Janet Galván
Dr. Janet Galván, Professor of Music at Ithaca College, conducts the Ithaca College Women's Chorale, the Ithaca College Chorus, and is Artistic Director for the Ithaca Children's Choir. Dr. Galván has prepared choruses for many conductors including Lukas Foss, Carl St. Clair, Eji Oue, Gisele Bendor, Richard Westenberg, and Grant Llewellyn. Dr. Galván's contribution to choral music was recognized by her New York colleagues in1995 when she received the New York Outstanding Choral Director Award.
In great demand as a guest conductor, Dr. Galván has conducted all-state and larger regional honor choral festivals throughout the United States. She has been the first conductor of many regional and state honor choirs includingthe first college/university Women's Honor Choir at the Eastern Division American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) Conference, the first Western Division children's Honor Choir, and the first Maryland Women's All-State Chorus. In 2002 she conducted the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Her own choral groups have been chosen to perform at national, regional, and state music conferences, invitational choral festivals, and in concerts in the United Kingdom and Europe.
Galván has also served as master teacher and clinician at national, regional, and state conferences of the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) and the Music Educators National Conference (MENC).
She has also been featured at VII Curso Internacional de Regencia Coral in Brazil and in workshops in the United Kingdom, Belgium, Canada, and the2002 World Symposium on Choral Music. Galván has been recognized as one of the country's leading conducting teachers, and her students have received first place awards and been finalists in both the graduate and undergraduate divisions of the ACDA biennial National Choral Conducting Competition.
Dr. Galván was one of the invited authors for GIA's second edition of Teaching Music through Performance in Choir. Dr. Galván's expertise in treble repertoire led to an association with Roger Dean Publishing Company in the origin of two choral series. She is also the series advisor to Latin Accents, a series with Boosey & Hawkes. Dr. Galván contributed a chapter on movement in the choral rehearsal to GIA's The School Choral Program: Philosophy, Planning, Organizing and Teaching. Dr. Galván was a member of the Grammy Award-winning Robert Shaw Festival Singers during Mr.Shaw's final years.
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