The Choir
John Dickson — Conductor
John H. Dickson is the Stephanie Landry Barineau Professor and Chair of the Division of Ensembles and Conducting in the School of Music at Louisiana State University. As director of Choral Studies, he conducts the internationally acclaimed A Cappella Choir and supervises the masters and doctoral programs in choral conducting. He recently assumed the LSU choral post after a four-year tenure as Dean of the Townsend School of Music at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia, where he also served as Professor of Conducting in the graduate program.
A collegiate choral conductor and mentor to graduate conducting students for more than thirty years, his choirs have been featured at conferences of the American Choral Directors Association, the Texas Music Educators Association, and the Association of British Choral Directors.
Internationally known as a conducting pedagogue, Dickson has presented masterclasses before the Association of British Choral Conductors, the Russian State Music Conservatories of St. Petersburg and Moscow and workshops throughout England, Wales, Scotland, Finland, France, and Canada. Dickson has served as conductor and guest clinician for numerous American Choral Directors Association conventions, all-state choruses, and choral festivals around the world. As chorus-master, he has prepared choirs for Sir David Willcocks, Michael Tilson Thomas, David Hill, Lawrence Leighton Smith, John Nelson, and Max Bragado-Darman.
Appointed as a visiting fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge University in 1992, 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 under musical director David Hill. He holds a DMA in choral conducting from the University of Texas at Austin, a MM in music history and literature from Baylor University, and has done post-doctoral study at Cambridge University, England.
Singers
Soprano
- Alexis Lundy
- Alison Mann
- Erin McPherson
- Shannan O'Dowd
- Megan Otte
- Anne-Marie Spalinger
- Kati Stewart
- Allegra Whitney
Alto
- Michelle Austin
- Mary Beth Kosowski
- Holly McCarren
- Elise Eskew Sparks
- Alix Tanico
- Katie Woolf
Tenor
- Justin Cornelius
- Will Green
- Rich Kosowski
- Richard Prouty
- Wes Stoner
Bass
- Jay Champion
- Robert Figueroa
- Taylor Greer
- Jason Maynard
- Steve Ozcomert
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Former (and/or Substitute) Coro Vocati Musicians
Adam Kissel, Alicia Walker, Amy Foster, Blaire Lynch, Carol Goff, Celia Jacobs Shore, Christopher Patton, Chris Rosborough, Christa Joy Chase, Colin Porter, Heather Witt, Karen Lupton, Kristen Reisig, Kyle Wheatley, Lauren Larson Larkin, Melanie Cross Buckner, Michael Arens, Nancy Mize Johnston, Owen Mathews, Phillip Shoultz, Reggie Garrett, Renee Wilson-Wicker, Robert Bolyard, Sarah Ward, Scott Martin, Shawn Keswani, Steve Rotz, Taylor Johnson, Tim Gunter, Virginia Boaz, Ana Baida, Charlie Boone.