Kerry Glann serves as associate director of choral activities at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, where he conducts the Concert Choir and Vox Anima treble chorus, prepares opera choruses, and teaches conducting and graduate choral literature. He previously taught at Kent State University and in the public schools of Ohio. He holds a B.M. in music education from Bowling Green State University, an M.M. in conducting from Kent State University, and a D.M.A. in choral conducting from the University of North Texas, where he led the UNT Women’s Chorus and served as a conducting associate in its nationally recognized early music program.
In addition to his work at Ball State, Dr. Glann is artistic director of Masterworks Chorale and director of music at First Presbyterian Church, both in Muncie. He served two seasons as conductor of the Evansville Philharmonic Chorus and is a past president of the Indiana Choral Directors Association. He has appeared as a guest conductor, clinician, and adjudicator across the country. He made his international debut at the Teatro del Bicentenario in San Juan, Argentina, leading choirs from the Universidad Nacional de San Juan, and was an ACDA International Conductors Exchange Program Fellow to South Africa in September 2019. Choirs under his direction have appeared at conferences of the Indiana Music Education Association, Ohio Music Education Association, and American Choral Directors Association and with the Ft. Wayne Philharmonic, Orchestra Indiana, and Canton Symphony Orchestra in Ohio.
An experienced theatre conductor, Glann spent seventeen seasons as musical director of The Huron Playhouse, a professional summer theatre in Huron, Ohio, where he led performances of over thirty productions. He is now on the directing staff of the Bigfork Summer Playhouse in Bigfork, Montana. While running the opera program at Kent State University, he conducted both university and professional opera productions.
Glann holds memberships in the American Choral Directors Association, the National Collegiate Choral Organization, and the Indiana Music Education Association. He currently serves as a repertoire & resources coordinator for Midwestern ACDA.
His conducting teachers include Richard Mathey, C.M. Shearer, and Jerry McCoy.