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H. Craig Singleton, D.M.A.

   Professor of Music and Chair
    Department of Music and Performing Arts
    Dominican University of California
    50 Acacia Avenue
    San Rafael, CA 94901-2298
    Telephone: 415-485-3275
    E-mail:   singleton@dominican.edu

Dr. Singleton joined the faculty of Dominican University in 1997 as the Chair of the Department of Music and Performing Arts.  For the previous thirteen years, he served as director of the Dixon School of Church Music at Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary.  He has performed in voice and choral conducting in several states, Costa Rica, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Korea.

Education:

Doctor of Musical Arts, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky, majors in voice and music education, minor in music theory, 1980.

Master of Music in Music Education with Kodaly Emphasis, Holy Names College, Oakland, California, 1990 (post doctoral).

Master of Church Music, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky, with concentrations in voice and music education, 1976.

Bachelor of Arts, Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama, with majors in music and religion, 1973.

Additional study at the Vigado Redoute in Budapest, Hungary, summer 1989.

Additional study in Spanish, College of Marin, Novato, California, 1995-96.

Teaching Areas:

bulletMusic Theory
bulletChurch Music
bulletApplied Voice
bulletConductor of the Dominican Winifred Baker Chorale

Performance Experience Highlights:

bulletConducting-Chorus with Orchestra
bulletJ.C. Bach's Magnificat
bulletBach's Christmas Oratorio (excerpts from cantatas 1-3) and Magnificat
bulletBritten's Ceremony of Carols (with harp)
bulletFaure's Requiem
bulletHandel's Messiah (Christmas portion and all choruses)
bulletJoseph Haydn's Mass in Honor of Saint Nicholas
bulletMichael Haydn's Run, Ye Shepherds, to the Light
bulletMendelssohn's Hymn of Praise
bulletMozart's Te Deum, Solems Vespers, Mass in C Major and Requiem
bulletPinkham's Christmas Cantata
bulletPoulenc's Gloria
bulletRutter's Requiem and Gloria
bulletShaw's Many Moods of Christmas
bulletRandall Thompson's The Nativity According to Saint Luke
bulletVaughan Williams' Hodie and Fantasia on Christmas Carols
bulletVivaldi's Gloria and Magnificat and numerous shorter works for chorus and keyboard

Conducting-Orchestra

bulletHandel's Organ Concerto No. 7 in B flat major
bulletMozart's Piano Concertos no. 20 in D minor and No. 23 in D major

Solo Vocal-Baritone

bulletChanler's Eight Epitaphs
bulletFaure's Requiem
bulletFinzi's I Said to Love
bulletHandel's Messiah (Christmas Portion)
bulletHaydn's Creation
bulletMahler's Lieder Enes Fahrenden Gesellen
bulletSchubert's Die Schoene Muellerin
bulletSchumann's Dichterliebe
bulletVaughan William's Hodie and Five Mystical Songs and numerous sacred and secular songs in English, French, German, Italian, and Latin


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