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BEN JOHNS, Director of Education and Outreach, holds three bachelor’s degrees from the University of California, Irvine in Dance, Music, and Chemistry and will finish his master’s degree in choral conducting there in 2009. Mr. Johns earned merit-based graduate fellowships, teaching assistantships and scholarships from the Tom and Elizabeth Tierney, Ann and Gordon Getty, Mary and Philip Lyons, and Sunny Brown Scholarship Foundations. He also earned the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research for his honor’s thesis topic, “Exploring the Neurobiological Basis for the Effect on Movement on the Voice,” a topic he presented at the American Association of Physics Teachers conference at California State University, Sacramento in 2004. Ben sang in the Chanticleer ensemble for three years before moving to his current position as Chanticleer’s Education and Outreach Director. In addition to his education duties, which include giving master classes to Bay Area high school and middle school choirs, Mr. Johns continues to sing professionally as a soloist and choral artist around the country.
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