Director of Choral Activities
Assistant Professor of Music
Fine Arts Building 220
918-444-2715
roste@nsuok.edu
Degrees
D.M.A./A.B.D. Choral Conducting – Louisiana State
University, Baton Rouge
M. M. Choral Conducting - University of Alberta, Edmonton,
Alberta, Canada
B. A Music – Augustana University College, Camrose,
Alberta, Canada
Bachelor of Theology – Canadian Lutheran Bible Institute, Camrose,
Alberta, Canada
Courses Taught
University Chorus
University Singers
Choral Conducting
Music History
Music Appreciation
Vaughn Roste comes to Northeastern State University fresh out of graduate school: his doctoral degree in Choral Conducting from LSU will be conferred hopefully during 2012. Prior to commencing doctoral studies, he taught college at two different institutions in south Georgia: beginning in the summer of 2004 at Bainbridge College, he then spent four years as Assistant Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities at Andrew College in Cuthbert (also in south Georgia). During this time he also served the Director of Music at First United Methodist Church in Eufaula, Alabama, where he supervised a choir school program of six different musical ensembles. A member of the Executive Board of the Georgia American Choral Director’s Association from 2005 until 2009, he was also named as a contributing editor of the Music Appreciation textbook entitled “Music,” published in 2010 by Cengage Learning. He continues to be a member of the editorial board for Anacrusis, the official publication of the Association of Canadian Choral Communities.
Canadian by birth, he holds three degrees: a Bachelor of Arts in Music from Augustana University College, a Bachelor of Theological Studies from the Canadian Lutheran Bible Institute (both of which are in Camrose, Alberta), and a Master of Music specializing in Choral Conducting from the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta. His research interests continue to explore the intersections of music and theology: one of his Master’s projects examined some of the theological statements that composers can make (overtly or subtly) in the musical setting of sacred texts, and his doctoral dissertation will be a comparative analysis of choral settings of Jesus’ Seven Last Words from the Cross as set by composers such as Schütz, Haydn, Gounod, Franck, and Dubois.
During his eclectic career he has sung with eight different professional choirs, most notably Pro Coro Canada and the choir of St. Andrew and St. Paul Presbyterian in Montreal, both of which make regular radio appearances on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The winner of more than 30 different awards and the composer of over a dozen compositions, he has set foot on every continent except Antarctica (and has lived on four of them). The author of over two dozen articles, he also saw in 2003 the publication of his first monograph, entitled The Xenophobe’s Guide to the Canadians, by Oval Books in London, England, which recently went into its fifth printing (not including the translation into Estonian).