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Jing Ling-Tam (USA)
One of North America's most sought after choral conductors, Professor Jing Ling-Tam, Director of Choral Studies, has garnered international recognition in North America, Europe and Southeast Asia. A compelling musician, Prof. Ling-Tam has conducted over twenty five All-State Choirs throughout the United States. Her appearances as clinician at the American Choral Directors Association's national and regional conventions have captivated educators and conductors with her inventive, humorous and highly creative approaches to choral and conducting techniques. Under her direction, the UTA Chamber Singers has toured Mexico, Taiwan, Austria, Hong Kong and performed at the Texas Music Educators Convention and the American Choral Directors Association Conventions. Prof. Ling-Tam received advanced degrees in Piano Performance and Vocal Performance from the New England Conservatory and the University of North Texas. She is the founder/Artistic Director of the American Chamber Choir. She also served for sixteen seasons as Associate Conductor/Chorus Master/Principal Coach Pianist with the Fort Worth Opera Association and was on the faculty at the American Institute of Musical Studies, Graz, Austria for eleven summers. Some of Professor Ling-Tam's recent appearances include a concert tour to Salzburg, Vienna, and Graz, Austria with the UTA Chamber Singers (2005), the Taipei Symphony Orchestra/Chorus (April 2005), the 2004 American Choral Directors Association Western Division Honor Choir, the 2004 Alaska All State Choir, the 2003 All State Choirs of Iowa, Main and South Carolina, the 2002 AIMS Festival Chorus (The Netherlands), the 2002 Singapore Youth Festival Choir and the 2001 Hong Kong Choral Exchange. In 2006, she has appearances as clinician/conductor at The Ontario Vocal Festival & Bell'Arte Singers 6th Annual Choral Conductors' Symposium in Toronto, Canada, the Southwestern ACDA Convention in St. Louis, Missouri, the Disney Honors National Choral Invitational, a workshop at the Costa Rica Conservatory of Music, the International Youth Choral Festival in Hong Kong, China, the Missouri ACDA, as well as concerts in Washington, D.C., Cincinnati, and Alaska. Her past work as clinician has brought her to the Salzburg Pedagogical Institute (2005), the Third World Children's Choral Festival, Hong Kong (2005) Treble Choir Festival (2004), the Canadian Rocky Mountain Music Festival (2003) IFCM Asia Pacific Choral Symposium (Singapore, 2002) and the Chorleitergang (Graz, Austria, 2001). In 2005, she conducted the Wyoming and Nebraska All State Choirs and lectured at the American Choral Directors National Conference, the Taiwan Orff Institute, and the California American Choral Directors Association Summer Conference. A choral series in her name is published by Alliance Music of Houston, Texas. www.uta.edu/music/vocal/jing.htm [ top ] © Festival 500 Designed by AppleCore Interactive |
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