Festival of Music - Worlds of Fun

Adjudicators

Worlds of Fun's nationally known adjudicators are exceptionally qualified and recognized as among the best in their fields. A qualified relief judge will be utilized on Saturdays to provide assistance to the listed adjudicators. Below are the prestigious adjudicators attending this year's festival.

Please Note: All of the Festival of Band/Orchestra Adjudicators are elected members of the American Bandmasters Association.

April 16 - 18, 2010 - Choir Weekend

Nancy Cox - ACDA National Chair

Stan McGill - SWACDA Past-President

Daniel Huff - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - coordinates and teaches courses in the Music Education Area at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and conducts the UNC Men's Glee Club, a group which tours regularly in the Mid-West, East and Southeast. Besides his performances with the UNC Men’s Glee Club, over the past 20 years, he has conducted or adjudicated over 135 state and regional festivals and workshops involving public school students in settings from the Mid-West to Southeast, presented 85 choral clinics and presented local, state or national in-service sessions for public school teachers and teacher candidates on twenty four occasions. In addition, he is Director of UNC’s HS Music Camp, as well as founder and conductor of the All-Carolina Invitational Male Choral Festival. Mr. Huff holds Masters and PhD degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he studied choral conducting with Robert Fountain and music education with Eunice Boardman Meske and Anthony Barresi.

Swing Judge - To Be Announced

April 23 - 25, 2010 - Band/Orchestra Weekend

Hal Cooper - Arkansas Tech University - Mr. Cooper holds the M.M.E. from Henderson State University and the B.M.E. from Henderson State University. An Associate Professor of Music, he is Director of Bands and the sponsor for the Kappa Kappa Psi chapter. Professor Cooper, a member of the prestigious American Bandmaster's Association, has a distinguished record of professional accomplishments and enjoys a commendatory reputation throughout the state and nation. Currently, Cooper is the President of the College Band Director's National Association, Southwest Division, and is a well known adjudicator in the region. Mr. Cooper was honored in April 2004 by the community and his former students on the occasion of his 25th anniversary at Tech.

Elliott del Borgo - Potsdam College, State University of New York - del Borgo is an American composer for winds and strings. He is also in demand as a guest conductor. Though Del Borgo's primary instrument is trumpet, his love of percussion is apparent in his works, which typically focus around intricate percussion parts and an immense variety of instruments and complex rhythms. His style of writing has a rhythmic, sometimes atonal quality. His works include Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night;an orchestral piece based on a villanelle of the same name by Dylan Thomas and Rituale that is reminiscent of The Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky. He also has written countless multiple percussion ensemble and solo pieces for percussion, such as Mosaics For Percussion (a four part ensemble piece), and composed the music for the Closing Ceremonies of the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York. Another notable piece is his 11-minute "Parable". He has published about 600 pieces for junior high and high school bands and orchestras, including Prelude and Primal Danse, Dorian Rhapsody, Ancient Moon, Fantasia for Strings, Wexford Circle, Sonata Vivant, Canadian Legend and several others. Del Borgo holds degrees from the State University of New York, Temple University and the Philadelphia Conservatory, where he studied with Vincent Persichetti. An award-winning member of ASCAP, former Professor of Music at the Crane School of Music, and composer of music for 1980 Olympic Winter Games in Lake Placid, much of Del Borgo's work is available from several leading publishers.

John Whitwell - Michigan State University - Director of Bands Emeritus at Michigan State University, began his teaching career in the Michigan public schools. His bands have been invited to perform at many prestigious conventions including the Midwest Clinic in Chicago. He is very active in the commissioning of new music and is in constant demand as a clinician and conductor. He is the recipient of numerous awards at the national level.

Swing Judge - Dr. David Circle - Blue Valley School District - recently retired after serving the Blue Valley and the Shawnee Mission Kansas School Districts as district fine-and-performing arts administrator. He has taught band and orchestra at the elementary, middle school and high schools levels. Dr. Circle has been the conductor of the Kansas City Youth Symphony, the Johnson county Civic Orchestra, and the Overland Park Civic Band. He is a past president of the Music Educators National Conference and an MENC Lowell Mason Fellow.

April 30 - May 2, 2010 - Choir Weekend

Dr. Lisa Fredenburgh - University of Central Missouri - Director of Choral Activities at University of Central Missouri in Warrensburg, MO. Dr. Fredenburgh holds a DMA and two M.M degrees from the University of Arizona where she studied under Maurice Skones, Josef Knott, Thomas Hilbish, Jerry McCoy and Kenneth Jennings and voice under Jocelyn Reiter and Elizabeth Mosher. Her BA in music education was earned at Luther College, under Weston Noble. She has held previous conducting posts at Meredith College in Raleigh, NC and with the Capital Opera Raleigh and Opera Company of North Carolina, as chorus master. Fredenburgh often serves as guest conductor and clinician locally, nationally, and abroad. She has conducted and taught masterclasses in Panama, the Dominican Republic and in Bolivia. She is a frequent presenter at national, regional and state level professional organizations in the fields of Women's Choral Music, and the Music of Latin America. She formerly served as National Chair for the Women's Choir Repertoire& Standards Committee for the American Choral Directors Association and recently served on the steering committee for the 50th Anniversary National Convention in 2009. She is also a member of CMS, MENC, and Society for Ethnomusicology.

