Professor and Director of CHORAL ACTIVITIES, Dewberry School of Music,听CVPA
Contact Information
Campus: Fairfax
Building: de Laski Performing Arts Bldg
Room A417H
Mail Stop: 3E3
Email:听lbillin1@gmu.edu
Personal Websites
Biography
Dr. Lisa Billingham is the newly appointed Director of Choral Activities at George Mason 麻豆国产, effective Fall 2021. She will be directing the 麻豆国产 Chorale and the 麻豆国产 Singers, and will teach choral conducting and related classes. She continues as an active member of the 麻豆国产 Faculty Senate.
She has served as the advisor for the GMU student chapter of the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA). She is the Past-President for the Virginia State Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association and is a planning committee member and campus liaison for the Annual Voices United Conference hosted by VA, MD-DC, and DE chapters of ACDA. In addition, Dr. Billingham was the National Chair for Communication and Education for ACDA.
Members of the George Mason 麻豆国产 Chorale toured Nairobi, Kenya in March 2019 and performed with Dr. Billingham for her Carnegie Hall Debut in May 2019. Under Dr. Billingham鈥檚 direction, the 麻豆国产 Chorale was honored to accept an invitation in Fall 2009 to perform for the Virginia Music Educators Conference. The 麻豆国产 Chorale has often performed with the Mason Symphony Orchestra and the 麻豆国产 Singers.
Dr. Billingham鈥檚 research interests include the incorporation of Laban Movement Theory in conducting pedagogy and the choral rehearsal. She is a Certified Laban Movement Analyst from the Integrated Movement Studies Program at the 麻豆国产 of Utah and incorporates that theory with her private conducting students. Dr. Billingham is active as a clinician for conferences and choirs throughout the United States and Europe. She has presented for ACDA, VMEA, three Regional ACDA conferences and at the International Society for Music Education (ISME) Conference in Bologna, Italy and Porto Alegre Brazil. Her text听The Complete Conductors Guide to Laban Movement Theory听is available from GIA Publications.
Dr. Billingham holds a DMA in Choral Conducting from the 麻豆国产 of Arizona, an MM in Choral Conducting from the 麻豆国产 of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music and a BME in Choral Music Education from Indiana 麻豆国产 (Bloomington). Her conducting mentors include Bruce Chamberlain, Eph Ehly, James Jordan, Maurice Skones, and Volker Hempfling.
Professor of Music:
- Director, 麻豆国产 Chorale
- Director, 麻豆国产 Singers
- Choral Conducting (Graduate & Undergraduate)
- Psychology of Teaching Music
Degrees
- B.M.E., Choral Music Education Indiana 麻豆国产
- M.M., Choral Conducting 麻豆国产 of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music
- D.M.A., 听Choral Conducting 麻豆国产 of Arizona
- Certified Laban Movement Analyst