Drew Collins

Choral Studies
M350 Creative Arts Center
(937) 775-2309
drew.collins@wright.edu

Drew Collins has studied with some of this country's top choral pedagogues, with degree work at Concordia College (MN), Boston University, and Cincinnati Conservatory. He has served as Associate Director of Choral Studies and Music Education at both Augustana College (IL) and, currently, at Wright State University. As a guest artist, he has been a festival conductor for several honor choirs, guest conducted semi-professional choirs, toured domestically and internationally, and, head-lined in Carnegie Hall. All told, he has conducted symphonic, early music, community, school, treble, male, church, collegiate, jazz, chamber, festival, changing voice, and professional choral ensembles. In addition to his primary post at Wright State, Collins is Artistic Director of the Festival Choir of Madison, Senior Choral Editor for the Neil A. Kjos Music Co., and Artistic Advisor for both The Singers: Minnesota Choral Artists and The San Diego North Coast Singers. One of this country's leading advocates of living composers, he works to further the choral art as an new music reviewer for Choral Journal, the repertoire columnist for Choral Director Magazine, and editor of a series of innovative choral scores for Curtis Music Press. As a composer/arranger, his music is published in the catalogs of Earthsongs, E. C. Schirmer, Hal Leonard, Kjos, Mark Foster, Odhecaton, and Walton Music Company.