2010 Festival2010 Fort Worden Children's Choir Festival
Friday, May 28 - Saturday, May 29, 2010 (Memorial Day Weekend)
2010 Festival Featured Choir
Piedmont East Bay Children's Choir
2010 Festival Concert (3:00 PM, Saturday) featuring 200 young choristers from the following choirs: Piedmont Choirs (CA), Northwest Girlchoir (Seattle, WA), Rainier Youth Choirs (Kent, WA), Campbell River Children's Choir (British Columbia), Good News Group (Bellevue, WA), Olympia Youth Chorus (Olympia, WA), Mountain Way Elementary Choir (Granite Falls, WA) and Port Townsend Youth Chorus (Port Townsend, WA). Dr. Juan-Tony Guzman, Festival Guest Conductor. Choirs perform individually and combined.
Dr. Juan-Tony Guzmán, 2010 Guest Conductor
Conductor, composer, arranger, and music educator from the Dominican Republic, Dr. Juan-Tony Guzmán is currently director of the jazz program and assistant professor of music education at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. He has conducted festival, recording studio, shows, and summer camps orchestras, among other instrumental ensembles. He has written many arrangements of Caribbean and Latin American music, some of which are published by Boosey & Hawkes. He has conducted choirs, concert bands, jazz bands, and orchestras in several countries during the past twenty-four years, and he serves as consultant for the design and implementation of the nationwide music education curriculum in the Dominican Republic. Guzmán holds a Ph.D. in Music Education from the Florida State University and a degree in Electromechanical Engineering from the Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra in Santiago, Dominican Republic. Guzmán received a bachelor's degree from Luther College, and a master's degree from Florida State University in music education. While attending Florida State, he also received an associate degree in pedagogy of music theory. He frequently serves as a guest conductor, clinician, and adjudicator in national and international festivals.
Alicia Lewis, 2010 Festival Accompanist
Alicia Lewis is a private teacher, recording artist, and published composer and arranger of choral and instrumental works. She draws on her academic background in theology (M.A.T.S., Bethel Seminary) and ethnomusicology (M.A. Musicology, University of WA), as well as her experience as a lifelong singer and pianist. She is currently a staff accompanist for First Presbyterian Church of Bellevue. For several years she accompanied Seattle Children's Chorus, who has debuted her works. SCC presented two new pieces commissioned for their Twentieth Anniversary Concert on May 30, 2009, in Benaroya Hall. Alicia finds her greatest joy in creating music which leads the listener into a deeper connection to God, the source of all beauty.
