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The 11th Annual
MAD RIVER VOCAL ARTS FESTIVAL
Prof. James Gallagher,
Conductor-Clinician

WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY SUNDAY & MONDAY, OCTOBER 16 & 17, 2011

We cordially invite you and your finest choral singers to an extraordinary event at Wright State University: THE 11TH ANNUAL MAD RIVER VOCAL ARTS FESTIVAL! This two-day event, Sunday & Monday, October 16 & 17, 2011, features a highly select choir composed of high school singers from all over the Midwest. Our guest conductor and clinician for the event is James Gallagher. Prof. Gallagher will work with the Mad River Honor Choir, comprised of over 120 highly select high school singers.

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I look forward to seeing you at this year's Mad River Vocal Arts Festival!

For more information contact:
Dr. Hank Dahlman
Coordinator, Mad River Vocal Arts Festival
Director of Choral Studies
Department of Music
Wright State University
3640 Colonel Glenn Hwy.
Dayton, OH 45435

Phone: (937) 775-3721
Fax: (937) 775-3786

email: hank.dahlman@wright.edu

Application and information forms:

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FESTIVAL CLINICIAN: James Gallagher

James Gallagher is Professor Emeritus of music at The Ohio State University. Prof. Gallagher taught at OSU for 21 years, serving as conductor of the Men’s Glee Club and Symphonic Choir, and James Gallagherteaching conducting, vocal pedagogy, and choral repertoire. He previously taught for 18 years in the Columbus Public Schools. His choral ensembles performed for four national conventions of the American Choral Directors Association and Music Educators National Conference and numerous state and divisional conventions of these two organizations. In 1990, he conducted the OSU Men’s Glee Club in the International Musical Eisteddfod in Llangollen, Wales, where they won the “Choir of the World” trophy in a unanimous decision of the judges. He conducted the Men’s Glee Club on tours throughout the United States, England, Wales, Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, France, Switzerland and Italy