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Dr. Regina Carlow, Music Director, UNM Children’s Chorus
Regina Carlow, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of music education at the University of New Mexico. She holds degrees from the University of Maryland, College Park, The Catholic University of America, and Westminster Choir College in the area of Music Education with an emphasis in Choral Conducting. Prior to her appointment at the University of New Mexico, she was artistic director of the Capitol Hill Youth Chorus in Washington DC, the music director of the Choral Arts Society of Frederick and held positions at the Anne Arundel Community College, the Frederick County Community College and for 20 years was a general and choral music teacher for Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland. She is the founding director of the UNM Children’s Chorus.
Dr. Carlow’s research and teaching interests include the study of the musical experiences of immigrant students, integrating special needs and culturally diverse students into music classrooms in the U.S. and creating service learning programs for pre-service music teachers. She has published in the Maryland Music Educators Journal and Spotlight on Teaching Chorus, the Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, and is a contributing author in "Teaching Music in Urban Schools." Dr. Carlow has presented workshops on The Child Voice, Kodály Methodology, Healthy Choral Warm-ups for Adolescents, Using Jazz Chants with ESL Students and Music for Preschool Children. She has been a choral clinician and festival adjudicator in New Mexico, Washington D.C., Maryland and Virginia.
Julia Church Hoffman, Conductor UNM Children’s Intermediate Chorus
Julia Church Hoffman is conductor of the UNM Children's Intermediate Chorus. She is a music education instructor in the UNM Music Department and mentor teacher for the UNM Music Prep School. Julia grew up in the Albuquerque Public Schools where she graduated from Sandia High School. She began her teaching career twenty-five years ago in Winslow, Arizona, teaching sixth grade in an elementary school. Since then she has taught middle school, elementary general music, early childhood music, and children's choirs in private, public and parochial schools around Albuquerque. Julia holds a Master of Music degree with an emphasis in Music Education from the University of New Mexico and a Bachelor's degree from The College of Wooster. She is a licensed K-8 teacher in the State of New Mexico, has completed Orff-Schulwerk levels I and II, as well as one level of training at the UNM Kodaly Institute. She also sings with Quintessence, Choral Artists of the Southwest and is the mother of two sons, Devon, 21, and Jonah, 12.