Following are some of the presenters and performers who will appear at the convention.

Pianist Christopher Fry was born in 1985 and raised in Jacksonville, FL. He began his study of piano at age 3 with a local Suzuki Talent studio. He continued his private lessons through attending and graduating from Douglas Anderson High School of Performing Arts in 2002. There, he was awarded the school's Seal of Arts as well as being inducted into the Tri-M Music Honor Society. Immediately following his high school graduation, he began gaining experience teaching elementary-level piano students. Since 2002, Chris has continued to pursue teaching, and is currently attending the University of North Florida where he majors in classical piano with a focus on piano pedagogy. He studies under local music professors Dr. Gary Smart and Dr. Sandra Stewart. He plans to build his personal studio with the knowledge he has gained. Chris is a new member to Mu Phi Epsilon, having joined in April of 2008. Beverly Hoch, soprano, a past winner of the Mu Phi Epsilon International Competition, is now a member of the Foundation Board. She oversees the yearly vocal scholarships and will coordinate the 2010 International Competition. Ms Hoch is assistant professor of voice at Texas Woman's University in Denton, TX. She is available for masterclasses and recitals by arrangement with Matthew Sprizzo. This August following convention Beverly Hoch and her husband are traveling to Kimberley South Africa to deliver musical instruments and inaugurate a Music Academy in the village of Homevale, through the new project "Instruments of Change", affiliated with Covenant Children, Inc. To learn more please go to www.covenantchild.org. Ms Hoch is on the board of directors of this charity dedicated to relieve the suffering of AIDS orphans around the world. Founded in 1995 at Jacksonville University with sixteen voices, the Jacksonville Children's Chorus has grown to serve approximately 400 First Coast children. Its performance choir program includes over 160 talented young singers ages seven through eighteen. Participating children come from a diversity of racial, religious, and socio-economic backgrounds, hail from five counties in Northeast Florida and represent 75 schools. Approximately 25 percent of the members receive scholarship support. Over the past 13 years, the Jacksonville Children’s Chorus has evolved into a multi-faceted community music program providing the social and cognitive rewards of vocal music and choral participation to area children. The Jacksonville Children's Chorus performs at Carnegie Hall, New York City, June 29th as part of national choral festival. Darren Dailey, Artistic and Executive Director and Virginia Dickert, Associate Conductor Larry Jacobson is Vice President of Financial Services, North America, for the Universal Music Group. He oversees Travel, Accounts Payable Shared Services, Marketing and Recording Administration for all North American Recording Labels and Operating Companies. Mr. Jacobson is also an adjunct professor of management for the undergraduate business school at the University of Phoenix, Southern California. Mr. Jacobson began his career at Universal Music Group in 1990 with MCA Records. Prior to joining MCA, he was a professional Disc Jockey for both WBWB-FM and WTTS-FM in Indianapolis, where he also served as assistant music director. Mr. Jacobson received his MBA and is currently pursuing a doctorate at Pepperdine University. Prior to his career change to business, Mr. Jacobson received a B.M. (Percussion Performance) from the University of Maryland and an M.M. (Jazz Studies) from Indiana University. Mr. Jacobson served two terms as President of the Delta Delta Chapter (the chapter was voted the outstanding collegiate chapter of the year both years of his term); District Director of EC3, where two of his three chapters won the outstanding collegiate chapter of the year and he served on the IEB as Second Vice-President. Mr. Jacobson joined the IEB as MOE first male IEB member since the fraternity went co-ed in 1977 and was the youngest member to join the IEB at 25 years old.

Keynote speaker Dr. Frances Bartlett Kinne is Chancellor Emeritus and Past President of Jacksonville University. She earned her Doctor of Philosophy, cum laude degree with a tri-major of Music, English Literature and Philosophy from the University of Frankfurt, Germany. She has been awarded five honorary doctorates for her outstanding work in education, music and administration. She has received hundreds awards for her service to education, community and philanthropical organizations.

