2024 MMEA Tower Choir Program

N O R T H W E S T M I S S O U R I S TAT E U N I V E R S I T Y

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Welcome Letters President Tatum Provost Hooyman Dean Steiner DFPA Chair Kreizinger Music Chair Brown Program Texts, Translations, and Notes Choral Personnel Performer Bios About Us Voice Area Bios Special Thanks/Acknowledgements

Bearcat Greetings, On behalf of the Northwest Missouri State University Board of Regents, and the Northwest Leadership Team, we are honored that the Tower Choir will perform for the 86th Annual Missouri Music Educators Association Conference. I congratulate director Dr. Adam Zrust and his students for representing Northwest on such an impressive stage.

Dr. Zrust has a long history of high-quality performances and accomplishments and I know you are in for a treat. The performance you will see today is a testament to the excellence and greatness that surrounds the culture of Northwest Missouri State University. Performing for this association will be a moment in their college career that our students will never forget.

We are thankful for this tremendous opportunity, and we are excited that our students get to showcase their musical talents with you. Northwest is focused on student success, every student, every day and we are proud to provide our students with profession-based learning that allows them to stand out amongst their peers after graduation. I invite you to visit us on campus or online to learn more about the impressive programs and opportunities that we have for students.

Sincerely,

Lance Tatum, Ph.D.

President Northwest Missouri State University

Dear participants and friends of the Missouri Music Educators Association, As the provost of Northwest Missouri State University, I am honored to welcome you to the Tower Choir’s performance at the 86th Annual Missouri Music Educators Association Conference. This is the choir’s fifth invitation to perform at the annual conference, and I congratulate our students and their director, Dr. Adam Zrust, for earning this honor. Our students are very excited to share their talents and love for music with you. This is an opportunity they will never forget and will forever be a bright achievement of their college careers.

Under the amazing direction of Dr. Zrust our students represent excellence, skill and passion for music to go with their Northwest pride. They represent the talented students of Northwest’s Department of Fine and Performing Arts, which continues to flourish and bring beauty and joy to our university, community and world.

These students share their extraordinary gifts in a way that uplifts positivity and appreciation of the arts.

I hope you can sit back and enjoy the amazing music that our Tower Choir has prepared for you. We are extremely proud to have them represent Northwest Missouri State University and know that Dr. Zrust and our students will not disappoint. We are proud of the quality of instruction provided at Northwest and of the commitment and talent of these students who represent our institution at such a high level of excellence.

Sincerely,

Jamie Hooyman, Ed.D.

Provost Northwest Missouri State University

Dear Friends, As Associate Provost and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Northwest Missouri State University it is my honor to welcome you to this performance of the Northwest Tower Choir. Like the Missouri Music Educator’s Association, the Tower Choir has a long history of commitment to the cultivation of music. Formed decades ago, by Ralph E. Hartzell, and presently under the direction of Dr. Adam Zrust, the Northwest Tower Choir has a rich and varied history of outstanding choral performance and musical excellence marked by invitational appearances at a number of highly respected conventions, including five invited appearances at the Missouri Music Educators Association State Convention. Just in the past two decades the ensemble has performed more than 100 concerts for high schools, colleges, universities, churches, institutions, and organizations across the country.

While a majority of the vocalists in this select choir are music majors, members have consistently represented a broad cross-section of academic degree pursuits across our campus. This variety of interests points to the commitment in Arts and Sciences at Northwest to the broad educational development of every individual in our campus community.

What we trust you will experience in this concert is the product of a Music Program that enjoys a robust life on our campus through considerable institutional commitment and donor philanthropy. Likewise, the Tower Choir enjoys considerable support from our community of faculty, staff, and students who engage in support of the arts through a variety of means that make these efforts by our hard-working students possible. It is truly a joy to work in a campus environment that values the arts, and this work is much to the benefit of our society locally and at large.

Michael Steiner Michael Steiner, Ph.D.

Associate Provost and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Northwest Missouri State University

Dear MMEA Participants and Friends of Music, As Chair of the Department of Fine and Performing Arts at Northwest Missouri State University, it is my privilege to welcome you to this 86th Annual Missouri Music Educators Association In-Service Workshop/Conference. I am especially honored to congratulate the Northwest Missouri State University Tower Choir, Northwest’s premiere chorale ensemble under the direction of Dr. Adam Zrust, on their fifth invitation to perform at this convention.

