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About the 2026 Guest Director

Dr. Joy Elizabeth Meade is an Associate Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities at Messiah University, where she conducts the Concert Choir, Chamber Singers and Choral Arts Society. These choirs tour nationally and internationally and perform regularly on campus, in the community and collaborate with the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra. Dr. Meade also teaches undergraduate and graduate choral conducting at Messiah, as well as applied voice.  Prior to her appointment at Messiah, Dr. Meade was the Associate Director of Choirs at Georgia State University in Atlanta and as a music educator in the Unionville-Chadds Ford School District, teaching choir and orchestra. She earned her DMA in conducting from University of Georgia, her MM in conducting from Westminster Choir College and her BA in voice performance and French from University of Richmond.   Meade currently serves as the past-president of ACDA-PA and the co-artistic director of the Grantham Consort.  She and her husband live in Mechanicsburg, PA with their two children.