MARK ANDREW SHAULL has been Director of Choral Activities and Performing Arts Department Chair at Los Altos High School since 1984. In addition to directing six choral ensembles on campus, he leads an active department with yearly performances of octavo and major works concerts with orchestra, musicals and choral festivals.

Mr. Shaull has achieved recognition as a teacher, clinician, adjudicator and conductor. He has been the clinician for numerous area festivals, and has presented choral workshop sessions in Estonia, Russia, China, New Zealand and Australia.

He was named “Outstanding Teacher of the Year” by the Los Altos Rotary Club in 1988; Mentor Teacher for the Los Altos Mountain View Union High School District in 1989 and 1996; “Educator of the Year” by the National Endowment of the Arts 1989; received the Brigham Young University National Arts Educator Award 1992; and in 1999 he was recognized as a “Distinguished Secondary Educator” by the University of California at the San Diego, Berkeley and Davis campuses.

In addition to his responsibilities at Los Altos High School, Mark Shaull is Director of Music at the First United Methodist Church of Palo Alto, California. Shaull founded the Los Altos Children's Chorus and performs as a baritone soloist in recital and oratorio work. He holds a B.A. degree from San Jose State University, where he has completed graduate studies. Mark Andrew Shaull is an active member of the International Federation of Choral Music, the American Choral Directors Association and the California Music Educators Association.

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DEBRA YOWELL is an accomplished accompanist, piano performer, and vocal instructor. She has worked with such noted choral conductors as howard Swan, Eph Ely, Douglas McEwen, David Stocker, Louis Magor, William Dehning, Charlene Archibeque, Rodney Eichenberger, Ken Davis, Jo Michael Schiebe and Pal Salamonavich.

Ms. Yowell has been teaching piano and voice for over twenty years. She resides in Palo Alto where she spends any free time she has playing accordion, gardening, and hiking.

In Memoriam: VIRGINIA HEBEL served as accompanist to the Los Altos High School Choral Music Department for 16 years. She happily participated in the department's growth during the years to the large and exciting program it is today. Mrs. Hebel graduated from DePauw University in Indiana with an organ performance degree, and was a member of the American Guild of Organists.


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