For decades, Northwest’s Tower Choir has shared its music across the nation and internationally in venues ranging from the Washington National Cathedral to the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts to the Basilica of Conception Abbey, and from performances in public schools and universities to conventions and symposia.

Performing in collaboration with high school musicians across the region has also become a trademark of this ensemble, as have numerous performances working with nationally and internationally known conductors.

The sustained history of outstanding leadership of the Tower Choir, along with the talent and dedication of the many students who have been a part of this ensemble, have led to what I believe you will see is an example of musical excellence. This year’s Tower Choir is comprised not only of music majors, but a representation of students from across Northwest’s five departments and six schools.

I have the privilege of seeing and hearing a constant flow of music, art, and theatre, the three broad areas of our multidisciplinary department, on a daily basis. I have the special good fortune to see firsthand the incredible work and dedication of the members and director of the Tower Choir on an on-going basis. May you join in experiencing the beauty of the Tower Choir’s music and embrace the power of this art form, one that connects us all with its universal expressions of emotion.

With warmest regards,

Joe Kreizinger Joe Kreizinger, Ph.D.

Chair, Fine and Performing Arts: Art, Music, & Theatre Northwest Missouri State University

Dear Participants and Friends of MMEA,

On behalf of the music program in the Department of Fine Arts at Northwest Missouri State University, I would like welcome you to the Tower Choir’s performance at the 2024 Missouri Educators Association Conference under the direction of Dr. Adam Zrust.

Tower Choir has a long-standing tradition for quality choral performances at the Missouri Music Educators Conference plus many other conferences and venues over the years. The music faculty is proud of our choral tradition at Northwest, and we are confident that the breadth and variety of this year’s performance will be excellent.

Our students have prepared these pieces to thrill and inspire and I am pleased to not only offer these amazing selections for your enjoyment, but to also be in the audience myself.

We at Northwest Missouri State University are grateful to those in the Missouri Music Educators Conference who have provided us the opportunity to share this excellent music with all of you. Our students, the supporting instrumental musicians, and Dr. Zrust have prepared a diverse array of choral pieces whose performance will certainly be a life-long memory for each of them. We hope it is for you also.

Sincerely,

Debra R. Brown, Ph.D.

Associate Chair, Fine and Performing Arts Northwest Missouri State University

NORTHWEST MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY TOWER CHOIR Dr. Adam Zrust, conductor Dr. Jiwon Choi, collaborative piano

PROGRAM NOTES & TRANSLATIONS Elements Katerina Gimon III. Fire (b. 1993) Cypress Choral Music, CP1451 Dr. Will Alderman and Christepher Sok, percussion Elements is a set of choral works that abstractly depict the four classical elements and explores the wide range of capabilities of the human voice - from overtone singing, to vocal percussion, to colorful vocal timbres. Elements features no 'text' (at least not in the traditional sense), rather a series of syllables generated through improvisation meant to evoke the sound and energy of each element. Movement III, Fire, is a fun, lively, and energetic work incorporating vocal percussion, body percussion, nasal singing, calls, nonsense syllables, as well as optional percussion.

fire heat, light strength, fuel, drive burning, melting, evaporating, and transforming fire

-Katerina Gimon

Haec Dies Choral Public Domain Library

Psalm 117: 24 Haec dies quam fecit Dominus: Exultemus et laetemur in ea, Alleluia.

William Byrd (1539/40-1623) ed. Jason Smart This is the day the Lord has made: Let us rejoice and be glad in it, Alleluia.

Harlem Night Songs IV. Harlem Night Song Colla Voce Music, 39-20146 Kierra Shelby, soprano Kasey Domer, tenor

Timothy Hoekman (b. 1954)

Harlem Night Song, from Timothy Hoeckman’s Harlem Night Songs, is the final movement of a four-movement-set with text by Langston Hughes. Dr. Hoeckman’s compelling writing exemplifies his work as an accomplished pianist and vocal coach. His mastery of a broad range of musical styles takes the listener on a well-paced, eclectic journey, through this extended work. The vocal lines sing beautifully, and his pianistic abilities allow for an expressive accompaniment that has a quasi-Brahmsian feel mixed with some Gershwin flair.

