2011 Women's Honor Choir - Lynne Gackle, Conductor

Lynne Gackle currently is associate professor of music and associate director of choral activities at Baylor University, where she conducts the Baylor Women’s Choir and the Baylor Concert Choir. Lynne is an active clinician, conductor, and adjudicator for choral clinics, honor choirs, workshops, and festivals throughout the United States and abroad.

Gackle has conducted all-state choirs in 26 states, several division ACDA honor choirs, and two ACDA national honor choirs. Her choirs performed at American Choral Directors Association state, division, and national conferences and the Music Educators National Conference Biennial Convention. Internationally, she conducted the Australian National Choral Association’s High School Women’s Choir in Brisbane, the Alberta Choral Federation’s High School Honour Choir in Calgary, the DoDDS Europe Honors Music Festival Mixed Choir, in Wiesbaden, Germany and the Haydn Youth Festival in Vienna, Austria.

Lynne has served as president of ACDA-Florida and the ACDA's Southern Division. The Florida ACDA Chapter awarded her the Wayne Hugoboom Distinguished Service Award for dedicated service, leadership, and excellence. Lynne has also served in various R&S roles within ACDA, including National R&S Chair for Children’s Choirs. Currently, she serves on the editorial board for the Choral Journal. She is the editor of Choral Artistry for the Singer with Walton Music and the Lynne Gackle Choral Series for Colla Voce Music, Inc. She has written several articles for the Choral Journal and contributed to the MENC publication, Music at the Middle Level: Building Strong Programs. Lynne is the author of Finding Ophelia’s Voice, Opening Ophelia’s Heart: Nurturing the Adolescent Female Voice, to be published by Lorenz Music Corporation in 2010. Additionally, she currently serves on the repertoire task force and as a lead author with Glencoe/McGraw Hill.

She is a member of ACDA, MENC, the Texas Music Educators Association, the Texas Choral Directors Association, ISME, and NATS. Gackle received her BME from Louisiana State University and her MM and DME from the University of Miami, in Coral Gables, Florida.