Hilary Apfelstadt

Dr. Hilary Apfelstadt is Professor of Choral Studies and Director of Choral Activities at the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. In 2008, she was appointed Associate Director of the OSU School of Music. She conducts the 56-voice Chorale, teaches conducting, and coordinates the graduate conducting program. From 1993 - 2008, she conducted the Ohio State University Women's Glee Club and continues to serve as their faculty advisor. Collegiate choirs under her direction have performed at regional and national conventions of the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) and at state and regional conferences of the National Association of Music Education (MENC). She has conducted many honor choirs and all-state choruses throughout the United States, and has guest conducted in Cuba, England and in Europe. In 2009, she conducted the Mormon Tabernacle Choir in a public broadcast of "Music and the Spoken Word."

A prolific author, she has published over seventy articles on choral music in various refereed journals, and wrote two chapters in Wisdom, Will and Will: Women Conductors on their Art (GIA Publications, Inc, 2009). She serves on the editorial boards of both the International Journal of Research in Choral Singing and also The Choral Scholar, the official publication of the National Collegiate Conductors Organization (NCCO). She was honored for her contributions to choral music both by the North Carolina Choral Directors Association (1993) and the Ohio Choral Directors Association (2008). She is a frequent presenter and speaker at professional conferences, giving keynote addresses for several state and Division ACDA conferences; in 2007, she was keynote speaker for the International Kodaly Association Conference. She has conducted masterclasses at several universities and did conducting residencies at the University of Kansas and the University of South Carolina.

Currently National Vice-President of ACDA, Dr. Apfelstadt sang with the Robert Shaw Festival Singers for several years and recorded two CD's for Telarc with them in France. Her degrees are from the University of Toronto, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She also has an associate diploma in piano performance from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto.