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Dr. Megan Boyd has experience teaching choral music at all levels, elementary through university and in the community sector. She is an active adjudicator and clinician having conducted at Carnegie Hall, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and La Madeleine in Paris, France, among others. Dr. Boyd has led performances at state and divisional American Choral Directors Association Conferences and currently performs with the professional women’s chorus mirabai.Dr. Boyd previously held appointments at Concordia University Ann Arbor, Young Professionals Choral Collective of Cincinnati, and Xavier University where Dr. Boyd conducted the 2019 world premiere of award-winning jazz pianist Josh Nelson’s Over Millenia. She founded the YPCC Chamber Choir selected to perform at the 2019 Ohio ACDA Summer Conference. As a middle school and high school educator, Dr. Boyd’s ensembles consistently earned Superior Ratings at the North Carolina Music Performance Adjudication and was invited to perform at the 2009 North Carolina Governor's Inauguration. 

In addition to her work on the podium, Dr. Boyd has presented interest sessions at state music conferences and in university classrooms and has been published in the Choral Journal. Dr. Boyd holds a B.M. in music education and voice performance from Boston University and an M.M. and D.M.A. in choral conducting from Michigan State University where she studied with Drs. David Rayl, Sandra Snow, and Jonathan Reed. She is a member of Pi Kappa Lambda National Music Honor Society. Dr. Boyd currently resides in Raleigh, NC with her husband and two children. We are thrilled to have her as this year’s clinician!