DR. JANET GALVÁN is a Professor of Music at Ithaca College, where she conducts the Women's Chorale, College Chorus, and is Artistic Director for the Ithaca Children's Choir. Her New York colleagues recognized Dr. Galván’s contribution to choral music in 1995 when she received the ACDA New York Outstanding Choral Director Award.

Galván has conducted national, regional, and all-state choruses throughout the United States. She also has conducted her own choral ensembles in Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, and Avery Fisher Hall as well as in Ireland, Italy, and Spain. In addition, she has conducted chamber orchestras both in the United States and internationally. Galván was the sixth national honor choir conductor for ACDA, and was the conductor of the North American Children’s Choir which performed annually in Carnegie Hall from 1995-2007. She has also been a guest conductor for the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.

Galván has two choral music series with the Roger Dean Publishing Company and is the author of chapters in two books, Teaching Music through Performance in Choir, Volume 2 and The School Choral Program: Philosophy, Planning, Organizing and Teaching. She is the series advisor to Latin Accents, a series with Boosey & Hawkes. Her article on the changing voice was published in the International Federation of Choral Music Journal in August of 2007 and was reprinted in La Circulare del Secretariat de Corals Infantils de Catalunga.

• The Lake Isle of Innisfree (SSA, Daley, Oxford Univ. Press)
• Inflammatus Est (SA, Pergolesi/ed. Rao, Boosey)
• I Will Be Earth (SSA, Walker, EC Schirmer)
• Hoj Hura Hoj (SSAA, Otmar Macha, Alliance)
• hist whist (Jack Jarrett)
• Still I Rise (SSAA, Powell, Gentry Pub.)