Dr. Leslie Guelker-Cone

Professor of Music

Vocal Area Coordinator

PAC 43; (360) 650-3772

Leslie.Guelker-Cone@wwu.edu

 

 

 

 

Degrees:

• Doctorate of Musical Arts: University of Colorado
• Master of Music: San Jose State University
• Bachelor of Arts: California State University

Leslie Guelker-Cone is director of Choral Activities and Coordinator of Vocal Studies at Western. In addition to conducting the Concert Choir and the Western Voices chamber ensemble, she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in choral conducting and choral music education. She recently conducted Western's Concert Choir on tour in Eastern Germany and Poland; under her direction, the choir has sung at national and divisional conventions of the American Choral Directors Association and regional and state conferences of the Music Educators National Conference. Dr. Guelker-Cone received her Doctor of Musical Arts from The University of Colorado, Boulder in choral conducting and literature. She has served as a Repertoire and Standards chair for the American Choral Directors Association at both the national and local levels and on the boards of both the California and Washington Music Educators Associations. She is currently the past President of Washington ACDA and is in frequent demand as a choral adjudicator, honor choir conductor, and guest clinician throughout the United States and Canada. Dr. Guelker-Cone received a WWU Summer Teaching Grant to assist her in the study of university choral conducting programs in Australia and New Zealand; current research includes study of the incorporation of the movement theories of Dalcroze and Laban into the teaching of choral conducting. She is a recipient of the university's highest teaching honor, the Excellence in Teaching Award.