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Meet the Instructors Madeline McCauley - Program Manager/Instructor As an astounding Sacred and Classical musician, Madeline McCauley brings both musical education and business management. Madeline McCauley’s choral specialization has been reflected at its best as she performed for five years in the Chorus Austin’s Austin Civic Chorus, a professionally-auditioned chorus under the leadership of world-renowned conductor Dr. David Stevens. She performed Classical pieces in English, German, Latin, and Greek languages. As First Soprano, sounds of music filled the air during performances such as of Bach: Mass in B Minor and St. Matthew’s Passion; Brahms’ German Requiem; Beethoven’s C Major Mass; and Magnificat in D Major. She has a concurrent appointment as Minister of Music at Zion Rest Baptist Church.
Madeline McCauley brings college studies
from the University of Texas and Austin
Community College. As a vocal instructor
and instrumentalist in piano and violin,
she brings Hymn tradition, anthem choral
tradition; original spiritual tradition;
jubilee spiritual tradition; lined hymn
tradition; devotional hymn tradition
(“call and response”); traditional,
modern, Contemporary Christian; modern
sacred music; Contemporary and
traditional Gospel Music; and Classical.
She has in her repertoire 25 original
compositions as composer. Dr. Rachael McInturff - Manager of Digital Media & Technology/Instructor As a composer, Dr. Rachel McInturff specializes in the design and creation of musical sounds and audio sculptures, utilizing a wide variety of technologies. Computers and synthesizers, samplers, digital recorders and software are the tools used to create an imaginative sound world in her works, one in which everyday sounds can be as much a part of the musical landscape as traditional instruments. These pieces have been played in forums ranging from concerts to radio, installations to lecture presentations, around the US and abroad. She has had numerous performances in Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Brazil, the UK and Hong Kong and has been honored with inclusion on the prestigious CD series produced by the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (Volumes 6 & 8).
Dr. McInturff holds degrees from the Conservatory of Music,
University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) (Bachelors and Masters
in Composition) and has completed a Doctor of Musical Arts
degree in Composition from the University of Texas at Austin.
She has taught university-level courses in electroacoustic
composition at UMKC, as well as UT, from 1988-1999. She has a
concurrent dual appointment as the Director of Music Technology
for the Armstrong Community Music School of Austin Lyric Opera,
holding the latter position since 2000. In that position, she
teaches audio engineering, electronic and acoustic composition,
orchestration, music theory, ear training and sight-singing to
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