Gathering Roses in Winter - Madison Youth Choirs

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BIOGRAPHIESMarcia Russell, Cantilena ConductorMarcia Russell has taught choral music students in the Platteville School District since1997, teaching seven years at Platteville High School before making the move toPlatteville Middle School in 2004. She received a Bachelor of Music Degree in VoicePerformance and Choral and General Music Education from Lawrence University in1994. Marcy also directs the Choristers, a choir of 40 auditioned singers with thePlatteville Children’s Choir.Ms. Russell is an active member of ACDA and MENC, and has held many leadershiproles. She is the current Wisconsin School Music Association Middle Level HonorsChoir Alto Coach, and served the WSMA High School Honors Project as Treble ChoirSoprano 1 Coach in 2000 and 2001, and again as Treble Choir Coordinator and Alto 2Coach in 2002 and 2003. She is the past chair for NextDirection: The National Conferencefor High School Students Considering Careers in Choral Music, and has served two terms asthe Southwest Representative to the Wisconsin Choral Directors Association. She is anactive performer and soloist with the Platteville Chorale and the Heartland Singers, andhas performed leading roles in numerous musical theatre productions with the UW-Platteville Heartland Festival, the Dubuque, Iowa Grand Opera House and the PopFactory Players. She is a WSMA certified adjudicator and a member of Sigma AlphaIota, Pi Kappa Lambda, Mortar Board and The VoiceCare Network.Randal Swiggum, Britten and Holst ConductorBesides conducting Britten and Holst, Randal Swiggum is in his ninth season as MusicDirector of the Elgin Youth Symphony Orchestra. He is also Associate Conductor for theElgin Symphony Orchestra, creating and conducting their education concerts. He wasArtistic Director of the Madison Children’s Choir from 1996-2000, and has also taughtat Whitefish Bay High School, UW-Milwaukee, and Lawrence University.A frequent guest conductor of orchestral and choral festivals, he most recently conductedthe first ever Pennsylvania All-State Junior High Choir, as well as the SingaporeAmerican Schools Choral Festival, MENC All-Northwest Honor Choir in Portland,American Mennonite Schools Orchestra Festival, Northern Arizona Honors Orchestra,and both the Wisconsin Middle Level Honors Choir and Orchestra. Next month, hewill conduct the Mansfield (PA) University Choral Festival and the New York CityInterschool Choral Festival.A passionate advocate for a richer learning experience in the rehearsal, Randy serves onthe Wisconsin CMP (Comprehensive Musicianship through Performance) Project. Herecently addressed the Pennsylvania MENC on “The Art of Rehearsing,” as well as theMinnesota ACDA, Iowa ACDA, Maryland MENC, the ACDA North Central Division,the Texas Orchestra Directors Association, and MENC National Conventions in Phoenixand Kansas City.Swiggum has led concert tours throughout Europe, Canada, and the Americas includingthe first international tour for Ragazzi and Cantabile to Brazil in 1998. He hasmusic directed over thirty stage works including the 1991 premiere of the Theatre Xopera, Liberace. He created the music for celebrated director Eric Simonsen’s new pro-
BIOGRAPHIESduction of Moby Dick for the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, named by TIME magazineas one of the 10 Best Theatrical Productions of 2002. He is author of Strategies forTeaching High School Chorus (MENC 1998), and co-author of Shaping Sound Musicians(GIA 2003). He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in musicology at the University ofWisconsin-Madison.Heather Thorpe, Con Gioia ConductorHeather has been the choral director at Badger Ridge Middle School since 1997 whereshe is responsible for all choral activities and is the Cultural Arts Activities Chair. Inaddition to her duties in Verona, she directs two children’s choirs and the high schoolyouth choir and is a featured singer and soloist at the First Unitarian Society ofMadison. Ms. Thorpe has worked with the Madison Children’s Choir and MadisonBoychoir since 1996 as conductor, voice coach and clinician. Her intermediate trebleand advanced women’s choirs with MCC toured throughout Wisconsin, Chicago, andNew York State.Ms. Thorpe is a member of ACDA, MENC,VoiceCare Network, is a member of WMEA’sComprehensive Musicianship Through Performance committee, has served as WCDAExhibits Choir, and the College Fair Chair of NextDirection: The National Conference forHigh School Students Considering Careers in Choral Music. Ms. Thorpe has been a guestconductor, clinician and teacher at many honors festivals, workshops and campsthroughout Wisconsin.A 1996 graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ms. Thorpe was recognized asan outstanding teacher in the October 2000 national publication of Teaching Music in anarticle entitled “A Standing Ovation for Music Teachers”. In the spring of 2004 she wonthe 2004 Herb Kohl Fellowship for excellence in education. Heather and her husbandScott live in Madison with their children, Emily, Benjamin and Daniel.AccompanistsDavid AndersonA native of Clovis, New Mexico, David Anderson received his initial musical instructionat the piano. He attended Baylor University, where he earned two degrees in pianoperformance (B.M., summa cum laude and M.M., with distinction) studying withKrassimira Jordan. During his residence at Baylor, David performed extensively as asolo pianist and chamber musician, receiving numerous awards. He pursued additionalstudy with Martin Canin at the Bowdoin Summer Music Festival in Brunswick, Maine,and Wolfgang Watzinger at the Bösendorfer International Piano Academy in Vienna. Inhis final years at Baylor, David began conducting studies under the guidance of StephenHeyde.At the University of Illinois, David earned an M.M. in orchestral conducting withDonald Schleicher; during his residence he served as ensemble manager for theUniversity of Illinois orchestra program and as Assistant Conductor for the Quad CitySymphony. He was awarded the Kate Neal Kinley Memorial Fellowship for the 2006-07 academic year, which funded travel throughout the country to study with master
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