Osanna in excelsis Gehrmans Musikförlag, GE 11556

Fredrik Sixten (b. 1962)

Text: from the Latin Mass Osanna in excelsis Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domine Osanna in excelsis 9

Hosanna in the highest Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.

Hosanna in the highest.

A Vision Unfolding III. All of Me Galaxy Music Corporation, 1.3685 Dr. Sophia Han, violin

Kyle Pederson (b. 1971)

In 2022, Northwest Missouri State University, along with several other choral ensembles from across the country, joined a commissioning project with Kyle Pederson. Through a generous Northwest College of Arts & Sciences Academic Initiative grant, Tower Choir gave the Missouri premiere of this work at the Ron Houston Center for the Performing Arts in Maryville, MO, and a world premiere in Nairobi, Kenya, in June of 2023, with other members of the consortium.

Centered around themes of social justice, this extended work invites the choir and audience into a compelling vision of a world rooted in compassion, freedom, inclusivity, and justice.

Each of the five movements is accompanied by piano, while some also include optional violin, trumpet, and snare drum. Spoken-word poetry, written by Shanelle Gabriel, is interwoven before, between, and within movements, though choirs are also welcome to perform their own spoken-word narration throughout the work. In addition to Gabriel's poetry, other texts are by Langston Hughes, Walt Whitman, Robert Bode, and Kyle Pederson.

Movements, which may be performed as a complete set or purchased separately, include Reach Down, Lord; Beat! Drums!; All of Me; Light Transforms the Darkness; and I Dream a World.

-Kyle Pederson 3. All of Me Look at my skin.

Do you see only skin, or the soul within... do you see what’s true?

Look who I love.

Do you view me as less, like none of the rest of me matters to you?

So look at my skin.

See the skin and the soul within.

See what’s true.

Turn off the talk on the air, and the voices who seem to just care about dividing and hiding us where you won’t see.

Look who I love.

And see my faith and my vote, but not those alone, seek to know me, too.

Look at my faith.

Do you see my creed, and choose to believe that’s all of me?

Turn up the voices of truth.

Learn to let mercy through.

Love will guide us to a world where we see.

All of me.

Look at my vote.

On that alone are you likely to show contempt for me?

You don’t have to see.

But if you take the time to look at me,

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you’ll see the same fears and a good heart, and the same tears that tear you apart.

See the same love, the same hope, the same need, the same joy.

Turn and see.

Will you see?

All of me.

Ay’bobo Pou Yo (We Honor Them) Sydney Guillaume https://sydneyguillaume.com/ (b. 1982) Mason Ward, tenor Dr. Will Alderman and Christepher Sok, percussion Like many of Sydney Guillaume’s choral works, Ay’bobo Pou Yo features a text from his poetically gifted father, Gabriel T. Guillaume. This piece, in particular, is a celebration of artists: musicians, composers, singers, etc. In short, YOU! The melody is beautifully shared across voice parts, and Sydney’s tremendous ability of creating a celebratory atmosphere through nonsense syllables, syncopated rhythms, and percussion, makes the piece one giant crescendo of excitement!

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French & Haitian Creole

English Poetic Translation

Poètes et musiciens, acteurs, chanteurs et farandoles, Artistes de partout, venez sous la Coupole.

Venez! En avant! Ay’bobo pou yo, n’ap honore yo!

Poets and musicians, actors, singers and farandoles, Artists from everywhere gather under the Dome.

Join in! Let’s go! We are honoring them!

Les rideaux sont ouverts et la scène est en liesse; Coryphèe, entonnez un beau chant d'allégresse!

“Mèsi, ayibobo pou tout konpozitè yo!

Mèsi, ayibobo pou direktè yo tou!”

The curtains are open and the scene is full of jubilation; Corypheus, intone a marvelous chant!

“Praise and honor to all composers!

Praise and honor to the conductors too!”

Depi solèy leve jouk nan labrin di swa, Y’ap simen kè kontan, y’ap simaye lapè.

Ils sèment dans nos coeur la joie de l’harmonie, Le sens de la mesure et le goût de la vie.

From the crack of dawn ‘til the darkness of night, They are spreading joy and they are sowing peace.

