High School Mixed Choir Clinician
2024-25
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Terry Crull
Director of Choral Activities
Fort Hays State University
Terry Crull is Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities at Fort Hays State University in Hays, KS. His duties include conducting Fort Hays Singers, Concert Choir, Women’s Chorale, and Smoky Hill Chorale. He is music director of the FHSU Musical, supervises choral student teachers, and teaches courses in choral conducting, choral music education, and music appreciation. Professional memberships are in ACDA, KCDA, & NAfME.
2024-2025 marks the twentieth year Dr. Crull has been at FHSU. During those years the Concert Choir and Fort Hays Singers have been selected to perform at the KMEA Workshop nine times. Fort Hays Singers regularly tours to and from Estes Park, Branson, Oklahoma City, and Kansas/Nebraska. Long tours have been to Taiwan, Austria, Hawaii in December 2021 for the the 80th anniversary of Pearl Harbor attack, and Salzburg (Austria) Choral Festival in 2024.
In June 2024, Dr. Crull was the Conductor for the Salzburg (Austria) Choral Festival "Jubilate Mozart!" sponsored by Music Celebrations International. He conducted the 100-voice mass choir in the Salzburg Dom (cathedral) where Mozart was baptized. The choir included the Smoky Hill Chorale of Hays, which also sang concerts in Wies, Melk, and Vienna.
Dr. Crull has conducted district Honor Choirs throughout Kansas, and numerous vocal clinics in Western Kansas. He has also conducted festivals in California, Colorado, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Washington, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. Dr. Crull has conducted many church choirs, and has been actor, musical director, conductor, producer, or stage director for over 110 musical theater productions.
Dr. Crull has degrees in choral music from the University of Northern Colorado, the University of South Dakota, and Dordt University. His 44-year career in teaching includes Ontario Christian School, Ontario, CA; Unity Christian HS, Orange City, IA; Dakota Wesleyan University, Mitchell, SD; the University of Northern Colorado (GTA), Greeley, CO, and FHSU.
2024-2025 marks the twentieth year Dr. Crull has been at FHSU. During those years the Concert Choir and Fort Hays Singers have been selected to perform at the KMEA Workshop nine times. Fort Hays Singers regularly tours to and from Estes Park, Branson, Oklahoma City, and Kansas/Nebraska. Long tours have been to Taiwan, Austria, Hawaii in December 2021 for the the 80th anniversary of Pearl Harbor attack, and Salzburg (Austria) Choral Festival in 2024.
In June 2024, Dr. Crull was the Conductor for the Salzburg (Austria) Choral Festival "Jubilate Mozart!" sponsored by Music Celebrations International. He conducted the 100-voice mass choir in the Salzburg Dom (cathedral) where Mozart was baptized. The choir included the Smoky Hill Chorale of Hays, which also sang concerts in Wies, Melk, and Vienna.
Dr. Crull has conducted district Honor Choirs throughout Kansas, and numerous vocal clinics in Western Kansas. He has also conducted festivals in California, Colorado, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Washington, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. Dr. Crull has conducted many church choirs, and has been actor, musical director, conductor, producer, or stage director for over 110 musical theater productions.
Dr. Crull has degrees in choral music from the University of Northern Colorado, the University of South Dakota, and Dordt University. His 44-year career in teaching includes Ontario Christian School, Ontario, CA; Unity Christian HS, Orange City, IA; Dakota Wesleyan University, Mitchell, SD; the University of Northern Colorado (GTA), Greeley, CO, and FHSU.