ACDA-MI Features Michigan Composers

ByACDAMI Webmaster October 24, 2013April 24, 2016

ACDA Michigan is proud to showcase the talents of some of our own composers at our conferences!

Here are websites for the Michigan Choral Composers who are participating in the 2013 Fall Conference or who participated last year. (Not all of the composers have websites.)

This year:

Marjan Helms: www.marjanhelms.com

Sean Ivory: www.caldwellandivory.com

Greg Jasperse: www.gregjasperse.com

Michael Mitchell:

Last Year:

David Biedenbender: www.davidbiedenbender.com

Jeff Cobb: http://www.jeffreycobb.com

Gerald Custer: www.geraldcuster.com

Milton Olsson: no website

Philip Rice: http://philiprice.net

Jed Scott: www.jedscott.com

Stuart Scott: http://bvpublishing.net/

Congratulations to All!

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