Recognized for her work with men’s voices, Dr. Blackwell is sought after as a guest conductor for All-State Men’s Choirs. Conducting engagements include the 2013 Georgia All-State Men’s Chorus, 2016 Alabama All-State Men’s Chorus, 2017 Tennessee All-State Chorus, and in 2018, both the Kentucky and South Carolina Men’s All-State Choirs. Dr. Blackwell served six seasons because the Artistic Director of the Atlanta Gay Men’s Chorus, and at KSU established the annual KSU Male Chorus Day, bringing almost 200 highschool students to campus. Choirs underneath Dr. Blackwell’s course have performed at nationwide, regional, and state conferences of the American Choral Directors Association as nicely as quite a few Georgia Music Educators Association state conventions. In 2010, Dr. Blackwell presented Songs of South America for ACDA with the KSU Chamber Singers, that includes music of South America primarily based upon her choral analysis and work in Argentina. In October 2013, the KSU Chamber Singers had been selected to carry out on the National Collegiate Choral Organization fifth national conference.
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, University of Virginia school scrambled to find methods to ship a conventional faculty education on-line. While the transition wasn’t straightforward for anybody, it was particularly troublesome for …
