Vol. VI Issue 1 Fall, 2009
The 9th Annual
MAD RIVER VOCAL ARTS FESTIVAL
Dr. Janet Galván, Conductor-Clinician
WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY SUNDAY & MONDAY, OCTOBER 18 & 19, 2009
We cordially invite you and your finest choral singers to an extraordinary event at Wright State University: THE 9TH ANNUAL MAD RIVER VOCAL ARTS FESTIVAL! This two-day event, Sunday & Monday, October 18 & 19, 2009, features a highly select choir composed of high school singers from all over the Midwest. Our guest conductor and clinician for the event is Dr. Janet Galván. Dr. Galván will work with the Mad River Honor Choir, comprised of over 120 highly select high school singers.
We will be happy to provide you with a hard copy or a .pdf version of these materials if you prefer. Just let me know. Also, please don't hesistate to contact me if you have any questions, or if I can assist you in any way.
I look forward to seeing you at this year's Mad River Vocal Arts Festival!
For more information
contact: Phone: (937) 775-3721 email: hank.dahlman@wright.edu |
Application and information forms: The forms listed above are Adobe Acrobat files. If you do not have Acrobat Reader on your computer, go to:www.adobe.com to download this free program. |
FESTIVAL CLINICIAN: Janet Galván
Dr. Janet Galván, professor of music at Ithaca College, conducts the Women's Chorale, the Ithaca College Chorus, and is Artistic Director for the Ithaca Children's Choir. Dr. Galván has prepared choruses for many conductors including Lukas Foss, Carl St. Clair, Eji Oue, Gisele Ben-Dor, Richard Westenberg, and Grant Llewellyn. Dr. Galván’s contribution to choral music was recognized by her New York colleagues in 1995 when she 
received the New York Outstanding Choral Director Award. In 2007 she received Ithaca College's Excellence in Service Award.
Dr. Galván has conducted all-state choruses throughout the United States. She was the 6th national honor choir conductor in the history of ACDA, and she has conducted seven regional ACDA honor choirs as well as MENC regional honor choirs. Dr. Galván was the conductor of the North American Children's Chorale which performed annually in Carnegie Hall from its creation in 1995 until 2005. In 2002 she conducted the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Her own choral groups have been chosen to perform at national, regional, and state music conferences, invitational choral festivals, and in concerts in the United Kingdom and Europe.
Galván has served as a clinician at national, regional, and state conferences of ACDA and MENC. She has also been featured at VII Curso Internacional de Regencia Coral in Brazil and in workshops in the United Kingdom, Belgium, Canada, and the 2002 World Symposium on Choral Music. Galván has been recognized as one of the country’s leading conducting teachers, and her students have received first place awards and been finalists in both the graduate and undergraduate divisions of the ACDA biennial National Choral Conducting Competition.
Dr. Galván was one of the invited authors for GIA’s second edition of Teaching Music through Performance in Choir. Her expertise in treble repertoire led to an association with Roger Dean Publishing Company in the origin of two choral series for treble voices. She is also the series advisor to Latin Accents, a series with Boosey & Hawkes. Dr. Galván contributed a chapter on movement in the choral rehearsal to GIA’s The School Choral Program: Philosophy, Planning, Organizing and Teaching. Her article on the changing voice was published in the International Federation of Choral Music Journal in August of 2007 and has been reprinted in other international journals. Dr. Galván was a member of the Grammy Award-winning Robert Shaw Festival Singers during Mr. Shaw's final years.
