Kevin Hibbard
Department Chair, Professor of
Music, Director of Choirs, Voice
D.M.A. Choral Music,
Arizona State University
M.M. Choral Music,
Arizona State University
B.A. Voice & Choral Music,
Luther College, Iowa
Studio: Humanities 338
Phone: (678) 839-6276
Office: Humanities 105
Phone: (678) 839-6261
Fax: (678) 839-6259
email: khibbard@westga.edu
Kevin Hibbard is Professor of Music and Chair, and
Director of Choirs at the University of West Georgia. Previously, he was
Instructor of Choral Music Education at Illinois University.
Originally from Pennsylvania, Dr. Hibbard received the Bachelor of Arts in
Music degree from Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, and the Master of Music
and the Doctor of Musical Arts degrees in Choral Music from Arizona State
University. He has done additional graduate work at Westminster Choir
College and the Blossom Festival School of Kent University. Conductors with
whom he has worked extensively include Robert Shaw, Weston Noble, Douglas
McEwen, Howard Swan, Robert Page, Paul Christiansen, and Vance George. He
has sung with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus and Chamber Chorus, and
with the Robert Shaw Chamber Singers.
Dr. Hibbard's experience includes public school teaching, church choirs,
community choirs, and boy choirs. He has served as guest conductor for
choral festivals in six states, and frequently serves as adjudicator and
clinician for vocal events. His choirs have appeared at conventions of the
Georgia Music Educators Association and American Choral Directors
Association, the Illinois Music Educators Association, and the Wisconsin
Choral Directors Association.
In addition to his work at the University of West Georgia, Hibbard is Choir
Director at Grace Lutheran Church in Carrollton, and Music Director of
Collegium Vocale, a select community chorus which presents concerts of
classical choral literature on the campus of Emory University.
Dr. Hibbard is past-president of the Georgia chapter of the American Choral
Directors Association, and previously served ACDA as Central Division
Repertoire and Standards Chair for Boy Choirs, and as Georgia Chair for
Youth & Student Concerns. He was recognized as a "Friend of the Arts" by
Sigma Alpha Iota music fraternity for women, and was recently listed in
“Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers.” Hibbard is a member of Music Educators
National Conference, the National Association of Teachers of Singing, Chorus
America, College Music Society, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, and Pi Kappa Lambda.