MACCC Conference 2010
November 17-19, 2010
Catamaran Hotel, San Diego

Conference Choir Director:
Dr. Jo-Michael Scheibe, USC

Conference Band Director:
Shannon Kitelinger, San Diego State University

Composition Master Classes with
Dr. Joseph Waters, San Diego State University

Pianist Master Classes with
Dr. Karen Follingstad, San Diego State University

Jo-Michael Scheibe
2010 MACCC Conference Choir Director

Jo-Michael Scheibe chairs the Thornton School of Music’s Department of Choral and Sacred Music at the University of Southern California, where he conducts the USC Chamber Singers, teaches choral conducting and choral methods, and supervises the graduate and undergraduate choral program. In 2008, he assumed a new post as National President Elect of the American Choral Directors’ Association. No stranger to the ACDA, Scheibe previously served as the organization’s Western Division President (1991-1993), as well as National Repertoire and Standards Chairperson for Community Colleges (1980-1989). Ensembles under his leadership have sung at six national ACDA conventions (1985, 1991, 1993, 1997, 2003, 2007), as well as two national conventions of the Music Educators National Conference (1996, 2000), and various regional and state conventions.

Scheibe’s artistic collaborations include choral performances with Luciano Pavarotti, José Carreras, Salvatore Licitra, Maria Guleghina and Kenny Loggins, as well as preparation of choruses for Sir Colin Davis and the London Symphony Orchestra, Franz Welser-Möst and the Cleveland Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas and the New World Symphony and conductors Jahja Ling, Edoardo Müller, James Judd, Max Valdez, Thomas Sanderling and Alain Lombard, among others. Recordings of ensembles under Scheibe’s direction have been released on the Albany, Cane, Naxos, Arsis and ANS labels.
 
A champion of contemporary music, Scheibe regularly commissions and performs new works of choral literature. He has helped to launch careers of promising young composers and to promote music by international composers largely unknown in the United States. Music publishers Walton, Colla Voce Music and Santa Barbara distribute the Jo-Michael Scheibe Choral Series internationally.

Fall 2008 marks Scheibe’s return to USC after a 15-year tenure as director of Choral Studies at the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music (1993-2008), as well as previous faculty appointments at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff (1985-1993), Long Beach City College (1978-1985), Vintage High School in Napa, California and Huntington Beach High School. Scheibe received his D.M.A. from the University of Southern California and his B.A. and M.M. degrees from California State University at Long Beach, where he was presented with the distinguished alumnus award.

Scheibe has served as music and artistic director of several community choral organizations, including the Master Chorale of South Florida, the Tampa Bay Master Chorale and the Long Beach Master Chorale. He has directed music ministries in churches as well, most recently at Coral Gables Congregational Church, where he conducted the Chancel Choir and Vocal Ensemble, which appeared at the 2002 ACDA Southern Division Convention in Nashville. A member of Chorus America, the International Federation of Choral Music, and several other professional and education organizations, Scheibe is in frequent demand internationally as a clinician, conductor and adjudicator for choruses at the university, community college, community and secondary levels. 

Shannon Kitelinger
2010 MACCC Conference Band Director

Shannon Kitelinger is newly-appointed Director of Bands at San Diego State University. Prior to his appointment at SDSU he served as a Doctoral Conducting Associate at the University of North Texas where he assisted in all aspects of the Wind Studies program, including conducting all university bands, working with the athletic bands, and teaching conducting.  Professor Kitelinger received a bachelor of science in music education from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and a master of music degree in conducting from the University of North Texas, where he studied with Eugene Migliaro Corporon. He is currently finishing his doctor of musical arts in wind conducting from the University of North Texas. Prior to his graduate studies, Mr. Kitelinger taught public school in Western Pennsylvania at the high school, middle school, and elementary levels. His ensembles were consistently awarded superior ratings at adjudication festivals, as well as being chosen twice to perform at Disney Magic Music Days in Orlando, Florida. An active guest conductor, he has served as an adjudicator and clinician for marching and concert band festivals in Pennsylvania and Texas. From 1997-2005 he was the assistant director of the Indiana University of Pennsylvania Drum Major Academy and from 2007-2009 served as the assistant conductor for the Lone Star Wind Orchestra, a professional wind band based in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. Mr. Kitelinger has been a recording production assistant for the critically-acclaimed GIA Windworks series, the Klavier Wind Project, the GIA Composer’s Collection, Naxos Wind Band Classics, and also the Teaching Music Through Performance in Band series. He is published in four volumes of Teaching Music Through Performance in Band as the author of six teacher’s resource guides of wind band repertoire for beginning and advanced levels. In addition, he has authored CD liner notes for the North Texas Wind Symphony compact discs Homage, Urban Dreams, Chronicles, Domains, and the Jack Stamp Composer’s Collection. A 2005 honoree of Who’s Who Among American Teachers, Mr. Kitelinger holds memberships in the College Band Directors National Association, Pennsylvania Music Educators Association, Pi Kappa Lambda National Music Honor Society, and Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Music Fraternity.

Composition Master Class
Dr. Joseph Waters, professor of composition, San Diego State University

In addition to choir and band, our 2010 MACCC Conference will also include a separate program for student composers. Twenty students will be selected to participate in master classes with Dr. Joseph Waters, professor of music, composition, at San Diego State University.

The composition track will include master class discussions of compositions written by the student composers, and lectures including questions and answers with the composer, career advice, portfolio creation, and how to become the ideal composition transfer student.

The composition track will be held all day on Thursday, November 18.

Interested students should send two scores with recordings. Applications must be received by October 1, 2010. Selected students will be notified by October 8. Attendance fee for accepted students is $55, the same as for choir and band students.

Mail two scores and application to:

MACCC

c/o Music Department

Los Angeles City College

855 N. Vermont Ave.

Los Angeles, CA 90029

or email: wannerda@lacitycollege.edu

2009 MACCC Conference in Review

Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Jack Scott, Chancellor of the California Community Colleges

Choir Clinician:
RAGNAR BOHLIN
director of the San Francisco Symphony Chorus

Band Clinician:
ROBERT CALONICO
director of bands, University of California, Berkeley

Composer Clinicians:
BELINDA REYNOLDS
Vice-President, Common Sense composers collaborative;
director, HeShe Music
DAN BECKER
Composition faculty, San Francisco Conservatory of Music

2009 Conference Program

2009 Noteworthy