SATB Choir
Dr. Kenneth Fulton
Louisiana State University

     Dr. Kenneth Fulton is the Earleene Sanders Alumni Professor of Choral Studies and Chair of the Division of Ensembles and Conducting in the College of Music and Dramatic Arts at Louisiana State University where he conducts the LSU A Cappella Choir and guides the graduate degrees in choral conducting. He has been named as one of LSU’s Distinguished Professors and in January 2006, was awarded an Alumni Professorship, the university’s most prestigious endowed teaching professorship. He also recently was named a Distinguished Choirmaster by the Texas Choral Directors Association. The title, which has not been presented since 1997, is a lifetime achievement award given only on those rare occasions when the TCDA leadership believes that an individual has been a major contributor to the art of choral music nationally and internationally through many years of notable work. He is Chorusmaster for the Baton Rouge Symphony Chorus and Artistic Director/Conductor for the Linz International Choral Festival in Linz, Austria where he annually conducts performances with the Festival Orchestra and Chorus.
      Dr. Fulton has conducted performances in some of the most prestigious performance venues in the world including Carnegie Hall in New York, Symphony Hall in Boston, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., the Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, the Mozarteum, and the Brucknerhaus in Austria. Prominent performances by his choirs include appearances for three national and seven divisional ACDA Conventions, a national MENC convention as well as performances for national meetings of the College Music Society, the Sonneck Society, the American Musicological Society, and the American Society of University Composers. He has conducted the LSU A Cappella Choir in invitational performances in Notre Dame and the Vatican, in six successful European tours. Dr. Fulton has conducted invitational clinics including all-state, and Honor Festival choruses, conducting master classes, and conductor/teacher workshops in forty different states and in Europe.

TTBB Choir
Dr. Jonathan Reed
Michigan State University

     Dr. Jonathan Reed is associate professor of music and associate director of choral activities at the Michigan State University College of Music.
     He also conducts the State Singers, the Men’s Glee Club, and teaches Ensemble Conducting and Secondary Choral Methods. During the summer, Reed teaches graduate courses in Choral Conducting and Choral Methods. In addition, he supervises the directed teaching experiences of undergraduate choral education majors. In 1999, the Associated Students of MSU presented him with the “Outstanding Faculty Award.”
     Reed enjoys an active professional status as an adjudicator and clinician, conducting festivals and all-state choruses throughout the United States. In the coming year, he will conduct All-State and Honor Choruses in Texas, Indiana, Missouri and for the Northwest Division of the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA). As the National ACDA Repertoire and Standards Chair for Male Chorus and a board member of the Intercollegiate Male Choruses Inc., Reed is recognized across America for his leadership in men’s choral music. Under his direction, the MSU Men’s Glee Club has completed three European tours, and been an invited participant in the Midwest Music Conference in Ann Arbor, the 1998 Central Division Convention of ACDA in Detroit, and ACDA National Conventions in Chicago (1999) and San Antonio (2001). Most recently, the Men’s Glee Club was invited to participate in America Cantat IV, one of only two American choirs invited to participate in America Cantat IV in Mexico City.

• All State Chorus Acceptance Form (Form D) (must contain all   signatures) due to Nancy Leisl.
• All State Medical Form (one per student) due to Nancy Leisl.
• All State Rules and Regulations for Participation Form
 (one per student) due to Nancy Leisl.
• All State Chorus Music Order Form due to KMEA Office.

2009 All-State Choir Rosters
(Inside the KMEA Information Center)