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Please read these instructions carefully and follow the checklist to ensure that your students are properly registered for All-State. Failure to do so can prevent your student’s participation in the All-State Groups.
Idaho Music Educators Association
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Refunds of All-State Registration Fees will be paid on the following schedule if the student cannot be replaced:
During December, after registration fees have been paid, $175.00.
After January 1st, $95.00, only if a replacement can be found.
No refunds after January 27th.
Refunds will be mailed after the All State event is over and once original copies of music have been returned to Ron Curtis.
IMEA does not be providing housing for students, Schools will be in charge of chaperoning their students after the day's activities are over until the morning check-in at rehearsals. Make sure to reserve a room for yourself or chaperone from your school as well. If you have any questions, please contact Ron Curtis for more information.
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Dr. Travis Cross, UCLA |
Travis J. Cross (he/him) serves as professor of music and director of bands at UCLA, where he conducts the Wind Ensemble and leads the graduate wind conducting program. He chaired the music department from 2018–2023 and was associate dean for academic mentoring and opportunity during the initial years of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. Cross has conducted the UCLA Wind Ensemble at the California All-State Music Education Conference and College Band Directors National Association Western/Northwestern Division conference and prepared the band for centenary performances of Leonard Bernstein’s Mass with Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
During five years as wind ensemble conductor at Virginia Tech, Cross led students in performances at the Virginia Music Educators Association conference, Kennedy Center, and Carnegie Hall and developed the Virginia Tech Band Directors Institute into a major conducting workshop.
Cross earned doctor and Master of Music degrees in conducting from Northwestern University and the Bachelor of Music degree cum laude in vocal and instrumental music education from St. Olaf College. His principal teachers were Mallory Thompson and Timothy Mahr. Prior to graduate study, he taught for four years at Edina (Minn.) High School, where he conducted two concert bands and led the marching band program.
Cross wrote a chapter for volume four of Composers on Composing for Band and contributed to The Horizon Leans Forward: Stories of Courage, Strength, and Triumph of Underrepresented Communities in the Wind Band Field and The Future of the Wind Band: Philosopher and Practitioner in Dialog, all available from GIA Publications His more than 20 original compositions and arrangements are published by Boosey &Hawkes, Daehn Publications/C.L. Barnhouse, and Theodore Music.
Cross has appeared as a guest conductor, composer, and clinician in nearly 40states; internationally in Australia, Canada, China, Germany, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Spain, Thailand, and the United Arab Emirates; as featured band clinician at the Texas Music Educators Association Clinic/Convention; and on several occasions at the Music for All National Festival and Midwest Clinic. He has engagements in California, Connecticut, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri, Utah, China, and Singapore during the 2024–25 season. Cross is a member of the Council of Korean Americans and a Yamaha Master Educator.
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Dr. Ronald C. McCurdy, University of Southern California |
Dr. Ronald C. McCurdy is Professor of Music in the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California (USC) where he served as chair of the jazz department for six years (2002-2008). Prior to his appointment at USC he served as Director of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz at USC (1999-2001). He has served as Professor of Music and chair of the Afro-African American Studies Department and served as Director of Jazz Studies at the University of Minnesota (1990-1999). In 1997, Dr. McCurdy served as Visiting Professor at Maria-Curie Sklodowska University in Lublin, Poland. In 2001 Dr. McCurdy received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Kansas. Dr. McCurdy received his undergraduate degree from Florida A & M University and his Masters and Ph. D. degrees from the University of Kansas.
Dr. McCurdy has continued to tour the Langston Hughes Project. This is a multimedia presentation based on the Hughes’ poem, Ask Your Mama. This was Hughes’ social commentary on the struggle for freedom and equality among Africans and African Americans. In 2008 he premiered the orchestral version of The Langston Hughes Project, Ask Your Mama: 12 Mood for Jazz with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra with rapper and television actor, Ice-T. The multimedia presentation features jazz quartet, spoken-word and images from the Harlem Renaissance.
Dr. McCurdy’s latest CD is titled; April In Paris features his new vocal, funk band called the Ron McCurdy Collective. His first CD, Once Again for the First Time on the INNOVA label enjoyed critical acclaim as well. He has also released a CD of the Langston Hughes Project, Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz. Dr. McCurdy is the co-author of The Artist Entrepreneur: Finding Success in a New Arts Economy (Rowman & Litterfield Publication). He is co-author of a vocal jazz improvisation series titled Approaching the Standards, published by Warner Bros. Dr. McCurdy authored, Meet the Great Jazz Legends (Alfred Publishing). He contributed chapters to two recent publications: Teaching Music in Performance Through Jazz: Vol. I (Gia Publication) and African Americans and Popular Culture (Edited by Todd Boyd).
