Odell Zeigler, IV, is currently the choral director at the Visual & Performing Arts Academy at Booker T. Washington High School in Norfolk, Virginia. He conducts the Concert Choir, Women’s Chorale, Men’s Chorus, and Mixed Chorus. In addition, he teaches Music Appreciation, Ap Music Theory and serves as the Head JV Boys Basketball Coach.
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An active clinician, and public speaker, Odell has presented music education workshops at the 2023 ACDA Voice United Conference, Colorado Music Educators Conference, Georgia Music Educators Conference, Illinois Music Educators Conference, Louisiana Music Educators Conference, Massachusetts Music Educators Conference, 2019 Millikin University’s NAfME Eastern Division Conference, cNAfME Collegiate Workshops, South Carolina Choral Directors Association Conference, South Dakota Music Educators Conference, the 2021 National Art Schools Network Conference in Chicago, and the 2022 NAfME  National Conference in Maryland. Odell has also written for the Teaching Music Magazine (NAfME), the Massachusetts Music Educator Journal, the ChorTeach online teaching journal and is a featured blogger for ACDA’s online choral community blog website “ChoralNet.

”Odell is an active member of the American Choral Directors Association, the National Association for Music Education, and the National Association of Negro Musicians, INC. In addition, Odell is a member of the Virginia Symphony Orchestra’s Education Committee. Odell holds a B.A. (Music & Psychology) from North Central College in Naperville, Illinois, holds an M.M.Ed. from the University of Rhode Island, and has an M. Ed (Educational Leadership with a Principal Certification Endorsement) from Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas.