Experience
Director of Choral Activities, 1994-2015, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA.
Conductor/Artistic Director, Stockton Chorale, 1999-2010, Stockton, CA. including tours to Eastern Europe,
Italy, Ireland & Scotland
Conductor, Stockton Youth Chorale, 1995-1999, Stockton, CA.
Director of Choral Activities, 1993-94, California State University at Sacramento.
Teaching Assistant 1990-93, University of Iowa. Opera Chorus director (Spring 1993, Spring 1991), Madrigal
Dinner musical director (Fall 1992, Fall 1991), assistant conductor of Kantorei (1991-92), conductor of
Women’s Chorale (Fall 1990).
Music Director 1986-89, The Boy Singers of Maine, Portland, ME. Musical direction of the Touring and
Training Choirs, organization of yearly program and summer camp, recruitment, fund raising and grant
writing.
Education
Doctor of Musical Arts, University of Iowa (1999) Thesis topic: The Spanish Corales of Vicente Emilio Sojo
Masters of Music in Choral Conducting 1992, Boston Conservatory of Music, Boston, MA
Bachelor of Music Education (vocal and instrumental) 1981, Hartt School of Music, University of Hartford,
Hartford, CT
Certificate 1980, Kodály Musical Training Institute (over three summers)
1. New England Conservatory (1978)
2. Hartt School (1979)
3. Keschkemet, Hungary (January, 1980)
4. Hartt School (1980)
Prepared to Teach
Choral ensembles of all ages and levels
Choral Conducting and Choral Literature
Choral Methodology (Elementary to Secondary)
Kodály Methodology
Ear Training & Theory
Music History & Performance Practice
Diction for Singers
Gregorian Chant
Improvisation/Jazz harmony (piano and/or vocal)
Teaching in Ireland
Kodály Teacher Training: Athlone (Midlands) Education Center 2010-2012, West Cork Education Center 2011-
2012
Other workshops: Maynooth University Chamber Choir & Atonality through Tonality:
Kodály on Steriods – Carlow Community Chorus - Avondale Singers
Dublin Institute of Technology Chorus, May 2008
University College Dublin conducting class, March 2009
Training Choir Pro-Catherdal, Dublin (Kodály methods)
Primary schools: Christ the King, Cabra; St. Finbarr’s, Cabra; Rahugh; Kilbeggan
Church Music
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Lodi, CA (2004-2009)
Cathedral Choir Director - Cathedral of the Annunciation, Stockton Diocese (1996-2002)
Guest Conducting
Sacramento District MENC Honor Choir Festival, Sacramento, CA (2/1999)
San Joaquin Honor Choir Festival, Stockton, CA (1/1998)
Stanislaus County Honor Choir Festival, Modesto, CA (3/1997)
San Joaquin Honor Choir Festival, Stockton, CA (1/2002)
Annual Tri-College Concert, Stockton, CA (2000-2005 )
Stockton Symphony Orchestra annual Holiday concerts (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005)
San Joaquin ACDA Honor Choir Festival, Stockton, CA (11/2006)
Sacramento District MENC Honor Choir Festival, Sacramento, CA (2/2007)
Publication - Juried
ACDA Choral Journal, “Aural Theory Training in the Choral Warm-Up: A Warm-Up Curriculum”, May 2003,
Edward Cetto and Gabrielle Dietrich
Non-Juried
The Serapeum: Ancient Wisdom Applied to the Needs of Today’s Humanity, “In Praise of Paul Haggis’
CRASH”
In Progress
Accessing Atonality Through Tonality: A Study of Stravinsky’s “The Dove Descending”
CD Publication
Singing the Buddha’s Praises – Classic Buddhist Prayers Set to Gregorian Chant
Convention Performance and Panelist
Adjudicator - Student Conducting Competition, American Choral Directors Association
National Convention, Chicago (2/1999)
Round Table Discussion Panelist, American Choral Directors Association National
Convention, Chicago (2/1999)
Workshop – “Atonality through Tonality, Really Movable Do”, Bay Music Educators
Conference, San Francisco (1/2000)
Workshop – “Zen and Choral Music, Developing Concentration in the Rehearsal”, Bay
Music Educators Conference, San Francisco (1/2000)
Workshop – Music in the Classroom, In-Service Stockton Unified School District Music
Teachers, Stockton (3/2001)
Annual Adjudicator, Golden Empire Festival, CSU Sacramento, CA (1993-2003)