They plant in our hearts the joy of harmony, The meaning of the bar and the taste of life.

Pou bèl misyon sa yo, n’ap di ayibobo pou yo!

For their beautiful mission, we honor them!

La musique et l’amour à jamais nous éclaire, Et le monde partout resplendit de lumière.

Limyè la jistis, limyè lamitye.

Limyè la dignite, limyè limanite.

Music and love forever enlighten us, And the light shines brightly throughout the world.

The light of justice, the light of friendship, The light of dignity and the light of humanity.

Ala yon bèl bagay lè kè tout moun kontan!

Mizik avèk lanmou se pi bèl eritaj!

How wonderful it is when everyone’s heart is filled with joy!

Music and love are the best legacy!

Mèsi, ay’bobo pou yo! Bravo pou yo!

We thank and honor them! Bravo for them!

Swing Low, Sail High Manuscript

The Wailin’ Jennys/Nicky Mehta (b. 1972) arr. Evan Powers Emma Aborn, Katie Carroll, Stephanie Houlette, Katie McCollum, Aubrey Peterson, Mary Roth, soli Dr. Will Alderman, guitar

Swing Low, Sail High is the first track from the album Bright Morning Stars (2011) by The Wailin’ Jennys. Arranged by Evan Powers, this magnificent piece has musical folk roots with a text grounded in hope. One might even consider it a meditation on loss, with the lyricist seeking answers to difficult questions about love's enduring power.

I have failed you, I have failed you I have lost my way, lost my nerve, I’ve failed you But I love you, how I love you I have turned my back, left you last but I love you O setting sun don’t sink before I’ve found my heart Heart don’t give up now while there’s still time Time don’t beat your old retreat, stay a little while with me ’til I’ve looked the whole thing in the eye I have waited, I have waited for the big reveal, the even keel, I’ve waited But there’s no one who makes it all come true Just altars gathering dust while we bow to them O night bring all your shadows and your silence Silence make a hostage of my mind Mind bring on your trickery, black dogs nip on at my heels ’til I’ve looked the whole thing in the eye Swing low, sail high I have failed you, I have failed you I’ve closed my heart, I have failed you But I love you, how I love you All my days will rearrange to say I love you O setting sun don’t weep for all the things you lose Morning comes as sure as it must die Dying is such mystery, yet I wonder will it be when I’ve looked the whole thing in the eye Swing low, sail high.

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NORTHWEST TOWER CHOIR Soprano I Emma Aborn (Lamar, MO) –Vocal & Instrumental Music Education Katie Carroll (Lee’s Summit, MO) – Elementary & Special Education Kierra Shelby (Bethany, MO)– Vocal Music Education Soprano II Stephanie Houlette (Huxley, IA) – Early Childhood Education *Aubrey Peterson (Liberty, MO) – Vocal Music Education +Mary Roth (Chicago, IL) – Vocal Music Education Carli Valentine (Saint Joseph, MO) – Music: Wellness Alto I Joleigh Barth (Butler, MO) –Vocal Music Education Kaitlynn Daniels (Kansas City, KS) – Music: Wellness Bridget Hopkins (Clarinda, IA) –Speech & Theatre Education Morgan Jaeger (Olathe, KS) – Management & Marketing Crow Marquez (Wahoo, NE) - Vocal Music Education Alto II CJ Ginther (Pleasant Hill, MO) –Vocal Music Education Jana Hinds (Hannibal, MO) – Music Dani Lorenzo (Macon, MO) – Vocal Music Education +*Katie McCollum (Hannibal, MO) – Vocal Music Education Tenor I +Kasey Domer (Creston, IA) – Vocal Music Education Mason Ward (Hannibal, MO) – Vocal Music Education Tenor II Connor Betts (Moberly, MO) – Vocal Music Education Corbin Estes (Saint Joseph, MO) –Vocal Music Education Colton Gamble (Lee’s Summit, MO) –Mass Media: Broadcast Production Corban Springs (Saint Joseph, MO) –Vocal & Instrumental Education Noa Wecker (Trenton, MO) –Biochemistry Bass I Jacob Fetter (Logan, IA) –Agricultural Business Leonard Greene (Grandview, MO) –Biomedical Sciences (pre-vet) Bass II Matt Baalman (Topeka, KS) – Geographic Information Science *Tyler Jenkins (Bellevue, NE) – Vocal Music Education +Steven Owings (Mexico, MO) – Vocal Music Education Alex Reid (Holt, MO) – Vocal Music Education +denotes section leader *denotes choral assistant

