Gerald Custer
Gerald Custer is a multifaceted choral musician, active as conductor, composer, editor, teacher and author. A native of Baltimore, he earned his B.Mus. in choral music education at Westminster Choir College, where he studied conducting with Robert Simpson, Dennis Shrock and Robert Carwithen, choral literature with Elaine Brown, and composition with Harold Zabrack and Malcolm Williamson. He also served as assistant conductor of Westminster's Collegium Musicum, directed student choral and operatic ensembles, and participated in conducting master classes with Wilhelm Ehmann and Robert Shaw.
He earned the M.Mus. in orchestral conducting with additional work in historical musicology at George Washington University, where he founded and conducted the University Chamber Singers and served as assistant conductor of the Alexandria (Virginia) Symphony Orchestra. While a graduate student at GWU, Mr. Custer was appointed adjunct instructor in the university's Department of Music, teaching voice and music theory in the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences. He is presently pursuing the Doctor of Musical Arts in choral conducting at Michigan State University He is the featured choral methods columnist for GIA Quarterly, a publication which reaches more than 20,000 musicians around the world, and serves as a choral clinician for GIA Publications. He was a contributor to Raymond Robinson's The Choral Experience, and has authored chapters on Renaissance performance practice, choral rehearsal technique, and the philosophy of choral music for each book in James Jordan's three-volume work, The Choral Rehearsal. His book, Breaking the Renaissance Code, is slated for publication in the coming year.
He earned the M.Mus. in orchestral conducting with additional work in historical musicology at George Washington University, where he founded and conducted the University Chamber Singers and served as assistant conductor of the Alexandria (Virginia) Symphony Orchestra. While a graduate student at GWU, Mr. Custer was appointed adjunct instructor in the university's Department of Music, teaching voice and music theory in the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences. He is presently pursuing the Doctor of Musical Arts in choral conducting at Michigan State University He is the featured choral methods columnist for GIA Quarterly, a publication which reaches more than 20,000 musicians around the world, and serves as a choral clinician for GIA Publications. He was a contributor to Raymond Robinson's The Choral Experience, and has authored chapters on Renaissance performance practice, choral rehearsal technique, and the philosophy of choral music for each book in James Jordan's three-volume work, The Choral Rehearsal. His book, Breaking the Renaissance Code, is slated for publication in the coming year.
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