D. Jason Bishop is Director of Choral Activities and Barbara S. Christie '76 Director of The Laurentian Singers at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York. He is the former Artistic Director of the world-renowned, Grammy award-winning Texas Boys Choir, and previously served as Director of Music & Worship at Christ United Methodist Church in Plano, Texas; Director of Choral & Vocal Studies & Chair of the Music Department at Drew University; Founder & Artistic Director of the Young People's Chorus of Erie; and Music Director of the Erie Philharmonic Chorus. Dr. Bishop is an active guest conductor and clinician and has served the American Choral Directors Association in several roles, including as National Repertoire & Resources Chair for Student Activities. His compositions, orchestrations, and arrangements are published by Hal Leonard, Colla Voce, and NoteNova, and self-published by Tully Road Music.

CHOROSYNTHESIS SINGERS, a state-of-the-art project-based ensemble, exists to collaborate with professional-level musicians and composers in the creation and performance of music that connects the art with community. As part of the greater vision of Chorosynthesis, the ensemble serves as a practical example of applying the ideals of the organization: collaboration, innovation, sustainability, and excellence. 

Joel Thompson (b.1988) is an Atlanta-based composer, conductor, pianist, and educator, best known for the choral work, Seven Last Words of the Unarmed, which was premiered November 2015 by the University of Michigan Men’s Glee Club and Dr. Eugene Rogers and won the 2018 American Prize for Choral Composition. His pieces have been performed by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra, Atlanta Master Chorale, Los Angeles Master Chorale, EXIGENCE, and the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus. Currently a student at the Yale School of Music, Thompson was also a 2017 post-graduate fellow in Arizona State University’s Ensemble Lab/Projecting All Voices Initiative and a composition fellow at the 2017 Aspen Music Festival and School, where he studied with composers Stephen Hartke and Christopher Theofanidis and won the 2017 Hermitage Prize. Thompson taught at Holy Innocents’ Episcopal School in Atlanta 2015-2017, and also served as Director of Choral Studies and Assistant Professor of Music at Andrew College 2013-2015. Thompson is a proud Emory alum, graduating with a B.A. in Music in 2010, and an M.M. in Choral Conducting in 2013.

Karen P. Thomas, composer and conductor, is the Artistic Director and Conductor of the Seattle Pro Musica. Her compositions are performed and broadcast throughout the world, by groups such as The Hilliard Ensemble and the Vocal Consort of Brussels. Her works are published by Lucis Music and Santa Barbara Music Publishing, and have been featured at numerous ACDA and AGO conferences.

A prize-winning composer, she has received grants from the NEA, The American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and Meet the Composer, among numerous others.

As a conductor, Ms. Thomas has produced ten critically-acclaimed CDs, and received the Margaret Hillis Award for Choral Excellence and the ASCAP-Chorus America Award. She has appeared as guest conductor at international festivals in Europe and North America, and the NPR radio show Saint Paul Sunday. She received the 2012 Outstanding Choral Director Award for Washington State, and currently serves on the boards of Chorus America, the Seattle Music Commission, the American Choral Directors Association (NW Division), and the Greater Seattle Choral Consortium.

Mark Mummert is Cantor at Trinity Lutheran Church, Worcester, Massachusetts, where he leads congregational worship, conducts the Trinity Choir and Trinity Choristers, and is Artistic Director of the Music at Trinity series. He is also the Artistic Director of Diamonds From The Dust, a professional vocal ensemble. He was the 2015 Distinguished Visiting Cantor at the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg Mark also served as Director of Worship at Christ the King Lutheran Church, Houston, Texas (2008-2015)and Seminary Musician at the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia (1990-2008). He is a composer of the first musical setting of Holy Communion in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's (ELCA) core worship resource, Evangelical Lutheran Worship. He served as editor of Psalm Settings for the Church Year (Augsburg Fortress, 2008) and Music Sourcebook for Lent and the Three Days (Augsburg Fortress, 2010). He was principal musician for the 2005 National Convention of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada, the 2007 ELCA Churchwide Assembly and Worship Jubilee, and visiting scholar for Emory University's Candler School of Theology's "The Singing Church" Project in 2012.

Award winning composer, songwriter and conductor.

With a sweet, graceful sound, agility for days, and equal interest in solo and choral work, Jessica is a rising coloratura soprano specializing in music from the Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, and 21st century periods. A graduate of the University of Notre Dame Sacred Music masters program, she is a full-time Director of Music and Liturgy at Christ the King Catholic Church in South Bend, IN, as well as a licensed and practicing music educator, conductor, composer, and instrumentalist.

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