CHORAL FACULTY
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Lynn Drafall, Director of Choral Activities
Jayne Glocke
Christopher Kiver
Anthony Leach
Dr. Lynn Ellen Drafall is an Associate Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities at The Pennsylvania State University. She teaches courses in graduate and undergraduate choral conducting and literature, and conducts the Penn State Concert Choir as well as the Oriana Singers. An active festival conductor and adjudicator, she has worked with festival choirs throughout the mid-West and mid-Atlantic, and has conducted All-State high school choirs in Illinois, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and New Jersey.
A native of Illinois, Dr. Drafall received her degrees in music education and choral conducting from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has served on the faculties of Northern Illinois University and the University of Mississippi. Prior to her career in higher education she taught eleven years in the public schools of Illinois.
Dr. Drafall is an active member of the Music Educators National Conference and the American Choral Directors Association. She presently serves as President-Elect of the Eastern Division conference of the American Choral Directors Association, and is past-president of the state chapter. She has published articles in the Music Educators Journal, Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, and PMEA News.
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Jayne Glocke, holds a Bachelor's Degree in Vocal Music Education as well as a Master's Degree in Choral Conducting and Choral Literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. While at Madison she studied conducting with Robert Fountain and voice with Ilona Kombrink. During her teaching career she has been the choral director at Whitefish Bay (WI) High School and Saline (MI) Middle School and High School. She has also taught elementary music and elementary choirs in Lake Bluff, IL and Stevens Point, WI and has instructed music education classes at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Professor Glocke is the conductor of the Women's Chorale and Campus Choir.
Christopher Kiver joined the Penn State University faculty in 2005, and directs the Penn State Glee Club and the Chamber Singers. Kiver also teaches classes in choral conducting and choral literature. He received a doctor of musical arts degree in choral conducting from the University of Michigan, a masters degree in choral conducting from Florida State University, and a bachelor of music degree from the University of London.
A native of the United Kingdom, he has received numerous prizes and scholarships including a Fulbright Award, and the 2002 Sydney World Symposium Foundation Scholarship. In February 2006, he was a double Grammy Award winner ("Best Choral Performance" and "Best Classical Album") as a chorusmaster for the critically acclaimed Naxos recording of William Bolcom’s monumental Songs of Innocence and of Experience.
Kiver has appeared as guest conductor, clinician and adjudicator in the United States, Australia, and New Zealand. He currently serves as Repertoire and Standards Chair for Men’s Choirs for the Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association.
In the summer of 2008 Kiver will direct the choir at Penn State's Summer Music Camp program.
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Anthony Leach, teaches courses in choral music education. A member of the Penn State faculty since 1994, he also conducts the University Choir and Essence of Joy. He holds degrees from Lebanon Valley College and Penn State.
A native of Washington, D.C., Leach has fourteen years of teaching experience in the public schools of Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New York. He also has served on the adjunct faculties of Shippensburg, Catholic, and Howard universities. In addition to his duties at Penn State, he serves as minister of music and organist at University Baptist and Brethren Church, State College. Leach is national chairman of the Multicultural and Ethnic Perspectives Repertoire and Standards Committee for the American Choral Directors Association.
Leach is a member of the Music Educators National Conference, American Choral Directors Association, American Guild of Organists, and the Gospel Music Workshop of America.