Aimee Beckmann-Collier is Professor of Conducting and Director of Choral Studies at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa.  She is a frequent clinician, adjudicator, and guest conductor for high school and college choral festivals, contests, and All-States through the country.  Drake ensembles under her leadership have performed in Carnegie Hall and major venues in England, Austria, Italy, Germany, Ireland, Wales, and the Czech Republic, as well as for conferences of the American Choral Directors Association.  In 2013 she appeared as guest conductor and clinician at Minzu University in Beijing.
 
Dr. Beckmann-Collier has served ACDA in a variety of capacities, including as president of the Iowa Choral Directors Association and editor of its quarterly publication, president of ACDA’s North Central Division, chair of North Central ACDA conferences in 2012 and 1992, and editor of NC ACDA’s quarterly publication.  Her articles on a variety of topics have appeared in the Choral Journal and the Music Educators Journal.  She is chair of the Iowa Comprehensive Musicianship Project, a mastery teaching program for music educators.
 
A graduate of Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, Indiana, which recently presented her with its Distinguished Alumna Award, Dr. Beckmann-Collier received master’s and doctoral degrees in choral conducting from The University of Iowa where she studied with Don Moses.  She is the recipient of Drake University’s Madelyn Levitt Award for Distinguished Community Service, the University’s Stalnaker Lecturer designation, the Iowa Music Educators Association Distinguished Service Award, the National Federation Interscholastic Music Association Outstanding Music Educator Award, and ACDA’s Weston Noble Lifetime Achievement Award.