NJ Elementary and Junior High All-State Choir Festival
Our Clinicians
Chaequan Anderson
Elementary Treble Choir
Mr. Chaequan Anderson is a choral conductor and music educator based in Princeton, New Jersey. Mr. Anderson has varied choral experience directing school, community youth and children, and professional choirs. As a teacher and conductor, Mr. Anderson has held positions with organizations such as the Trenton Children’s Chorus, the Princeton Girlchoir, and the Westminster Conservatory Honors Music Program. He has conducted honor and festival choirs in Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maine, Massachusetts, and North Dakota. Currently, Mr. Anderson serves as the Director of Middle School Choirs at Montclair Kimberley Academy (gr.4-8) and the Associate Director of Westrick Music Academy, where he conducts Cantores (gr.10-12) of the Princeton Girlchoir and Cantus/Cantus Chamber Singers (gr.5-9) of the Princeton Boychoir. In addition to his work in education, Mr. Anderson is also the Founding Artistic Director of Glassbrook Vocal Ensemble, a professional choir based in Ewing, NJ. Mr. Anderson also serves as the Inclusivity Chair for the State Board of New Jersey ACDA. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music and Kodály Certification Levels I & II from Westminster Choir College and a Master of Music in Choral Conducting from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
Joanna Scarangello
SATB Choir
Ms. Scarangello is an active conductor and music teacher in northern New Jersey. Ms. Scarangello received her Master of Arts in Music Education from Montclair State University and her Bachelor of Arts in Music Education from Lycoming College in Williamsport, PA. Ms. Scarangello is currently employed by the Mount Olive School District, serving over 300 students as the Director of Choirs for Mount Olive Middle School. In addition, Ms. Scarangello is also currently serving as the Director of Sola Voce with the New Jersey Youth Chorus. Ms. Scarangello’s choirs have been invited to perform at Carnegie Hall, Radio City Music Hall, the NJMEA 2019 and 2023 State Conferences, and the 2020 NJSMA Elementary Workshop. Ms. Scarangello has presented sessions at NJMEA, NJSMA, and NJACDA conferences, and directed the 2020 MACDA Intermediate Honor Choir as well as the 2023 NJSMA Region I Junior High Treble Choir. She looks forward to directing the NJ SATB Junior High All-State Choir in the spring of 2025. Under her direction, Ms. Scarangello’s choirs consistently receive superior ratings in festivals and competitions, and her students are regularly chosen for local, regional, and national honor choir opportunities. In 2023, Ms. Scarangello was awarded the Exemplary Educator Award from the NJ Department of Education for her work as a stand-out educator in the state of NJ.
Doreen Fryling
Doreen Fryling, Ed.D. is in her 29th year as a public school music educator. She currently teaches IB Music and chorus classes at South Side High School in Rockville Centre, NY, and has previously taught K-5 general music and middle school chorus. She teaches graduate courses in music education at Hofstra University in philosophy, research, and curriculum and instruction. Doreen is an active and founding member of the eVoco Voice Collective and served for 8 years on the board as the Special Projects Chair. In addition to her school choirs, she is the director of the MYO Nassau Concert Choir. Doreen has a Doctorate of Education in Learning and Teaching from Hofstra University. Her dissertation is on the psychological and sociological factors that influence persistence in choral singing. She also holds degrees from Susquehanna University and the University of Michigan. In 2015 Doreen was recognized as a semifinalist for the Grammy Music Educator Award. She has been published several times on the NAfME Music in a Minuet Blog and featured in their Member Spotlight Interviews. Doreen currently serves as Past-President of NY-ACDA. Doreen shares her love of music making with her husband, David, and their two children.