What can I do for you and your singers? 

I can share the knowledge of 40 years of award-winning university and professional conducting, teaching, and singing, thereby inspiring your singers to reach beyond themselves.

What have I done that I can share with your singers and student conductors?

Oklahoma State University
Between 1984 and 2000, I took a program on the wane and led it to national and international visibility - 2 national ACDA conferences, 6 SWACDA conferences, the Association of British Choral Directors (ABCD) national conference, plus 3 OMEA performances. More importantly, I , and my colleagues, crafted an approach to the study of singing that was storytelling at its best.

University of North Texas  
Between 2000 and 2015, I took a regionally-known choral singing and conducting program and led it to national and international prominence - 2 national ACDA conferences, 1 NCCO national conference, featured performances for International Choral Festivals/Competitions in Daejeon South Korea and Taipei, Taiwan, plus 3 TMEA performances and recordings for GIA and CD Baby.  In addition, during my time at UNT, we placed more than 46 of our DMA graduates in university and professional choir positions in the USA, South Korea, and Mexico. (South Korea boasts one of the foremost professional choir systems in the world. More than 25 cities support full or part-time work for singers and conductors. During my time at UNT, we placed 5 primary conductors and 1 assistant conductor with these professional choirs.)

Student Successes
Perhaps more importantly, at UNT we established a mutually supportive relationship between the voice, opera, and choral faculties which led to a broader spectrum of career opportunities for our singers. A significant number of former singers in our UNT choirs have become regular members of GRAMMY-winning professional chamber choirs, including Conspirare and Roomful of Teeth. Other of our graduates hold regular singing positions with Kinarra, the Rose Ensemble, the Santa Fe Desert Chorale, Seraphic Fire, the South Dakota Chorale, the Choral Pick-Up, Orpheus Chamber Singers, and other nationally acclaimed professional choirs.  Several others have held permanent singing positions with the Metropolitan Opera Chorus, the US Military choruses, and the 'Presidents Own' Marine Band.

ACDA
My service as chair of ACDA's College and University R&S Committee at both the divisional and national levels and my service on the National Executive Committee for 9 years (2 years as national president) opened myriad doors for my career, for which I will be ever grateful. Participation in the International Conductor Exchange Programs to Germany, Sweden, and Venezuela, as well as reciprocally hosting visiting conductors for the ICEP afforded me connections and friendships across the globe. Such networks allowed me to learn singing and conducting techniques that profoundly shaped my professional life as well as new bodies of literature that shaped my programming concepts. One of my foremost accomplishments while president of ACDA (2009-2011) was the redevelopment of the ICEP, which had lain dormant since the mid-1990's. My intent was for ACDA to redevelop and foster its international outreach program for emerging American conductors who not only would study the music of foreign lands, but also absorb elements of the cultures of the lands and peoples they visited.  

Networks
The foremost aspect of what we do as teachers/singers/conductors is create communities. In those communities we reflect our own and others' life stories. The following lists give you a glimpse, both nationally and internationally, of the widely revered conductors with whom I have interacted and learned, from singing under Eric Ericson to a class on the Bach motets with Frieder Bernius to several years of performances with the Robert Shaw Festival Singers.  To date, I have served as outside peer reviewer for thirty-five  university promotion considerations. I have worked on forty-eight university campuses in myriad events, including where I taught.

I have I been fortunate indeed.  

I hope to share with you and your students my experiences and skills

A More Detailed Listing of My Work 

Artist Residencies/Festivals/All-College Choirs/Clinics/Master Classes at Universities in the USA and Abroad:

Keimyung University, South Korea
Luleå Musikhögskolan, Piteå, Sweden 

American Colleges:

Baylor University
University of North Texas
Oklahoma State University
University of Arizona
Nichols State University
Amarillo Junior College (TX)
College of Charleston (WV) Choral Festival
CSU-Fresno (2)
Emporia State University (2)
Fresno Pacific U (CA)
Gordon College (MA)
Harding University (AR), Christian Colleges National Choral Festival Kansas State U (2)
Missouri State U
Northeastern Oklahoma
Northeastern State U (OK) 
Northern Oklahoma College
Northern State U (SD)
Northwest Missouri State U Choral Festival
Pacific Lutheran University Chorale (WA)
Portland State U (OR)
Rutgers U, New Jersey CDA College Choral Festival San Jose State U (3) (CA)
Stetson University (2)
Texas Christian University Choir
U Alabama-Birmingham
U Central Oklahoma
U Delaware (2)
U Kansas (2)
U of Montevallo (AL)
U Missouri-Kansas City (2)
U Missouri-St. Louis
U of North Texas
U of Pacific (OR)
U South Alabama
U South Dakota
U Southern California
U Southern Utah
U of Texas-Arlington A Cappella Choir (3)
U Tulsa
U West Florida
Western Michigan U
Western Washington U
Western Arkansas College
Western Oklahoma State College
Westminster Choir College 