Annual Adjudicator, Sacramento Invitational Choral Festival, Sacramento, CA
(2003-2007)
Professional Affiliations
American Choral Directors’ Association, 1990-2005, 2010-2012
American Guild of Organists, 1993-1996
International Federation of Choral Conductors, 2001-2004
U. S. Contacts
Robert Halseth, Director of Bands, California State University, Sacramento windicti@pacbell.net (916)278-7217
Gabrielle Dietrich, Doctoral student, former UOP student; master’s graduate in choral conducting from
Colorado University, Boulder; graduate Kodály Institute, Kesckemet, Hungary & my co-author
jiminycricket81@yahoo.com (303)815-7724
April Hejka-Ekins, Director of Graduate Studies in Public Administration, California State University, Stanislaus
& member of the Stockton Chorale AHejka-Ekins@csustan.edu (209)667-7486
Irish Contacts
Ciaran Crilly, Conductor University Dublin Orchestra, ciaran.crilly@ucd.ie
Orla Flanagan Trinity Choral Lecturer, Kodály specialist, flanago@gmail.com
Marina Lynch, Christ the King National School, marinalyn@gmail.com
Blanaid Murphy, Conductor of the Pro-Cathedral Choirs, Dublin, blanaid@procathedral.ieMurphy
Ruaidhri O'Dalaigh, Conductor of the Avondale Singers, ruaidhri77@gmail.com
Works Conducted
Pange Lingua Variations
Ceremony of Carols
The Place of the Blest
Stabat Mater
Stabat Mater
Magnificat
Ode on Saint Cecilia's Day
The Happy Prince
Come, Ye Sons of Art
Cantique de Jean Racine
Chichester Psalms
Vier Gesänge, Op. 17
Crown of the Year
Gloria
Amen
Song of Democracy
Serenade to Music
Dona Nobis Pacem from Mass in B Minor w/ the Stockton Symphony & Pacific Singers
Gloria
O Sacrum Convivium
Symphony of Psalms
Cantata No. 29 Wir Danken Dir, gott, Wir Danken dir
Cantata No. 147 Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben
Cantata Saint Nicholas
Savitri: A Hindu tale from the Mahabharata
The Lamentations of Jeremiah
Pavane
Missa Brevis
Mass in e minor, version 1882
"Triumphal Scene" from Aida
Magnificat
Requiem
Et in Terra Pax
Jubilate Deo
Choral Dances from Gloriana
Jubilate Deo for Peace of Utrecht
Gloria (RB 589)
Cantata No. 140 Wachet auf, sei dir gesungen
"Witches' Scene," Dido & Aeneas
Fantasia on Christmas Carols
Laetatus Sum
In the Beginning
Choral Fantasy
Requiem
Piano Concerto, K 466
Brockes Passion
My Spirit Sang All Day;
Stockton Chorale 50th Anniversary Commission
Dona nobis pacem
Ave Maria
Hymb to St. Cecilia
Freu dich erloeste Schar, BWV 30
Ave Maria
In Rememberance
Gloria from Mass in B minor
The King Shall Rejoice
Elohim Hashivenu
Gaudete!
Gloria
Bogorodiste Devo (Ave Maria)
Cantique de Jean Racine
They All Sang YAnkee Doodle
The Earth is Our Mother
A New Creation
Solemn Vespers, KV 339
Dido & Aeneas
Jephte
O sacrum convivium
Gates of Justice
Frostiana (complete)
Song of Democracy
There will be rest
Ode to St. Cecilia
Mass in C, Op. 86
The Blessed Son of God
Magnificat
O Magnum Mysterium
Mass
Requiem
Fern Hill
Chichester Psalms
MEssiah, Part I complete
Requiem
Piano Concerto K. 467
Ave Maria
Mass in G
Te Deum in C
Eligesche Gessange
Coronation Mass
Village Wedding
In terra pax
Messiah (Christmas complete)
Elijah
Requiem
Requiem
When David heard
Frostiana (complete)
The dove descending breaks the air
Due cori
Paukenmesse Franz
Piano Concerto No. 11 in D
Jubilate for the Peace of Utrecht
Composer
Dave Brubeck
Benjamin Britten
Randall Thompson
Giovanni Pergolesi
J.G. Rheinberger
John Tavener
G.F. Handel
Malcolm Williamson
Henry Purcell
Gabriel Fauré
Leonard Bernstein
Johannes Brahms
Sir Michael Tippett
John Rutter
Henryk Górecki
Howard Hanson
R. Vaughan Williams
J.S. Bach
Francis Poulenc
Olivier Messiaen
Igor Stravinsky
J.S. Bach
J.S. Bach
Benjamin Britten
Gustav Holst
Alberto Ginastra
Gabriel Fauré
Benjamin Britten
Anton Bruckner
Giuseppe Verdi
J.S. Bach
Giuseppe Verdi
Gerald Finzi
Henry Purcell
Benjamin Britten
G.F. Handel
Antonio Vivaldi
J.S. Bach
Henry Purcell
R. Vaughan Williams
Claudio Monteverdi
Aaron Copland
L. van Beethoven
W.A. Mozart
W.A. Mozart
G.F. Handel
Ron Caviani
R. Vaughan Williams
David Conte
Benjamin Britten
J.S. Bach
