Daniel King Farris

Style: Opera; Classical

Title: Director of choral studies

Bio:

Daniel Farris serves as director of choral studies of Southwestern Oklahoma State University teaching applied/lecture conducting, applied voice, diction courses, and the choral music education sequence to vocal performance, vocal music education, music business, and music therapy majors. He also teaches the Southwestern summer choral camp for OkMEA/OkCDA preparation and other workshops during the academic year that work to further enrich and improve the audition skills needed for successful placement in the state-level honor choirs of Oklahoma. Raised in the strong choral tradition of Texas music education, Daniel completed a Bachelor of Music with all-level teacher certification at Angelo State University and taught at the junior high and high school levels in San Angelo, TX, and Arlington, TX, respectively. He holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in conducting with related fields of music theory and musicology from the University of North Texas, where he taught the UNT Men’s Chorus and Aural Skills I and II during his residency.

Daniel is a regional and international scholar with focused interests in choral conducting pedagogy, arranging/editing, and lyric diction, having presented at international and regional conferences on these topics. He has conducted workshops, taught classes as a visiting professor, and performed in the United States, central and western Europe, and southeast Asia. In the summer of 2022, the Southwestern Chamber Choir traveled to Milan and Florence, Italy, and won first prize in the “Chamber” and “Italian Language” categories of the 2022 Leonardo da Vinci International Choral Festival and Competition in Florence. This past January, Daniel presented an aural-skills session at the Oklahoma Music Educator Association Winter Conference, advocating for music literacy and advanced instruction in ear training as a precursor to the teaching of sightsinging.

Voice Type: Tenor

Music Styles Taught: Opera; Classical

Availability: I am currently accepting private students; I am available as a clinician or presenter; I accept students through a college or university program

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