Faculty

Rosalind Hall
Rosalind Hall is best known as director of Brigham Young University’s Concert Choir and as the first female director of the BYU Men’s Chorus. The Men’s Chorus is the largest collegiate male choral organization in the U.S., and it recently released its first album in seven years—a 19-track album of favorite performance pieces, anthems, folk songs, and hymns.

A native of Wales, U.K., Rosalind Hall came to Utah in 1989 to pursue postgraduate studies in choral conducting at Brigham Young University. Her British training was at London’s Royal Academy of Music, and at Edinburgh and London Universities. Before returning to teach at BYU in 1999, she spent seven years at the Waterford School, where she chaired the music department, directed the choral program, and played a key role in developing the Waterford Fine Arts Academy. She is renowned for her innovative and vivacious approach to vocal and rehearsal technique.

Education:
MM, Choral Conducting, Brigham Young University, 1993
Postgraduate Music Teacher’s Certificate, London University, England, 1978
BM, Royal Academy of Music, London, England, 1977
Associate of the London College of Music (piano), London, England, 1977
Licentiate of the Royal Academy of Music (singing), London, England, 1976

Ronald J. Staheli
At Brigham Young University, Dr. Ronald Staheli is the Choral and Conducting Division coordinator, director of Graduate Studies in Choral Music, professor of music, and director of the BYU Singers. He also appears regularly as conductor in performances involving the combined choirs and orchestra of BYU. He has traveled widely as a clinician and guest conductor and has become known for what a colleague calls “a profound sense of phrasing and articulation,” which informs all his work. In July 2001, Dr. Staheli conducted an all-Mozart concert with choirs of the Zimriya International Choral Festival. Dr. Staheli was a guest lecturer at the Fourth International Choral Symposium in Sydney, Australia, where the BYU Singers also performed concerts in the world-famous opera house and town hall. Travels have also taken him and the choir to the Middle East, Russia, Western and Eastern Europe, the South Pacific, and West Africa. Dr. Staheli is a fine pianist and regularly arranges many selections performed by the BYU Singers, several of which are now published.

Education:
DMA, Choral Music, University of Southern California, 1977
MM, Choral Music, University of Southern California, 1973
BA, Magna Cum Laude, Piano Performance and Music Theory, including emphasis in voice, Brigham Young University, 1972