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Hilary Apfelstadt
Professor and Director of Choral Activities, School
of Music
Areas of Expertise
• Choral conducting and pedagogy
• Choral repertoire
• Music for women's voices
• Leadership styles among conductors
Dr. Hilary Apfelstadt is Professor of Choral Studies and Director of Choral Activities. She conducts the OSU Chorale, the Women’s Glee Club, teaches conducting and choral repertory, and coordinates the graduate conducting program. Her choirs have performed at regional and national conventions of the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) and at state and regional conferences of the National Association of Music Education (MENC). She has conducted many honor choirs and all-state choruses in Canada, the United States and in Cuba, and guest conducted in England. A prolific author, she has published over seventy articles on choral music in various refereed journals. She is a contributor to a forthcoming ACDA monograph on women conductors.
Currently national President of ACDA, Dr. Apfelstadt was a member of the Robert Shaw Festival Singers for several years and recorded two CD’s for Telarc with the Singers in France. Her degrees are from the University of Toronto, the University of Illinois and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She also has a diploma in piano performance from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. In addition to her duties at the Ohio State University, Dr. Apfelstadt is Director of Music at Linworth United Methodist Church in Columbus.
Education
• PhD, Music Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• MS, Choral music education, University of Illinois
• Bachelor's degree, music, University of Toronto
• Associate diploma, piano, Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto |
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