Andrew Crow joined the Ball State faculty in 2009 as Assistant Director of Choral Activities where he teaches conducting, graduate choral literature, and leads the Concert Choir and Statesmen. A graduate of the University of Minnesota, he earned the degree Doctor of Musical Arts in Conducting, including studies with choral, orchestral, and wind ensembles. Following studies at Temple University, where he earned the degree Master of Music in Choral Conducting in studies with Alan Harler, he taught at Rutgers University in Camden, New Jersey. As an undergraduate at The Ohio State University, Dr. Crow toured widely with the renowned Men's Glee Club under the direction of James Gallagher and performed frequently with Robert Shaw, seminal influences for a life in choral music.
In the summer of 2008, Crow traveled to Austria on a research fellowship to explore church architecture relating to composer Anton Bruckner, whose Mass in E Minor served as the topic of his doctoral dissertation. In the summer of 2011, he assembled an intergenerational choir for a project called “Sing in the Sanctuary” that toured historic churches in East Central Indiana performing musical works connected to those architectural spaces. With support from a Discovery Grant, the project expanded its focus and its reach for the summer of 2012.
Dr. Crow is also an experienced singer, orchestral conductor, piano technician, and dedicated church musician, currently Director of Music at High Street United Methodist Church in Muncie, Indiana. He has previously served prominent churches in Philadelphia and Minneapolis. As a singer, he performed regularly with Apollo’s Fire, Cleveland’s professional baroque ensemble during his tenure there. In December, Crow will make his debut conducting the Muncie Symphony Orchestra for their holiday pops concert.
In March, 2013, Dr. Crow will present a session on score study at the national convention for the American Choral Directors Association in Dallas. Other prominent performances and presentations include the Intercollegiate Men’s Choruses national seminar (April, 2012) the National Collegiate Choral Organization national conference (November, 2011), the ACDA Central Division conference (February, 2010). He has written several articles for the series Teaching Music through Performance in Choir from GIA Publications. He is passionate about male-voice ensembles and his writing and research interests include the intersection of music with other disciplines.