Additional Events 

ACDA National Conference Auditions Panel (5)
ACDA National Graduate Conducting Competition, Clinician/Adjudicator ACDA National Under-Graduate Conducting Competition, Adjudicator (2)
Alabama CDA College Choral Festival (2 )
Georgia All-College Choir
Houston Two-Year College Choral Festival
Kentucky All College-Choir
Oklahoma Junior College Honors Choir
Texas Choral Directors Association, Conducting Master Class
Texas Two-year College All-State Choir 

My International Engagements/Performances/Classes 

AUSTRALIA: Sydney
Concert Presider, IFCM's 4th World Choral Symposium
Conductor, Fox Studios Australia, Excerpts from the UNT A Cappella Choir’s 2010 TMEA
Performance recordings were used as a soundtrack for Combination Fried Rice, a short film finalist for TROPFEST, Australia’s foremost Film Festival, Sydney,

AUSTRIA: Graz
Lecturer/Juror, INTERKULTUR's 5th World Choir Games
Salzburg and Vienna
Conductor/Organizer, OSU Choral Union Concert Tour

BELGIUM: Namur
Participant: International Federation for Choral Music Conductors Symposium, The Motets of Bach - Frieder Bernius, clinician

CANADA: Calgary
Juror/Clinician, Alberta Choral Fest
South Banff, Tenor/Alto, Banff Centre for the Arts Festival Chamber Choir, Eric Ericson, conductor
Ottawa (upcoming)
Guest On-Line Master Classes, Wilfrid Laurier University Department of Music, Ottawa, March 2022

CHINA: Beijing
Guest Conductor, A Texas Choral Salute to the Olympics, International Choral Music Festival Choir
Shaoxing
Lecturer/ Juror, INTERKULTUR's 6th World Choir Games
Jury Member/Lecturer, World Choir Games 

CUBA: Havana
ACDA Representative for the Cuban Summit on Choral Music, featuring US participants in the ACDA International Conductors Exchange Program (ICEP)

CZECH REPUBLIC: Prague
Conductor/Organizer, OSU Choral Union Concert Tour

DENMARK: Copenhagen
ACDA Executive Committee Rep. for the 9th IFCM World Symposium on Choral Music

ENGLAND: London
Conductor/Organizer, OSU Choral Union Concert Tour
Chester 
Guest Residency, National Convention of the Association of British Choral Directors, 

FRANCE: Souillac/Racamador/Toulouse/Gramat/Cahors
Tenor, Robert Shaw Festival Singers, concerts and recording

GERMANY: Augsburg/Bonn/Frankfurt/Hannover/Köln/Marktoberdorf/München
ACDA International Conductors Exchange Program Participant
Nuremburg
Conductor/Organizer, OSU Choral Union Concert Tour 

IRELAND: Dublin/Limmerick/Shannon
Conductor/Organizer, OSU Choral Union Concert Tour 

SOUTH KOREA: Bucheon
Guest Conductor (twice) for the Bucheon Philharmonic Chorus
Busan
Chair of the Adjudication Panel and Guest Conductor for the Festival Choir for the 13th International Choral Festival and Competition
Guest Conductor for the Bucheon Philharmonic Chorus (twice)
Daegu
Guest Conductor for the Daegu City Choir
Daejeon
1) Guest Conductor for the Daejeon Philharmonic Chorus
2) Headliner - Conducting Master Class Clinician/Lecturer and conductor of the featured UNT A Cappella Choir for the 2nd Daejeon International Choral Festival
Gyeongju
Conference Headliner and Guest Conductor/Clinician with the Anyan City Choir for sessions on Baroque singing for the Korean Federation for Choral Music national conference
Incheon
1) Guest Conductor for the Incheon City Choir
2) Conducting Master Class leader, Incheon Music Ministers Association
Keimyung University, Guest Lecturer and Conducting Master Class Clinician
Seoul
1) Lecturer/Conducting Master Class Clinician, Seoul Chorus Center
2) Conducting Master Class

SWEDEN: Stockholm and Uppsala
1) ACDA International Conductors Exchange Program Participant, Lecturer for Music I Vasternorrland, Sundsvall (Swedish CDA, Middle/Northland Choral Music Seminar)
2) Guest Lecturer, University of Luleå Musikhögskolan, Piteå
3) Guest Clinician, Luleå Kammerkor, Luleå
4) ACDA Rep. for the retirement celebration for Maestro Eric Ericson, Stockholm 

TAIWAN: Taipei
Headliner/Lecturer, 9th Taipei International Choral Festival, with featured choir - the UNT A Cappella Choir
TouFen and ChungLi, concerts with the UNT A Cappella Choir
Taipei, ACDA Representative to the BoD of the International Federation for Choral Music, annual meeting USA: Cincinnati, Ohio - Lecturer/Juror, INTERKULTUR's 7th World Choir Games

VENEZUELA: Caracas and Mérida
ACDA International Conductors Exchange Program Participant, Clinician for Cantoria de Caracas and Coro Dialecto Urbano Caracas

WALES: Chester
Association of British Choral Directors national conference, week-long participation in the conference as chorus for conducting competition, lecturer and conductor of featured concerts with the Oklahoma State University Chamber Choir.