Executive Director

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Executive Director	Mrs. Margaret Campbelle-Holman
E-mail	mch@choralartslink.org
Term Start	January 2004
Margaret's Experience: Margaret Campbelle-Holman is an educator, composer and music education consultant with over 40 years experience. The MET(METropolitan Nashville) Singers, a performing arts education program of Choral Arts Link, Inc. Her guidance as artistic director has provided choral arts mentoring for music educators, pre-service music education majors and choral performance training for upper elementary, middle and high school singers.She develops presentations for classroom and music educators focused on integrated arts using critical and creative thinking skills. As an example of this, she has been called on by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's Primarily Arts Network (PAN) project (2000-2002). Here she led curriculum retreats, demonstration lessons (on school sites) and mentored teacher training in individual classrooms. PAN was designed to enhance and enrich the education of public school students via the integration of music in the curriculum, for faculties of three participating schools in the Chicago Public Schools. Considered probationary schools in the state of Illinois, faculty participation was an effort to increase their Illinois test scores. The end of the project's three year cycle showed significant improvements on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills and Illinois Standards Achievement Tests.Her work as founder and conductor of The MET Singers Honor Choir has involved her locally with three commissioned works:Light The Way, a composing collaboration between Holman and Bernard Walker, premiered in 2001 with The Nashville Symphony, conducted by Kaye George RobertsProud Music of the Storm, by Bruce Saylor, commissioned by The Nashville Symphony for SSA, SATB chorus and orchestra, maestro Kenneth Schermerhorn conductor, premiered during NSO Classical Concert Series including opening night for MENC's national conference, 2002Out of Many One, a masterwork by Michael Slayton, co-commissioned by Lipscomb University and the Tennessee Arts Commission, performed with Ghanaian Drum and cello-oboe ensembles, premiered in 2004. She is an author for Share the Music (1995) and Spotlight on Music (2005) series (Macmillan/McGraw-Hill Pub.) and her compositions are found in multiple publications for music educators, social studies and preschool teachers. She is co-lyricist of the Official State Bicentennial School Song, My Home Will Always Be In Tennessee, set by composer Shirley McRae. Sharing her expertise includes residencies in Teaching Artistry for music, arts and school wide faculties for arts infused curriculum. She publishes choral literature for children's choirs, choral camps and classroom music teachers.

Staff

Full Time Staff	0
Part Time Staff	0
Volunteers	100
Contractors	0
Retention Rate

Plans & Policies

Does your organization have a Fundraising Plan?	Yes
Does your organization have a Strategic Plan?	Yes
Years Strategic Plan Considers	5
When was the Strategic Plan adopted?	January 2010
Does your organization have a Management Succession Plan?	No
Does your organization have a Policy and Procedure Plan?	No
Does the organization have a Nondiscrimination Policy?	Yes
Does the organization have a Whistle Blower Policy?
Does the organization have a Document Destruction Policy?

Evaluation

Is there a formal evaluation for...		Frequency (if applicable)
CEO/Executive Director	No	N/A
Senior Management	N/A	N/A
Non-Management	No

Awards

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Award / Recognition	Organization	Year
Ambre Dromgoole, 2nd Place Finalist and $100 Award	Grady-Rayam Southern Regional Vocal Competition of the Negro Spiritual Foundation	2011
Cedric Townsend, Overall Winner and $3000 Tuition Scholarship Award	Grady-Rayam Southern Regional Vocal Competition of the Negro Spiritual Foundation	2011
Celebration Youth Chorus for 18 Seasons	Nashville Symphony	2015
Keynote Speaker, Margaret Campbelle-Holman	Harmony U	2014
Kira McCall received 3rd Place in Young Artist Soloist Competition	VSA Tennessee, the State Organization on Arts and Disability	2012
Kira McCall received Thor Johnson Scholarship	Nashville Symphony Guild	2011
MET Singers performed during Opening Session	Harmony U	2014
Music Education Advocate of the Year to Margaret Campbelle-Holman	Nashville Singers	2013
Nashville's Juneteeth Celebration Performance	Historic Fort Negley	2014
National Premier of commissioned work, I Hear the Drum, by Cedric Dent during Let Freedom Sing concert	Nashville Symphony	2016
National Premier of commissioned work, The Drummer, by Paul T. Kwami, Margaret Campbelle-Holman and Joshua Carter	Nashville Symphony Chorus, Nashville Symphony	2015
Opening Ceremony Performance, Renaissance convention Center Nashville TN	American Orff Schulwerk Association Professional Development Conference	2014
Outstanding Community Youth Chorus	CBS News: The Early Show Week of Wishes	2005
Performed for the Joint Sessions' recognition of Black History Month	Tennessee General Assembly	2015
Sing TN Sing Chorus, commissioned work premiered Proud Music of the Storm with maestro Kenneth Schermerhorn	Nashville Symphony	2002
Superior Rating	Presidential Inaugural Heritage Choral Festival, Washington D.C.	2009
Tyler Samuel, Overall Winner and $3000 Tuition Scholarship Award	Grady-Rayam Southern Regional Vocal Competition of the Negro Spiritual Foundation	2010
Women in Music (Nashville TN) Margaret Campbelle-Holman	CABLE	2015

CEO/Executive Director/Board Comments

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This organization is volunteer based. We need consistent administrative support. We have secured pro-bono services from a public relations firm that helps with this challenge. We also have office space that has been provided that gives us an official established space that has been addressed as well. These services have also provided research to engage interns for administrative support. CAL's increased fundraising has provided small stipends for senior MET Singers to intern with the organization during their breaks in the school year.