Button Hole Sessions

2009 ACDA National Convention - March 4-7, 2009 - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Convention registrants will have the opportunity to "button hole" various choral leaders at the convention.  A button hole session is a 15 minute time slot for which any convention registrant can sign up to chat one-on-one with featured convention conductors, session clinicians, ACDA leadership, composers, and other well-known choral leaders.  Sign up for these sessions will be on a first-come first-served basis and are limited to one session per registrant.  Members will be able to sign up at the convention registration desk when they check in.  A list of participating choral leaders will be posted here as they are confirmed.

Confirmed Button Hole Clinicians:

Thursday, March 5, 8:00-9:15 am

Children's Choir Button holes

• Robyn Lana, National Chair, Children’s Choir R & S
• Christy Elsner, Southwestern Division Children’s Choir R& S Chair
• Emily Ellsworth, Central Division Children’s Choir R & S Chair
• Deborah Mello, Eastern Division Children’s Choir R & S Chair
• Diane Simons, Western Division Children’s Choir R & S Chair
• Selina Midkiff, Southern Division Children’s Choir R & S Chair
• Linda Berg, Northwestern Division Children’s Choir R & S Chair

Thursday, March 5, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

• Jonathan Griffith, Artistic Director and Principal Conductor, Distinguished Concert International New York (DCINY)
• Mark Cabaniss, President of Shawnee Press
• Mary Lynn Lightfoot, composer, The Lorenz Corporation (11:00 am-12:00 pm only)
• Sandra Weinacht, Incantato Tours
• John Leavitt, Manhattan Concert Productions
• Paul Caldwell and Sean Ivory, composers
• Dan Gawthrop, composer
• Henry Leck, Indianapolis Children's Choir, Butler University

Thursday, March 5, 3:00 pm-5:00 pm

• Paul Carey, composer
• Steven Sametz, composer
• Joseph Martin, Director of Sacred Publications, Shawnee Press (3:00 pm-4:00 pm only)
• Charlene Archibeque, Professor Emeritus, San Jose State University
• Reg Unterseher,  composer, NWACDA Men's Choirs R&S Chair
• Hilary Apfelstadt, Ohio State University, National President of ACDA
• David Brunner, composer, University of Central Florida
• Anton Armstrong, St Olaf College (3:00-4:30 pm)
• Jean Ashworth Bartle, Toronto Children's Chorus Conductor Laureate

Friday, March 5, 10:00 am-12:00 pm

• Alec Harris, President, GIA Publications & ACDA Industry Representative
• Bob Chilcott, composer
• Joe Calcagno, Collegiate Apparel/Herff Jones
• Sandra Milliken, composer, conductor, teacher
• Paul Aitken, Composer, church musician, ACDA National R&S Chair for Music In Worship, and the first ACDA Student Composition Contest Winner.  
• Simon Carrington, Yale Institute of Sacred Music/Yale University
• Diane Loomer, ChorLeoni (10:00 am-11:00 am only)
• Rollo Dilworth, conductor, North Park University
• Philip Brunelle, Artistic Director and Founder, VocalEssence, Treasurer and Vice President, IFCM
• Peter Bagley, University of Connecticut

Friday, March 6, 2:30pm-4:30 pm

• Joel Raney, composer, Hope Publishing Company
• Frank Stubbs, Performing Arts Tour Development, Classical Movements
• Sandra Weinacht, Incantato Tours
• Ken Berg, conductor, composer, Birmingham Boys Choir
• Jerry Blackstone, University of Michigan