Dr. Janet Galván, professor of music at Ithaca College, conducts the Women's Chorale, the Ithaca College Chorus, and is Artistic Director for the Ithaca Children's Choir. Dr. Galván has prepared choruses for many conductors including Lukas Foss, Carl St. Clair, Eji Oue, Gisele Ben-Dor, Richard Westenberg, and Grant Llewellyn. Dr. Galván’s contribution to choral music was recognized by her New York colleagues in 1995 when she received the New York Outstanding Choral Director Award. In 2007 she received Ithaca College's Excellence in Service Award. 

Dr. Galván has conducted all-state choruses throughout the United States. She was the 6th national honor choir conductor in the  history of ACDA, and she has conducted numerous regional ACDA and MENC honor choirs.  Dr. Galván was the conductor of the North American Children's Chorale which performed annually in Carnegie Hall from its creation in 1995 until 2005.  In 2002 she conducted the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.  Her own choral groups have been chosen to perform at national, regional, and state music conferences, in Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, at invitational choral festivals, and in concerts in the United Kingdom and Europe.  

Galván has served as a clinician at national, regional, and state conferences of ACDA and MENC.  She has also been featured at the  VII Curso Internacional de Regencia Coral in Brazil and in workshops in the United Kingdom, Belgium, Canada, and the 2002 World Symposium on Choral Music. Galván has been recognized as one of the country’s leading conducting teachers, and her students have received first place awards and been finalists in both the graduate and undergraduate divisions of the ACDA biennial National Choral Conducting Competition. 

 Dr. Galván was one of the invited authors for GIA’s second edition of Teaching Music through Performance in Choir. Her expertise in treble repertoire led to an association with Roger Dean Publishing Company in the origin of two choral series for treble voices.  She is also the series advisor to Latin Accents, a series with Boosey & Hawkes.  Dr. Galván contributed a chapter on movement in the choral rehearsal to GIA’s The School Choral Program: Philosophy, Planning, Organizing and Teaching. Her article on the changing voice was published in the International Federation of Choral Music Journal in August of 2007 and has been reprinted in other international journals.  Dr. Galván was a member of the Grammy Award-winning Robert Shaw Festival Singers during Mr. Shaw's final years.