
She also teaches graduate and undergraduate secondary methods courses
and undergraduate conducting. In conjunction with the undergraduate
choral methods courses, she has pioneered a unique partnership program
with a local high school. As a result of this program the choral music
eduation students at the University of Kentucky are receiving "hands
on" experience and immediate feedback early in their curriculum.
Among her many accomplishments, she was the recipient of the University
of Kentucky award "Great Teacher of the Year" in 2000 and
has published articles in College Music Symposium and Southeastern
Music Education Journal. The UK Women's Choir has been invited to
perform at both MENC and ACDA Southern Division Conventions, and in
2003 were featured at the ACDA National Convention in New York City.
A native of Wisconsin, Dr. Hetzel received her B.A. degree in Music
Education, Summa cum laude, from the University of Wisconsin - Green
Bay. She received her M.M. degree from the University of Missouri
- Kansas City Conservatory, where she studied conducting with Eph
Ehly. Her D.M.A. degree is in Choral Conducting from Michigan State
University with Charles K. Smith. An active clinician and guest conductor,
Dr. Hetzel has most recently appeared at music conferences in Arkansas,
Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Montana, New York,
Ohio, Tennessee, and Virginia.
Junior
High Mixed Choir
David
Brunner
David L. Brunner
is one of today’s most active and versatile composers and conductors.
He is Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities at the
University of Central Florida in Orlando and is well known for his
compelling work with singers of all ages, conducting All-State and
regional honor choirs throughout the United States at the elementary,
middle and high school levels.
As an inspired teacher, he is also a popular clinician at choral festivals
and educational workshops throughout North America and Europe, including
the American Choral Directors Association, Music Educators National
Conference and American Guild of Organists, the Association of British
Choral Directors and the Kodaly Societies of Canada and Australia,
the International Cathedral Music Festival at Salisbury and Canterbury,
the International Honor Band and Choir Festival at the Hague and Brussels,
and the Choral Music Experience International Institute for Choral
Teacher Education in England, Scotland and Wales.
Brunner is an imaginative composer who has received numerous ASCAP
awards and in 2000 joined a prestigious group of American composers
when he was named Raymond W. Brock Commissioned Composer by the American
Choral Directors Association. The New York Times has noted him as
a “prolific choral writer whose name figures prominently on
national repertory lists”, his work having been performed and
recorded worldwide in venues such as Royal Festival and Queen Elizabeth
Halls in London, Canterbury Cathedral, Disney Concert Hall in Los
Angeles, EPCOT and Carnegie Hall.
This year he conducts choirs from Japan, Hong Kong, the Philippines
and China at the Asian Pacific Activities Conference Choral Festival
in Kobe, Japan, All-State High School Women’s Choirs in Virginia
and Nebraska, the Alabama ACDA Young Singers Festival Junior High
Mixed Choir at Auburn University, and the Norman All-City Chorus in
Norman, Oklahoma. In May he returns to Carnegie Hall for a sixth time,
conducting a concert of his works for chorus and orchestra. He also
appears as conductor for the Portland Symphonic Girlchoir workshop,
the High School Choral Leadership Workshop at Emporia State University
in Kansas, and headliner clinician and conductor at the Voices United
tri-state conference at George Mason University in Virginia. New works
premiere in Florida, Indiana, South Carolina, Michigan, Scotland and
the Netherlands.
Dr. Brunner has served on the editorial board for The Choral Journal
and is the author of articles in both The Choral Journal and Music
Educators Journal. He is published by Boosey & Hawkes, Inc.
