Following are some of the presenters and performers who will appear at the convention.

Larry Jacobson is Vice President of Financial Services, North America, for the Universal Music Group. He oversees Travel, Accounts Payable Shared Services, Marketing and Recording Administration for all North American Recording Labels and Operating Companies. Mr. Jacobson is also an adjunct professor of management for the undergraduate business school at the University of Phoenix, Southern California. Mr. Jacobson began his career at Universal Music Group in 1990 with MCA Records. Prior to joining MCA, he was a professional Disc Jockey for both WBWB-FM and WTTS-FM in Indianapolis, where he also served as assistant music director. Mr. Jacobson received his MBA and is currently pursuing a doctorate at Pepperdine University. Prior to his career change to business, Mr. Jacobson received a B.M. (Percussion Performance) from the University of Maryland and an M.M. (Jazz Studies) from Indiana University. Mr. Jacobson served two terms as President of the Delta Delta Chapter (the chapter was voted the outstanding collegiate chapter of the year both years of his term); District Director of EC3, where two of his three chapters won the outstanding collegiate chapter of the year and he served on the IEB as Second Vice-President. Mr. Jacobson joined the IEB as MOE first male IEB member since the fraternity went co-ed in 1977 and was the youngest member to join the IEB at 25 years old.

Keynote speaker Dr. Frances Bartlett Kinne is Chancellor Emeritus and Past President of Jacksonville University. She earned her Doctor of Philosophy, cum laude degree with a tri-major of Music, English Literature and Philosophy from the University of Frankfurt, Germany. She has been awarded five honorary doctorates for her outstanding work in education, music and administration. She has received hundreds awards for her service to education, community and philanthropical organizations.

Arietha Lockhart, coloratura soprano, 2nd place winner of the first Classical Singer Competition sponsored by Classical Singer Magazine. Winner: The National Opera Association Competition’s Legacy Award, professional division, 2nd place in The Center for Contemporary Opera International Competition; prize, a New York debut recital at Weill Recital Hall of Carnegie Hall. A Friedrich Shorr Memorial Prize in Voice winner and 3rd place in the Oratorio Society of New York competition. During studies at the American Institute for Musical Studies, she won the first place vote of the jury in the Meistersinger Competition in Graz, Austria, and received the gold medallion as the audience’s 1st place choice. She is a frequent soloist with the Atlanta Symphony Chamber Chorus. Recently, Arietha sang the role of Coretta Scott King in the new contemporary opera MLK by composer Douglas Tappin. Arietha Lockhart,classical singer - Arietha Lockhart

Lenita McCallum, mezzo soprano, President of the Mu Phi Epsilon Foundation, recitalist, chamber music specialist, private studio teacher and long-time member of the Palos Verdes Alumni Chapter, California will present a workshop entitled “Do You Hear What I Hear?”, a lesson in listening for the vast possibilities of interpretation, style, coloration and other tools of vocal expression.

“Street Angel Diaries” by Mary Lou Newmark combines original live and recorded music, poetry, first hand accounts, dance, storytelling, paintings by Robert M. Fisher, and photographs by Gary F. Clark into an unique theatrical experience of homelessness awareness. This video includes performance footage from the theatrical premiere in Pasadena, California, produced by Zebulon Projects and directed by Darin Anthony. Mary Lou Newmark is an electric violinist, composer and poet and a member of the Los Angeles Alumni Chapter of Mu Phi Epsilon. www.greenangelmusic.com/

