Kenneth Fulton
Choral Conducting
Kenneth Fulton is the Sanders Alumni Professor of Choral Studies and Chair of the Division of Ensembles and Conducting in the College of Music and Dramatic Arts at Louisiana State University where he conducts the LSU A Cappella Choir, teaches undergraduate and graduate choral conducting, literature, and methods and guides the graduate degrees in choral conducting. He has been named as one of LSU’s Distinguished Professors and in January 2006, he was awarded an Alumni Professorship, the university’s most prestigious endowed teaching professorship. He is also Chorusmaster for the Baton Rouge Symphony Chorus and Artistic Director/Conductor for the Linz International Choral Festival in Linz, Austria where he annually conducts performances with the Festival Orchestra and Chorus. He is editor for the Kenneth Fulton Choral Series published by Alliance Music Corporation.
Fulton has conducted performances in some of the most prestigious performance venues in the world including Carnegie Hall in New York, Symphony Hall in Boston, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., the Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, the Mozarteum, and the Brucknerhaus in Austria. In addition, he has conducted the LSU A Cappella Choir in invitational performances in Notre Dame (Paris) and the Vatican (Rome), in six successful European tours of the Netherlands, France, Germany, England, Wales, Scotland, Austria, the Czech Republic, Italy, and Switzerland. Prominent performances by his choirs include appearances for three national and six divisional ACDA Conventions, a national MENC convention as well as performances for national meetings of the College Music Society, the Sonneck Society, the American Musicological Society, and the American Society of University Composers. Fulton has conducted invitational clinics including all-state, and Honor Festival choruses, conducting master classes, and conductor/teacher workshops in forty different states and in Europe. He has published articles on the choral music of William Walton, Don Carlo Gesualdo, and William Byrd in the Choral Journal and the AGO Magazine and served for six years as an editor of the National Editorial Board for the Choral Journal. He has held a wide variety of professional offices and is a past President of the Southern Division of the American Choral Directors Association, the Texas Choral Directors Association and the Louisiana ACDA. Graduates of the graduate degrees in choral conducting at LSU now hold choral positions at all levels of choral music from secondary public schools to college/university positions in eighteen different states.
Fulton holds advanced degrees from Texas Tech University (MME - Ph.D) and an undergraduate BME from the University of North Texas. He has held appointments at LSU in Baton Rouge, Texas State University (formerly Southwest Texas State University) in San Marcos, the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, Texas Tech University in Lubbock, and in public school choral music.
Kenneth Fulton, Earleene Sanders Alumni Professor of Choral Studies
School of Music
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803-2504
Voice: 225/578-2569
Fax: 225/578-2562.
E-mail:wfulton@lsu.edu
