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DALE MILLER, Conductor
Dale Miller is in his eleventh year as director of choral activities at Arkansas State University. Twenty-four of his thirty-five years of teaching choral music were spent in Texas in high schools, at Kilgore College, and at Texas Tech University, where he was the winner of the DeVitt-Jones Fellowship in music for the 1996-97 academic year. Miller enjoyed his MidAmerica Productions Carnegie Hall conducting debut in 1995, and conducts in the famous New York hall for the fourth time today. Miller's choirs have performed in Carnegie Hall four times, on four international tours, and for state and divisional choral music conventions in Dallas, St. Louis, San Antonio, and Wichita. He has conducted professional orchestras in Poland, Wales, Mexico City, New York, Arkansas, and Texas, and has prepared his Kilgore and Jonesboro choruses for performances with the Manhattan Symphony, Fort Worth Symphony, Longview (TX) Symphony, Forum Sinfonia of Krakow, Arkansas Symphony, and Memphis Symphony orchestras. Under his direction, ASU's Concert Choir traveled to Eastern Europe in March 2006 to perform the Mozart Requiem in Warsaw and Krakow, Poland with the orchestra of the Krakow Opera, and in Prague, Czech Republic. Dr. Miller has served as a clinician and adjudicator in regional and state choral and vocal contests and festivals in Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Texas. Dr. Miller has held professional memberships in NASM, AASM, NATS, ACDA, ACDA-Arkansas, ArkCDA, TAMS, TMEA, TCDA, TMAA, and is co-advisor of the Omicron Omega chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia music fraternity. Dale and his wife Nancy, an elementary music teacher in Jonesboro, AR, have four children and five grandchildren.

JAMES M. MEADERS, Conductor
James M. Meaders is the chair of the department of music and director of choral activities at Mississippi College. A member of the Mississippi College faculty since 1998, Mr. Meaders conducts the Mississippi College Singers and the Mississippi College Chorale, teaches applied voice, and heads the graduate program in conducting. The Singers, under Mr. Meaders' direction, have performed on Mississippi, Southern Division, and National ACDA convention programs. He has conducted the Singers in Canterbury Cathedral, Washington National Cathedral, Santa Maria di Ricci in Florence, Italy, and Carnegie Hall. In 2004-2005, he was selected by the Mississippi College faculty as Distinguished Lecturer in Arts and Sciences and was humanities professor of the year. Mr. Meaders has served on the board of MS ACDA as R&S chair for youth and student activities, and he holds that same position with Southern Division ACDA. He was recently chosen as president-elect of Mississippi ACDA. He is a frequent festival adjudicator, presenter, and clinician. In addition to his work at MC, he is also artistic director of the Jackson Choral Society and minister of music at Northside Baptist Church in Clinton. Professional memberships include American Choral Directors Association, National Association of Teachers of Singing and Music Educators National Conference. After completing undergraduate and graduate degrees from Mississippi College, he received the doctor of musical arts in conducting from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, where he studied with Milburn Price and John Dickson.

BRENT D. BALLWEG, Conductor
D. Brent Ballweg is professor of music at Southern Nazarene University where he directs the SNU Chorale, Men's Chorus and Choral Society, and teaches conducting and music history. He has held college and university conducting positions in Texas, Arkansas, Arizona, Oklahoma, and Missouri and has served as the artistic director and conductor of the Plano (TX) Civic Chorus, assistant director of the Kansas City Symphony Chorus, and founder and director of the Northeast Arkansas Chorale. In 1986, Dr. Ballweg won first place in a national choral conducting competition held in Nashville, Tennessee, and in 1996 was invited to represent the United States at the International Federation for Choral Music Fourth World Symposium on Choral Music and World Choirs Festival held in Sydney, Australia. In 1997 he was invited to conduct in masterclasses with the Phoenix Bach Choir at the Southwest Conductor's Symposium. The SNU Chorale, under Ballweg's direction, has twice performed as an invited honor choir for the Oklahoma Music Educators Association In-Service Workshop and has toured Estonia, Finland, Mexico, and Russia. Dr. Ballweg has served as the ACDA Chair for Two-Year College Choirs, as past president of the Texas Two-Year College Choral Directors Association, and currently is president of the Oklahoma Choral Directors Association. A native of Bartlesville, Oklahoma, Dr. Ballweg received his B.M. degree from Oklahoma Baptist University and his M.M. and D.M.A. degrees in choral conducting respectively from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music. Professional affiliations include the ACDA, International Federation for Choral Music, Oklahoma Choral Directors Association, Music Educators National Conference, National Collegiate Choral Organization, Oklahoma Music Educators Association, and Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia.

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