Dr. David Rayl - Michigan State University - Professor of music, director of choral programs and associate dean for graduate studies and research at the Michigan State University College of Music. Prior to joining MSU in 2002, he held the same position at the University of Missouri-Columbia for 12 years. Rayl has also taught at Marymount College in Salina, Kansas, and St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa. He received particular notice for his performances of the choral, operatic, and orchestral repertoire of the 18th century, especially the works of Bach and Mozart. Rayl holds a B.M. in voice from Illinois Wesleyan University; an M.M. from the University of Oklahoma; and a DMA in choral conducting from the University of Iowa. Rayl has appeared as guest conductor, clinician, and adjudicator throughout the United States. Several of Rayl's articles and reviews have appeared in the "Choral Journal" and "The Journal of the Conductors' Guild." His editions of Marc-Antoine Charpentier's Nine Settings of the Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary were published by A-R Editions of Madison, Wisconsin. In April 1996, he was named one of 10 recipients of the prestigious William T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence. Rayl is past-president of the Missouri Choral Directors Association.

Dr. Larry Kaptein - University of Colorado, Boulder - Director of Choral Music Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He conducts the acclaimed University Singers and the Colorado Conductors Chorus (a chamber ensemble composed exclusively of professional choral conductors in the Denver-Boulder area). Kaptein teaches graduate choral conducting and supervises the College's choral program. Professor Kaptein has conducted honor choirs and presented choral music workshops throughout the US. In 1997 and 2008, he traveled to Korea at the invitation of the Ansan City government (their professional City Choir is under the direction of CU choral alumnus Shin-Hwa Park) to conduct concerts and present clinics and workshops for Korean collegiate institutions and professional choral organization. Professor Kaptein has published articles in the Choral Journal, American Choral Review, Bulletin of the International Federation of Choral Music, and Austrian Musikerziehung Österreichischer Bundesverlag. His Selected List of Ethnic and Ethnically-Inspired Choral Repertoire has appeared in over twenty state choral music periodicals. He served as a major contributor to "The Foundation of Artistry" – an annotated listing of quality high school choral repertoire published in 2002 by the American Choral Directors Association. Kaptein is editor of the Lawrence Kaptein Choral Series published by Alliance Music of Houston, Texas. He holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in choral music from the University of Southern California, where he was inducted into the Pi Kappa Lambda Honor Society. Over the past several decades, Kaptein has been a champion of contemporary American composers, multicultural choral music, and innovative approaches to programming. Kaptein has been the recipient of the Marinus Smith and Residence Life Excellence in Teaching awards.

Swing Judge - To Be Announced

May 7 - 9, 2010 - Band Weekend

James Curnow - Asbury College - is president, composer, and educational consultant for Curnow Music Press, Inc. He also serves as Composer-in-Residence Emeritus on the faculty of Asbury College. Mr. Curnow has taught in all areas of instrumental music, both in the public school and at the University of Illinois. As a conductor, composer and clinician, Curnow has traveled throughout the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan and Europe. His published works now number well over five hundred.

Joe Hermann - Tennessee Tech University - is currently the Director of Bands at Tennessee Technological University and President of the American Bandmasters Association. Before his appointment at Tennessee Tech, he taught in the public schools in Iowa and at the University of Arizona and Indiana University. As a conductor, adjudicator, and speaker, he has appeared in over thirty states, Canada, the Netherlands, and throughout Japan. His symphonic bands have been featured at state, regional and national conventions and on National Public Radio broadcasts.

Bruce Moss - Bowling Green State University - Professor, director of band activities; conducts the Wind Symphony and teaches conducting and music education courses, holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Illinois and a Ph.D. from Ohio State University; former director of bands at Eastern Illinois University; served as chairman of the music department and director of bands at York Community High School in Elmhurst, Ill. where his ensembles were widely recognized through performances at the MENC National Convention and at major high schools and universities throughout the United States and Canada; continues to serve as music director of the Wheaton Municipal Band in Illinois, a professional summer community ensemble that is regarded as one of the finest of its kind in the nation; organized and conducted a professional wind ensemble for the College of DuPage; has taught courses at numerous universities and serves as a frequent guest conductor, clinician and adjudicator throughout the United States and Canada; serves as new music reviewer for The Instrumentalist; elected member the American Bandmasters Association, president of College Band Directors National Association, North Central Division.

Swing Judge - Craig A. Fuchs began his career as a public school band director in Missouri and Kansas before assuming his present position as Director of Bands and Chair of the Department of Music at Pittsburg State University. He has served as an adjudicator and guest conductor in England, France, The Netherlands and in Paraguay. Dr. Fuchs has had numerous articles published in The Instrumentalist magazine and is active as a professional trumpet player.