Arietha Lockhart, coloratura soprano, 2nd place winner of the first Classical Singer Competition sponsored by Classical Singer Magazine. Winner: The National Opera Association Competition’s Legacy Award, professional division, 2nd place in The Center for Contemporary Opera International Competition; prize, a New York debut recital at Weill Recital Hall of Carnegie Hall. A Friedrich Shorr Memorial Prize in Voice winner and 3rd place in the Oratorio Society of New York competition. During studies at the American Institute for Musical Studies, she won the first place vote of the jury in the Meistersinger Competition in Graz, Austria, and received the gold medallion as the audience’s 1st place choice. She is a frequent soloist with the Atlanta Symphony Chamber Chorus. Recently, Arietha sang the role of Coretta Scott King in the new contemporary opera MLK by composer Douglas Tappin. Arietha Lockhart,classical singer - Arietha Lockhart

Lenita McCallum, mezzo soprano, is an active member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, the Music Teacher’s Association of California and Mu Phi Epsilon, serving as President of the Mu Phi Epsilon Foundation. As a performer she specializes in recitals, chamber music and contemporary scores. As a private studio teacher she has developed several methods to spark her students’ interest in and knowledge of the wide interpretive possibilities any piece of musical literature offers. Her workshop entitled “Do You Hear What I Hear” will use recordings to illustrate a professional performance of repertoire that the student also has studied. Comparing recordings and the live performance offers the opportunity to discuss a wide range of style, period authenticity, diction, tonal quality, interpretation and communication issues. While geared to the Vocal Studio, the principles could be used with any musical discipline. Handouts will focus on available recordings for commonly taught repertoire.

“Street Angel Diaries” by Mary Lou Newmark combines original live and recorded music, poetry, first hand accounts, dance, storytelling, paintings by Robert M. Fisher, and photographs by Gary F. Clark into an unique theatrical experience of homelessness awareness. This video includes performance footage from the theatrical premiere in Pasadena, California, produced by Zebulon Projects and directed by Darin Anthony. Mary Lou Newmark is an electric violinist, composer and poet and a member of the Los Angeles Alumni Chapter of Mu Phi Epsilon. www.greenangelmusic.com/

Opera Theatre of Saint Louis' Young Artists Programs Erie Mills, renowned soprano and OTSL English Diction Specialist and Allison Felter, OTSL director of education. Learn the secrets of success behind the internationally acclaimed Opera Theatre of Saint Louis' young artist programs which identify, train and advance America's best young singing talent through the Gerdine Young Artists Program and the national award-winning Artists-in-Training program for high school singers. Opera Theater of Saint Louis OTSL Young Artists Program
Pianists Blas Gonzalez and Ya-Ting Liou present their Pangea Project, a reflection on music and cultural identity, expressed through the performance of works for piano by composers from Eastern and Western Europe, North and South America, the Middle East, Asia and Oceania. Blas González is a doctoral candidate at University of Missouri-Kansas City and holds degrees from Ohio University and Conservatory of Music “Carlos Lopez Buchardo” in Argentina. Ya-Ting Liou, Taiwanese pianist, is a full-scholarship student in DMA piano performance program at the Conservatory of Music of the University of Missouri – Kansas City. Her performances include appearances at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the State of the Art at the State Department in Washington D.C., St. Louis Artist Presentation Society, Yamaha Hall in New York, and concert halls in Canada, New Zealand, Argentina, and Taiwan.
	Karen Madsen, pianist and organist is former president of the Ann Arbor, Michigan Chapter. She has taught private piano for more than 35 years.She and Anne Ormand have enjoyed making music together for several years, both as a duo and also in combination with other Mu Phis.
	Anne Ormand, a graduate of the University of Michigan with a Bachelor's degree in music, spent most of her professional life teaching high school Spanish. Upon retirement she resumed her music activities on clarinet, piano, and recorder, and joined the Mu Phi Epsilon Ann Arbor Alumni Chapter, affiliated with the Gamma chapter at the University of Michigan. Anne plays locally with the Ypsilanti Symphony, the Ann Arbor and Dexter Community Bands, a Contra dance band, an English Country Dance band, the Orion Wind Ensemble, and various other musicians in chamber music groups. She is thrilled to participate in Chamber Music weeks at Interlochen, Michigan, and in Italy in Tuscany and on the islands of Procida and Ischia.
