2027 Guest Artist

Jo-Michael Scheibe is Professor Emeritus of Choral and Sacred Music at the USC Thornton School of Music, where he chaired the Department of Choral and Sacred Music from 2008 to 2020 and continued as a full-time professor through December 2022. He has enjoyed a distinguished career as a conductor, teacher, clinician, and scholar, with professional engagements throughout the United States and internationally.

Scheibe served as National President of the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) from 2011 to 2013 and has held numerous national and regional leadership positions within the organization. He also served on the Board of the International Federation for Choral Music from 2020 to 2023. Under his leadership, his ensembles have performed at seven national ACDA conventions, two national conventions of the National Association for Music Education, the National Conference of the National Collegiate Choral Organization, and the World Choral Symposium in South Korea.

An active guest conductor and clinician, Scheibe has conducted and taught throughout the United States and in Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and South America. His international engagements have included tours and appearances in Taiwan, Ireland, Italy, Malaysia, Austria, South Korea, Turkey, South Africa, Thailand, Ecuador, Poland, the Baltic States, Australia, and New Zealand. He has worked with choirs of all levels and has conducted workshops and clinics for conductors, teachers, and singers internationally.

In 2023, Scheibe was named a U.S. Fulbright Scholar to Ireland, where he was based at the Irish Institute for Music and Song near Dublin. During his Fulbright residency, he conducted Cór Fingal and the IIMS Chamber Choir (now Lorica), taught conducting at the Institute, and worked with choirs throughout Ireland and Northern Ireland.

Scheibe has collaborated with internationally renowned artists including Luciano Pavarotti, José Carreras, the Rolling Stones, Sir Elton John, the Eagles, and Kenny Loggins, and has prepared choruses for such distinguished conductors as Helmuth Rilling, Sir Colin Davis, Michael Tilson Thomas, James Conlon, James Judd, Carl St. Clair, Jeffrey Kahane, and Jamie Martin. Recordings of his ensembles have appeared on the Albany, Cane, Centaur, Naxos, Arsis, and ANS labels.

He is editor and co-author of Teaching Music Through Performance—Choir, Volumes 4 and 5, and the Jo-Michael Scheibe Choral Series is distributed internationally by leading music publishers. Scheibe earned his DMA from the University of Southern California and his BA and MM degrees from California State University, Long Beach, where he was recognized as a Distinguished Graduate.

In 2027, Scheibe will return to Italy as a member of the faculty of the Sarteano Choral Workshop, continuing a long-standing commitment to international choral education and the development of conductors and singers.