President: Meagan Carrick
Meagan is a senior Music Education major from Northern Virginia. At Ithaca College, she has sung with the Women's Chorale, Chorus, Vocal Jazz, and Intergenerational Choir. She is a member of SNATS as well as ACDA, and has recently been inducted into the Ithaca College Honor Oracle Society, Pi Kappa Lamda national music honor society, and Phi Kappa Phi honor society. Last spring, Meagan was a recipient of the Peggy R. Williams Award for Academic and Community Leadership. Outside of Whalen, Meagan volunteers at the local SPCA and directs the Music Friends program at Ithaca Community Childcare Center. This past summer, Meagan enjoyed interning with the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC as a Folkways intern within the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. In her spare time, she enjoys exercising and learning about nutrition. A healthy body is a happy one! GO ACDA!
President-Elect: Katherine Gould
Katherine is a junior Music Education major from Glens Falls, New York. At Ithaca College she has sung with the Ithaca College Chorus and is in the studio of Deborah Montgomery-Cove. She hopes to become a choral director, and teach private lessons and perform on the side. She is also very interested in vocal health and speech therapy. In addition to music, Katherine enjoys playing volleyball and frisbee, and reading.
Secretary: Rachel Mikol
Rachel Mikol is a junior Vocal Performance and Music Education major from Orchard Park, NY. At Ithaca College, she has sung with the Women’s Chorale, Choir and Madrigal Singers, and currently studies with Professor Dawn Pierce. In addition to ACDA, Rachel is a member of the Epsilon Chapter of Sigma Alpha Iota, an international music fraternity for women, and will serve as the Assistant Treasurer. In addition to her vocal studies, Rachel enjoys playing the piano and clarinet, reading and traveling.
Treasurer: Steve Humes
Steve is a senior Music Education and Vocal Performance major from Kensington, CT. Steve is proud to be entering his second year as a member of Ithaca College's ACDA Executive Board. Along with ACDA, Steve is also an Ithaca College Leadership Scholar and has also served as a member of the Dean Advisory Board for the Ithaca College School of Music. Last year, Steve was recognized by the National Music Honor Society, Pi Kappa Lambda, with a certificate of honor in recognition of outstanding achievement in the field of music at Ithaca College. Besides his passion for choral conducting and music education, Steve has a strong interest in performance and has appeared in two of Ithaca College's most recent operas, The Little Prince and L'Orfeo. Outside of Ithaca, Steve is also a choral intern at First Presbyterian Church of Ithaca. Finally, as treasurer, Steve looks forward to doing what our national government seemingly can't: stay out of debt!
Webmaster and Public Relations: Joe Pellittieri
Joe is a sophomore Music Education and Vocal Performance major from Rochester, New York. Joe has been singing since he was five years old. Joe sang with the Chorus and Madrigal choir. He was recently initiated into the Delta Chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia. He will serve as the fraternity's Secretary and Historian this year. Joe enjoys exercising, not exercising, watching the Bills lose and the Yankees win.
Special Events Coordinator: Andrea Perrone
Andrea Perrone is a Senior Music Education major from Vernon, CT. At Ithaca College, Andrea has performed with the Ithaca College Chorus, Ithaca College Choir, Intergenerational Choir, and has served and the musical director of Premium Blend, Ithaca College’s all-female a cappella group. An active member of Mu Phi Epsilon, a professional co-ed music fraternity, Andrea enjoys bridging the gap between college and community through music. She spent this past summer in Ithaca working at the Student Intern for the Ithaca Children’s Choir through the Community School of Music and Arts, rehearsing the choirs for and organizing the nationally recognized Choral Music Experience program. Andrea also directed the Music Friends program at the Ithaca Community Childcare Center and taught Music and Movement for young people at the Community School of Music and Arts in Ithaca. Outside of the School of Music, Andrea is a President’s Host for Ithaca College and is employed at Barnes and Noble.
Chapter Adviser: Dr. Janet Galván
Dr. Janet Galván, Professor of Music at Ithaca College, conducts the Ithaca College Women's Chorale and the Ithaca College Chorus. She is Artistic Director for the Ithaca Children's Choir. Her New York colleagues recognized Dr. Galván’s contribution to choral music in 1995 when she received the ACDA New York Outstanding Choral Director Award. Dr. Galván has conducted national, regional, and all-state choruses throughout the United States in venues such as Carnegie Hall, Washington’s Constitution Hall, Minneapolis’ Symphony Hall, Pittsburgh’s Heinz Hall, and Nashville’s Schermerhorn Symphony Center. She has conducted her own choral ensembles in Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, and Avery Fisher Hall as well as in concert halls in Ireland, Italy, Austria, the Czech Republic, and Spain. She has conducted the chamber orchestra Virtuoisi Pragenses, the State Philharmonic of Bialystok, Poland, the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, the Madrid Chamber Orchestra, and the New England Symphonic Ensemble in choral/orchestral performances. Galván was the sixth national honor choir conductor in the history of ACDA, and was the conductor of the North American Children’s Choir which performed annually in Carnegie Hall from 1995-2007. She was also a guest conductor for the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Dr. Galván has been a guest conductor and clinician in the United Kingdom, Canada, Belgium, Greece, Austria, the Czech Republic, and Brazil as well as national and regional choral and music education conferences and the World Symposium on Choral Music. She has two choral music series with the Roger Dean Publishing Company and is the author of chapters in two books, Teaching Music through Performance in Choir, Volume 2 and The School Choral Program: Philosophy, Planning, Organizing and Teaching. She is also the series advisor to Latin Accents, a series with Boosey & Hawkes. Her article on the changing voice was published in the International Federation of Choral Music Journal in August of 2007 and was reprinted in La Circulare del Secretariat de Corals Infantils de Catalunga. Galván has been recognized as one of the country’s leading conducting teachers, and her students have received first place awards and have been finalists in both the graduate and undergraduate divisions of the American Choral Directors biennial National Choral Conducting Competition. Dr. Galván was a member of the Grammy Award-winning Robert Shaw Festival Singers.