Z. Randall Stroope is the Director of Choral Studies at Rowan University in Glassboro, NJ. His teaching duties include the University choirs and undergraduate conducting, as well as oversight of the Master of Music in Choral Conducting. 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 28 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 Italy, 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, performed at Carnegie Hall, Washington National Cathedral, and conducted the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Dr. Stroope has conducted clinics in 37 states.
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 90 musical works and recorded 13 compact discs - two are of his own music, titled Passages I & II: The Choral Music of Z. Randall Stroope.
