biographyDr. Allyss Haecker is currently in her first year as the Director of Choirs at Seneca High School. She most recently served as the Artistic Director of the Riverside Singers at Augsburg University, the See Change Treble Choir in St. Paul, MN, and the Colonial Chorale at Colonial Church in Edina, MN. Dr. Haecker was also a member of the music faculty at the Shattuck-St. Mary’s School as a voice teacher within their Vocal Performance Program and the Artistic Coordinator of the Northfield Youth Choir program.
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Formerly, she served on the voice faculty at St. Olaf College and was the conductor of one of the college’s choirs, Cantorei. Dr. Haecker served as an Associate Professor of Music and the Director of Choral and Vocal Studies at Emory & Henry College (VA) where she taught voice, conducting, choral methods, vocal pedagogy, diction, and directed the Concert and Chamber Choirs. Dr. Haecker has also served as the Director of Vocal and Choral Studies at Newberry College (SC) and the National Music Conservatory in Amman, Jordan. For sixteen years, she served on the vocal and conducting faculty of the Performing Arts Institute, a summer festival for students of music, dance, and theater. Previously, she taught choral music in the Fenton Area Public Schools (MI) and was the Artistic Director of the Saginaw Youth Chorale (MI). Dr. Haecker received her doctor of musical arts in choral conducting and literature from the University of Iowa, her master of music degree in choral conducting from the University of Illinois, and her bachelor of music education degree from Converse College (SC). She is a frequent clinician and guest conductor for district, state, and regional choral festivals.
Dr. Haecker’s ongoing research includes contemporary South African choral music and its impact on social and political change. She was a recipient of the T. Anne Cleary International Research Fellowship which allowed her to study and perform throughout South Africa. Most recently, Dr. Haecker presented her research at the 2018 Annual African Conference. Her time in the Middle East has also led to research and performances of unpublished Arab choral music. She has twice presented at the Virginia Music Educators Association Annual Conference on topics of vocal pedagogy and courageous music-making.
Dr. Haecker is an active soprano soloist having performed Brahms' Requiem, Mozart’s Requiem and Coronation Mass, Handel’s Messiah and Israel in Egypt, Bach’s Magnificat and St. Matthew Passion, Mahler’s Second Symphony, Mendelssohn’s Hor mein Bitten, Britten’s Rejoice in the Lamb, Charpentier’s Te Deum, Faure’s Requiem, Haydn's Creation and Missa brevis Joannis de Deo, and Jayce Ogren’s Evening Music. Dr. Haecker's operatic and musical theater performances include Montreverdi's L'Incoronazione di Poppea, Verdi's La Forza del Destino and La Traviata, Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel, Bizet's Carmen, Mozart's Cosi fan Tutte, Puccini's Madama Butterfly, Offenbach's Les contes d'Hoffman, Delibes' Lakme, Sondheim's Into the Woods, and Miranda’s In The Heights.
Dr. Haecker lives in Pickens, South Carolina with her husband, Arthur, and their son, Kai.
Dr. Haecker’s ongoing research includes contemporary South African choral music and its impact on social and political change. She was a recipient of the T. Anne Cleary International Research Fellowship which allowed her to study and perform throughout South Africa. Most recently, Dr. Haecker presented her research at the 2018 Annual African Conference. Her time in the Middle East has also led to research and performances of unpublished Arab choral music. She has twice presented at the Virginia Music Educators Association Annual Conference on topics of vocal pedagogy and courageous music-making.
Dr. Haecker is an active soprano soloist having performed Brahms' Requiem, Mozart’s Requiem and Coronation Mass, Handel’s Messiah and Israel in Egypt, Bach’s Magnificat and St. Matthew Passion, Mahler’s Second Symphony, Mendelssohn’s Hor mein Bitten, Britten’s Rejoice in the Lamb, Charpentier’s Te Deum, Faure’s Requiem, Haydn's Creation and Missa brevis Joannis de Deo, and Jayce Ogren’s Evening Music. Dr. Haecker's operatic and musical theater performances include Montreverdi's L'Incoronazione di Poppea, Verdi's La Forza del Destino and La Traviata, Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel, Bizet's Carmen, Mozart's Cosi fan Tutte, Puccini's Madama Butterfly, Offenbach's Les contes d'Hoffman, Delibes' Lakme, Sondheim's Into the Woods, and Miranda’s In The Heights.
Dr. Haecker lives in Pickens, South Carolina with her husband, Arthur, and their son, Kai.