WEST VIRGINIA AMERICAN CHORAL DIRECTORS ASSOCIATION

WV ACDA Conference 2002

West Virginia ACDA is proud to announce
outstanding clinicians for the January 24-26, 2002 Convention
at The Baptist Temple in Charleston, WV

 
Peter Bagley
Ken Fulton
Dan Krunnfusz

 COLLEGIATE HONOR CHOIR CONDUCTOR
    Peter Bagley, Professor of Music at the University of Connecticut, received his bachelor's degree  in music education at the Crane School of Music, State University of New York  at Potsdam, and his doctorate in choral conducting under Julius Herford at Indiana University.
    Dr. Bagley has been invited to be guest conductor and choral clinician for numerous festivals and allstate choirs throughout the country. Among many engagements, he recently conducted the M.E.N.C. All?Eastern Division Chorus in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and launched his international career as choral clinician in a ten?city tour of New Zealand sponsored by the New Zealand Choral Federation. Other engagements include an appointment to the faculty of the Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute, an appointment for the 1994?95 Artist?in?Residency Program in Portland, Maine, and an invitation to conduct at the International Honor Band and Choir Festival hosted by the International School at The Hague. He currently holds a continuing appointment to the faculty of master conductors for the
Dennis Keene Choral Festival in Kent, CT. Together with the University of Connecticut Festival Chorus and Orchestra, Dr. Bagley made his Carnegie Hall debut June, 1997, conducting Maurice DurufIe's Requiem. For the millennium celebration he conducted the Men's Honor Choir at the ACDA Eastern Division Conference, Baltimore, 2000.
    Dr. Bagley is an active member of the American Choral Directors Association, and was honored in October, 1990, by the Connecticut chapter as "...the Connecticut Choral Educator of the Year."  He has also served on the Boards of Chorus America and the Hall Johnson Institute. His professional achievements are recognized in Who's Who in the East, and Who's Who Among Black Americans.

HIGH SCHOOL ALL-STATE CHAMBER CHOIR CONDUCTOR
Dr. Kenneth Fulton, the Stephanie Landry Barineau Professor of Choral Music and Chair of the Division of  Ensembles and Conducting, has been on the faculty at the LSU School of Music in Baton Rouge since 1986. He chairs graduate choral studies at LSU and conducts the LSU A Cappella Choir, acclaimed as one of the premier collegiate ensembles in the country. He is also Chorusmaster and Assistant Conductor for the Baton Rouge Symphony and Symphony Chorus and has recently been appointed as artistic conductor for the Linz Summer Choral Music Institute in Linz, Austria.
    Internationally recognized as a conductor and clinician, Fulton has appeared professionally in 32 different states. Dr. Fulton's choruses have given 18 invitational performances for national  audiences of ACDA, and MENC, CMS, the Sonneck Society, and the American M usicological Society. They have also given numerous regional performances for the National Association of Teachers of Singing, the Texas Music Educators Association, the Louisiana Music Educators Association, the Louisiana ACDA, and the American Society of University Composers. In addition, his choruses have won numerous awards and completed 11 successful European tours with performances in the Netherlands, France, Germany, England, Wales, Scotland, Austria, the Czech Republic, Italy, and Switzerland.
    Dr. Fulton has published articles on the choral music of William Walton, Don Carlo Gesualdo, and William Byrd in the Choral Journal and the AGO Magazine and served for six years on the National Editorial Board for the Choral Journal.  His choral music series is published by Alliance Music Com- pany in Houston, Texas. He has held a wide variety of professional offices and is a past President of the Southern Division of the American Choral Directors Association, the Texas Choral Directors Association and the Louisiana ACDA.

JUNIOR HIGH/MIDDLE SCHOOL ALL-STATE CONDUCTOR
    Dan Krunnfusz is currently in his 4th year teaching choir and general music at Hamilton Middle School in Madison, Wisconsin.   Dan is in his twenty-second year of public school teaching, 21 of which have included Jr. High/Middle School chorus.  He is also in his twelfth year as the Artistic Director of the Madison Boychoir, a treble voiced group of boys, ages eight to fourteen.
    Mr. Krunnfusz holds both a Master's and a Bachelor's degree in Music Education from the University of Wisconsin?Madison, with additional studies ranging from Vocal Health with Axel Theimer and Leon Thurman to World Music Drumming with Will Schmid to composition with Alice Parker.  A member of ACDA, MENC and the VoiceCare Network, he has conducted numerous All State Jr. High Honor's Choirs, including the 2000 ACDA Southern Division Jr. High Choir.
    Mr .Krunnfusz is also an active composer and arranger with several of his works in print with various publishers. The Junior High/Middle School All-State Choir
will perform a commissioned setting of "Cantate Domino" by Mr .Krunnfusz. He lives in Baraboo, Wisconsin with his two children, Andrea (13) and Jason (11).
 
 
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