Hank Dahlman

Hank Dahlman is Professor of Music, Director of Choral Studies, and Director of Graduate Studies in Music at Wright State University, where he serves as the conductor of the WSU Collegiate Chorale and Chamber Singers. He serves as the Artistic and Musical Director of WSU's annual Madrigal Dinners and Holidays in the Heartland. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in conducting, music education, and music history.

Director of the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra Chorus, Dahlman also serves as a guest conductor with the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra, and founded the Dayton Philharmonic Chamber Choir in 2000. Dahlman conducted the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra Chorus in performance with professional orchestras such as the Czech Chamber Philharmonic in Prague and at the Salzburg Cathedral celebrating Mozart's 250th birthday.

Dahlman regularly appears as a guest conductor, presenter, or adjudicator at festivals and conferences at the international, national, and regional levels, and is also the producer and host of VOICES, a radio program tracing the history, development, and current trends of the choral art, heard weekly on Dayton Public Radio. He has served as an adjudicator at semi-final and final rounds of the National Student Conducting Competitions sponsored by the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA), and was invited to be one of four experts on conducting pedagogy to be featured at the first national convention of the National Collegiate Choral Organization. Dahlman's Choral Pronunciation Guide to Carl Orff's Carmina Burana has been called an industry standard, and used by universities and professional orchestras on five continents. His research writings and reviews have appeared in Choral Journal, Triad, ReSound, the Missouri Journal of Research in Music Education, and other professional journals and publications.

Dahlman presently serves as ACDA Central Division Chair for Youth and Student Activities. Prior service to the profession includes several divisional, state and district level positions with choral and music education associations in Florida and Ohio.

Dahlman holds the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in conducting from the Conservatory of Music at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, the Master of Music degree in choral conducting and literature from the University of South Florida, and the Bachelor of Music Education degree (magna cum laude) from Longwood University. Notable teachers have included Eph Ehly, James McCray, Rey Longyear, Wesley K. Morgan, Randall Pembrook, and Robert Summer.

Past DCINY Concert Appearance:

June 29, 2008 - Carnegie Hall