The Kentucky Junior High Chorus (KJHC) is comprised of the Kentucky Junior High Mixed Chorus (KJHMC) and the Kentucky Junior High Treble Chorus (KJHTC). Each chorus has approximately 200 seventh, eighth, and ninth grade students who are selected by audition from the state of Kentucky. Both choirs perform in concert as part of the Kentucky Music Educator's Association In-Service /Professional Development Conference in Louisville, on February 4, 2010, in Whitney Hall at the Kentucky Center for the Arts. |
JUDY BOWERS, Professor of Choral Music Education at Florida State University, teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in choral music education, as well as conducting the Women’s Glee Club, a performing group that also provides Adopt-A-Choir and Study-Buddy partnerships with area secondary public school choirs. She has received a University Award for Excellence in Teaching at FSU. As a choral educator, she is an active conductor of all-state and honor choirs across the United States, and in 2005 was awarded the Wayne Hugoboom Distinguished Service Award from Florida ACDA Chapter. Bowers frequently presents workshops and clinics for teachers, and her research interests include developmental choral groups, the adolescent voice change, learning partnerships, and voice use of music teachers and students
Professor Bowers holds music degrees from Louisiana State University (Ph.D.) and Texas Tech University (B.M.E.). From 1990-2000, she led the Capital Children’s Choir program at FSU and more recently has developed a community service partnership with an urban middle school. Since 2000, this collaboration has provided additional music ensembles for the middle school students (a jazz band, steel drum ensembles, and a world music choir) while also enriching the teacher preparation experiences for Florida State University students. |
LYNNE GACKLE is an active clinician, conductor, and adjudicator for various choral clinics, honor choirs, workshops, and festivals throughout the United States. She has conducted All-State Choirs in 19 states and has served as conductor for several Divisional ACDA Honor Choirs and the National Junior High Honor Choir. She also served as conductor of the Australian National Choral Association's High School Women's Choir in Brisbane, Australia and the Alberta Choral Federation's High School Honour Choir in Calgary, Canada.
Dr. Gackle has taught at all
levels, elementary through college in Louisiana, Florida,
and Mississippi. She is currently an Associate Professor
of Ensembles at Baylor University. Previously, she served
as the Vocal/Choral Coordinator at the New World School
of the Arts in Miami, FL, Assistant Professor of Music
at the University of South Florida, Assistant Professor
of Music at the University of Mississippi and Adjunct Professor
of Music Education at the University of Miami in Coral
Gables, FL. She was the founder of the Gulf Coast
Youth Choirs, Inc., a community choral arts organization
in Tampa, Florida
where she also served as conductor of the advanced
touring ensemble, Le Petit Choeur.
She
received a Bachelor of Music Education degree from Louisiana
State University and a Master of Music Education as
well as a Doctorate of Music Education from the University
of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida.
Her choirs have performed at the State and Divisional Conventions of the American Choral Directors Association as well as the Music Educators National Conference Biennial Convention. She served as President of the ACDA Southern Division as well as ACDA - Florida. Lynne received the Wayne Hugoboom Distinguished Service Award from the Florida ACDA Chapter for dedicated service, leadership, and excellence in choral music in Florida. In addition to ACDA, she holds memberships in the Florida Music Educators Association, MENC, the Florida Vocal Association, and NATS.
Dr. Gackle was a contributing author to the MENC publication, Music at the Middle Level: Building Strong Programs, and has had several articles published in the Choral Journal. Additionally, she is the editor of the Lynne Gackle Choral Series for Colla Voce Music, Inc. and of Choral Artistry for the Singer with Walton Music. |
