WE WOULD LIKE

education units (ACT 48 or graduate credit) by

attending the various sessions. We are enthusiastic
about meeting and working with you and your

TO INVITE YOU students. Please contact us with any questions.

Sincerely,
to the annual Crimson Hawks Invitational Choral
Conference, to be held at Indiana University of Ryan Beeken
Pennsylvania on Tuesday, October 10, 2017. This Director of Choral Studies
years conference will feature clinicians Craig Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Denison, associate director of choral studies at IUP, 724-357-4408
and Kelly Miller, coordinator of music education at ryan.beeken@iup.edu
the University of Central Florida.

Students will take part in intensive rehearsals

and high-quality performances and meet fellow
musicians from the region. CHICC also presents an
opportunity for students to audition for admission
to the IUP Music Department and a potential
scholarship award. Teachers can earn continuing
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT
Great choral music
New friends and interaction with colleagues
Unique experience of singing in a gender choir
No required auditions; music provided
Free applied lessons for interested students
Audition for IUP Music Department
Potential scholarship awards
Fun souvenirs, performance T-shirt
Single meal card for a meal on campus
Reading sessions and master classes for
teachers (music provided)
Final concert Tuesday evening by all singers
7TH-12TH GRADE MENS
HONOR CHOIR CLINICIAN

KELLY A. MILLER
Kelly A. Miller is Coordinator of Music Education
at the University of Central Florida, where she
conducts the Womens Chorus and Ensemble.
She teaches Introduction to Music Education,
Secondary Choral Methods I and II, Music
Learning Theory and Assessment, Conducting,
Music and the Student with Exceptionalities, and
graduate classes in music education, while also
coordinating and supervising student teachers
through their junior and senior internships. Prior
to her appointment at UCF, Miller taught at
Western Illinois University as Assistant Professor
of Choral Music Education, where she conducted
the Concert Choir and Vocal Jazz Ensemble. She
conducted the Womens Glee Club at Michigan
State University for three years and taught
choral music at the high school level for 13
years in Michigan, Florida, and Nebraska. While
in Orlando, Dr. Miller founded the choral/vocal the American Choral Directors Association, and
program at Timber Creek High School, served as at the Nebraska Music Educators Association
District 8 Chair for the Florida Vocal Association, Convention.
and received her National Board Certification in
secondary choral music. Before directing choirs, Miller holds a DMA degree in choral conducting
Miller was a concert band director for grades from Michigan State University, a MM degree
5 through 12 and instructed marching and jazz in music education from the University of
bands, music theory, and elementary general Nebraska at Omaha, and a BA degree in music
music in Nebraska. education from the University of Nebraska at
Kearney.
In addition to her choral directing and teaching,
she has maintained a private voice studio
and is in demand to lead choral workshops
on the choral/instrumental director as voice
teacher, choosing choral repertoire and running
effective rehearsals, leadership, creating
artistry, student ownership, and team building.
Dr. Miller frequently serves as a clinician and
festival adjudicator. She has been invited to
conduct regional and state honor choirs and to
present conference sessions in Ireland, Hawaii,
Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska,
Florida, and Michigan. Dr. Miller has performed
at both divisional and national conventions of
7TH-12TH GRADE WOMENS
HONOR CHOIR CLINICIAN

