"Changemakers" features a powerful performance of Jerod Tate's Iholba’ by the National Masterwork Chorus & Orchestra. Enhanced by stunning artistic projections, this performance offers a visually and musically immersive experience, deepening the audience’s connection to the work’s foundation in Tate's Chickasaw heritage

The first half of the concert showcases the National Concert Chorus on a program that includes a world premiere by composer B.E. Boykin.  

TRACEY GREGG-BOOTHBY, GUEST CONDUCTOR

Dr. Tracey Gregg-Boothby is Professor of Music at Rose State College where she conducts the Rose State Chorus and Rose State Chamber Singers, teaches private voice and several other undergraduate courses in music. Dr. Gregg-Boothby also serves as the Artistic Director for the Edmond Community Chorus in Edmond, OK, as well as the Assistant Director of Worship Arts: Choral Music for First Presbyterian Church of Edmond.

Dr. Gregg-Boothby is a member of the National Collegiate Choral Organization, National Association for Music Education, Oklahoma Music Educators Association, American Choral Directors Association, Oklahoma Choral Directors Association and National Association of Teachers of Singing, and is a sought-after guest choral and vocal clinician for middle school and high school choirs. She has also served as stage director and music director for numerous musical theater productions.

Dr. Gregg-Boothby received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in vocal performance at Oklahoma State University and Oklahoma City University, respectively. She completed her DMA in Choral Conducting at the University of Oklahoma, with a specialization in researching the collection, transcription, and facilitation of choral arrangements of traditional Wichita tribal songs, in order to promote preservation of the Wichita musical culture and language. As a member of the Wichita tribe, Dr. Gregg-Boothby was instrumental in commissioning new choral arrangements from several of her transcriptions of traditional Wichita melodies. She has commissioned several prominent composers including Debra Scroggins whose arrangement of Morning Star Lullaby for women’s choir has been performed in concerts throughout the United States and which has been featured by the Concierto Coro Juvenil de Colombia (National Youth Choir of Colombia) in Bogotá, South America.

JENNIFER SENGIN, GUEST CONDUCTOR

Jennifer Sengin joins the UMKC Conservatory faculty as Visiting Assistant Professor of Choral Studies where she leads the graduate choral conducting program and conducts the flagship ensemble, Conservatory Singers, and the Choral Union. In addition to ensembles, Dr. Sengin teaches graduate choral conducting and choral literature. 

She most recently served as the Associate Director of Choral Activities at Georgia State University (GSU) where she conducted the Treble Choir, Choral Union, and taught graduate choral literature, graduate and undergraduate conducting, and undergraduate choral methods. Dr. Sengin is very passionate about recruiting. While at GSU, the choral program grew from three choirs to five choirs including the creation of two additional choral ensembles. 

Under her direction, the GSU Treble Choir (formerly Women’s Chorus) won first place in The American Prize and Dr. Sengin received 2nd place in conducting. The Treble Choir has been invited to perform at a National Collegiate Choral Organization Conference (2023) and twice at the Georgia Music Educators Association Conference (2020 and 2023). While at GSU, Dr. Sengin received two university-wide awards –the 2022-2023 Non-Tenure Track Faculty Achievement Award and the 2021-2022 GSU Instructional Effectiveness Award. Dr. Sengin recently participated as a Conducting Fellow with ACDA’s International Conductor Exchange Program to Germany where she led workshops at the Hochshule für Musik, Theater und Medien in Hannover as well as the Hochshule für Musik, Universität der Künste Berlin.  

An active guest conductor, clinician, adjudicator, and presenter, Dr. Sengin has conducted honor choirs throughout the country and recently conducted the 2023 Texas All-State Treble Choir. Dr. Sengin has presented sessions and served as a panelist at national, regional, and state conferences. She frequently provides presentations on recruiting and retaining singers, score study, rehearsal strategies, movement in the choral rehearsal, repertoire selection, and building community in the choral ensemble. Dr. Sengin currently serves on the National Board of the National Collegiate Choral Organization and was recently elected President-Elect of the Georgia Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association where she previously served in the roll of Repertoire and Resource Chair for Youth and Student Activities. She currently serves as the Director of Musical Arts at Central Presbyterian Church in Atlanta and sings in the award-winning professional ensemble, mirabai, under the direction of Sandra Snow.

SANDRA SNOW, GUEST CONDUCTOR

As conductor, pedagogue, and scholar, Sandra Snow is widely acknowledged as one who brings singers of all ages and abilities to artful performance through an understanding of the music and its context in the world around them. As Professor of Choral Conducting, Director of Choral Programs, and Chair of the Conducting Area at the Michigan State University College of Music, she has led the MSU Women’s Chamber Ensemble to appearances as featured performers at American Choral Directors Association conventions at state, regional, and national levels. As guest conductor, she travels extensively in North America and abroad.

In 2017 Snow created mirabai, a project-based professional women’s chorus. mirabai features alumna associated with the MSU Women’s Chamber Ensemble. mirabai was a featured ensemble at the Texas Choral Director’s Association conference in 2018. The inaugural recording, Ecstatic Songs, was released in 2018. mirabai will open the 2020 conference of the Southwest Division of the American Choral Director’s Association.

Snow is author of the DVD "Conducting-Teaching: Real World Strategies for Success" published by GIA (2009), a resource for conductor-teachers at all levels of teaching. She edits the choral music series In High Voice published by Boosey & Hawkes.

Snow is a recipient of the Michigan State University William J. Beal Award for Outstanding Faculty, the MSU Teacher-Scholar Award, and the Dortha J. and John D. Withrow award for Excellence in Teaching. 

PROGRAM

TUESDAY APRIL 1, 2025 at 8:00 PM
CARNEGIE HALL

National Concert Chorus 
Jennifer Sengin, Guest Conductor
Sandra Snow, Guest Conductor
B.E. Boykin, Composer-in-Residence
Kevin Phillip Johnson, Artist-in-Residence

They Are Mother - Jennifer Lucy Cook
Riuh (Chaotic Joy) - Tracy Wong
Crowded Table - arr. Andrea Ramsey
Children, Go Where I Send Thee - arr. Kevin Phillip Johnson
Be a Light - B.E. Boykin
A Choice to Change the World - Kevin Phillip Johnson

National Masterwork Chorus 
TATE IHOLBA'
Tracey Gregg-Boothby, Guest Conductor
Jerod Tate, Composer-in-Residence


FEATURED PERFORMANCE BY: 
Bonita High School Chamber Singers & Concert Choir 
Ryan Yoder, Conductor