CHORAL FACULTY
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Lynn Drafall, Director of Choral Activities
Jayne Glocke
Christopher Kiver
Anthony Leach
Dr. Lynn 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, New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland.
Dr. Drafall is an active member of the Music Educators National Conference and the American Choral Directors Association. She presently serves as President of the Eastern Division of the American Choral Directors Association, and is a past-president of the Pennsylvania state chapter. She has published articles in the Music Educators Journal, Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, and PMEA News.
A native of Illinois, she received her degrees in music education and choral conducting from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She served on the faculties of Northern Illinois University and the University of Mississippi and, prior to her career in higher education, she taught eleven years in the public schools of Illinois.
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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.
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Anthony Leach is an associate professor of music/music education at The Pennsylvania State University. He holds degrees in music and music education from Lebanon Valley College (Annville, PA) and Penn State University. A native of Washington, DC, Leach taught choral and general music for 14 years in Maryland, New York City and Pennsylvania prior to joining the PSU School of Music faculty in 1994. At Penn State, Leach teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in music education, conducts the University Choir and Essence of Joy.
Choirs under Dr. Leach's direction have performed in festivals, competitions and tours of the USA, Canada, Europe and South Africa. Leach has served as guest conductor for choral festivals in Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Kentucky, Nebraska, Utah, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Florida, Massachusetts and Washington, DC. He has adjudicated choral festivals in the USA and Canada. For 23 years, Dr. Leach served as music director of the Capital Area Music Association, Harrisburg, PA and was accompanist for the United Negro College Fund Choir, NYC and the Howard University Choirs, Washington, DC. In 2004, Leach served as a co-conductor of the World Youth Choir sponsored by the International Federation of Choral Musicians. During the 2006-2007 academic year, Leach was on sabbatical leave from Penn State. He presented lectures, teacher education workshops, and served as guest conductor for events in Belgium, France, Luxemborg, Taiwan, Manila (Philippines) and Japan.
Currently, Dr. Leach serves as minister of music/organist at the New Bethel Baptist Church, Washington, DC, where he administers a staff of four musicians and seven choirs. From 1997 - 2003, he served as national chair for ACDA's Repertoire and Standards Committee on Ethnic and Multicultural Perspectives. Currently, Leach and Nick Page serve as co-chairs for the Eastern Division ACDA committee on Urban Coalitions. He also serves as music director for Essence 2 and the Essence of Joy Alumni Singers.