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PERFORMER BIOS Adam Zrust Dr. Adam Zrust is the Director of Choral Activities and Assistant Professor of Choral Music Education at Northwest Missouri State University, where he oversees the choral program and teaches specialized courses in music education. As a teacher, he has had opportunities to instruct in both secondary and post-secondary settings. Prior to his collegiate teaching, he was the Director of Choirs at Mansfield Legacy High School in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. During his six-year tenure at Legacy, the program doubled in size, expanding from three choirs to six, and ensembles under his direction were frequent “sweepstakes” winners at their annual performance assessment.

Dr. Zrust maintains an active schedule conducting honor choirs and is frequently invited to present at various conferences across the United States and abroad. Most recently, in 2023, he was an invited guest conductor of the Nairobi Chamber Chorus in Nairobi, Kenya, in partnership with the Festival Singers of Florida, for a benefit concert in support of the global peace movement called AVoice4Peace. As a scholar, Dr. Zrust’s expertise is grounded in rehearsal efficiency. More specifically, the use of concurrent instruction (conductor talk-over behaviors) in ensemble settings. Other lines of academic inquiry include choral classroom critical thinking, content delivery and cognitive load, and singing for social harmony. His work has been published in the Journal of Research in Music Education, Florida Music Director, and GIA Publications.

Dr. Zrust earned an MME and a PhD in Choral Conducting and Music Education from Florida State University, and a BAE-Music and BS in Music Business from the University of Nebraska-Kearney. He is a member of the American Choral Directors Association and National Association for Music Education. He lives in Missouri with his wife Kate Zrust, and four-year-old twin sons, Benjamin and Samuel.

Jiwon Choi Dr. Jiwon Choi’s performances have spanned many venues throughout the United States, South Korea and Italy. She was invited to perform in the inaugural event of the 2017 Seattle International Piano Competition and Festival and world premiere compositions at the 2013 International Beethoven Festival in Chicago. She has also joined Italian Operatic Experience as a coach in Urbania, Italy. She has won awards in national and international competitions including: First Prize of the 2014 American Protégé International Competition, marking her debut at Carnegie Hall, First Prize of Golden Classical Music Awards International Competition, and Puerto Rico International Collaborative Piano Competition, and she was selected as a finalist in the professional division of The American Prize national competition. Choi holds a DMA in Piano Performance and Pedagogy from the University of Kansas, where she served as Graduate Teaching Assistantship and a faculty at the University of Kansas Community Music School. She received her MM at Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University and her BM at Dong-Ah University in South Korea. She is currently collaborative pianist and coordinator of collaborative piano at Northwest issouri State University.

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Will Alderman Dr. Will Alderman (b. 1990) currently serves as the professor of percussion at music theory at Northwest Missouri State University. Previously, he has served as an instructor at Eastern Mennonite University, Bridgewater College, Washington & Lee University and Kalamazoo College. An avid performer and composer, Will has toured and premiered works in a variety of mediums worldwide. Currently, he performs with his quartet, Without Borders, which has recorded and released its very own marimba quartet transcription of Béla Bartok’s String Quartet No. 5. The ensemble has toured with the work; performing in Taiwan, Japan, and throughout the United States. Without Borders has premiered several of their own works including Will’s new composition, Farewell to Shadowlands, for percussion ensemble and acoustic guitar. In addition to his quartet, Will has had the privilege of performing with several world-renowned artists such as Gordon Stout, Valerie Naranjo, Gif Howarth, and Casey Cangelosi.

