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Dr. Z. Randall Stroope
Director of Choral Activities, Rowan University
Z. Randall Stroope is the Director of Choral Studies at Rowan University. He is also Artistic Director and Conductor of summer music festivals in Europe, and frequently conducts in concert halls across the United States. He has directed 22 all-state choirs, and conducted a host of choral/orchestral works with collegiate choirs and professional orchestras.
In the last three years, he has led choral tours to China and eastern Europe, conducted at the American School in Singapore, the Vancouver Symphony in a concert titled "A Night at the Opera," concerts in Vienna and Salzburg, Austria, as part of those cities' 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth, conducted a one-week tour of Lithuania with Polifonia (professional chamber choir), performed at Carnegie Hall, Washington National Cathedral, conducted the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, and directed music festivals in 17 states.
Prior to his appointment at Rowan University, Dr. Stroope was Director of Choral Activities at the University of Nebraska, where he awarded "Distinguished Professor" for six consecutive years from 1999-2005, the only such honor ever given to a member of the College of Fine Arts at the University.
Dr. Stroope studied composition with Cecil Effinger and Normand Lockwood, both students of Nadia Boulanger (who was a student of Gabriel Faure'). Stroope has published 80 musical works and recorded 13 compact discs - two are of his own music, titled Passages I & II: The Choral Music of Z. Randall Stroope.
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