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William McClean to serve as director for ³ÉÈËÊÓƵ’s Festival of Song 

High Voices Chorus

William McClean is a music educator-conductor who currently serves as Assistant Professor and Associate Director of Choral Activities at Baylor University, where he conducts the Concert Choir, Bella Voce, and instructs both graduate and undergraduate students in conducting and choral literature. Prior to Baylor, McLean most recently served as the Associate Conductor of the Dallas Symphony Chorus and served on the faculty at the University of Texas at Arlington, where he conducted the A Cappella Choir. Prior to his graduate studies, McLean taught public high school for eight years in Oregon and Texas; most recently, he was the Director of Choirs at South Salem High School in Oregon. While at South Salem, the Symphonic Choir (SATB) was invited to perform at the 2019 National ACDA Convention in Kansas City, MO. Additionally, choirs at South Salem under his direction received invitations to perform at the OMEA state music education conference and toured nationally.

William Powell to serve as conductor of ³ÉÈËÊÓƵ’s Festival of Song

Low Voices Chorus

William C. Powell is a professor of music and the director of choral activities at Auburn University (Alabama). His duties include conducting the Chamber Choir, Men's Chorus, Concert Choir and Gospel Choir, and teaching choral-related courses.

Powell has guest conducted throughout the United States and abroad, including Australia, Italy and Eastern Europe. He serves as a regular adjudicator for various choral festivals such as Festival Disney. He also gives presentations for the National Association for Music Education, American Choral Directors Association, Intercollegiate Men's Choruses, College Music Society, Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities and the National Society of Music in Technology.

His choral arrangements are published by Hal Leonard Corporation, Gentry Publications and Oxford University Press through which he and his wife, Rosephanye Powell, co-edited a collection titled "Spirituals for Upper Voices." He also has a choral series published by Gentry Publications.

An active member of the American Choral Directors Association, Powell has served as the repertoire and standards chair of the Committee on Ethnic and Multicultural Perspectives for the both the southwestern and southern divisions. He also holds memberships with the National Association for Music Education and the American Society of Composers and Publishers.