CRAIG DENISON
Craig Denison joined the IUP faculty after
recently finishing his 13th season with Floridas
Singing Sons Boychoir. He brought to the choir
vast experience and expertise in working with
boys as well as girls voices. At IUP, Dr.
Denison conducts choirs, teaches courses in
choral music education, and supervises student
teachers. He also previously served as music
director for the Colorado Childrens Chorale
and associate music director and conductor of
the American Boychoir, for which he prepared
singers for many significant performances.
Additionally, Dr. Denison has prepared choirs
and acted as vocal coach for several world and
North American premieres, including Luciano
Berios Ofanim, both in Carnegie Hall and at
the Schleswig-Holstein Festival. Other premieres
included Gian Carlo Menottis The Singing
Child at Spoleto Festival USA, and works as assistant professor of conducting. As a solo
by Bob Chilcott, Libby Larsen, Eric Whitacre, singer, he has appeared in performances with
and Stephen Hatfield. He also serves as the the Colorado Symphony, Spoleto Festival USA,
American Choral Directors Associations national the Westminster Choir, the American Boychoir,
chair for Repertoire and Standards in Boychoirs. Delray Beach Chorale, and St. Clements,
Philadelphia.
A sought-after conductor and clinician, Dr.
Denison is a regular guest conductor of honor Dr. Denison earned his PhD from the University
and all-state choruses. He also teaches and of Miami, his master of music degree with
presents his research regularly at the state distinction from Westminster Choir College,
and national levels on topics including the and a bachelor of music degree from Houghton
male singer, the changing voice, music literacy, College, graduating magna cum laude.
and choral performance and assessment.
Dr. Denison has prepared boys for numerous
opera productions, including The Magic Flute,
The Turn of the Screw, A Midsummer Nights
Dream, Carmen, La Bohme, Turandot, Tosca,
Summer and Smoke, Hansel and Gretel, Amahl
and the Night Visitors, and Street Scene with
opera companies as diverse as Central City
Opera, to Los Angeles Opera, to Florida Grand
Opera. In addition to his work with young voices,
Dr. Denison founded the Schola Cantorum at
Westminster Choir College, where he served
IUP FACULTY

RYAN BEEKEN
Ryan Beeken serves as director of Choral Studies at IUP, where he conducts the University
Chorale, Chorus, and Chamber Singers. In addition, he teaches graduate and undergraduate choral
conducting and supervises student teachers. Dr. Beeken also serves as artistic director for the Blair
Concert Chorale, whose mission includes fostering a growing appreciation of high-quality choral
music for the population of south central Pennsylvania. He received bachelor of music in vocal
performance and bachelor of music education degrees from Drake University, and master of music
and doctor of musical arts degrees in choral conducting from Michigan State University.
Dr. Beekens choirs have performed at state, regional, and national conventions of the American
Choral Directors Association. A frequent clinician and festival director, Dr. Beeken is regularly
engaged as a conductor, clinician, and adjudicator throughout the United States. Recent
engagements include all-state and honors choirs in Iowa, Arkansas, Maryland, Mississippi, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio, New York,
Louisiana, and Pennsylvania. He has served on the executive committee of the ACDA at both the state and regional levels and is
currently serving as Northwest Region chair for Pennsylvania ACDA. Dr. Beeken regularly presents sessions for symposia on topics
including repertoire, rehearsal techniques, motivation, conductor-student relationships, and program building.
Before his appointment at IUP, Dr. Beeken taught at Michigan State University, where he conducted the Womens Glee Club. While
residing in Des Moines, Iowa, he directed the Drake Chorale at Drake University. He also taught elementary, middle school, and
high school music for 16 years, most recently serving as director of Vocal Music for Waukee Schools, in suburban Des Moines,
where he led a program of more than 300 students and 12 ensembles to national distinction.
JOSEPH BAUNOCH
An associate professor of voice at IUP, Joseph Baunoch (bass) trained as an apprentice artist with
Toledo Opera and Dicapo Opera of New York City and has performed in more than 50 different
operas and 30 opera roles. He has portrayed the title role in Gianni Schicchi, Dr. Bartolo and Figaro
in The Marriage of Figaro, Leporello in Don Giovanni, Colline in La Bohme, Timur in Turandot, the
secret police agent in The Consul, and Angelotti in Tosca, among others.
Dr. Baunoch has performed with Toledo Opera, New Jersey Association of Verismo Opera, Dicapo
Opera Theater, National Lyric Opera, and Opera Worcester and in several opera outreach programs
with the Metropolitan Opera Guild, Toledo Opera, and Manhattan School of Music. In 2010, Dr.
Baunoch was recognized as a winner in the Classical Singer magazine Convention and Competition
in the Profession Division.
Dr. Baunoch received his doctor of musical arts from Michigan State University, where he performed in a live webcast as the
Capitan in Daniel Catans opera Florencia en el Amazonas, and traveled to China to perform at the Shenyang Conservatory. He
has sung in master classes with legendary mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne, baritone Haijing Fu, and Marlena Malas and has studied
voice with former Metropolitan Opera tenor Richard Fracker, David Okerlund, Ted Puffer, and Spiro Malas. Dr. Baunochs students
have performed with Kansas City Lyric Opera, Delaware Valley Opera, Undercroft Opera, and the Pittsburgh Baroque Ensemble, as
well as with the Bel Canto Institute in Florence, Italy, and the Orvieto Art of Song summer program in Orvieto, Italy.
IUP FACULTY

