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Janeal Krehbiel, Artistic Director
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JANEAL CRABB KREHBIEL, founder and director of the Lawrence Children’s Choir, is a clinician and festival director throughout the United States. A graduate of Bethel College in Kansas, she earned a Master’s degree in Music Education at Wichita State University. She was a member of the Chorister’s Guild Board of Directors, has been the featured clinician at St. Olaf College, Montreat Music Conference, Westminster Choir College, and the North Carolina Summer Institute of the Choral Art. She has held seminars at colleges and universities, directed camps and festivals and published many articles about choral music for children and youth. In March 2000 Ms. Krehbiel was the guest conductor for the National 2000 Children’s Choir at Carnegie Hall. She conducted the 2007 National Children’s Choir at Carnegie Hall and conducted the Lawrence Children’s Choir in a premier performance at Carnegie Hall.
She taught elementary vocal music in the Denver Public Schools (Colorado), high school vocal music in the Hesston Public Schools (Kansas), and completed fifteen years with the Lawrence, Kansas public schools, teaching grades 7, 8, and 9. For eighteen years she served as children’s choir director at the Bethel College Mennonite Church.
Janeal is an active member of ACDA, MENC, KMEA, and Chorus America. She is the past president of the Kansas chapter of ACDA. She organized the Kansas Honors Children’s Choir and directs honors choirs, regional and all state honor choirs for children and junior high students throughout the United States. In July 1999, her colleagues in Kansas ACDA awarded the Harry Robert Wilson Award to Ms. Krehbiel in recognition of her outstanding contribution to choral music. In December 1999, Janeal was awarded the Outstanding Middle Level Music Educator for Northeastern Kansas.
Under Janeal’s direction, the Lawrence Children’s Choir was chosen to sing at the 1999 national ACDA convention, the 1996 regional ACDA convention, the 1996 national MENC convention, and was the featured choir for the World’s Largest Concert on PBS in 1994. In 1998 the choir was the artist in residence choir for the North Carolina Summer Institute of the Choral Art. In 2000and 2007 they were chosen to sing the featured concert at Carnegie Hall for the FSI Festival, where Ms. Krehbiel was the conductor of the National Children’s Choir. In 2003 they were the featured children’s choir at Chorus America’s National Convention. They also performed at St. Martin in the Field and St. Paul’s Cathedral in 2003. They were invited to perform at the SWACDA convention in March, 2004. The choir toured Germany in the summer of 2005 and was one of four American choirs to sing at the International Choral Festival in Missoula, Montana in the summer of 2006. The choir has been selected to perform for the National ACDA Convention for 2009.
Ms. Krehbiel was the conductor of the National ACDA Jr. High Honors Choir in Los Angeles in 2005. She has been the guest conductor for numerous ACDA divisional convention’s Honors Choirs, both for children and junior high singers. She is teaching and conducting in Singapore in March, 2009.
Being "Mom" to two 30 something daughters and, along with husband "Baba," being "Mimi" to two granddaughters and a grandson keeps her current with pre school repertoire and endless adventures.
artisticdirector@lcchoir.org
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Choristers
Pam Bushouse, Choristers Director
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Pam Bushouse is the Director of Choristers, the preparatory choir for Lawrence Children’s Choir. A native of Sapulpa, Oklahoma, Pam received her BME from Oklahoma State University and her MME from the University of Kansas. Pam retired in 2006 from teaching choral music at Lawrence Free State High School. In her 31 years of teaching, she taught vocal music in grades K-12 in Jenks, Oklahoma, and in Lawrence.
During her nine years of teaching at LFSHS, her choirs received straight superior ratings at state festival. The Chamber Choir received top honors for its performances at Musicfest Orlando in 2000 and 2003 and at Festival Disney in 2006. Chamber Choir was a featured choir on the 2002 and 2006 KMEA State In-Service Workshops, while the LFSHS Combined Men’s Choir performed for KMEA in 2005.
During her 19 years at Lawrence West Junior High, the choirs performed five times for KMEA, once for the Southwest Division of ACDA, and once for the MENC National Convention.
Pam has conducted middle-level district, regional, and state festivals and has presented numerous workshops for vocal music educators. In the spring of 2001, she was named the Secondary Teacher of the Year for Lawrence Public Schools and received the Bobs Award for Excellence in Teaching. In December of 2001, she was named the Outstanding High School Choral Director for the Northeast District of KMEA. In 2006 Pam received the Harry Robert Wilson Award for outstanding contribution to the choral art in Kansas from the Kansas Choral Directors Association. She maintains a private voice studio and is a member of the 2009 Leadership Lawrence Class.
Since her retirement, Pam has begun a new career in real estate through her association with McGrew Real Estate.
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Mary Fairburn, Choristers Office Assistant
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Jane Roesner Graves, Executive Director
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Jane Roesner Graves has returned as the Executive Director of LCC after first serving in the position from 2002-2004, taking a respite after the birth of her second child. Her past nonprofit experience includes working as grant manager and organizer for Leadership Challenge, a community service and leadership training event for 200 Lawrence grade school students; Success By 6, a group supporting the importance of children’s early years; and for YouthFriends, a mentoring program for Lawrence school children.
Jane graduated cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in Journalism and Mass Communications from Kansas State University; her Master’s Degree is in Student Counseling and Personnel Services. She was named K-State’s Outstanding Student of Public Relations in 1991, has served as the National Newsletter Editor for American College Personnel Association Division X, and is currently a freelance reporter for The Leaven--the Kansas City Kansas Catholic Archdiocesan newspaper. Jane worked for ten years in residence life on college and university campuses, specializing in work related to women’s development and leadership. Under her direction as Complex Director, the all-women’s complex of GSP/Corbin at KU was named the 1998-1999 Complex of the Year.
Jane’s eldest child is enrolled in Cadenza. Her youngest will be as well - just as soon as she’s old enough.
execdirector@lcchoir.org
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