KEVIN FENTON, Director of University Singers and Associate Professor of Choral Conducting and Ensembles at Florida State University since 2000, holds the Ph.D. from Florida State University, the M.M. from the Conservatory of Music at the University of Missouri in Kansas City and the B.M.E. from Friends University in Wichita, Kansas.

His prior appointments include Director of Choral Activities at James Madison University and Virginia Tech, as well as the Topeka High School. On nine occasions, he has conducted ensembles in performances for state and regional conventions of the American Choral Directors Association and the Music Educator’s National Conference. As a result of his positive approach to choral conducting, Dr. Fenton has served as a clinician for numerous workshops, honor choirs and clinics in twenty-six states throughout the country, including guest conducting all-state honor choirs in Oklahoma, West Virginia and South Carolina in 2007. During the summer of 2007, he conducted the Beijing International Choral Festival Choir with China’s People’s Liberation Orchestra as a part of China’s Choral Conductor’s Meeting. Recently Kevin authored the book “Foundations of Choral Conducting,” and he has also written several articles appearing in the Choral Journal, the Music Educators Journal, and the Bulletin for Historical Research in Music Education. He is a recipient of the Gamma Mu Chapter of Delta Omicron Music Professor of the Year Awardand has been nominated for a Florida State University Teaching Award for Excellence for the past six years.

Dr. Fenton served as National Chair of the ACDA College/University Repertoire and Standards Committee for four years and is currently President-Elect for Florida ACDA.