All Carolina Select - Wingate University
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January 29 - 30, 2027
Brandon Boyd
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As a proponent of choral singing to build community, his research interests include organizing choirs for the homeless, identifying the social and physical effects of choral singing on senior citizens, creating authentic field experiences for music therapy and choral music education students. For three years, Dr. Boyd co-directed three choral community partnerships in Florida: The Tallahassee Senior Choir, RAA Middle School Partnership Choir (university students and middle school singers), and the MTC Women's Prison Glee Club (university students singing with women housed in a correctional facility).
As an active composer and arranger, his music is sung regularly by ensembles throughout the United States and abroad. He is also the curator and editor of the "Brandon A. Boyd Choral Series," a choral series with Hinshaw Music Publications helping promote exciting and innovative works composed by both established and new composers and arrangers. His music also appears in the catalogs of Gentry Publications, Hinshaw Music Company, MorningStar, GIA, and Kjos Music Press. In addition, he is the Executive Choral Editor of Gentry Publications.
As a global collaborator in the orchestral world, Dr. Boyd has served as chorus master, assistant conductor, and guest pianist with the London Symphony in London, England. He prepared the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra and Vokalensemble for Maestro Alan Gilbert for multiple productions of Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, in Hamburg and Kiel, Germany. In the U.S., he has guest conducted the Nashville Symphony, Missouri Symphony, and the St. Louis Symphony. He has made multiple performances at Carnegie in the capacity of guest conductor, composer, and collaborative pianist. Dr. Boyd served as guest faculty at the Universidad Católica Boliviana - San Pablo of the Unidad Academica Regional Tarija to provide conducting workshops, in addition to serving as guest conductor of the Philharmonic Orchestra, Sociedad Corla Andaluz, Symphonic Orchestra in a presentation of American music at the Historic Casa de la Cultutura de Tarija (Tarija's House of Culture). He also was a guest professor at the Universidad Evangelica in Santa Cruz, Boliviana. The Partners of the Americas sponsored both university partnerships.
He holds two degrees from Florida State University (Ph.D. in choral music education and M.M. in choral conducting) and earned a B.S. in music education (emphasis in piano) from Tennessee State University. He is a proud member of the Phi Mu Alpha Music Fraternity, Inc., Pi Kappa Lambda, American Choral Directors' Association (ACDA), National Association for Music Education (NAfME), National Association of Negro Musicians (NANM), American Guild of Organists (AGO), and Chorus America. Dr. Boyd also serves as a member of the National ACDA Composition Initiative committee.
Dr. Nana Wolfe Hill
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She has conducted Wingate’s vocal ensembles at various prestigious performances, including the state NCACDA conference, the Virginia Tulle Fine Arts Series, and in Costa Rica, South Africa, and Austria. Her research on inclusive pedagogy has been presented at numerous state and national conferences. Dr. Wolfe-Hill’s current research and efforts revolve around anti-racism, diversity, inclusion, and equity in music and silenced musics of North America. Previous research was published as the chapter “Collaboration and Meaning Making in the Women’s Choral Rehearsal” in The New Handbook of Choral Pedagogy (Oxford University Press, 2017).
Prior to her appointment at Wingate University, she was Associate Choral Director at Lakeville High School (Lakeville, MN); a conductor and pianist with the Greensboro Youth Chorus (Greensboro, NC); and Associate Director of Music for Children and Youth at First Presbyterian Church (Greensboro, NC). She holds a Doctor of Musical Arts in choral conducting and a Master of Music in collaborative piano performance from the University of North Carolina–Greensboro, and a Bachelor of Music in vocal music education from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota.
9-10 & 11-12 ACS Choirs
Friday
12:30 - 1 p.m. - Registration & Seating
1 - 3 p.m. - Rehearsal
3 - 3:30 p.m. - Break
3:30 - 5:30 p.m. - Rehearsal
5:30 - 7 p.m. - Dinner (Wingate Dining Hall, included in registration)
7 - 8 p.m. - Concert: Wingate Choral Ensemble and Voice Faculty Showcase
Saturday
8:30 a.m. - Arrival
8:45 - 10:30 a.m. - Rehearsal
10:30 - 10:45 a.m. - Break
10:45 - 11:45 a.m. - Rehearsal
11:45 a.m. - 1 p.m. - Lunch (Wingate Dining Hall, included in registration)
1 - 1:15 p.m. - Individual School Photos
1:15 - 2:30 p.m. - Final Rehearsal
3 p.m. - Concert
HS Teachers Choral Summit
Friday
12:30 - 1 p.m. - Registration & Seating
1 - 2 p.m. - Observe Rehearsals
2 - 3 p.m. - Interest Session I
3 - 5 p.m. - Observe Rehearsals
5:30 - 7 p.m. - Dinner
7 - 8 p.m. - Concert: Wingate Choral Ensemble and Voice Faculty Showcase
Saturday
8:30 a.m. - Arrival
8:45 - 9:15 a.m. - Observe Rehearsals
9:15 - 10:15 a.m. - Interest Session II
10:45 - 11:45 a.m. -  Interest Session III
11:45 - 1 p.m. - Lunch
1 - 1:15 p.m. - Individual School Photos
1:15 - 2:30 p.m. - Observe Rehearsals
3 p.m. - Concert
Questions?
(704) 233-8310
music@wingate.edu