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2004 AWARDS
4 YEAR SENIOR ALL-STATE PARTICIPANTS
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SDMEA OUTSTANDING ADMINISTRATOR AWARD
Dean Kranhold, Aberdeen
Mr. Kranhold received his
Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Music
Education from the University of South Dakota
(1962, 1966). He received his Master’s in School
Administration from Northern State University in
1976. He taught band at Clark, South Dakota for
nine years. He moved to Aberdeen in 1971 and
taught band at Holgate for 8 years before
accepting the position of band director at
Aberdeen Central in 1979. In 1983 he was name
South Dakota’s Outstanding Bandmaster. His
concert, jazz, and marching bands consistently
received superior ratings at contest. In 1984 he
accepted the position of Assistant Principal at
Aberdeen Central, where he has also been the
Fine Arts Activities Director for the past 20
years. While in high school, Dean was a member
All-State Chorus and first chair cornet in
All-State Band. He was first chair trumpet in
the National Intercollegiate Band in 1961. He is
a charter member of the Watertown Big Band. He
has toured Europe on three occasions with the
‘Midwest Ambassador’s of Music.’ In 2002, Dean
was elected to the SDHSAA Board of Directors for
a five year term. In 2004 he was named to the
Dakota Music Hall of Fame. Dean has served as a
guest soloist, clinician, judge, and guest
conductor throughout South Dakota. Dean’s wife,
Valerie, and their three children, Lara, Jason,
and Taryn, are all accomplished musicians in
their own right.
SDMEA DISTINGUISHED SERVICE TO MUSIC AWARD
Allan Jacobson
Dr Allan Jacobson attended Sunbeam School in Day
County's Scotland Township for eight years and began
his piano study in Andover with Sarah Price. He
continued his education at Bristol High School and
Northern State College, where he was a piano student
of Merritt Johnson and assisted John Berggren as
accompanist of the Collegiate Choir. At Northern he
was a trumpet soloist with the college band and
piano soloist with the orchestra in his senior year.
Dr Jacobson received a University Fellowship to the
University of Wisconsin in Madison where he received
the Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts
degrees, studying piano with Tait Sanford Barrows
and theory with Bruce Benward. He was on the faculty
of Lawrence Conservatory in Appleton, Wisonsin for
six years at the beginning of his teaching career.
This is his 29th year on the faculty of Northern
State University, where he teaches Advanced Music
Theory, piano, organ, and composition. Through the
years Dr Jacobson has performed as piano soloist,
accompanist, church organist, choral accompanist,
and chamber musician, with particularly active and
rewarding collaborations with pianist Alyce Berggren
and clarinetist Alan LaFave. Dr Jacobson has
accompanied five All-State Choruses, including this
one, and six South Dakota High School Honor Choirs.
In 2003 he received the
Friend of the Arts Award for Distinction in Creative
Achievement from the Aberdeen Area Arts Council. Dr
Jacobson is a published composer and has written
works in various musical media, with special
interest in choral compositions.
NFHS MUSIC ASSOCIATION
“OUTSTANDING MUSIC EDUCATORS” AWARD
Charles Canaan
As director of choral activities at South Dakota
State University (SDSU) for 17 years, Charles Canaan
was tenured in 1989 and awarded emeritus status in
2003. He has taught applied voice, music education
methods
and choral conducting at the collegiate level, and
conducted girls and boys choir at five different
junior high and high schools in three different
states throughout his career. Before he moved to
South Dakota, Canaan was a tenured teacher in the
Michigan Public School System. He was the junior
high honors choir director in 1975 for the Michigan
School Vocal Association and international choir
director at the Blue Lake Michigan Fine Arts Camp
for three years. But South Dakota has been home for
the better part of the past two decades for Canaan,
and it was in this state that he was awarded the
South Dakota American Choral Directors Association (ACDA)
Lifetime Achievement Award and the SDSU Outstanding
Educator of the Year Award. Under his direction,
three SDSU concert choirs performed in the American
Choral Directors Association North Central Regional
conventions, and five other choirs performed at the
South Dakota ACDA State Convention.
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