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Dave Cazier, Columbia Basin College |
Dave Cazier is in his 13th year as the Director of Choral Instruction at Columbia Basin College in Pasco, Washington. Dave directs the CBC Concert and Chamber Choirs, two vocal jazz groups, Desertones and FreeForm, and also teaches History of Jazz and private voice. Dave is well known as an outstanding vocal jazz arranger. His vocal jazz ensembles have received numerous awards regionally and nationally. Dave is a native of Southeastern Washington. He is a 1981 graduate of Pasco High and began his college studies at Columbia Basin College. Dave completed his Bachelor of Music degree at Central Washington University, as well as his Masters, emphasizing studies in Music Education and Choral Composition. Dave taught music for two years in Quincy, WA, and one year at Rogers High School in Spokane. Dave was recognized as Rogers High School’s “Teacher of the Year” by its faculty and staff in 1993. Dave frequently serves as a choral/vocal clinician at a variety of Large Group, Solo/Ensemble contests and jazz festivals throughout the Western United States.
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Ethan Sperry, Portland State University |
Hailed by The Oregonian for providing “the finest choral concerts in Portland in recent memory,” Ethan Sperry is the Barre Stoll Professor of Choral Music at Portland State University, where he conducts the world-renowned Chamber Choir and leads undergraduate and graduate programs in conducting. He is also the Artistic Director and Conductor of the Oregon Repertory Singers, one of the America’s most distinguished adult choruses. Choirs under his direction have performed at over a dozen ACDA and NAfME Conferences, won over thirty awards and medals at international choir competitions on four continents, and sung at The Hollywood Bowl, The Kennedy Center, and the United Nations. Under his direction in 2013 The Portland State Chamber Choir became the first American Choir ever to win the Grand Prix at the Seghizzi International Choral Contest in Italy, and in 2017 they became the first American choir to win the Grand Prix at the Bali International Choral Festival, the largest choral gathering in Asia.
Sperry has recorded albums for the Naxos and Gothic labels. His 2017 release The Doors of Heaven: Music of Eriks Esenvalds hit #1 on the Billboard Traditional Classical Chart and was named a “Recording to Die For” by Stereophile, both firsts for a University chorus. His 2018 release Shadows on the Stars: Music of Morten Lauridsen and Other Pacific Northwest Composers with Oregon Repertory Singers was awarded The American Prize in Choral Music.
A prolific arranger of World Music for choirs, Dr. Sperry is the editor of the Global Rhythms series for Earthsongs Music, one of the best-selling choral series in the world, and is also published by Hal Leonard. Sperry is also a frequent collaborator with film composer AR Rahman and has appeared as a guest conductor for him numerous times including at Bollywood Night at the Hollywood Bowl and the 2008 Filmfare Awards, the Indian equivalent of the Oscars. He also serves as a consultant for the KM Music Conservatory in Chennai, the first classical music school in India, which opened in 2009.
Born in New York City in 1971, Sperry began studying conducting at the age of eight, cello at the age of twelve, and singing at the age of eighteen. He has earned a bachelor's degree in Philosophy from Harvard College and Masters and Doctoral degrees in Choral Conducting from the University of Southern California. Prior to moving to Oregon, Sperry served for 10 years on the faculty of Miami University in Ohio where he conducted the Men’s Glee Club, Collegiate Chorale, and Global Rhythms Ensemble. He has also served as Artistic Administrator of the Arad Philharmonic Chorus in Romania and Conductor of the Coeur Regional de Guadeloupe, the only Symphonic Chorus in the French West Indies.
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Dr. Caleb Wenzel, Opera Grand Rapids |
Caleb Wenzel’s artistic life lives at the crossroads of performance disciplines and stylistic genres. Winner of the 2019 Respighi Prize in Conducting, Caleb's vibrant and collaborative energy on the podium is equally at home with symphony orchestras, choral ensembles, opera, and musical theater. A specialist in new music and interdisciplinary performance, he keeps an active performance schedule as both a conductor and pianist, regularly crossing genres and styles both on the podium and at the keyboard.
