Alissa Mercurio Rowe is an active choral conductor and voice teacher. Since 2002, she has held instructor positions at Southeastern Louisiana University. During the summers of 2003 and 2004 she served as a member of the All-State voice faculty at Interlochen Arts Academy. She conducts the Southeastern Concert Choir, Southeastern Louisiana University's premiere choral ensemble, with which she conducted the world premiere of Theodore Morrison's Canzoni d'amore in 2004 and Stephen Suber's His Rhythm! in November. She is active as an adjudicator, has given choral and vocal workshops in the Midwest and Southeastern states and has conducted numerous Honor Choirs.

Ms. Rowe is a versatile performer who regularly performs a wide variety of works such as the Beethoven's Mass in C, Messiah of Handel, Pergolesi's Stabat Mater and Schubert's Mass in G, as well as opera roles in La Cenerentola, The Consul, Magic Flute and La Perichole, among others. Having been a conducting participant in 2002, Ms, Rowe returned to the Conductor's Retreat at Medomak (Maine) as a soloist and sang two performances of Barber's Knoxville Summer of 1915. She also performed and recorded three roles in David Schiff's opera Gimpel the Fool, conducted by Kenneth Kiesler, with Third Angle, Portland Oregon's renowned new music ensemble. Ms. Rowe is also active as a recitalist.

Ms. Rowe holds a Master of Music in Conducting, a Master of Music in Vocal Performance, a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance and Teacher Certification K-12 from the University of Michigan. In August, she began course work for a Doctorate of Musical Arts in Conducting at Louisiana State University and continues teaching part-time at Southeastern.

Dr. Allen has been the Director of Choral Activities since the fall of 1983. His choirs have appeared before the Louisiana Music Educators Convention and the Louisiana All state Choir on several occasions. They have also appeared three times at the Louisiana ACDA/LMEA Fall Vocal Music Conference. Dr. Allen received his Bachelor and Master of Music Education degrees from the University of Kansas. After teaching high school in Warren, MI from 1970-73, and also serving as Choral Director of Macomb County Community College from 1971-73, he returned to the University of Kansas as the Assistant Director of Choral Activities from 1973-77. He earned the DMA in Conducting from Kansas in 1977 and accepted the position of Assistant Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities at William Woods and Westminster College in Fulton, MO. From 1981 to 1985 he served as one of the conductors of the high school choirs at the National Music Camp in Interlochen, MI. In addition to studying conducting with James Ralston and George Lawner at the University of Kansas, he has also studied under Marcel Couroud at the University of Oklahoma and with Robert Shaw at Emory University. Dr. Allen also has written several grants related to the implementation of Electronic Technologies into Music and Music Education. These grants have been responsible for more than a quarter of a million dollars in equipment and supplies for Northwestern.