Judy Bowers
All State Junior Chorus
Judy Bowers, Professor of Choral Music Education at
Florida
State
University,
teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in choral music and music education,
as well as conducting the Women’s Glee Club, a performing group that also
provides Adopt-A-Choir and Study-Buddy partnerships with area secondary public
school choirs. She has received a University Award for Excellence in Teaching
at FSU.
As a choral educator, she is an
active conductor of all-state and honor choirs across the
United States,
and in 2005 was awarded the Wayne Hugoboom Distinguished Service Award from the
Florida ACDA Chapter. Bowers frequently presents workshops and clinics for
teachers, and her research interests include developmental choral groups, the
adolescent voice change, learning partnerships, and voice use of music teachers
and students. She has published in the Journal
of Research in Music Education and the Bulletin
for the Council of Research in Music Education, was a contributing author
to the MENC publication Music at the Middle
School Level, as well as contributing a chapter to two GIA
publications: The School Choral Program: Philosophy, Planning, Organizing, and Teaching, by Holt and Jordan,
and Teaching Music Through Performance
(Middle School), by Abrahams and
Head. Bowers was co-editor of another MENC publication, Strategies for Teaching Elementary and Middle-Level Choir.
Professor Bowers holds music
degrees from
Louisiana
State
University
(Ph.D.) and Texas Tech University (B.M.E.). From 1990-2000, she led the Capital
Children’s Choir program at FSU and more recently has developed a community
service partnership with an urban middle school. Since 2000, this collaboration
has provided additional music ensembles for the middle school students (a jazz
band, steel drum ensembles, and a world music choir) while also enriching the
teacher preparation experiences for Florida State University students.
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