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Kirk Aamot
Montanans
Chorale
Choral Conducting
180 Howard Hall
Tel: 994-5755
kaamot@montana.edu |
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Dr. Kirk Aamot is Director of Choral Activities and Associate
Professor of Music at Montana State University in Bozeman, MT
following the 39-year tenure of Lowell Hickman. Prior to this
appointment, he was Director of Choral Activities at the University of
Michigan-Flint, Conductor of the Flint Festival Youth Chorus, and
Director of UM-Flint’s Summer Academy of Music - a four-week program
for Flint area middle school and high school students. Previously, he
taught high school choir and middle school general music in suburban
St. Paul, Minnesota, and served as director of adult and children’s
choirs at Holy Spirit Lutheran Church in Boulder, Colorado.
Aamot is a graduate of St. Olaf College, where he studied choral
conducting with Anton Armstrong and Kenneth Jennings. He earned the
Master of Music degree from the University of Minnesota under the
guidance of Kathy Romey and Thomas Lancaster, and the Doctor of
Musical Arts degree in the Literature and Performance of Choral Music
from the University of Colorado, Boulder while studying with Joan
Conlon and Larry Kaptein. His voice teachers have included James
McKeel, Clifton Ware and Patrick Mason.
Aamot’s editions of choral music are published by Hal Leonard, Kjos
Music, Santa Barbara, and Alliance Music Press and his reviews of
choral music performance practice and teaching philosophy have been
published in state, regional and national publications of the American
Choral Directors Association. Areas of research and performance
interests include the embellishment of Renaissance vocal music and the
music of William Billings.
Aamot is past president of the Michigan chapter of the American Choral
Directors Association and a board member of the National CollegiateChoral Organization. He is also a member of the International
Federation of Choral Musicians, the Music Educators National
Conference, and the National Association of Teachers of Singing.
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