NC ACDA
Male Vocal Arts Symposium
September 17-18, 2010
UNC Greensboro School of Music

Chris Kiver

Christopher Kiver joined the Pennsylvania State University faculty in 2005, and directs the Penn State Glee Club and the Chamber Singers. Kiver also teaches classes in choral conducting and choral literature. He is a graduate of the University of London, Florida State University, and the University of Michigan where he received the D.M.A. in choral conducting. He has studied conducting with Jerry Blackstone, Rodney Eichenberger and Theodore Morrison. Kiver has also participated in master classes with Anton Armstrong, Frieder Bernius, Simon Halsey and Stefan Parkman.

A native of the United Kingdom, he has received numerous prizes and scholarships including a Fulbright Award, and the 2002 Sydney World Symposium Foundation Scholarship. In February 2006, he was a double Grammy Award winner ("Best Choral Performance" and "Best Classical Album") as chorusmaster for the critically acclaimed Naxos recording of William Bolcom's monumental Songs of Innocence and of Experience.

Choirs under Kiver's direction have performed at state and regional conventions of the American Choral Directors Association and the Music Educators National Conference.

He is President-Elect for the Pennsylvania American Choral Directors Association and has taught at the Westminster Choir College summer and Saturday seminar programs. Kiver has appeared as guest conductor, clinician and adjudicator in the United States, Australia and New Zealand.