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Dr. Anna Hamre

As Director of Choral Activities at California State University, Fresno, Anna Hamre is in demand as a guest conductor, clinician, and adjudicator. Her 2009 projects include a return to Carnegie Hall in April to guest conduct Morten Lauridsen’s Lux aeterna and a trip to Vienna and Prague in June to guest conduct music by Haydn and Handel.

Dr. Hamre teaches undergraduate conducting and graduate conducting and literature at Fresno State, where she is responsible for the management of the choral program. She conducts the Concert Choir, Chamber Singers, and Community Chorus Master Chorale and Coro Piccolo, frequently collaborating with the Fresno Philharmonic Orchestra. Her various positions have given her the opportunity to conduct numerous new works, including the American premiere of Philip Wilby’s 2004 reconstruction of Mozart’s Mass in C (Novello). Several choirs under her direction have been invited to perform at music conventions.

Recent honors include the Fresno Arts Council Horizon Artist Award (2007), the California Association for Music Education (CMEA) Choral Conductor Award (2006), the CMEA Central Section College/University Music Educator Award (2006), the Fresno-State College of Arts and Humanities Excellence in Teaching Award (2003), the Fresno-Madera Counties Music Education Association Choral Educator Award (2003), and recognitions from Fresno-State music fraternities.

Dr. Hamre holds a BA degree in vocal and instrumental music education from Augustana College, Sioux Falls, SD; an MM degree in choral music from the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley; and a DMA in choral literature and performance from the University of Colorado in Boulder.

She has written articles for state music magazines in addition to the International Choral Bulletin, The Choral Journal, and Spotlight on Teaching Chorus. She has presented sessions for various choral-conducting and music-education organizations, most recently leading a conducting workshop at the 2008 national convention of the Organization of American Kodály Educators. Dr. Hamre is the author of The High-School/University Sight-Singer (Masterworks Press of Olympia, WA), a music-literacy method in use in every state, plus the District of Columbia, Guam, British Columbia, Hong Kong, and Indonesia.

She has served on the California state boards of both ACDA and CMEA, and she also holds membership in the College Music Society, National Collegiate Choral Organization, Chorus America, Early Music America, Southern California Vocal Association, Organization of American Kodály Educators, and the Fresno-Madera County Music Educators’ Association. She serves on the citizen’s advisory board for KVPR Radio Station in Fresno.

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