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The Virginia Beach Chorale's Members
Dr. Don Krudop, Director
Dr. Don Krudop is the Director of Choral Music Education at the Visual & Performing Arts Academy at Salem High School in Virginia Beach, VA. He also serves as the Lead Teacher for the Music Departments of both the Academy & Salem High School. Don conducts the elite academy choir Vox Harmonia, the select academy treble choir Cantaré, & the mixed voice Academy Choral Ensemble, teaches Conducting & Score Study classes, leads the Senior Vocal Music Seminar, and is Vocal Instructor for the Senior Production Project. Prior to moving into his current position at the Academy, he served as the Salem HS Choral Director from 1989-2007. He has been with Virginia Beach City Public Schools since 1975 and has taught at all levels within the system. In addition, he has served as the music director for several Hampton Roads churches, as well as local Barbershop and Sweet Adelines choruses, and sang tenor in the Southern Division champion and International quarter-finalist barbershop quartet, Old Dominion Line.
Don holds the Doctor of Musical Arts in Music Education, Master of Music in Conducting, and Bachelor of Music Education degrees from Shenandoah University in Winchester, Virginia. He continued his educational experience earning the Master of Educational Leadership degree from Regent University in Virginia Beach. While at Shenandoah, he studied conducting with Grammy award winner Robert Shafer and Dr. David Stutzenberger. He has also completed post-graduate study at Westminster Choir College and the George Washington University, has sung under the direction of Aaron Copland and Weston Noble, worked with Eph Ely, Rodney Eichenberger & Jing Ling-Tam, and was a participant in the Robert Shaw Carnegie Hall Choral Workshop.
Don was named Virginia's 2002-2003 "Music Educator of the Year" by the Virginia Music Educators Association. He was also selected as Salem High School's 2001-2002 "Teacher of the Year," and was the 2000 recipient of the Shenandoah University "Distinguished Alumni Award" for outstanding career achievement. He has been recognized in Who's Who Among America's Teachers, Marquis' Who's Who in American Education, and Marquis' Who's Who in America. He is a Past President of the Virginia Choral Directors Association and has served as the Virginia ACDA "Repertoire and Standards" chair for high school choirs, choral representative on the editorial board of "VMEA Notes," was a national chorus mentor for Music Educators National Conference (MENC), and is well known as an adjudicator and clinician throughout the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast. In addition, he has served as guest conductor for All-City, All-County, and All-District Choruses (elementary, middle, and high school level) as well as collegiate level festivals throughout Virginia. He has presented sessions on choral literature, conducting, and copyright law at music conferences in Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Maryland.
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Elizabeth Edler, Assistant Director
Elizabeth Edler is a graduate of Old Dominion University with a degree in music where she studied with Dr. Charles Vogan and Eliot Breneiser. She has also has done graduate studies at Appalachian State University, Peabody Conservatory of Music Choral Director's Workshop, Robert Shaw Choral Workshop at Westminster Choir College, Berkshire Choral Institute in Sheffield MA and Canterbury, England, University of Richmond, Radford University, Richmond Professional Institute Choral Director's Workshop, Lebanon Valley College and Virginia Wesleyan College. She received her Master’s of Music Education from Old Dominion University where she was assistant director of the concert choir with Dr. Nancy Klein.
In addition to teaching piano, she has taught music at Norfolk Christian School and was Minister of Music at Tabernacle Church where she directed the children and adult choirs, the bell choir, worked with the instrumentalist and was organist. She presently is organist and Director of Music at St. James Episcopal Church.
She is a member of the American Federation of Music Clubs, the Music Teachers National Association, the American Guild of Organist, the Virginia Music Educators Association, the American Choral Directors Association and the American Guild of English Handbell Ringers.
Jeanette Winsor, Accompanist
Jeanette Winsor studied piano with Clifford Herzer, Lois Rova Ozanich, and Shirley Harrison. She received a Bachelor of Music degree cum laude from Heidelberg College and a Master of Music degree in piano performance from Kent State University. She has occasionally coached with Thomas Schumacher. She teaches piano in her studio in Virginia Beach, music appreciation, theory and piano at Tidewater Community College, accompanies the Virginia Beach Chorale, and serves as an adjudicator for the National Guild of Piano Teachers.
She frequently appears as a soloist and lecturer. Lecture topics include Why Piano Teachers Should Practice, Music by Clementi for You and Your Students, How to Deal with the ADHD and LD Student in the Private Studio, and Music by Women Composers for You and Your Students. She is also the pianist for the Hardwick Chamber Ensemble.
Jeanette holds National and State Professional Teaching Certificates from MTNA and VMTA as well as certification through the American College of Musicians. Jeanette is listed in the 21st edition of Who's Who of American Women. She is the immediate past MTNA Southern Division Competitions Chair and past president of the Tidewater Music Teachers Forum and the Virginia Music Teachers Association. Her articles on piano pedagogy have been published by Piano Guild Notes. Recent performances include the College Music Society/NACUSA National Conference in Kansas City, MO, Salon Concert Series in Princeton, NJ, NACUSA concerts in Philadelphia, New York City and throughout Virginia, and soloist with the Virginia Beach Symphony.