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MST 2003

Featured Speaker: Ron Kean

The MST conference includes a special group of Featured Speakers and Performers this year. Each of our speakers combine Math, Technolgy, or Science with the Arts in a unique way.

Dr. Ronald Kean is the Director of Choral Activities at Bakersfield College. He directs the 65 member College Chorale and the Chamber Singers. He also leads the African Percussion ronkean2003 Ensemble at BC. Ron will share his musical and mathematical knowledge-and some of his friends-with us Friday night during his presentation on the mathematics in music. “Illustrating” his talk will be some of the voices from Bakersfield College.

Both choral groups directed by Dr. Kean are considered to be amongst the top groups in the California Community College system. The Chamber Singers performed at the Western Division Convention of the American Choral Directors Association in Reno, Nevada in 1998. The Chorale and Chamber Singers performed at the California Music Educators Convention in 1999. Touring is an annual part of life at Bakersfield College. The Chamber Singers not only perform at conventions when invited, but they made two tours of Hawaii, the most recent in June, 2000.

Dr. Kean is President of the Western Division of the American Choral Directors Association following six years as ACDA Chair of Ethnic and Multicultural Perspectives at state, division, and national levels. He graduated from Los Angeles Valley College and California State University Los Angeles before teaching at the high school level for four years. After a year of extensive score study and performance with Robert Shaw in Atlanta, Georgia, he completed the Masters and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees in Choral Music from the University of Southern California.