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Director - Dr. John H. Dickson

John H. Dickson is Director of Choral Studies and Chair of the Conducting Division at Texas Tech University where he conducts the University Choir, Madrigal Singers and the Lubbock Chorale, and supervises the D.M.A., PhD., and M.M. programs in choral conducting. In January 2007, his Texas Tech University Choir was featured in the National Endowment of the Arts American Masterpieces Music Festival - Crossing the Divide: Exploring Influence and Finding Our Voice, Austin, Texas. Other recent invitational performances include the 2005 ACDA national

convention in Los Angeles, preceded by invitational performances for the Texas Music Educators Association conference in San Antonio and the American Choral Directors Association Southwest Regional convention in Little Rock in the spring of 2004. In 2002, the Choir represented the U.S. as the only American choir selected to perform for the Association of British Choral Directors national convention in York, England. He has served as conductor and guest clinician for numerous state, regional, and national ACDA conventions, All-State choruses, and choral festivals around the world. Internationally known as a conducting pedagogue, he has presented master-classes before the ABCD, the Russian State Music Conservatories of St. Petersburg and Moscow and workshops throughout England, Wales, Scotland, Finland, France, and Canada. He is the founder and Artistic Director for the Cambridge University, St. John's College /Texas Tech University Summer Choral Institute. Dr. Dickson is also Musical and Founding Director of the C. S. Lewis Foundation's Oxbridge Choral Institute, a professional chorus serving the triennial symposium in Oxford and Cambridge. The Choral Journal and The Mastersinger have published his articles on a holistic approach to conducting. Appointed as a Visiting Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge University, Dr. Dickson sang with Sir David Willcocks and The Bach Choir in London. A second post-doctoral fellowship allowed him to serve as principal rehearsal conductor for The Bach Choir in Musical Director David Hill's absence. He is the current Vice-President for TCDA college division. A strong advocate for church music and a church musician for over thirty years, he presently serves as minister of music for St. Paul's on the Plains Episcopal Church in Lubbock. He holds the D.M.A. degree in choral conducting from The University of Texas at Austin, the M.M. degree in music history and literature from Baylor University, and has done post-doctoral study at Cambridge University, Cambridge, England.