	Angelique A. Perretta, soprano, is a Senior Voice Performance major at UNF. Ms. Perretta most recently appeared as The Mother in UNF Opera Ensemble’s productions of Gian Carlo Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors. She has also been seen as Dido and Second Witch in Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas and is scheduled to perform the title role in Puccini’s Suor Angelica with the UNF Opera Ensemble in October of this year. Angelique has been involved in theatre and music throughout Jacksonville since the age of 12. She has portrayed such roles as Helen O’Toole in Fred Carmichael’s farce Exit the Body, and Piti-Sing in Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado. Her oratorio works include Rutter’s Requiem, Bach’s St. Matthew’s Passion, Mendelssohn’s Elijah and Faure’s Requiem. Angelique is a student of Dr. Krzysztof Biernacki. She has participated in Master classes with renowned author and pedagogue Richard Miller of Oberlin Conservatory, Opera Star Sherrill Milnes, as well as former Orlando Lyric Opera Director Robert Swedberg.
	Opera singer, concert artist and teacher Anne Elise Richie is known for her rich, mezzo-soprano voice. A Metropolitan Opera District Winner, Ms. Richie has studied and toured Italy, France and Germany. She has appeared in a variety of productions including The Marriage of Figaro, The Magic Flute, Pirates of Penzance and 1776. Ms. Richie has performed with the Birmingham Symphony, Milwaukee Catholic Symphony, the University of Chicago and Winston-Salem/ Piedmont Triad Orchestras and performed four seasons with the New York City Opera Chorus. Most recently Ms. Richie was Visiting Professor of Voice at University of North Florida and Head of Vocal Studies at Jacksonville's prestigious Douglas Anderson School of the Arts. www.classicalsinger.net/annerichie
Tuesday Rambo-McCall is a native of Detroit, Michigan. She received her Bachelor of Music in vocal performance from Southern University and Master of Music in vocal performance from Southeastern Louisiana University. Her roles include Mozart’s Pamina and Susanna; Verdi’s Gilda and her current favorite, Lucy, from Menotti’s The Telephone. Tuesday has performed in numerous oratorios and recitals around the Detroit Metro area including performances with the Cathedral Chorus of the Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament, Vox Humana Chamber Choir and with the Michigan Sinfonietta. She currently maintains a private voice and piano studio and is an Adjunct Professor at Wayne State University and Oakland Community College. Dr. Rebecca Sorley holds the position of Associate Professor of Music at the University of Indianapolis where she is Director of Educational Outreach and teaches Piano, Class Piano, Collaborative Piano, Piano Ensemble and Piano Pedagogy. In 2007, she performed and was a masterclass clinician for the National Collegiate Honors Conference in Denver, Colorado. Sorley presented "Young Composers," a lecture-recital in which she portrayed prodigies Mozart and Amy Beach, for the 2007 College Music Society national conference in Salt Lake City. Dr. Sorley enjoys exploring piano repertoire of women composers and recently performed lecture recitals in Northern California and San Juan, Puerto Rico featuring music of Fanny Mendelssohn and Judith Lang Zaimont. Rebecca has also given lecture recitals of music of 20th century American women composers at the Athena Conference at Murray State University and at the College Music Society conference at Ball State University. She has worked as an orchestral keyboardist with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, and the Evansville Philharmonic. Dr. Sorley also serves as organist at St. John's United Church of Christ in Indianapolis. Pianist, Paul Verona has appeared as soloist with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, the Manhattan Contemporary Ensemble, the Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra, and the Sheboygan Symphony Orchestra. He has performed in recital in Bologna, Italy; Salzburg, Austria; Holland and Germany, including the Artists Recital Series in Sala Bossi at the Bologna Conservatory. His performances throughout the United States have included the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Donnell Library Series, Steinway Hall, Bruno Walter Auditorium at Lincoln Center, St. Paul's Chapel- Trinity Church concert series, the Chopin Society in Minneapolis, the Milwaukee Art Museum and at Town Hall. For the past 9 years, Mr. Verona has performed extensively for New York Alumni Chapter of Mu Phi Epsilon and was presented in recital as their Distinguished Artist in 2003. Mr. Verona has been heard on radio and television stations in Washington D.C., in New York City on WQXR, Chicago, Milwaukee, Salt Lake City, as well as on the VARA radio station in Amsterdam and RAI for Italian television and radio in Italy and in the United States. Mr. Verona is a scholar in Spanish music, particularly in his pioneering work on the Iberia Suite of Isaac Albéniz, which he will be recording in 2008.
