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Dr. Brandon Williams<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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\u00a0 Doctor Brandon Williams is the Director of Choral Activities and Choral Music Education at Rutgers Mason Gross, The State University of New Jersey. He conducts the Rutgers Kirkpatrick Choir and teaches a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses related to choral music education. Dr. Williams also appears internationally as a guest conductor, clinician, and presenter all over the state. Dr. Williams amassed a decade of middle and high school teaching experience in St. Louis, Missouri, where he also served on the voice faculty at Maryville University and as a conductor with the St. Louis Symphony IN UNISON Chorus and the St. Louis Children\u2019s Choirs. He Previously Conducted Rutgers Voorhees choir an all Treble choir here at Rutgers as well and received invitations to perform at the 2010 and 2013 Missouri Music Educators Association conventions, and his middle school ensemble was featured on GIA\u2019s DVD entitled \u201cHow to Make a Good Choir Sound Great!\u201d Dr. Williams has been awarded the 2009 Missouri Choral Directors Association Prelude Award for excellence in choral music, an Outstanding Teacher Award from the University of Missouri-Columbia Honors College, and the 2020-21 Rutgers Provost\u2019s Award for Excellence in Teaching Innovations.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0 Dr. Williams holds degrees from Western Illinois University, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and Michigan State University. He also completed an Artist Teacher Diploma from the Choral Music Experience\u2013Institute for Choral Teacher Education. In addition to his articles in the Choral Journal and the Music Educators Journal, Dr. Williams is the editor of Choral Reflections\u2014a collection of interviews with thirty leading conductor-teachers. He has numerous choral compositions and arrangements published with Hal Leonard, G. Schirmer, Mark Foster, and many more counting. Dr. Williams is a member of the American Choral Directors Association, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, and the National Association for Music Education.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Contact Information<\/strong><\/em>
\n\u2709 bwilliams@mgsa.rutgers.edu<\/a>
\n\ud83d\udd7e (848) 932-1347
\nArt History 204<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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