Aimee Beckmann-Collier is Director of Choral Studies at Drake University, where she has taught since 1989. She is a frequent clinician, adjudicator, and guest conductor for high school and college choral festivals and contests throughout the country. She has conducted the New York, Nebraska, Colorado, Utah, and Missouri All-State Choruses, the New England Music Festival, and the Iowa Collegiate and Community Chorus Honors Choirs. She has twice conducted in Carnegie Hall and choirs under her direction have sung for the American Choral Directors Association North Central Division convention. In addition, she has conducted the Drake Choir and Chamber Choir in England, Austria, Italy, Germany, and the Czech Republic. She has also served on the adjudication panel for the American Choral Directors Association national conducting competition.

Dr. Beckmann-Collier is President-Elect of the North Central Division of the American Choral Directors Association and has served ACDA in a number of capacities, including President of the Iowa Choral Directors Association and chairperson of the 1992 ACDA North Central Division convention, as well as editor of Melisma, the ACDA North Central Division journal, and Sounding Board, ICDA's quarterly publication. Her articles on Renaissance performance practices, music of the Classical period, and teaching critical thinking skills in the choral rehearsal have been published in the Choral Journal. Currently she is the chair of the Iowa Comprehensive Musicianship Project, a mastery teaching program for music educators.

A graduate of Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana, which presented her with its first Distinguished Music Alumna Award, Dr. Beckmann-Collier received master's and doctoral degrees in choral conducting from the University of Iowa where she studied with Don Moses. She received Drake University's Madelyn Levitt Award for Distinguished Community Service, the Iowa Music Educators Association Distinguished Service Award, and the National Federation Interscholastic Music Association Iowa Outstanding Music Educator Award.