Javier Busto
Eleanor Daley
J.S. Bach
G.F. Handel
Salmone Rossi
Steven Sametz
John Rutter
Serge Rachmaninoff
Gabriel Faure
Dave Brubeck
Dave Brubeck
Rene Clausen
W.A. Mozart
Henry Purcell
Giacomo Carissimi
William Byrd
Dave Brubeck
Randall Thompson
Howard Hanson
Frank Ticheli
G.F. Handel
L. van Beethoven
R. Vaughan Williams
D. Bustehude
M. Lauridsen
I. Stravinsky
Gabriel Faure
John Corigliano
Leonard Bernstein
G.F. Handel
W.A. Mozart
W.A. Mozart
Josquin Depres
Franz Schubert
Franz Haydn
L. van Beethoven
W.A. Mozart
John Tavener
Gerald Finzi
G.F. Handel
Mendelssohn
Gabriel Faure
John Rutter
Eric Whitacre
Randall Thompson
I. Stravinsky
Luigi Dallapiccola
Josef Haydn
F.J. Haydn
G.F. Handel
Performance Date
October 1994
December 1994
March 1994
March 1994
March 1994
May 1995
May 1995
May 1995
October 1995
December 1995
March 1996
April 1996
April 1996
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May 1996
September 1996
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October 1996
December 1996
March 1997
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December 1997
December 1997
December 1997
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March 1998
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April 1998
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September 1998
October 1998
November 1998
December 1998
March 1999
March 1999
May 1999
May 1999
October 1999
October 1999
December 1999
March 2000
October 2000
October 2000 / May 1996
November 2000
November 2000
March 2001
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May 2001
January 2002
January 2002
January 2002
Fall 2002
Fall 2002
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December 2002
December 2002
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April 2003
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October 2003
Fall 2003
January 2004
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April 2005
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October 2006
October 2006
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December 2006
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December 2007
April 2008
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May 2009
October 2009
October 2009
October 2008
October 2009
October 2009
October 2009
October 2009
Some works prepared for other conductors
Britten - 1995- War Requiem, The Boy Singers of Maine, (Portland Symphony Orchestra, Toshi Shimada) 1988
(Leningrad Symphony, Alexander Dmitriev) 1989, summer festival in Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia
Bernstein - Chichester Psalms (Boston Conservatory, Allen Lannom) 1986
Crumb - Ancient Voices of Children (Portland Symphony Orchestra, Toshi Shimada1998)
Stravinsky - Symphony of Psalms (University of the Pacific, Eric Hammer) 1996
Verdi - Requiem (Stockton Symphony, Peter Jaffe) 1998, Aida (Act II) (Stockton Opera Association, George
Buckbee) 1998
Puccini – La Boheme (Stockton Opera, Peter Jaffe) 2000
Bizet – Carmen (Stockton Opera, Peter Jaffe) 2001
Orff - Carmina Burana, UOP Choral Ensembles, Stockton Chorale (Stockton Symphony, Peter Jaffe) 2002
Strauss, Johann – Die Fledermaus (Stockton Opera, Peter Jaffe) 2003
Brahms Requiem - UOP Choral Ensembles (UOP Symphony, Nicolas Waldvogel) 2003
Beethoven Ninth Symphony – UOP Choral Ensembles (UOP Symphony, Nicolas Waldvogel) 2003
Prokofiev - Alexander Nevsky, UOP Choral Ensembles, Stockton Chorale (Stockton Symphony, Peter Jaffe)
2003
Verdi – La Traviata (Stockton Opera, Peter Jaffe) 2004
Beethoven Choral Fantasie (Stockton Symphony, Peter Jaffe) 2004
Holst Planets (Stockton Symphony, Peter Jaffe) 2004
Elgar - The Dream of Gerontius UOP Choral Ensembles (UOP Symphony, Nicolas Waldvogel) 2005
Walton – Belshazzar’s Feast, UOP Choral Ensembles, Stockton Chorale (Stockton Symphony, Peter Jaffe)
2006
Brahms Requiem -UOP Choral Ensembles, Stockton Chorale (Stockton Symphony, Peter Jaffe) 2008
Mascagni – Excerpts from Cavalleria Rusticana & Verdi’s Aida UOP Choral Ensembles (UOP Symphony,
Nicolas Waldvogel) 2009