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Julie Lawson
Artistic Director,
Choral Department,
Performing Arts Coordinator
e-mail: choirfreak1@hotmail.com
Julie Lawson is an accomplished pianist who earned her
masters degree in piano performance from Cal State Northridge.
She accompanied the Cal Arts Chorus and Voices of the Canyons for five years before becoming the choral director at College of
the Canyons in the Spring of 1996. Since the Fall of 1997, Ms.
Lawson has added three more choirs to her program, offering something for
everyone's musical tastes. In the Fall of 1997, she formed the College
of the Canyons Chamber Singers, and in the Fall of 1998, she started Les
Chanteuses, her women's choir. Just Jazz was added in the Fall of
2002. Besides conducting the four choirs, she also teaches music
theory, accompanies the voice classes at College of the Canyons and
is the Performing Arts Coordinator. She has served as the president
of the Santa Clarita Choral Educators Association for the past two years.
Ms. Lawson has served as an Assistant
Conductor for the First Presbyterian Church in Newhall. She
has worked extensively with Dr. Nick Strimple, a well-respected choral
conductor and composer in the Los Angeles area. She is the
Associate Director of the Choral Society of Southern California; and
toured through England and the Netherlands with the group in the summer of
1999. Her weekends are devoted to being the full-time organist at
Our Lady of Perpetual Help.
Ms. Lawson has attended master classes
in choral conducting with Rodney Eichenberger, Professor of Music at Florida
State University, and with Michael Shani, conductor of the Tel Aviv Chamber
Choir.
