A member of the choral music faculty at the
University of Miami for over 20 years, Dr. Donald Oglesby is a professor in the
Frost School of Music. Director of the University of Miami Collegium Musicum and
the Chamber Singers, Dr. Oglesby teaches choral literature, conducting, and
special topics, directs graduate research, and is Coordinator of the Bachelor of
Arts in Music program for the Frost School of Music. He is Artistic Director and
Conductor of the Miami Bach Society and serves as Director of Choral Music at
the historic Plymouth Congregational Church in Coconut Grove.
Dr. Oglesby received a Bachelor of Music degree from Birmingham-Southern
College, a Masters degree in musicology from the University of Illinois, and a
Doctor of Music degree with distinction from Indiana University, where he
concentrated in choral conducting. His teachers have included Robert Shaw,
Julius Herford, Helmuth Rilling, 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 December 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, for which he has overseen
reorganization of the committee, publication of three monographs, presented
convention sessions, and taken part in launching a cooperative project with the
Library of Congress on 19th century American choral Music.
As part of the Miami Bach Society's International Cultural Exchange Program, Dr.
Oglesby has conducted concerts in Paris and Aix-en-Provence, France; Dr. Oglesby
spent several months of his 2001 sabbatical at the Center for Baroque Music in
Versailles, where he researched and studied the music of the French baroque. Dr.
Oglesby is a founder of the Miami Bach Society. His Bach Cantata Data Base is
one of the first electronic catalogs of any composer's works. He also is the
author of Score Preparation: A Study Guide for Conducting Students and A Guide
to the Bach Cantatas, as well as articles in the Choral Journal. He has
translated editorial notes for an edition of grand motets by Rameau, published
by the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles in 2005.
email: doglesby@miami.edu
|| Home | Faculty
Members | Degree Programs | Request Information ||