Julie Yu (D.M.A.), Oklahoma City, was named director of choral activities at the Wanda L. Bass School of Music at Oklahoma City University and artistic director of Canterbury Voices, Oklahoma’s premier symphony chorus. She will spearhead the artistic direction for the university’s four major choirs and conduct the Chamber Choir and Ad Astra women’s chorus in addition to teaching. Dr. Yu led Kansas State University’s undergraduate choral ensembles and graduate choral program and was co-director of choral studies since 2007. She has conducted choral performances at Carnegie Hall, the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., as well as in Austria, Czech Republic and France. She was an American Choral Directors Association International Conducting Exchange Fellow to Kenya in 2019. She is past president of ACDA's Southwestern Region.