Mr. David Howard

Associate Director of Choirs
Stephen F. Austin State University
Nacogdoches, Texas

D.M.A. (ABD), Michigan State University
M.M. (vocal performance), University of Central Oklahoma
B.M.E., University of Central Oklahoma

Background
DAVID HOWARD is Associate Director of Choirs at Stephen F. Austin State University where he conducts the Choral Union and SFA Women’s Choir. Prior to his appointment at SFA, Mr. Howard taught at the junior high and high school level in the Oklahoma City area. His choirs’ performances at festivals in Texas, Illinois, and Colorado were warmly received. He also served as artistic director/conductor of two auditioned civic choruses: the Steiner Chorale in Lansing, Michigan and the Midwest Choral Society in Midwest City, Oklahoma.

In addition to choral conducting, Mr. Howard maintains an active solo performance schedule with frequent oratorio and cantata presentations by churches, university choirs, community choirs, and schools. Mr. Howard has also appeared in various opera productions including the University of Central Oklahoma Opera Theater productions of Handel’s Samson and Strauss’s Die Fledermaus. As a recitalist, Mr. Howard has often performed the music of Bach, Vaughan Williams, Finzi, Schumann, and Schubert with pianist Manuel Antonio Carrillo.

Mr. Howard is a member of the International Federation for Choral Music, the American Choral Directors Association, the National Collegiate Choral Organization, the College Music Society, Pi Sigma Alpha honorary fraternity (Mortar Board), and Alpha Chi honorary fraternity. Mr. Howard is listed in Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in the World, and in Who’s Who among America’s Teachers.

He has completed the Bachelor of Music Education degree and Master of Music degree in vocal performance (cum laude) at the University of Central Oklahoma and is a candidate for the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in choral conducting from Michigan State University. His principal conducting teachers were David Rayl, Jonathan Reed, and Sandra Snow.

Listen to some audio excerpts of Mr. Howard's performances:

Lord God of Abraham from Mendelssohn's Elijah (3:31)

La mer erst infinie from Faure's L'Horizon chemérique, Op. 118, No.1 (1:33)

Ich grolle nicht from Schumann's Dichterliebe, Op. 48, No. 7 (1:37)

Di provenza from Verdi's La Traviata (3:59)

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