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Guest Conductor

Peter Bagley Conductor for the 2012 Festival

Peter Bagley, Professor Emeritus of Music and Special Assistant to the Dean of the School of Fine Arts at The University of Connecticut, received his Bachelor of Science degree in music education at the Crane School of Music, State University of New York at Potsdam, and his Doctor of Music degree in choral conducting under Julius Herford at Indiana University. He taught public school music in Greenwich, Conn., and prior to his appointment as Director of Choral Activities at UConn, was Professor of Music at the State University of New York, College at New Paltz.

He has been invited as guest conductor and choral clinician for numerous festivals and all-state choirs throughout the country. He recently conducted the MENC All-Eastern Division Chorus in Pittsburgh, Penn., and launched his international career as choral clinician for various choirs in a ten-city tour of New Zealand sponsored by the New Zealand Choral Federation. Other engagements include an appointment to the faculty of the Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute, an appointment for the Artist-in-Residency Program in Portland, Maine, and an invitation to conduct at the International Honor Band and Choir Festival hosted by the International School at The Hague, an appointment to the faculty of master conductors for the Dennis Keene Choral Festival in Kent, Conn., and Artist in Residence at the University of Missouri Kansas City Conservatory of Music.

He is an active member of the American Choral Directors Association and was honored in October 1990 by the Connecticut chapter as the Connecticut Choral Educator of the Year. He was an active member of the Boards of Chorus America and the Hall Johnson Institute, and his professional achievements are recognized in Who′s Who in the East and Who′s Who Among Black Americans. In April 2006 he received the University of Connecticut School of Fine Arts Lifetime Achievement Award, and in the following year, he returned to his alma mater at the Crane School of Music to receive the Helen M. Hosmer Excellence in Teaching Award. In the spring of 2009, he appeared on a panel with five esteemed conductors, titled "Legends in the American Choral Tradition," at the national ACDA convention. He recently returned from the national ACDA convention in Chicago where he conducted the 2011 Men′s Honor Choir.

It is our pleasure to welcome Dr. Peter Bagley to Western Michigan University as guest conductor of the 74th annual Southwestern Michigan Vocal Festival to be held in Miller Auditorium on March 15, 2012.