RODNEY EICHENBERGER

Rodney Eichenberger is Professor of Choral Music at The Florida State University where he conducts the Chamber Choir, teaches graduate choral conducting, choral techniques and conducting pedagogy. He has lectured and guest conducted extensively throughout the United States and abroad. He has conducted more than sixty-five US All State Choirs and lectured and guest conducted at a number of regional and national conventions of the American Choral Directors Association.

Professor Eichenberger is the program coordinator for the choral conducting division of International Workshops with recent summer seminars held in Biarritz and Lyon, France; Glasgow, Scotland; Graz, Austria and Stavanger, Norway. He annually teaches a choral conducting workshop at Portland State University's Haystack Festival of the Arts held in Cannon Beach. His instructional video on choral conducting with Andre Thomas, "What They See Is What You Get," released in 1994 by Hinshaw Music Company, is now in its eighth printing.

For the past 25 years, he has been an active participant in choral music education in Australia and New Zealand. In 1995 he was scholar in residence at the University of Western Australia under the auspices of the Fulbright Commission. For a number of years he has been an Honorary Patron of the Australian Intervarsity Choral Society and in 1997 the governing board of the Australian National Choral Association granted him an Honorary Life Membership. Instrumental in the inauguration of the New Zealand Choral Federation, he was an official U.S. Cultural Ambassador to that country during their sesquicentennial celebration. He guest conducted and lectured at the Swedish Choral Directors Association Convention in Orebro, Sweden in 1992, presented sessions at the Third World Symposium of Choral Music in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1993, presented workshops at "Buenos Aires Sings," the First International School and Youth Choral Festival in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1997. In 1999 he was a featured clinician at the International Summer School of Conducting in Brisbane, Australia, guest conducted the Association of International Schools Honor Choir in Vienna, Austria and presented lectures at the Fifth World Symposium of Choral Music in Rotterdam, Holland.

Professor Eichenberger holds the Bachelor of Arts degree from St. Olaf College and the Master of Arts degree from the University of Denver, with advanced study at the University of Washington and the University of Iowa. From 1976-1990, he was Professor of Choral Music and conductor of the Chamber Singers at the University of Southern California and prior to his appointment there he was Professor of Choral Music at the University of Washington in Seattle.