Director of Choral Activities, Professor of Music
Research Interests
Areas of research interest include performance practice of the eighteenth century, Leonard Bernstein, and choral music history at the White House.
Biography
Dr. Donald Trott is the Director of Choral Activities at the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) in Oxford. He conducts the Concert Singers, Men’s Glee and shares conducting duties for the University Chorus. His choirs have performed on several state, regional and national conventions of the ACDA (American Choral Directors Association) and the MMEA (Mississippi Music Educators Association). ACDA performances occurred in 1998, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2016 and 2020. Choirs under his direction have performed in France, Germany, Czech Republic, Austria, and around the USA including the White House. As coordinator of the graduate choral conducting program, he teaches choral conducting and choral literature and supervises all graduate conducting recitals. Dr. Trott is a past president of the Southern Region of the ACDA and of the Virginia chapter of ACDA. He received his Bachelor of Music Education degree cum laude from Westminster Choir College and both the Master of Music degree in choral conducting and Doctor of Musical Arts degree in choral conducting from the University of Oklahoma, under the direction of Dr. Dennis Shrock. Dr. Trott’s work on late eighteenth-century performance practice has resulted in articles in The Choral Journal as well as presentations at conventions for ACDA and the College Music Society. He is the author of the ACDA monograph titled Nineteenth Century Choral Music – An Annotated Bibliography of Music Suitable for College and University Choirs. He is the editor of a new book titled Conducting Men’s Choirs published in 2020 and is available through GIA Publications.
Romantic Choral Repertoire Suitable for College Choirs
"Leonard Bernstein's Choral Music" in Festschrift in Honor of Dennis Shrock
Courses Taught
- MUS 135-545 University Chorus
- MUS 136–546 University Chorus
- MUS 139-539 Concert Singers
- MUS 140-540 Concert Singers
- MUS 562 Advanced Choral Literature
- MUS 613 Graduate Public Conducting Recital
- MUS 616 Independent Study
- MUS 695 Advanced Conducting
Education
BM Music Education, Westminster Choir College (1979)
MM Choral Music, University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus (1981)
DM.A. Choral Music, University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus (1983)