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DONALD OGLESBY
Dr. Donald Oglesby is a professor in the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music, where he directs the University of Miami Collegium Musicum and Chamber Singers, teaches choral literature and conducting, directs graduate research, and is director of the Bachelor of Arts in Music program. He is Artistic Director and Conductor of the Miami Bach Society, with which he has performed all of the major choral and orchestral works of Bach and numerous Baroque cantatas, oratorios, concerti, and symphonies. He also serves as Choral Director at Miami’s historic Plymouth Congregational Church.
Dr. Oglesby holds degrees from Birmingham-Southern College, the University of Illinois, and Indiana University . His teachers have included Helmuth Rilling, Robert Shaw, Julius Herford, and Hugh Thomas. He has been president of the Florida chapter of the American Choral Directors Association and the Miami chapters of Pi Kappa Lambda and Pi Kappa Phi honor societies. In 1989, his performance of Handel's Messiah was broadcast nationally by NBC on Christmas Day. Choirs under Dr. Oglesby's direction have toured the eastern United States as well as Great Britain and Europe. Currently, he serves on the Editorial Board of the Choral Journal and is Chair of the Research and Publications Committee of the American Choral Directors Association.
Dr. Oglesby has worked at the Center for Baroque Music in Versailles; he is the author of the Bach Cantata Data Base, Score Preparation: A Study Guide for Conducting Students, A Guide to the Bach Cantatas, and articles in the Choral Journal. He translated editorial notes for an edition of grand motets by Rameau, published by the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles in 2006, and is currently working on an anthology of Martin Luther’s music.
