Janet Herrick

Janet Herrick, Conductor
Sheboygan Symphony Chorus

Janet L. Herrick-Stuczynski, Associate Professor of Music and Director of the College Choirs at Lakeland College, is a graduate of Pennsylvania's Mansfield University (B.S. Music Education) and Texas Christian University (Master of Music in Voice Performance/Pedagogy) where she was elected to Pi Kappa Lambda. She taught choral and classroom music for over two decades in the Williamsport Area School District (Pa.) - MENC's first Exemplary Music Program Award recipient. She came to Lakeland from Fort Worth, Texas where she served as Assistant Choirmaster at University Christian Church and was director of the Texas Christian University Vocal Jazz Ensemble. She was later named interim Director of Choral Activities at TCU.

Professor Herrick has conducted at numerous MENC and ACDA conferences in the Northeast and Texas and conducted the Lakeland College Concert Choir's performances at the Wisconsin Choral Director's Association conferences in 1966 and 1999. She is a frequent guest conductor and clinician for scholastic and civic choruses and has prepared choruses for symphonies in Texas, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. On numerous occasions she has guest conducted the Sheboygan Symphony Orchestra. Ms. Herrick has performed in choruses or master classes conducted by Robert Shaw, Richard Miller, Eduardo Mata, Helen Boatwright, John Giordano, Robert Harris, Ronald Shirey, and others.

In 1991 she was named to Mansfield University's Music Alumni Honor Roll and was honored as Mansfield's Distinguished Educator of 1994. Ms. Herrick is a member of American Choral Directors Association, Music Educator's National Conference and National Association of Teachers of Singing. She is the founder and conductor of the 120 voice Sheboygan Symphony Chorus and the 20 voice Sheboygan Symphony Singers and performs as double bassist with the Sheboygan Symphony.

Contact Janet Herrick at: herrickjl@lakeland.edu