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Paul Crabb
R. Paul Crabb, conductor and Director of Choral Activities at MU, earned an undergraduate degree in Elementary and Secondary Music Education, an MM in Vocal Performance and received his PhD in Choral Music Education from Florida State University. His ensembles have performed at numerous conventions and have traveled extensively, performing in Mexico, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Russia, Bulgaria and Australia. Crabb served as assistant conductor at the Russian/American Choral Symposium for two years where his choir was invited as the resident American choir at the Moscow Conservatory. In 1998-99 he took a one-year sabbatical leave to serve as a visiting professor in Salzburg, Austria where he also assisted with the choir of the Salzburg Cathedral. During Summer 2001 Crabb taught a class on eighteenth-century music in London, England. In the summer of 2004 he studied sixteenth century polyphony with the renowned Peter Phillips in Rimini, Italy. More recently he served as Guest Visiting Choral Professor at the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, Hungary - the first American selected for that position. In 2007 he lectured and conducted include lectures at the University of Vienna's Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst (first American invited to that prestigious institution), as well as performances and lectures in Italy, Slovakia and Taiwan. Crabb currently serves as guest conductor of the professional ensemble, the Baroque Orchestra of the Conservatory Domenico Cimarosa, where he will return in May 2009 for a series of concerts featuring music of Vivaldi and Bach. His select choir, MU’s University Singers has been invited to perform at the National Collegiate Choral Organization national conference in November 2009, and has also received an invitation to perform at the music festivals in Milan and Bologna, Italy, in May 2010. In 1997 Crabb received the "Educator of the Year" award at Truman State University. The following year, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching honored Crabb as the Missouri "Professor of the Year," and in 2003 Truman State University awarded him its most prestigious teaching award, the Walker and Doris Allen Fellowship. Crabb is active as a clinician and conductor for district, regional and all-state choirs. His published research has appeared in the MENC research journal Update and Choral Journal. He has also published editions of choral music with Lawson-Gould, Walton Music Corporation, Colla Voce Music, Alliance Publications Inc., and Plymouth Music. |
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