Melissa Malvar-Keylock conducts the Semi-Tones and Grace Notes of the Princeton Girlchoir. She is also the Director of Choral Music at Moorestown Friends School, where she conducts five upper and middle school choirs, and teaches Advanced Placement Music Theory. She serves on the board of the New Jersey Choral Director's Association as the R&S Chair for Children's Choirs.
     Previously, Mrs. Malvar worked with the Indianapolis Children's Choir as the Director of Satellite Programs/Assistant Education Director. She holds a Bachelor of Music Education degree from Wheaton College, and a Master of Music in conducting degree from Butler University, where she conducted the collegiate Women's Glee Club. She completed her coursework for Kodály certification from Capital University, and is a member of the American Choral Directors Association, The Association for Music Education (formerly MENC), Organization of Kodály Educators, and Pi Kappa Lambda. She is listed in "Who's Who in American Women," and her conducting can be seen in the PBS documentary In Endless Song, and the educational video Creating Artistry through Movement: Dalcroze Eurythmics in a Choral Classroom. Mrs. Malvar-Keylock is an active choral clinician for festival and state choirs, and enjoyed her first bilingual conducting recently with a children's choir in Las Palmas of the Canary Islands. This year, her choirs will perform at the Eastern Division Kodály conference in New York, and the New Jersey Music Educator's convention.
     Melissa's compositions/arrangements with Colla Voce and Hal Leonard Publishing have sold over 18,500 copies, and are performed by children's choirs throughout the country, including numerous festivals and state honor choirs. Quiet Sea was featured at the 2011 National ACDA convention's children's choir reading session. Her husband, Fernando Malvar-Ruiz, conducts The American Boychoir, and the couple resides in Lawrenceville, NJ.