The Kentucky Junior High Chorus is comprised of approximately 200 seventh, eighth, and ninth grade students who are selected by audition from the state of Kentucky. The KJHC will perform as part of the Kentucky Music Educator's Association In-Service /Professional Development Conference in Louisville, on February 5, 2009, at 6:30 pm, in Whitney Hall at the Kentucky Center for the Arts.

     Dr Hillary Apfelstadt will be the conductor for the 2009 Kentucky Junior High Chorus. Dr. Apfelstadt is Professor of Choral Studies and Director of Choral Activities at Ohio State University. She conducts the OSU Chorale, the Women’s Glee Club, teaches conducting and choral repertory, and coordinates the graduate conducting program. Her choirs have performed at regional and national conventions of the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) and at state and regional conferences of the National Association of Music Education (MENC). She has conducted many honor choirs and all-state choruses in Canada, the United States and in Cuba, and guest conducted in England. A prolific author, she has published over seventy articles on choral music in various refereed journals. She is a contributor to a forthcoming ACDA monograph on women conductors.
     Currently national President of ACDA, Dr. Apfelstadt was a member of the Robert Shaw Festival Singers for several years and recorded two CD’s for Telarc with the Singers in France. Her degrees are from the University of Toronto, the University of Illinois and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She also has a diploma in piano performance from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. In addition to her duties at the Ohio State University, Dr. Apfelstadt is Director of Music at Linworth United Methodist Church in Columbus.
     The KJHC is very excited to welcome Dr. Hillary Apfelstadt back to Kentucky as our 2009 conductor.