Henry Gibbons
Music Director of the Denton Bach Society
Henry Gibbons is currently Associate Professor and Associate Director
of Choral Studies at the University of North Texas College of Music
and Chair of the Division of Conducting and Ensembles. After completing
academic studies at Stanford and Harvard Universities, he continued
his studies with the renowned Bach specialist Prof. Helmuth Rilling
at the Frankfurter Musikhochschule, earning the Kuenstlerische
Reifepruefung in conducting, the highest performance degree awarded
by German conservatories. Previously he has held positions at Occidental
College in Los Angeles, the New England Conservatory of Music in
Boston, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge,
and Harvard University.
He has conducted a variety of choral groups, including professional,
university, community and church choirs. He has served as clinician,
lecturer and guest conductor at choral workshops and seminars in
the United States, Europe and the Far East. Choirs under his direction
have performed at conventions of the Texas Music Educators Society,
Music Educators National Conference, and the American Choral Directors
Association (Southwest Region), as well as with the Dallas Symphony
Orchestra, the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, and the Richardson
Symphony.
Professor Gibbons has served as the Musical Director of the Denton
Bach Society since 1982. From 1996 to 2003 Mr. Gibbons also held
the position of Conductor and Artistic Director of the Arlington
Choral Society.
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