Opera Theatre of Saint Louis' Young Artists Programs Erie Mills, renowned soprano and OTSL English Diction Specialist and Allison Felter, OTSL director of education. Learn the secrets of success behind the internationally acclaimed Opera Theatre of Saint Louis' young artist programs which identify, train and advance America's best young singing talent through the Gerdine Young Artists Program and the national award-winning Artists-in-Training program for high school singers. Opera Theater of Saint Louis OTSL Young Artists Program
Pianists Blas Gonzalez and Ya-Ting Liou present their Pangea Project, a reflection on music and cultural identity, expressed through the performance of works for piano by composers from Eastern and Western Europe, Noth and south America, the Middle East, Asia and Oceania. Blas González is a doctoral candidate at University of Missouri-Kansas City and holds degrees from Ohio University and Conservatory of Music “Carlos Lopez Buchardo” in Argentina. Ya-Ting Liou, Taiwanese pianist, is a full-scholarship student in DMA piano performance program at the Conservatory of Music of the University of Missouri – Kansas City. Her performances include appearances at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the State of the Art at the State Department in Washington D.C., St. Louis Artist Presentation Society, Yamaha Hall in New York, and concert halls in Canada, New Zealand, Argentina, and Taiwan.
	Opera singer, concert artist and teacher Anne Elise Richie is known for her rich, mezzo-soprano voice. A Metropolitan Opera District Winner, Ms. Richie has studied and toured Italy, France and Germany. She has appeared in a variety of productions including The Marriage of Figaro, The Magic Flute, Pirates of Penzance and 1776. Ms. Richie has performed with the Birmingham Symphony, Milwaukee Catholic Symphony, the University of Chicago and Winston-Salem/ Piedmont Triad Orchestras and performed four seasons with the New York City Opera Chorus. Most recently Ms. Richie was Visiting Professor of Voice at University of North Florida and Head of Vocal Studies at Jacksonville's prestigious Douglas Anderson School of the Arts. www.classicalsinger.net/annerichie
Pianist, Paul Verona has appeared as soloist with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, the Manhattan Contemporary Ensemble, the Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra, and the Sheboygan Symphony Orchestra. He has performed in recital in Bologna, Italy; Salzburg, Austria; Holland and Germany, including the Artists Recital Series in Sala Bossi at the Bologna Conservatory. His performances throughout the United States have included the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Donnell Library Series, Steinway Hall, Bruno Walter Auditorium at Lincoln Center, St. Paul's Chapel- Trinity Church concert series, the Chopin Society in Minneapolis, the Milwaukee Art Museum and at Town Hall. For the past 9 years, Mr. Verona has performed extensively for New York Alumni Chapter of Mu Phi Epsilon and was presented in recital as their Distinguished Artist in 2003. Mr. Verona has been heard on radio and television stations in Washington D.C., in New York City on WQXR, Chicago, Milwaukee, Salt Lake City, as well as on the VARA radio station in Amsterdam and RAI for Italian television and radio in Italy and in the United States. Mr. Verona is a scholar in Spanish music, particularly in his pioneering work on the Iberia Suite of Isaac Albéniz, which he will be recording in 2008.
Melissa Park Voshell is a native of Jacksonville, FL. She has a Master of Music degree in Flute Performance from the Peabody Conservatory of Music of the Johns Hopkins University and a Bachelors Degree in Flute Performance from Jacksonville University. She is a freelance musician in the Jacksonville and South Georgia areas and maintains a private home studio. She is currently an Adjunct Professor of Music and Humanities at Florida Community College at Jacksonville and Adjunct Professor of Flute at Jacksonville University. She is the founder and member of the Arioso Flute Quartet which made its debut in 2005. Her most recent collaboration has been with pianist, Elizabeth Kiebler.
	Pianist Lei Weng has performed throughout North America and Asia in such prestigious venues as Carnegie Hall, Steinway Hall in New York, the Phillips Collections in Washington D.C., Meany Hall in Seattle, Ozawa Hall in Tanglewood, Washington National Library in Chicago, Beijing Music Hall, Banff Center in Canada. He has performed as a soloist with orchestras of Cincinnati, Seattle, Indiana, Fort Worth, Shreveport, as well as China National Symphony and Chorus, Beijing Symphony and Tianjin Symphony. Mr. Weng has collaborated with such world-renowned musicians as James Levine, Emanuel Ax, Cho-liang Lin, Down Upshaw, Phyllis Curtin, and members from the symphony orchestras of Boston, Cincinnati, Seattle, Sydney, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Denver and Indianapolis. Mr. Weng is an Assistant Professor of Piano Performance at the University of Northern Colorado, where he teaches talented students from the US, Asia and Europe. www.arts.unco.edu/pva/faculty/bios/weng.html
	"I've got rhythm, I've got music, I've got Mu Phi, who could ask for anything more?" Pianist Signe Zale will present a workshop exploring the use of rhythm in Aaron Copland's Piano Variations. The presentation will include a performance of this important American 20th century composition for solo piano. A graduate of the Eastman School of Music with degrees in performance and pedagogy, Signe is a long-time adjudicator for the National Guild of Piano Teachers. She is a member of the Rochester Alumni and EGL1 District Director.