Dr. Andrea Ramsey enjoys an international presence as a composer, conductor, scholar, and music educator. Her teaching experiences range from work with adolescent and children’s voices to high school and collegiate voices. She enjoys regular opportunities to conduct all-state and divisional level honor choirs, festival events at Carnegie Hall, and served as a principal conductor for the Pacific International Young Women’s Choral Festival in Eugene, Oregon and conducted the National ACDA Junior High/Middle School Honor Choir in 2023. Before leaping into full time composing and guest conducting, Andrea held positions in music education and conducting at The Ohio State University and the University of Colorado, respectively.

An ASCAP Plus award-winning composer, Andrea believes strongly in the creation of new works. Her compositions are available with traditional publishers and also through MusicSpoke, a digital sheetmusic marketplace. She enjoys residency collaborations with ensembles and festival choirs, some of which have included: the University of Oregon, the Allegro Choirs of Kansas City, and the Crescent City Choral Festival in New Orleans.

As a scholar, she has presented for state, divisional, and national conventions of the American Choral Directors Association, the 6th Annual Symposium on Sociology in Music Education, as well as The Phenomenon Singing Symposium in St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada. She has co-authored articles published in the Choral Journal, as well as the Journal of Research in Music Education. A native of Arkansas, she has experienced in her own life the power of music to provide a sense of community, better understanding of our humanity, and rich opportunities for self-discovery.

Dr. Anthony Trecek-King is a highly acclaimed choral conductor, scholar, pedagogue, and media personality with a career spanning over 20 years. He is an active guest conductor and serves as a Resident Conductor (chorus) with the Handel and Haydn Society. Recognized for his ability to create moving performances that exhibit a surprising range of dynamics and depth of expression, Dr. Trecek-King excels at cultivating vocal and instrumental musicians at all levels. Through his collaborative rehearsal style, he bridges the gap between high art and humanity, captivating audiences while maintaining exceptional sonic quality. Trecek-King’s performances have been heralded as “moving” and possessing a “surprising range of dynamics and depth of expression.” He enjoys cultivating all levels of vocal and instrumental musicians, from youth through professional, using a collaborative rehearsal style. His skill lies in bridging the gap between high art and humanity, drawing audiences into deeply moving performances through acute shaping, expression, and stagecraft, all without compromising sonic quality. 

As a conductor and clinician Trecek-King has worked with a variety of artists and ensembles including Leslie Odom Jr., Melinda Doolittle, the San Francisco Symphony Chorus, The Houston Chamber Choir, Seraphic Fire, Keith Lockhart, John Williams, Simon Halsey, Yo Yo Ma, Roomful of Teeth, Cindy Blackman-Santana and NFL star Patrick Chung. He has led performances in world-renowned venues including Boston Symphony Hall, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., Carnegie Hall in New York City, Royal Albert Hall in London, and the Sydney Opera House. Ensembles under his direction were integral to projects that have won a Pulitzer Prize (Madam White Snake, Zhou Long), received a Grammy (Fantastic Mr. Fox, Boston Modern Orchestra Project), and earned the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award from Presidential Committee on the Arts (Boston Children’s Chorus). 

Dr. Trecek-King has gained international acclaim for his collaborations with choirs and orchestras worldwide, including the University of Cologne Chamber Choir, the National Youth Choir of Great Britain, members of the Schola Cantorum de Venezuela, the Juvenil Schola Cantorum, the University Simón Bolívar, and Polifonija, a state chorus of Lithuania. He has even had the privilege of serving as a guest conductor for both choir and orchestra during a semester of residence at the Technische Universität Braunschweig in Germany. Notably, he was the sole American conductor chosen to participate in both the Eric Ericson Masterclass in the Netherlands and the Eric Ericson Award, an international conducting competition held in Sweden. In addition to Trecek-King’s conducting work, he is currently the host of the classical radio show “The Silent Canon” which airs on KNVO 90.7. Previously he hosted the choral music radio program “Together in Song” which aired on WCRB Classical New England and WQXR radio in New York City and he has presented two talks and performances (2012 & 2014) for TEDx Boston. He is best known as host and coach for the Emmy-nominated WGBH television series “Sing That Thing”, which can be seen online. 

He holds a B.M. in Cello Performance from the University of Nebraska at Omaha, an M.M. in Orchestral Conducting from Florida State University, and a D.M.A. in Choral Conducting from Boston University. Currently residing in Boston, he shares his life with his partner Melanie (of Thinking is Power) and their beloved cat. 

In the fall of 1964 Dr. Larry Wyatt signed his first teaching contract and has been engaged in teaching since. That first position was as elementary band director and eventually high school chorus director. Working with the high school chorus was a life changing experience. Following his master’s degree in Choral Music Education, he accepted a position as choral director, voice teacher and assorted brass instruments at then CFJC in Ocala, Florida (1966-69.) The U.S. Army decided it needed him to defend the country against bad band music and made him a rehearsal band director at the Armed Forces School of Music (1969-71.) He then enrolled in the doctoral program at Florida State and shared a part time elementary teaching job with his wife Susan, who supervised his teaching. 

After a year in an interim choral directing position at the University of Houston, he joined the faculty at Loyola University in New Orleans. While there he founded the New Orleans Symphony Chorus and an annual Collegiate Choral Festival. Active in the American Choral Directors’ Association, he served in a number of offices including President of the Southern Division. His Loyola Choir performed on two Division and one National Convention and toured internationally four times. In 1987 he was appointed Director of Choral Studies at the University of South Carolina. Continuing work in the professional association his USC Concert Choir has been a headliner on two division conventions, and he co-directed the Ecumenical Service at a national convention. The Palmetto Mastersingers were also selected to perform on one convention. He is one of the most published choral director authors in professional journals and was interviewed and published in “In Quest of Answers, Interviews with American Choral Directors “ by Carole Glenn, published by Hinshaw Publishers. He edits a series for American Voices for Alliance Music Publishers. At USC he was in charge of the DMA and MM degree programs in choral conducting. Of approximately 45 graduates of the doctoral program 40 are in university teaching positions.

Dr. Wyatt recently retired from USC and moved to Blacksburg with his wife to be closer to their grandchildren.