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Annual Conference Mission Statement |
Mr. Henry H. Leck
Mr. Leck founded the Indiana All-State Children's Honor Choir and the Indiana Middle/Junior High School Honors Choir, and has conducted Mixed, Men's, Women's, Junior High and Children's All-State Choirs and festival choirs in nearly every state. He is a frequent conductor of regional and national honor choirs, including the ACDA Southern, Southwest, North Central, Central and Northwest Divisional Honors Choirs. In the spring of 2003, he conducted the ACDA National Junior High/Middle School Honor Choir in New York City and on three occasions has conducted National Honor Choirs for OAKE. Mr. Leck has conducted many international festivals including the Musica Mundi Tuscany Children’s Choir Festival in Montecatini, Florence and Rome, Italy, the Central European International Children’s Choral Festival, the International Children’s Choir Festival in Beijing, China and the Vienna Children’s & Boys Choir Festival with the Vienna Sangerknaben. He has conducted many times in Brazil, including the Curso Internacional de Regencia Coral in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, Brazil where he founded the ARCI Sao Paulo Children’s Honor Choir which he conducts every other year.. Mr. Leck has served as a clinician for the Australian National Choral Association and the Royal School of Church Music . He is the Artistic Director of the highly acclaimed Pacific Rim Festival in Hawaii and the International Children's Choral Festival in Canterbury and London, England. For twelve years, he has conducted the National Youth Choral Festival in Carnegie Hall, and in 2008, as Artistic Director, he will be conducting an International Choral Festival in South Africa. Mr. Leck is widely known as a specialist in choral techniques, the child's voice and the boy's changing voice. He authored the choral section of Silver Burdett music textbooks for grades 4, 5 and 6. He has produced three teaching videos titled Vocal Techniques for the Young Singer, The Boy’s Expanding Voice: Take the High Road and Creating Artistry through Movement, Dalcroze Eurhythmics. He is a lead author for the choral textbook series published by McGraw Hill/Glencoe titled Experiencing Choral Music and is also the editor of two nationally known choral series published by Hal Leonard Corporation and Colla Voce, Inc./Plymouth. |
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