MARY LOGAN HASTINGS

Mary Logan Hastings joined the music faculty at IUP with a doctor of musical arts in vocal
performance from the University of Maryland, and an extensive professional career in opera;
she was the leading coloratura soprano at Germanys prestigious Nationaltheater Mannheim. Dr.
Hastingss career has taken her from American opera houses in Seattle and Arizona to additional
European houses, such as the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Deutsche Oper am Rhein Dsseldorf,
Stdtische Bhnen Frankfurt am Main, Staatstheater Stuttgart, Opera voor Vlaanderen Antwerp,
Thtre du Capitole Toulouse, and Thter Basel. She performed as Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf
Naxos, Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier, Gilda in Rigoletto, Musetta in La Bohme, Amina in La
Sonnambula, and Die Knigin der Nacht in Die Zauberflte. Dr. Hastingss solo work includes
appearances with the Berliner Philharmonische under the baton of Christoph von Dohnnyi, and
performances with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Michael Gielen, Michel Plasson, Daniel Barenboim, Donald Runnicles, and the late
Jean-Pierre Ponnelle and Robert Shaw.
Included in her concert repertoire are the Four Last Songs of Richard Strauss; Rachmaninoffs Vocalise; Brahmss Requiem;
Mahlers Eighth Symphony, Fourth Symphony, and Rckert Lieder; Beethovens Ninth Symphony; and Haydns Die Jahreszeiten. Dr.
Hastings has performed recitals and given master classes in Croatia, Slovenia, and China. She continues to perform, lecture, and
adjudicate throughout the United States and can be heard on recordings that include songs composed by Alexander Zemlinsky,
David Diamond, and Jack Stamp.
OLIVER LO
Oliver Lo has sung a diverse concert repertoire, spanning from tenor solo in Bach cantatas and
Handels Oratorio to Mendelssohns Elijah and Orffs Carmina Burana. Some of his operatic roles
include Basilio and Curzio in Le nozze di Figaro, Jacquino in Fidelio, Nemorino in Lelisir damore,
Romo in Romo et Juliet, Fenton in Falstaff, and Sam in Susannah. He was national finalist for the
1999 Rehfuss Singing Actor Awards at Orlando Opera.
As a music educator, he has brought operas and musicals to thousands of students in the United
States and Hong Kong. Selected directing credits include Mozarts Le nozze di Figaro, Gilbert and
Sullivans Trial by Jury and The Pirates of Penzance, Puccinis La Bohme, Strausss Die Fledermaus,
Frank Loessers How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying, and Elton John and Tim Rices
Aida. He was the founding director of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
Summer Musical and Staff Choir, and he was also the stage director for Opera Hong Kong summer and outreach programs for five
years.
After graduating with distinction from the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts, Dr. Lo received a full scholarship and earned
his doctor of musical arts in vocal performance (minor in directing) at the Eastman School of Music. Dr. Lo was tenured associate
professor and director of Opera Theatre at the East Tennessee State University and taught at HKUST, where his course Music,
Drama, and Theatre received the inaugural Common Core Course Excellence Award in 2012. Dr. Lo serves as director of Opera/
Music Theater at IUP.
 7TH-12TH GRADE
MEN

8:00 a.m. Registration

8:30 a.m. Rehearsal/sectionals

SCHEDULE
10:30 a.m. Break (at conductors discretion)
11:00 a.m. Rehearsal/sectionals

8:00 A.M. Noon Lunch break

REGISTRATION 1:30 p.m. Rehearsal

BEGINS IN 3:30 p.m. Break (at conductors discretion)
FISHER AUDITORIUM 4:00 p.m. Rehearsal
5:00 p.m. Dinner break (on your own)
LOBBY.
6:15 p.m. Dress rehearsal
7:30 p.m. CHICC concert
7TH-12TH GRADE 7TH-12TH GRADE
WOMEN *TEACHERS

