Southwestern
AR, CO, KS, MO, NM, OK, TX
Arkansas
Program: MM
Faculty: Ryan Sullivan, Director of Choral Activities; Cherie Collins, Assistant Director of Choral Activities
Program: MM
Faculty: Jeffrey Murdock, Director of Choral Activities; Stephen Caldwell, Associate Choral Faculty
Program: MM
Faculty: Kevin Coker, Director of Choral Activities; Paul Mayhew, Choral Music Education
Additional Information: Please contact Dr. Kevin Coker at kcoker@uca.edu for audition and application information.
Colorado
Programs: MM, DMA
Faculty: Gregory Gentry, Director of Choral Studies; Elizabeth Swanson, Associate Director of Choral Studies
Additional Information: Please contact Dr. Gregory Gentry at gregory.gentry@colorado.edu for questions. Live auditions required for assistantship potential. For more information visit https://www.colorado.edu/music/
academics/departments/conducting
Programs: MM, Artist Diploma
Faculty: Catherine Sailer, Director of Choral Activities
Programs: MM, DA
Faculty: Jill Burgett, Interim Director of Choral Activities
Kansas
Programs: MM, DMA
Faculty: Eduardo Garcia-Novelli, Director of Choral Activities; Melissa Grady, Choral Music Education
Program: MM
Faculty: Joshua Oppenheim, Co-Director of Choral Activities; Julie Yu-Oppenheim, Co-Director of Choral Activities
Missouri
Programs: MM, Choral Studies Certificate
Faculty: Cameron LaBarr, Director of Choral Studies; Erin Plisco, Associate Director of Choral Studies
Programs: MM, DMA
Faculty: Jennaya Robison, Raymond R. Neevel/Missouri Associate Professor in Choral Music and Director of Choral Studies
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Programs: MM
Faculty: Tony Thornton, Director of Choral and Vocal Studies, Doug and Nickie Burns Endowed Chair in Choral Music; Christopher Haygood, Associate Director of Choral Studies
Additional Information: Private studio instruction combined with ample podium time is at the core of the curriculum. Assistantships are available. Choral/Vocal Division Website
Programs: MM, DMA
Faculty: Richard Zielinski, Director of Choral Activities; David Howard, Associate Director of Choral Activities
Texas
Programs: MM, DMA
Faculty: Lynne Gackle, Director of Choral Activities
Program: MM
Faculty: Joshua Bronfman, Director of Choral Activities; Sandy Hinkley, Associate Director of Choral Activities
Program: MM
Faculty: Pamela Elrod Huffman, Director of Choral Activities
Additional Information: For more information on the MM program, go to this link: https://www.smu.edu/Meadows/
AreasOfStudy/Music/GraduateStudies/
Conducting/Choral.
Information on the choral program can be found at this link: https://www.smu.edu/Meadows/AreasOfStudy/
Music/Ensembles/MeadowsChoirs
Programs: MM, DMA
Faculty: Christopher Aspaas, Director of Choral Activities
Program: MM
Faculty: Joey Martin, Director of Choral Activities; Jonathan Babcock, Interim Director of Choral Activities; Lynn Brinckmeyer, Director of Choral Music Education; Craig Hella Johnson, Artist in Residence; Craig Aamot, Senior Lecturer in Choral Studies
Additional Information: https://choirs.music.txstate.edu
TXST/Conspirare International Choral Symposium every even-numbered summer.
Programs: MM, DMA
Faculty: Alan Zabriskie, Director of Choral Studies; Carolyn Cruse, Associate Director of Choral Studies; John Hollins, Associate Director of Choral Studies
Additional Information: Please contact Alan Zabriskie (alan.zabriskie@ttu.edu) for audition and application information. Also visit: https://www.depts.ttu.edu/music/ensembles/
choral.php
Programs: MM, DMA
Faculty: Charles Hausmann, Professor of Choral Studies; Betsy Cook Weber, Director of Choral Studies; Jeb Mueller, Associate Director of Choral Studies
Programs: MM, DMA
Faculty: Allen Hightower, Director of Choral Studies; Christina Caswell MacMullen, Associate Professor of Choral Studies; Jessica Napoles, Choral Music Education
Programs: MM, DMA
Faculty: J.D. Burnett, Director of Choral Activities; Suzanne Pence, Associate Professor of Music and Human Learning, Choral Conducting