The Choir’s Artistic Director and Conductor, Steven Zopfi, currently serves on the faculty of University of Puget Sound where he is Director of Choral Activities, Associate Professor, and conducts the Adelphian Concert Choir. Dr. Zopfi earned his Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Colorado. He has taught on the faculties of Penn State University, the University of Washington, and Pacific Lutheran University.
Active as a conductor, scholar, musician and educator, Dr. Zopfi is the founder and past Artistic Director of The Foundling Hospital Singers of Hartford, CT and the Boulder Schola Cantorum of Boulder, CO. He has prepared choirs for Carlos Kalmar, Bernard Labadie and Alistair Willis and as a performer, he has sung with Robert Shaw and Sir David Wilcocks. He is the past president of the Vermont Choral Director’s Association and is a member of the NW American Choral Director’s Association Executive Board.
Known as an editor of early music, Dr. Zopfi is also a passionate advocate for new music and has commissioned and conducted new works by Edwin Lawrence, Timothy Melbinger, Bryan Johanson and Judith Zaimont.
Dr. Zopfi’s curriculum vitae available upon request via e-mail.