Sophia Han Described by the Classical Voices of North Carolina as making playing the violin “seem easy, almost as child’s play”, Dr. Sophia Han is the Associate Professor of Violin and Viola. A versatile musician, Han has performed as guest soloist with orchestras across the US and appeared on tour with artists such as Michael Bublé, Audra McDonald, and rock band STARSET. Currently serving as the Associate Concertmaster of Paducah Symphony Orchestra, Han was a guest Concertmaster of Southern Illinois Music Festival Orchestra, the Assistant Concertmaster of Tallahassee Symphony, and is in demand as a guest artist and clinician nationally. As a chamber musician, Han is an active collaborator across the Heartland and a violinist of the St. Louis Chamber Soloists. Prior to her appointment in the STL Chamber Soloists, Han was a member of the Rio Verde Quartet as well as the Ellen Zwillich sponsored Eppes Quartet during her DM studies at Florida State University. Han also has degrees from the University of Michigan and University of North Carolina. Her principal teachers include Corinne Stillwell, Aaron Berofsky, and the late Richard Luby.

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NORTHWEST VOICE AREA Rachel Day Rachel Day, mezzo-soprano, is Assistant Professor of Vocal Music at Northwest Missouri State University. She began teaching private voice and piano lessons in 1993 and became a member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) in 1996. She has two Master of Music degrees (Voice Performance and Voice Pedagogy) and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Arizona State University. Her doctoral document is titled, “Vocal Pedagogy at the End of the Twentieth Century: Revealing the Hidden Instrument.”

Rachel is an active recitalist, focusing specifically on performing music by women and underrepresented composers. 2021 presentations at the CalWestern Region NATS conference included a recital titled, “The Women Sing!”—with songs by Florence Price, Mable Bailey, Maria Szymanowska, Pauline Viardot-Garcia, Shruthi Rajasekar, Masi Asare, Lucy Simon, Goldrich & Heisler, and Georgia Stitt—and a presentation titled, “Sourcing Art Song Outside the Western Art Music Canon.” In October 2023, she presented at the Central Region NATS Conference on “Somatic Explorations in the Voice Studio.”

Rachel currently serves as Membership Director for the Pan America Vocology Association (PAVA). She completed the Summer Vocology Institute with Dr. Ingo Titze in summer 2021 and became a certified vocologist. A 2017 CoreSinging® (A Joyful Approach to Singing and Voice Pedagogy) certified teacher, Rachel received Bones for Life® teacher certification in November 2021, a program of somatic awareness developed by Ruthy Alon and inspired by Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais. Her specific interest in Feldenkrais® and singing began after her experiences with muscle tension dysphonia in spring 2019. The short somatic interventions of Bones for Life revolutionized her students’ work in the studio.

Paul Hindemith Baritone Paul Hindemith has been hailed as “touching and expressive” by the Washington Times and has performed with the San Diego, Utah Festival, Ohio Light, and Fargo-Moorhead Operas as well as the Minnesota Orchestra. Equally comfortable in musical theatre, the Omaha native was named “a remarkable talent” by BroadwayWorld Kansas City for his performance of Bobby in Stephen Sondheim’s Company with the Barn Players. In April he will appear in the University of South Dakota Opera Theatre’s premiere of Michael Ching’s new opera about the life of famed opera singer and teacher Pauline Viardot Garcia.

Paul has a growing resume as a director and made his European singing and stage directing debut in Pergolesi’s La serva padrona with the Grumo Festival in Italy. He translated and directed Humperdinck’s opera Hansel and Gretel for the University of South Dakota, and has directed opera and musical theatre scenes at several Universities. He received a commendation from the Kennedy Center American Collegiate Theatre Festival (Region 5) for his music direction of Spring Awakening at Missouri Western State University. He is currently music director of The Spongebob Musical for Robidoux Resident Theater (Saint Joseph’s Missouri Theater, March 1-3).

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Paul is an assistant professor of vocal music at Northwest Missouri State University. He has taught at Missouri Western State University, Georgia College, Concordia College, the University of South Dakota, and Omaha North High School. He holds degrees in vocal performance from the University of Minnesota, the University of Maryland, and Southern Methodist University, where he graduated summa cum laude.

