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Lynn Sjolund Artistic Director/Conductor Andrea Brock Accompanist ARTISTIC PERSONNAL About Lynn Sjolund, Artistic Director/Conductor Lynn Sjolund, Artistic Director / Conductor of the Rogue Valley Chorale, is well known as a conductor and choral clinician. He has directed festival groups and adjudicated choruses around the country. His tenure with the Chorale began with its founding and has been continuous, with the exception of three years when he was Director of Choral Studies at Loyola University in New Orleans. Mr. Sjolund taught for many years in the Medford Public Schools and served as president of the Oregon Music Educator's Association and of the Northwest Division of the Music Educators National Conference. He also served on the American Choral Directors Association board of directors for Oregon. Following his retirement from teaching in public schools, Mr. Sjolund taught at Lewis and Clark College, University of Oregon, and Southern Oregon University on an interim basis. He was also artistic director and conductor for Rogue Opera and Rogue Opera Programs for Youth. Operas he conducted include Die Fledermaus, La Traviata, The Barber of Seville, Don Pasquale, Tosca and Pirates of Penzance. He also produced and conducted education programs including Cinderella, The Barber of Seville, Amahl and the Night Visitors, Pirates of Penzance and Opera for Kids. Mr. Sjolund has conducted the Britt Festival Orchestra and the Rogue Valley Symphony in concerts with the Chorale as the featured group. He also has conducted all-state and festival choirs in the Northwestern and Southeastern United States. Mr. Sjolund has been the recipient of many prestigious awards including the Distinguished Service Award from the University of Oregon School of Music, the Outstanding Music Teacher of the Year by the National Federation Interscholastic Music Association, and the Distinguished Service to Music Education Award from the Northwest Music Educators. He was honored by his colleagues, receiving the DIstinguished Service to Choral Music Award by the Northwestern Division of the American Choral Directors Association. Mr. Sjolund was honored by the Arts Council of Southern Oregon, receiving its Lifetime Achievement Award on October 4, 2002. He is an honorary member of the Medford-Rogue Rotary and served as President and as a Board Member of the Craterian Ginger Rogers Theater. His academic degrees are from the University of Oregon with advanced study at the International Program for Music Education in Ludwigsburg, Germany.     He is married to Doris Sjolund, Founder/Director Emerita of the Rogue Valley Children's Chorus. About Andrea Brock, Accompanist Andrea Brock, Acompanist/Piano Soloist, has been with the Rogue Valley Chorale since 1998. She is the choir instructor at South Medford High School located in Medford, Oregon, where she has taught since 1996. Previously Andrea taught at Joseph Lane Junior High School in Roseburg, Oregon (1991-1996). Andrea was Musical Director for myriad productions including Joseph and His Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat, My Fair Lady and Guys and Dolls. Andrea Brock studied with Helen Walker-Hill while attending the University of Colorado in Boulder as an undergraduate student. She furthered her studies with Dean Kramer at the University of Oregon where she received a bachelor's degree in music education. Andrea went on to pursue her Masters Degree in music education at the University of Oregon. As a student she accompanied the University Singers. She was honored with the prestigious Max Reisinger Award for music education in 1996. Her post graduate work includes a course in collaborative piano with Barbara Gonzalez-Palmer in Lyon, France. Ms Brock provides many people with opportunities to develop their skills on the piano as a highly sought after piano instructor. She shares her gifts with the community as a pianist in concerts and local productions. She accompanied the All-State and All-Northwest choirs on four separate occasions. She was the accompanist for the Oregon Bach Festival's Youth Choral Academy in Eugene, Oregon, directed by Anton Armstrong. In addition to her piano skills Ms Brock is a singer and has performed solos with the Rogue Valley Chorale. She co-directs the First Christian Church Choir with her Husband, Andrew Brock, who she accompanies during his singing performances. Andrea and her equally talented sister, Hillary Hall, perform as a duo piano act throughout Southern Oregon. Recently Ms Brock hosted Final Curtain Call, a tribute concert to the Old South Medford High School performance hall before its demolition and replacement with a state of the art facility. The performance featured 250 singers, young and old, all of whom have performed on the stage at some point in their lives. Ms Brock was instrumental in raising funds to provide South Medford High School with new pianos. Andrea Brock currently resides in Medford, Oregon with her husband, Andrew (Tenor Soloist with the Rogue Valley Chorale), and their three children, Keenan, Molly and William.

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