2019 Swan Award Winner: Rod Eichenberger

RODNEY EICHENBERGER, Professor of Choral Music, teaches graduate choral conducting, choral techniques, and conducting pedagogy. He has lectured and guest conducted extensively throughout the United States and abroad. Professor Eichenberger is the program coordinator for the choral conducting division of International Workshops with recent summer seminars held in Biarritz and Lyon, France; Stavanger, Norway; Glasgow, Scotland and Graz, Austria. His instructional video on choral conducting with André Thomas, “What They See Is What You Get,” released in 1994 by Hinshaw Music Company, is now in its ninth printing.

​For the past 25 years, he has been an active participant in choral music education in Australia and New Zealand. He has guest conducted and lectured at the Swedish Choral Directors Association Convention in Orebro, Sweden, presented sessions at the Third World Symposium of Choral Music in Vancouver, British Columbia, and presented workshops at “Buenos Aires Sings,” the First International School and Youth Choral Festival in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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In 1999 he was a featured clinician at the International Summer School of Conducting in Brisbane, Australia, presented lectures at the Fifth World Symposium of Choral Music in Rotterdam, Holland, and guest conducted the Association of International Schools Honor Choir in Vienna, Austria. In 2000, he was guest conductor for the Singapore Youth Choir Festival and led Choral Conducting Master Classes for the Conductor’s Academy of Korea in Seoul.
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Professor Eichenberger holds the Bachelor of Arts degree from St. Olaf College and the Master of Arts degree from the University of Denver, with advanced study at the University of Washington and the University of Iowa. From 1976-1990, he was Professor of Choral Music and conductor of the Chamber Singers at the University of Southern California, and prior to that appointment he was Professor of Choral Music at the University of Washington in Seattle.