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Dr. Kevin Meidl is
director of choirs and music department chair at Appleton West
High School. He has taught junior high school and high school
choral in Appleton for the past twenty-three years. In addition,
he is the artistic director and principle conductor with the
Appleton Boychoir, a treble choir of young boys currently
celebrating their twenty-seventh season. He has done extensive
work during the past three decades with church choir programs
throughout the state and was the
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founding director of the Wisconsin Church Ensemble. He is past
conductor of the Fox Valley Symphony Chorus.
Meidl has studied conducting with Constantia Tsolainu, currently the
Artistic Director of the Canterbury Choral Society in Dallas, Kate
Tamarkin who is Music Director of the Monterey Symphony in California,
and with Robert Harris and John Paynter at Northwestern University. He
holds degrees fro Lawrence University, La Salle University and
Northwestern University. In addition, he has studied Kodaly methods at
Silver Lake College.
Choirs under his direction have performed for state and divisional
conventions of the American Choral Directors Association, the Music
Educators National Conference, the American Guild of Organists, the
Intercollegiate Men’s Chorus Association, the Organization of American
Kodaly Educators, and the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. He has
conducted choirs for the official ceremonies commemorating the
fiftieth anniversary of D-Day in Normandy, France, for Pope John Paul
II in Rome, and in some thirty other countries around the world.
Meidl’s choirs have produced a dozen recordings and have been featured
on national radio programs in such diverse countries as Russia and
Mexico. Graduates of his choir programs have entered the ranks of the
choral teaching profession and are creating choral music across the
country. In the Appleton Public Schools alone there are three music
educators who are graduates of his program.
Meidl is past president of the Wisconsin choral Directors Association,
a former District Representative, Repertoire and Standards chair,
convention program chair, and is currently chair of the WCDA Visions
Committee. For North Central ACDA Meidl has served as
publicity/hospitality chair for Milwaukee 1990 and assistant
convention
chair for Madison 2000. He has also served as Repertoire and Standards
chair for Boychoir. He has forwarded many new initiatives including
the concept of “Immersion Days” at divisional conventions. In his
leadership capacity for WCDA, he established the permanent staff
position of executive secretary, and created a program known
regionally as NextDirection…an annual conference for high school
students considering careers in choral music.
Dr. Meidl is a member of the American Choral Directors Association,
the Music Educators National Conference, the International Federation
for Choral Music, the Organization of American Kodaly Educators, Phi
Mu Alpha Sinfonia, and Pi Kappa Lambda. He was selected as Secondary
Teacher of the Year in 1995-1996 for the Appleton Area School
District. His biography is listed in current editions of Who’s Who
in America,Who’s Who Among America’s teachers, and several
other honorary
publications.
Contact Kevin Meidl at: kmeidl@appletonboychoir.org
