DR. P. BRADLEY LOGAN, is Professor of Music, and Director of Choral Activities at Bemidji State University. He has served on the faculties of the University of Montevallo, Louisiana College, California State University, Long Beach, and Pelham High School. Dr. Logan holds his B.S. in Vocal Music Education from North Dakota State University, his M.A. in Choral Music from California State University, Long Beach, and his D.M.A. in Choral Conducting and Literature from the University of Illinois.

Dr. Logan has been an active participation in the American Choral Director's Association, most recently serving as North Central Division R&S Chair for Youth and Student Activities. Other ACDA service includes State President, Treasurer and College/University Chair in both Alabama and Louisiana.

Dr. Logan's collegiate choirs have performed at state ACDA and MENC conventions in Alabama, Louisiana, Minnesota, and North Dakota. ACDA division convention performances include 1992 in Savannah, GA, and 2002 in Des Moines, IA. National Conventions include 1993 in San Antonio, and 2003 in New York City.

On the international scene, Dr. Logan conducted The Bemidji Choir at the Third International Festival of Choirs in Siena, Italy, June 2001. In May of 2005 Logan served as conductor of the RЪthenburg Choral Festival in RЪthenburg, Germany. During the choir's 2008 tour of England and Scotland, Logan conducted the choir in St. Giles Cathedral (Edinburgh), York Minster Cathedral, Coventry Cathedral, Christ Church Cathedral (Oxford), St. Paul's Cathedral (London), and Westminster Abbey (London).

An active career as a guest conductor and lecturer has taken him to Alabama, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, New York, North Dakota, Texas, and Wisconsin.

Deborah Lamb is an elementary vocal/general music educator in the St. Louis Park Schools in Minnesota. During her career in education she has taught Preschool through the Graduate level. Ms. Lamb specializes in the teaching of voice skills to children in both classroom and choir settings. In addition to her classroom music teaching, she conducts a number of choral ensembles for students in grades 2-5. Her graduate degree was earned at the University of Illinois. She holds mastery certificates in Kodály and Orff Schulwerk.

Deborah has presented vocal/choral clinics and workshops as well as choral festivals around the United States. She has been an active clinician in the "Festival of Musicians" series of concerts in association with the Minnesota Music Educators Association. She has presented papers and demonstration sessions for such organizations as the Voice Foundation, International Society for Music Education, International Kódaly Society, the VoiceCare Network, ACDA of MN, Organization of American Kodály Educators, Midwest Kodály Music Educators of America, American Orff-Schulwerk Association.

Doug von Koss is the Artistic Director of THE NOAH PROJECT, a men s ritual performance group in the San Francisco bay area. He is a gifted artist, teacher and performer who presents chanting workshops, poetry performances, rituals and other festive surprises around the world.

Teaching by call and response, von Koss in a perfection free zone, draws upon many of the world s religious traditions to create with chants and songs an almost instant chorus of radiant voices. His passion is to guide community circles through ecstatic and sacred experiences that celebrate the human spirit.

He has presented among other places at the Redwood Men s Center and Mendocino Men s Conferences in California, The Minnesota Men s Conference, Mentone Men s Conference in Alabama, Psychotherapy Networker Conference, Pachamama Global Gathering, The Mankind Project, Eselan Institute, Omega Institute Heart of Happiness Conferences, Block Island Poetry Project, and Robert Bly s Great Mother Conference.

Eric A. Johnson D.M.A. is the Director of Choral Activities at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, where he directs the Concert Choir and Chamber Choir, and teaches choral literature and conducting. Ensembles under his direction have performed at national and state MENC, NCCO, and ACDA conventions and appeared with many professional orchestras. Most recently, he conducted Haydn's Theresienmesse at Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center NYC.

In June 2009, Johnson celebrated the release of his first published composition, Cuncti Simus, for SATB choir which is published by Santa Barbara Music Publishing. Johnson has several articles published in the Choral Journal and has presented interest sessions at national, divisional, and state ACDA conventions. He is active nationally as a clinician, conductor and adjudicator and is Past-President of the Illinois- ACDA. He earned degrees from University of Illinois, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Luther College.

Eric Whitacre is quickly becoming one of the most popular composers and conductors of his generation, inspiring and motivating a new generation of singers and musicians. The "unearthly beauty and imagination" (Los Angeles Times) and "emotional directness and intensity" (American Record Guide) of Whitacre's music create a visceral, impassioned response in audiences and performers. In 2008, the all-Whitacre choral CD Cloudburst (released by the British ensemble Polyphony on Hyperion) became an unexpected international best-seller, topping the classical charts and earning a Grammy nomination. The BBC raves that "what hits you straight between the eyes is the honesty, optimism and sheer belief that passes any pretension. This is music that can actually make you smile."

Eric Whitacre began singing with his college choir at the age of 18, and the experience changed his life forever. He wrote his setting of Go, Lovely, Rose for that same choir three years later. Eric went on to earn his Master's degree in composition at the Juilliard School, where he studied with John Corigliano. Since then, Whitacre has received numerous commissioning awards and honors. His work has received thousands of performances, with sheet music sales of over 1,000,000 copies worldwide.

His cutting edge musical Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings, which combines influences including trance, electronica, and anime with choral, cinematic, and operatic traditions, won the ASCAP Harold Arlen Award, the Richard Rogers award, and 10 Ovation Award nominations. He is currently completing his first full-length oratorio for chorus, soprano soloist, and orchestra; a commission for the Berlin Rundfunkcor; and a major work for the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus.