Dr. Robert W. Tudor serves as Director of Music Theatre and Opera and chair of the Division of Music at Jacksonville University. His multifaceted career has included work as a performer, teacher, and administrator. Rob has performed opera, musical theatre, cabaret, and concert works throughout the United States. Roles have included Papageno in The Magic Flute, The Lecturer in Dominick Argento’s monodramatic opera A Waterbird Talk, Freddy in My Fair Lady, and Murdoch in Titanic – A New Musical. Other productions include Follies, Iolanthe, The Fantastics, and Gianni Schicchi. Concert works include the Requiems of Fauré and Duruflé, Carl Orff's Carmina Burana, Schubert's Mass in G, Saint-Saens’s Christmas Oratorio. Rob received a Doctorate in Musical Arts in Voice Performance from the University of Maryland, College Park, Master of Music from the University of Miami, and a Bachelor of Music degree from Stetson University. Awards include a 2003 Individual Artist Award from the Maryland State Arts Council, and 2004 Artist of the Year from Opera Theatre of Northern Virginia. Dr. Tudor brings his expertise as an arts administrator to the "Succeeding in Muic" panel at the convention. Melissa Park Voshell is a native of Jacksonville, FL. She has a Master of Music degree in Flute Performance from the Peabody Conservatory of Music of the Johns Hopkins University and a Bachelors Degree in Flute Performance from Jacksonville University. She is a freelance musician in the Jacksonville and South Georgia areas and maintains a private home studio. She is currently an Adjunct Professor of Music and Humanities at Florida Community College at Jacksonville and Adjunct Professor of Flute at Jacksonville University. She is the founder and member of the Arioso Flute Quartet which made its debut in 2005. Her most recent collaboration has been with pianist, Elizabeth Kiebler.
	Pianist Lei Weng has performed throughout North America and Asia in such prestigious venues as Carnegie Hall, Steinway Hall in New York, the Phillips Collections in Washington D.C., Meany Hall in Seattle, Ozawa Hall in Tanglewood, Washington National Library in Chicago, Beijing Music Hall, Banff Center in Canada. He has performed as a soloist with orchestras of Cincinnati, Seattle, Indiana, Fort Worth, Shreveport, as well as China National Symphony and Chorus, Beijing Symphony and Tianjin Symphony. Mr. Weng has collaborated with such world-renowned musicians as James Levine, Emanuel Ax, Cho-liang Lin, Down Upshaw, Phyllis Curtin, and members from the symphony orchestras of Boston, Cincinnati, Seattle, Sydney, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Denver and Indianapolis. Mr. Weng is an Assistant Professor of Piano Performance at the University of Northern Colorado, where he teaches talented students from the US, Asia and Europe. www.arts.unco.edu/pva/faculty/bios/weng.html
	"I've got rhythm, I've got music, I've got Mu Phi, who could ask for anything more?" Pianist Signe Zale will present a workshop exploring the use of rhythm in Aaron Copland's Piano Variations. The presentation will include a performance of this important American 20th century composition for solo piano. A graduate of the Eastman School of Music with degrees in performance and pedagogy, Signe is a long-time adjudicator for the National Guild of Piano Teachers. She is a member of the Rochester Alumni and EGL1 District Director.