Caleb has led performances on three continents, leading performances with the Fort Wayne Philharmonic, Chicago Latino Music Festival, American Bach Society, London Classical Soloists, Ritornello Chamber Orchestra, and at the University of British Columbia Chamber Orchestra Festival. In June 2019, Caleb made his Carnegie Hall debut conducting Chamber Orchestra of New York. He returned to CONY as the 2021/22 Apprentice Conductor, which culminated in assisting CONY on their recording of Respighi songs for NAXOS Records. In August 2024, Caleb made his debut with the Tokyo Sinfonia, for which he already received a return invitation. He currently serves as lead Répétiteur and staff Assistant Conductor for Opera Grand Rapids and has held previous professional positions as Conducting Area Coordinator and Principal Conductor of the American Creators Ensemble at the Oregon Bach Festival Composers Symposium and held a four-year tenure as Associate Conductor of Ensemble CONCEPT/21.
A passionate performance pedagogue, Caleb has been involved in performance education at all levels of training, serving as Music Director of the Elkhart County Youth Honors Orchestra and Conducting Fellow of the South Bend Youth Symphony Orchestra. He has served on the faculty of Grand Rapids Community College, Indiana University South Bend, and University of Notre Dame. At Grand Rapids Community College, he oversaw one of the most active and comprehensive undergraduate choral programs in Michigan. Just between 2021 and 2024, the GRCC choral ensembles performed Carmina burana, Little Match Girl Passion, Mozart’s Requiem, Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem, and the Michigan Premiere of Emerson Eads’ Mass for the Oppressed. At Notre Dame, he served as Music Director for Our Lady’s Consort, Artistic Director of Gold & Blue Co., and as the inaugural Staff Music Director for the University’s new Musical Theatre program. He continues his work as a performance pedagogue through masterclasses, private coachings, and clinics.
An accomplished pianist, Caleb has presented performances in every region of the United States in venues ranging from a former furniture factory in Indiana, to college and university concert halls, to the historic Apollo in Washington DC. His repertoire that ecompasses solo, chamber music, and concertos, with an emphasis on music of the Americas. He has appeared as a featured soloist with Great Noise Ensemble, South Bend Symphony, and at the Walden Chamber Music Society. His scholarly work examines the intersection between music, ritual, and cultural identity and has received grant funding to conduct research at Oxford University.
Caleb is a graduate of University of Notre Dame where he completed a Doctorate of Musical Arts in Conducting under the mentorship of renowned Venezuelan conductor Carmen-Helena Téllez. He previously studied at The Catholic University of America, where he served as University Organist, and at Saint John’s University (Minnesota), where he was a Theodore Presser Scholar. He is currently based in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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Coty Raven Morris, Portland State University |
New Orleans native Coty Raven Morris is a proud alumnus of Texas State University- San Marcos where she studied with Drs. Lynn Brinckmeyer and Joey Martin. She received her Masters of Music in Choral Conducting from Michigan State University in the Spring of 2020 under Drs. David Rayl, Jonathan Reed, and Sandra Snow.
She is currently the Assistant Professor of Choir, Music Education, and Social Justice at Portland State University. Prior to this, she was the Director of Choirs at Crosby High School in the Houston area and has served as the Outreach Choir Director at the MSU Community Music School and Music Director at Grand Ledge United Methodist Church. Her choirs received consistent Sweepstakes & Division I ratings at UIL and choral festivals.
Morris was the recipient of the Hays CISD Linebarger Academic Recognition Award for 2013 & Galena Park ISD's Dazzling Diamond Award in 2014, 2016, 2017, and 2018 for outstanding mentorship and leadership in her field. She is the Northwest Choral representative for the National Association for Music Education as well as the Community Choir Chair for Northwest region of the American Choral Directors Association. Her most recent acknowledgments include being a nominee for the Portland State University George C Hoffman Faculty, Quarter-Finalist for the 2025 Music Educator Grammy, and Finalist for the 2024 Music Educators Grammy!
A newly published author and composer, Morris is a sought after clinician and speaker across the country. She has recently served as the Clinician and Headliner for Florida ACDA, Washington MEA, and Minnesota ACDA as well as the Keynote speaker for the city of Lake Oswego’s Juneteenth festival. She also serves as the Community Choir Chair for the NW American Choral Directors Association and the Choral Chair for the National Association for Music Education. Her future engagements include serving as the Keynote Speaker for the National Kodaly Conference and the Oklahoma All State Middle School Treble Choir. Morris has been a choir member of the South Texas Vocal Artists and Mirabai and has devoted over a decade of summers to working as a camp director at the Texas State, Northeastern, Lamar University and the Oregon Repertory Singers and Blue Lake Fine Arts summer camps.
Coty Raven Morris the Founder of Being Human Together, a budding community rooted in music education striving to normalize difficult topics in our field through conversation and connection. BHT seeks to discuss traditionally taboo topics like mental health, systemic oppression, diversity, and inclusivity. And… She is also an avid boxer!
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