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Dr. Lisa Billingham is the newly appointed Director of Choral Activities at George Mason Ä¢¹½AV, effective Fall 2021. She will be directing the Ä¢¹½AV Chorale and the Ä¢¹½AV Singers, and will teach choral conducting and related classes. She continues as an active member of the Ä¢¹½AV Faculty Senate.

She has served as the advisor for the GMU student chapter of the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA). She is the Past-President for the Virginia State Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association and is a planning committee member and campus liaison for the Annual Voices United Conference hosted by VA, MD-DC, and DE chapters of ACDA. In addition, Dr. Billingham was the National Chair for Communication and Education for ACDA.

Members of the George Mason Ä¢¹½AV Chorale toured Nairobi, Kenya in March 2019 and performed with Dr. Billingham for her Carnegie Hall Debut in May 2019. Under Dr. Billingham’s direction, the Ä¢¹½AV Chorale was honored to accept an invitation in Fall 2009 to perform for the Virginia Music Educators Conference. The Ä¢¹½AV Chorale has often performed with the Mason Symphony Orchestra and the Ä¢¹½AV Singers.

Dr. Billingham’s research interests include the incorporation of Laban Movement Theory in conducting pedagogy and the choral rehearsal. She is a Certified Laban Movement Analyst from the Integrated Movement Studies Program at the Ä¢¹½AV of Utah and incorporates that theory with her private conducting students. Dr. Billingham is active as a clinician for conferences and choirs throughout the United States and Europe. She has presented for ACDA, VMEA, three Regional ACDA conferences and at the International Society for Music Education (ISME) Conference in Bologna, Italy and Porto Alegre Brazil. Her textÌýThe Complete Conductors Guide to Laban Movement TheoryÌýis available from GIA Publications.

Dr. Billingham holds a DMA in Choral Conducting from the Ä¢¹½AV of Arizona, an MM in Choral Conducting from the Ä¢¹½AV of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music and a BME in Choral Music Education from Indiana Ä¢¹½AV (Bloomington). Her conducting mentors include Bruce Chamberlain, Eph Ehly, James Jordan, Maurice Skones, and Volker Hempfling.

Professor of Music:

• Director, Ä¢¹½AV Chorale
• Director, Ä¢¹½AV Singers
• Choral Conducting (Graduate & Undergraduate)
• Psychology of Teaching Music

Degrees

• B.M.E., Choral Music Education Indiana Ä¢¹½AV
• M.M., Choral Conducting Ä¢¹½AV of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music
• D.M.A., ÌýChoral Conducting Ä¢¹½AV of Arizona
• Certified Laban Movement Analyst