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Dr. Don Krudop
Director artistico
Dr. Don Krudop (www.donkrudop.com) has been at the Chorale podium since 2009. He is a life-long music educator, having taught for 48 years with the Virginia Beach City Public Schools system and at Virginia Wesleyan & Regent Universities. In addition to his work with the Chorale, he is Director of Music Ministries at Heritage United Methodist Church, also in Virginia Beach. Don was Director of the Commodore Chorus (Norfolk Chapter, Barbershop Harmony Society) and led them to both the Southern Division and Mid-Atlantic District Intermediate Chorus Championships, and sang tenor in the Southern Division champion and International quarter-finalist barbershop quartet, Old Dominion Line. His choirs at Salem High School and the Visual & Performing Arts Academy were recognized as being among the finest in the southeastern United States. He was the guest conductor for a week-long residency at Carnegie Hall in New York in 2024 and has been invited to return in 2027. Don has been honored to serve as guest conductor for All-Region, All-District, All-County, and All-City choirs throughout Virginia, North Carolina, Maryland, and New Jersey.
Don holds the Doctor of Musical Arts in Music Education, Master of Music in Conducting, and Bachelor of Music Education degrees from the Shenandoah Conservatory in Winchester, Virginia as well as the Master of Education in Administration degree from Regent. While at Shenandoah, he studied conducting with Grammy-award-winning conductor Robert Shafer. He completed additional post-graduate studies at Westminster Choir College, George Washington University, and Old Dominion University, has sung under the direction of Aaron Copland, Weston Noble, and Eric Whitacre (Virtual Choir 6), and was a participant in the late Robert Shaw’s Carnegie Hall Choral Workshop. In the spring of 2025, he will be in the tenor section for a performance of John Rutter's Requiem in Carnegie Hall, New York City, under Maestro Rutter's baton.
Over the course of his career, Don was named Virginia's "Music Educator of the Year" by the Virginia Music Educators Association, was Salem High School’s "Teacher of the Year,” and was a national finalist for the Grammy Foundation's "Music Educator" award. He was a recipient of the Shenandoah University "Distinguished Alumni Award" for both Outstanding Career Achievement (2000) and for Lifetime Achievement (2023), and was recognized by Coastal Virginia magazine as one of Hampton Roads “Ten Top Educators." He is currently the Virginia ACDA Regional Coordinator for Southeastern Virginia, is a Past President of the Virginia Choral Directors Association, served as the Virginia American Choral Directors Association Repertoire and Standards chair for community choirs, and was a national chorus mentor for the National Association for Music Education. He is a VMEA-certified choral adjudicator and serves as a choral clinician and adjudicator for "Music in the Parks," "Festivals of Music", and CCIS Travel. Don is well-known as a conductor, adjudicator, and clinician throughout the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast. He offers two conducting workshops, "The Refreshed Conductor" and "The Expressive Conductor," and will be a featured clinician at the 2025 Eastern Division Conference of the National Association for Music Education (NAfME) in Hartford, CT, where he will present his session "Sing from the Heart - Building the Emotionally Expressive Choir."
EL LIDERAZGO MUSICAL DEL VIRGINIA BEACH CHORALE
Jeanette Winsor
Acompañante
Jeanette Winsor estudió piano con Clifford Herzer, Lois Rova Ozanich y Shirley Harrison. Recibió una licenciatura en música cum laude de Heidelberg College y una maestría en interpretación de piano de Kent State University. Ella ha entrenado ocasionalmente con Thomas Schumacher. Enseña piano en su estudio en Virginia Beach, apreciación de la música, teoría y piano en el Tidewater Community College, acompaña al Coral de Virginia Beach y sirve como juez del Gremio Nacional de Profesores de Piano.
Con frecuencia aparece como solista y profesora. Los temas de la conferencia incluyen por qué los profesores de piano deben practicar, música de Clementi para usted y sus alumnos, cómo tratar con el alumno con TDAH y LD en el estudio privado y música de compositoras para usted y sus alumnos. También es la pianista del Hardwick Chamber Ensemble.
Jeanette posee certificados nacionales y estatales de enseñanza profesional de MTNA y VMTA, así como también certificaciones a través del Colegio Americano de Músicos. Jeanette figura en la 21ª edición de Who's Who of American Women. Ella es la presidenta inmediata de las Competencias de la División Sur de MTNA y ex presidenta del Tidewater Music Teachers Forum y la Virginia Music Teachers Association. Sus artículos sobre pedagogía del piano han sido publicados por Piano Guild Notes. Actuaciones recientes incluyen la Conferencia Nacional de la Sociedad de Música Universitaria / NACUSA en Kansas City, MO, la serie de conciertos Salon en Princeton, NJ, los conciertos de NACUSA en Filadelfia, la ciudad de Nueva York y en todo Virginia, y el solista de la Sinfonía de Virginia Beach.
http://www.jeanettewinsor.com/

Ensemble Director and Section Leaders
Crystal Villanova - Ensemble Director
Joseph Bray - Intern Director
Cassandra Howard - Soprano Section Leader
Vicky Sazon - Alto Section Leader
Brian Gilbert - Tenor Section Leader
Don Krudop - Interim Bass Section Leader
