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Dr. Hilary Apfelstadt is Professor of Choral Studies and Director of Choral Activities. Since 2008, she has also served as Associate Director for the School of Music. She conducts the 56-voice Chorale, teaches conducting, and coordinates the graduate conducting program. For 15 years, she conducted the Women’s Glee Club. Her choirs have performed at regional and national conventions of the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) and at state and regional conferences of the National Association of Music Education (MENC). She has conducted many honor choirs and all-state choruses in Canada, the United States and in Cuba, and guest conducted in Europe. In 2009, she conducted the Mormon Tabernacle Choir in a public broadcast of “Music and the Spoken Word.” A prolific author, she has published over seventy articles on choral music in various refereed journals, and wrote two chapters in Wisdom, Will and Will: Women Conductors on their Art, (GIA, 2009). She serves on the editorial boards of both the International Journal of Research in Choral Singing and The Choral Scholar, the official publication of the National Collegiate Conductors Organization (NCCO). Currently national Vice-President of ACDA, Dr. Apfelstadt sang with the Robert Shaw Festival Singers for several years and recorded two CD’s for Telarc with the Singers in France. Her degrees are from the University of Toronto, the University of Illinois and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She also has a diploma in piano performance from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto.
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