8:00 a.m. Registration 8:00 a.m. Registration

8:30 a.m. Rehearsal/sectionals 9:00 a.m. Session 1
10:30 a.m. Break (at conductors discretion) 10:30 a.m. Break (at conductors discretion)
11:00 a.m. Rehearsal/sectionals 11:00 a.m. Session 2

Noon Lunch break Noon Lunch Break

1:30 p.m. Rehearsal 1:30 p.m. Attend rehearsal

3:30 p.m. Break (at conductors discretion)
4:00 p.m. Rehearsal
5:00 p.m. Dinner break (on your own)
6:15 p.m. Dress rehearsal
7:30 p.m. CHICC concert
3:30 p.m. Break (at conductors discretion)
4:00 p.m. Session 3
5:00 p.m. Dinner break (on your own)
6:15 p.m. Dress rehearsal
7:30 p.m. CHICC concert

* Teachers are not required to attend. If students will be attending without a teacher, please notify
Dr. Beeken (ryan.beeken@iup.edu).
See inside back cover for session descriptions.
 SCHOLARSHIP AUDITION
CHICC presents an opportunity for students to
audition for admission to the IUP Department of
Music, and to earn a choral scholarship to IUP for
the 2018-19 academic year.

Auditions are open to all high school seniors

MORE who attend CHICC. Students planning to be

music majors should prepare two songs from
memoryone English and one Italian art song.

INFORMATION An accompanist will be provided. Additional

information is available at www.iup.edu/music/
undergrad/audition/voice.
STUDENT SELECTION
PROCESS
Each school is invited to bring two or three
SATB (soprano, alto, tenor, and bass) quartets to
participate in the honor choir. This will help to
ensure two balanced ensembles. Students should
display exemplary rehearsal behavior. If possible,
priority should be given to students who will
continue to sing in college. Please limit selection to
those students who work hard in rehearsal.
If you have a need to bring a group that is not
balanced with voice parts, permission must be
sought from Dr. Beeken (ryan.beeken@iup.edu).
FAQ
HOW SHOULD STUDENTS DRESS?
School-appropriate clothing should be worn for
all rehearsals, and the CHICC T-shirt and jeans or
khakis should be worn for the concert (no shorts
for performance).
WHAT IF THEY NEED TO BE LATE/LEAVE EARLY?
To help make CHICC a successful conference,
any deviation from the schedule must be cleared
with Dr. Beeken. It is important that all conference
attendees assist productivity by being present and
keeping distractions at a minimum. Please consult
with the clinicians before allowing any student to
arrive late or depart early from any rehearsal or
event.
WHERE IS PARKING?
Parking passes will be available before CHICC.
Further information will be provided.
REGISTRATION
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PARKING
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EARLY PAYMENT
$30 per student (no cost for teachers)
Postmarked by Monday, September 25, 2017
Number of students _____________ at $30 = _____________ Total

REGULAR PAYMENT
$40 per student
Postmarked after Monday, September 25, 2017
Number of students _____________ at $40 = _____________ Total

Make checks or money orders payable to IUP Music Department. Or, register online at www.iup.edu/chicc.

If registering by mail, send to

Dr. Ryan Beeken
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
422 South 11th Street
Indiana, PA 15705

REMEMBER TO FILL OUT T-SHIRT INFORMATION.

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CRIMSON HAWKS CAVALCADE OF CHOIRS

IUP officially extends an invitation to attend its annual Crimson Hawks Cavalcade of Choirs on Tuesday, May 1, 2018. The IUP choral
area is excited to host an event in which your choir will have the opportunity to perform for other high school singers in a noncompetitive
environment. Each ensemble will sing in IUPs beautiful Fisher Auditorium and will be professionally recorded. In addition, choirs will
receive written and verbal feedback from IUP faculty members and the events distinguished guest, Dr. Kyle Zeuch, director of children
and youth choirs at the Michigan State University Community Music School. Additionally, each choir will receive direct instruction via an
on-stage clinic.

Find more information at www.iup.edu/cavalcade.

ACT 48 SESSIONS
Five hours of ACT 48 Sessions Will Be Provided!