NORTHWEST MUSIC FACULTY

Dr. Will Alderman, Percussion/Music Theory Mr. John Bell, Director of Bands/Horn Debra Brown, Music Education and Associate Chair of Fine and Performing Arts Dr. Jiwon Choi, Collaborative Piano Dr. Rachel Day, Voice/Pedagogy Dr. Rebecca Dunnell, Flute/History Dr. Kyle Jones, Saxophone Dr. Paul Hindemith, Voice/Pedagogy Dr. Anthony Olson, Keyboard Instruments Dr. Bill Richardson, Trumpet/Jazz Ensembles Dr. Kathryn Strickland, Director of Athletic Bands/Instrumental Music Education Dr. William Sutton, Low Brass/Music Theory Dr. Joseph Tomasso, Woodwinds/Music Theory Dr. Adam Zrust, Director of Choral Activities/Choral Music Education

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Dr. Lance Tatum, University President Dr. Jamie Hooyman, Provost Dr. Michael Steiner, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences Dr. Joe Kreizinger, Chair, Department of Fine and Performing Arts Dr. Debbie Brown, Chair of Music Dr. Rachel Day, Voice Dr. Paul Hindemith, Voice Nikki Hackett, Department of Fine and Performing Arts Office Manager Ryan Griesinger, Program Design Dr. Elise Hepworth, Missouri Western State University Dr. Anthony Maglione, William Jewell College

IT TAKES A VILLAGE

Northwest Tower Choir members would like to thank the music teachers listed below who have made a positive and lasting impact on our lives and musical development: Shaun Agnew, Alex Albertson, William Alderman, Wade Aldride, Casey Jo Allen, Mike Altenbernd, Michael Barrett, David Bauer, Tracy Bean, Lydia Bechtel-Edmonson, Jessica Bennett, Geoffrey Boers, Laurie Bonta, Judy Bowers, Tommy Boynton, Annie Bramlage, Paula Brekken, Daniel Brooks, Anita Buelow, Kay Bunge, Tyler Busick, Dawn Bussey, Colton Butcher, Kevin Chase, Jiwon Choi, Holly Dahn, Jan Davis, Paul Davis, Rachel Day, Karen Dollins, Nancy Dreir, Jeremy Duck, Matt Dunseith, Marques Eckhoff, Carolyn Fair, Hanna Fearn, Kenvin Fenton, Beth Files, Katie Fischer, Kim Foley, Jeremy Fox, Patty Fox, Libby Frank, Noel Fulkerson, Kate Fuller, Mark Fuller, Jennifer Gaesser, Greg Gilpin, Aaron Graverson, Ron Halverson, Shelby Hanna, Chris Heil, Jamie Heil, Paul Hindemith, Jonathan Hobbs, LeAnn Houlette, Ryan Howe, Charles Jakes, Khobic Johnson, Linda St. Juliana, Phil Karns, Ted Keck, Ashley Kempt, Ellen Kershaw, Ernest Kramer, Amy Krinke, Peter Kruz, Sara Kurz, Logan Langholdt, Brian Lanier, Raquel Lawrence, Jeff Lean, Susann Licht, Mark Lindeblad, Becky Lloyd, Jacob Lowry, Mark Lowry, Larry Mannasmith, Lorraine Manlove,Qiyao Marcus, Joel Martin, Brooka McCubbin, Maureen McDorman, Dustin McKinney, Beth McLenaghan, Rachel Middaugh, Kyle Minx, Drew Morales, Jullia Mullin, Chris Munce, Allison Oates, Carla Oliver, Christie Ottinger, Eddie Owen, Lean Owen-Brockett, Julie Pappas, Brian Parks, Jennifer Pascoe, Becky Payne, Jason Pentico, Michael Peters, Sheila Phillips, Cheryl Pittman, Dan Rasmussen, Jonathan Ray, Janelle Reetz, AJ Reimer, Misty Renze, Bill Richardson, Robert Rowlett, Jazz Rucker, Cheryl Ruhr, Jo Schmitz, Mary Schubich, Chris Schuttler, Christine Seitz, Helen Shade, Pamela Shannon, Barbara Shelby, Stephanie Skizas, Katy Slankard, Jason Smith, Jennifer Stammers, Melissa Kay Stan, Erin Stewart, Kathryn Strickland, Anna Strong, Ying-Shan Su, William Sutton, Andre Thomas, Chandler Thompson, Joseph Tomasso, Stephen Town, Darren Verbick, Leighton Ware, Jane Warner, Sharon Waters, Danny Watring, Paul Weissenborn, Ryan Welker, Claud Westfall, Galen Whisman, Courtney Williams, Josh Yancey, Daniel Yung, Linda Zellmer, Adam Zrust, Kate Zrust 17

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