The Bowling Green State University Collegiate Chorale is a highly select mixed ensemble consisting of approximately 40 voices. Members of the ensemble study and perform the finest of sacred choral literature and secular vocal chamber music.
The Chorale has made numerous convention appearances and has toured the United States, Canada and Europe. Recent domestic tours have included visits to New York, Boston and New Orleans. In May of 2001, the ensemble embarked upon a two-week European tour that included performances in Munich, Salzburg, Vienna and Prague. In December of 2002, the Collegiate Chorale returned to Europe, where in addition to performances in Italy and France, members sang High Mass at the Cathedral of the Principality of Monaco on the first Sunday after Christmas. Members on the 2006 tour performed in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and North Carolina.
Director: Dr. William Skoog
William Skoog, associate professor and director of choral activities at Bowling Green State University, serves as the director of the University Men's Chorus and Collegiate Chorale, and teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in conducting and literature.
Choral ensembles under his direction have distinguished themselves with performances at the Indiana Choral Directors Association, Ohio Music Education Association Conferences, Ohio Choral Directors Association Summer Conference and at special events honoring William F. Buckley Jr. and Generals Colin Powell and Norman Schwartzkopf.
He conducted the Indiana/Purdue University Festival Choral and the Prague Radio Symphony Chorus as part of the 2001 Dvorak Festival. In 2004, he conducted the BGSU Choral Society in European premieres of works by Dave Brubeck at the festival. The group returned to the festival for the summer of 2006, performing Mozart's Requiem.
Sought after as a choral/vocal adjudicator, clinician and guest conductor, he conducted two Ohio distinct choral festivals during 2004-2005. His additional conducting credits include the Toledo Symphony Orchestra, the Fort Wayne Philharmonic Orchestra (Indiana), Indiana Opera North, the Arvada Center Theatre Company, the Golden Youth Symphony and the Elkhart and Longmont symphonies and choruses. He was also the founding conductor of the Littleton Chamber Orchestra in Colorado.
Prior to his Bowling Green State University appointment, Skoog served as director of choral studies at Indiana/Purdue University in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he directed the University Singers and Chamber Singers, and founded the award winning vocal jazz ensemble, Around Midnight. He previously served as department chair and director of choral/vocal activities at Southwestern Michigan College in Dowagiac, Michigan.
As a singer, he has participated for several years in the Robert Shaw Festival and Institute Singers, and performed under Sir Neville Marriner, André Previn and Peter Schreier at Carnagie Hall.
Skoog holds a bachelor's degree from Gustavus Adolophus College, master's degrees in voice performance/pedagogy and conducting from the University of Denver, and a doctorate in choral conducting from the University of Northern Colorado.
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