Our Conductor

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Our Conductor

           Dr. Lynn Drafall is an Associate Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities at The Pennsylvania State University. She teaches courses in graduate and undergraduate choral conducting and literature, and conducts the Penn State Concert Choir as well as the Oriana Singers. An active festival conductor and adjudicator, she has worked with festival choirs throughout the mid-West and mid-Atlantic, and has conducted All-State high school choirs in Illinois, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland.

          Dr. Drafall is an active member of the Music Educators National Conference and the American Choral Directors Association. She presently serves as President of the Eastern Division of the American Choral Directors Association, and a past-president of the Pennsylvania state chapter. She has published articles in the Music Educators Journal, Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, and PMEA News.

          A native of Illinois, she received her degrees in music education and choral conducting from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She served on the faculties of Northern Illinois University and the University of Mississippi and, prior to her career in higher education, she taught eleven years in the public schools of Illinois.