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2025

Annual Conference Details

Conference 
February 6th-8th, 2025

Morgantown Marriott at Waterfront Place

2 Waterfront Place

Morgantown, WV 26501

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Concert

February 8th, 2025 at 1:00pm

WVU Canady Creative Arts Center

1436 Evansdale Dr

Morgantown, WV 26506

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Honor Choir Details

Three state-wide choirs will participate in the conference: The 7-9 All State Choir is for children in grades 7-9; the High School All State Chamber Choir for 10-12 graders; and the Collegiate Honor Choir for college students.

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The 2025 All-State Honor Choir Conductors are...
Jr. High/Middle School: Mrs. Mary Biddlecombe
High School: Mr. Greg Gilpin
​Collegiate: Dr. Daniel Gordon

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Click on each Honor Choir below for more details!

Repertoire

Repertoire

Middle School

O Praise the Mighty Lord - Handel arr. Liebergen https://beta.jwpepper.com/o-praise-the-mighty-lord-1877455-833228/p

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Vuela - Carlos Cordero https://www.jwpepper.com/Vuela/11575410.item


Connected - Brian Tate https://www.jwpepper.com/Connected/10602876.item


The Little Creek - Matt Carlson https://www.jwpepper.com/The-Little-Creek/11394918.item


When the Trumpet Sounds - Andre Thomas https://www.jwpepper.com/When-the-Trumpet-Sounds/1570563.item

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High School 

Dies Irae - Ryan Main - ryanmaine.com

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O Shenandoah - Greg Gilpin - Shawnee Press

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Voice Dance III - Greg Jasperse - Shawnee Press

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Ain'-A That Good News - William L. Dawson - Neil Kjos Music

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Set Me As a Seal - Rene Clausen - Shawnee Press

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I Loved You - Jay Rouse - Shawnee Press

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Click to purchase

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Collegiate

Lament for Pasiphae (No. 1 from “Mid-Winter Songs”), Morton Lauridsen https://beta.jwpepper.com/lament-for-pasiphae-3299761-1211910/p


Abendlied - Josef Rheinberger https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/6/6b/Ws-rhei-abe.pdf


Non Nobis Domine - Rosephanye Powell https://beta.jwpepper.com/non-nobis-domine-3297026-1166318/p


Evocation (Mon-Nee-Joh), Hye-Young Cho https://www.jwpepper.com/Evocation/11556408.item


The Road Home - Stephen Paulus https://www.jwpepper.com/The-Road-Home/8069226.item

2025 Conductor: Mrs. Mary Biddlecomb

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Mary Biddlecombe is the Director of the Blair Academy at Vanderbilt encompassing nearly 700 families in Middle Tennessee who study at the precollegiate arm of the Blair School. She is also the Artistic Director of the Vanderbilt Youth Choirs and teaches courses in Music Education and Choral Studies at Vanderbilt.

Choirs under Biddlecombe’s leadership have performed with the Nashville Symphony on several major projects including Britten’s War Requiem, Orff’s Carmina Burana, Adams’ On the Transmigration of Souls, several Mahler symphonies, Bernstein’s Kadish and others. Another favorite is providing the choral parts for the movie Home Alone each December. Choirs have traveled to Ireland, Costa Rica, Budapest, Prague and in summer 2024, Italy, performing the music of Elaine Hagenberg.

 

Biddlecombe is in demand as a clinician all over the country and conducting all state choirs in Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, New Jersey and Kentucky. She also conducted the SWACDA Children’s Choir in 2024, co-conducted the Southern Region ACDA UCTB Honor Choir and has conducted state-wide ACDA Honor Choirs in South Carolina, North Carolina, New York and co-conducted the Voices United Festival in Virginia.

Biddlecombe is a native of Syracuse, NY and hold a Masters of Music in Choral Conducting from the Florida State University, and a Bachelors of Music Education from the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam. Mary makes her home in Nashville with her husband, Dr. Tucker Biddlecombe, Director of Choral Activities at Vanderbilt and Director of the Nashville Symphony Chorus.

MS Conductor

2025 Conductor: Mr. Greg Gilpin

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​Greg Gilpin is a celebrated ASCAP award-winning choral composer and arranger and a highly respected choral conductor. He is known throughout the United States leading performances at New York City’s iconic Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center as well as Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee. His international appearances include the Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Australia, Royal Festival Hall in London, England and Harpa Concert Hall in Reykjavik, Iceland.  

In addition to composing and conducting, Mr. Gilpin has worked as a singer for the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra as well as background singer for Grammy award-winner, Sandi Patty and other highly acclaimed artists.  He has worked extensively in the recording industry as a singer, pianist, arranger and producer with projects from Disney to commercial jingles.

In 2021, Mr. Gilpin wrote the score for the award-winning short film, “Rosie’s Rescue” and was awarded “Best Score” for this same movie.  He also teamed up with renowned opera singer, Angela Brown, and created the world premiere of the thrilling arrangement of “What Child is This?”, debuted by Ms. Brown and the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir.

Mr. Gilpin is a proud member of ACDA, NAfME, SAG-AFTRA, and is a Life Loyal Member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia and continues his position as Editor and Director of Educational Choral Publications for Shawnee Press.

HS Conductor

2025 Conductor: Dr. Daniel Gordon

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Since 2005, Dr. Daniel Gordon has served as Director of Choral Activities and Professor of Music at Southeastern University where he conducts the Concert Choir, Women’s Choir, and Chamber Choir. His personal commitment to the proliferation of music programs in schools, communities, and churches across America spans nearly 50 years. His previous post was Artistic Director for Crane Chorus and the Chamber Choir at the Crane School of Music, SUNY Potsdam, where he also served for five years as Chair of Music Education and Professor of Music Education.  Concurrent with that post, Dr. Gordon served as the Artistic Director of the Ottawa Choral Society where he prepared choirs for Pinchas Zukerman, Joel Revzen, Duain Wolfe, and Franz-Paul Decker.  
Dr. Gordon’s outstanding choral ensembles have presented Arthur Honegger’s King David, Mozart’s Coronation Mass in C Major, K. 317, William Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Imperial Symphony Orchestra. These choirs have also performed a diverse repertoire that has included guest appearances with The Chieftains, Mark Lowry, and professional folk artists, John Kirk and Trish Miller.  

Dr. Gordon recently served as a Repertoire & Resource Chair for the American Choral Directors Association Southern Region. He presented a symposium on rehearsing church choirs and coordinated the ecumenical service for their 2022 ACDA conference in Raleigh, NC. He is an active member of ACDA and is the faculty advisor for Southeastern University’s chapter of the National Association for Music Education. 
His long career as a professional conductor includes concerts with the National Arts Centre Orchestra and the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra in Canada’s capitol city and premiere performances of Lauridsen’s Lux Aeterna with the English Chamber Orchestra and the Bath Philharmonia. He is also a recipient of a State University of New York Research Award for his work on “Teach Music in New York City”, a congressionally funded project that was designed to bring qualified music teachers into the lives of children populating the nation’s largest public school system. Dr. Gordon conducted the Coronation Mass in Carnegie Hall this past April and is schedule to conduct the Lauridsen, Lux Aeterna in April of 2026.  
Dr. Gordon was recently selected by Southeastern University’s Deans’ Committee to receive the Excellence in Advising Award for the university and the LINK Program Inclusive Excellence Award. He is dedicated to his wife, singer/actress Mary Grace Gordon and their two sons, David Gordon, a senior architect with Red Hat® and actor Britt Michael Gordon, professional actor and member of Actor’s Equity Association.  

Col. Conductor
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