A true innovator, Whitacre writes music that incorporates contemporary sounds and influences while demanding the highest standards of precision, intonation, and ensemble. Eric Whitacre divides his time between conducting and teaching throughout the world and the ever-increasing demands of his composing. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, soprano Hila Plitmann, and their son.

Howard Goodall is an EMMY®, BRIT®, Gramophone® and BAFTA® award-winning composer of choral music, stage musicals, film and TV scores on both sides of the Atlantic, a highly respected broadcaster and the leading spokesperson for music education in the UK. His best-known themes & scores include Into the Storm (HBO/BBC), The Gathering Storm (HBO/BBC), The Borrowers, Mr Bean, Mr Bean's Holiday, Blackadder, and The Vicar of Dibley. In the theatre his many musicals, from The Hired Man (1984) to Love Story (2010) have been performed throughout the English-speaking world, including London's West End and Off-Broadway, and won many international awards, including Ivor Novello and TMA Awards for Best British Musical.

He is as close to a 'composer laureate' as Britain has - composing anthems, songs and masses to mark numerous national ceremonies and memorials, most recently, A Song of Hope for the National Holocaust Memorial Event in London's Guildhall in January 2010. Autumn 2008 saw the début UK tour of his Eternal Light: A Requiem by the Rambert Dance Company, a choral-orchestral ballet & concert work commissioned by London Musici, simultaneously released on an EMI Classics CD which earned Howard a Classical BRIT® award for Composer of the Year. His settings of Psalm 23 and Love divine are amongst the most performed of all sacred music in the UK and have featured on many platinum-selling CDs.

In the 2009 Top-selling 100 Specialist Classical CDs of the year, Goodall occupied the 1st, 4th and 9th positions. His 2009 Enchanted Voices collection, a setting of the Beatitudes, was no.1 of the Specialist Classical CD chart for 6 months.

Howard hosts his own weekly show on nationwide classical music station Classic fm, for whom he is also Composer-in-residence, is a familiar face on BBC TV music programmes and writes and presents his own highly-successful TV documentary series on the theory and history of music. For these series he has been honoured by a BAFTA®, an RTS Judges' Prize and over a dozen other major international broadcast awards.

He is a tireless advocate for music education and a passionate believer in young people's inherent musicality, receiving the 2007-8 Sir Charles Grove/Making Music Prize for Outstanding Contribution to British Music, a British Academy of Composers & Songwriters Gold Badge for exceptional work in support of his fellow composers, Honorary Doctorates of Music from Bishop Grosseteste University College, Lincoln, and Bolton University, the Voice of the Listener & Viewer Naomi Sargant Memorial Award for 'Outstanding Contribution to Education in Broadcasting' and in January 2007 he was appointed as the UK's first ever National Ambassador for Singing, leading a 4-year government-funded programme (Sing Up) to improve the provision of group singing for all primary-age children. As of March 2010, the Sing Up programme of teacher training, song resources, lesson plans and performance opportunities is active in 85% of all primary schools in England.

James Benjamin Kinchen, Jr. is a native of Jacksonville, Florida, and is Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities at the University of Wisconsin‐Parkside. His degrees are from Jacksonville University, Southern Illinois University, and the University of North Carolina‐Greensboro.

Dr. Kinchen received UW‐Parkside's 2002‐2003 Stella Gray Teaching Excellence Award and 2005‐2006 Faculty Distinguished Service Award.

Dr. Kinchen made his Carnegie Hall conducting debut in 1998, under the auspices of MidAmerica Productions, returning to that stage in 2004 and 2006. He will conduct the New York City premiere of Glenn Edward Burleigh's Kwanzaa work, the Nguzo Saba Suite for chorus, tenor solo, and orchestra at Avery Fischer Hall in the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in March of 2010 in a performance produced by Distinguished Concerts International New York.

He is an affiliate of the Center for Black Music Research, and holds membership in the Music Educators National Conference, the International Federation for Choral Music, National Collegiate Choral Organization, and Chorus America. An active member of American Choral Directors Association, he has served ACDA in several leadership capacities at state, regional, and national levels. He has presented at state, divisional, and national ACDA conventions. He is the immediate Past President of Wisconsin Choral Directors Association.

Jerry Rubino is the artistic director of VOICES 360, a choral and instrumental ensemble known for crossover programming and performance practice based singer/actor educational outreach. Jerry attended Curtis Institute as a cellist and holds degrees in piano, music education, and conducting from Temple University and the University of Minnesota. He serves as Minister of Music at Spirit of Hope United Methodist Church and is the Assistant Conductor of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra Chorale. Jerry is series choral music editor for Oxford University Press and the Hal Leonard Corporation and is requested nationally as a choral conductor/clinician, theatrical music director, pianist, arranger and adjudicator.

Peggy Dettwiler is Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities at Mansfield University in Mansfield, Pennsylvania, where she conducts the Concert Choir, Festival Chorus, and Mansfieldians, and teaches choral conducting and methods. She holds the Doctor of Musical Arts Degree from the Eastman School of Music, Rochester, New York; a Master of Music Degree in Choral Conducting from the University of Texas at San Antonio; and a Master of Music Degree in Music Education from the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Prior to coming to Mansfield in 1990, she was Director of Choral Activities at St. Mary's University in San Antonio, Texas, and Choral Director at Mt. Horeb High School in Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin. She has served as a guest conductor and lecturer throughout the country and has given presentations at numerous MENC and ACDA Conventions. The Mansfield University Student Chapter of ACDA, which she advises, was recognized as the Outstanding Student Chapter in the Nation both in 1997 and 2001, and the Mansfield University Concert Choir has been invited each of the last eighteen years to perform at state, regional, national, or international choral conventions.