UToledo high school choral festival
Saturday November 15, 2025
Location – Center for the Performing Arts
University of Toledo Main Campus
Time – 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Concert Performance - 5:30 p.m. Open to all.
Cost - $35 per student
Description:
The University of Toledo Department of Music invites you and your choral students to attend the 2025 High School Choral Festival with special guest clinician, Dr. Jo-Michael Scheibe. Participants will have the opportunity to perform with an elite chorus of their peers and learn from one of the most distinguished choral conductors and music educators on the international choral music stage.
For more information contact UToledo director of choral activities
Dr. Karen Miskell
Director of Choral Activities
Senior Lecturer
419.530.2448
About the Clinician
Dr. Jo-Michael Scheibe chaired the Department of Choral and Sacred Music at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music from 2008 to 2020 and continued to teach and conduct as a full-time professor in the department until the end of December 2022, and awarded the title Professor Emeritus of Choral Music. Scheibe served as National President of the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) (2011-2013), Western Division President (1991-1993), and National Repertoire and Standards Chairperson for Community Colleges (1980-1989). He served as a member of the board of the International Federation for Choral Music (2020-2023).
Ensembles under his leadership sang at seven national ACDA conventions, two national conventions of the National Association for Music Education (formerly MENC), the National Conference of the National Collegiate Choral Organization, and the World Choral Symposium in South Korea. He remains professionally active as a conductor and teacher.
Scheibe collaborated with Luciano Pavarotti, José Carreras, the Rolling Stones, Sir Elton John, the Eagles, and Kenny Loggins and has prepared choruses for Helmuth Rilling, Sir Colin Davis, Michael Tilson Thomas, James Judd, Carl St. Clair, Jeffrey Kahane, and Jamie Martin. Recordings of his ensembles are available on the Albany, Cane, Centaur, NAXOS, Arsis, and ANS labels.
Music publishers Walton, Colla Voce, Hal Leonard, Santa Barbara Music, and Pavane distribute the Jo-Michael Scheibe Choral Series internationally. Scheibe was the editor and co-authored Teaching Music Through Performance – Choir Volume 4 and Teaching Music Through Performance – Choir Volume 5.
In April of 2023, Scheibe was named one of the fourteen US Fulbright Scholars in Ireland for 2023-2024. His home base was north of Dublin, in Balbriggan, at the Irish Institute for Music and Song for Fall 2023. He conducted the IIMS Chamber Choir at the Institute, and Còr Fingal taught a Conducting Course. During the Fall of 2023, Scheibe was active throughout Ireland and Northern Ireland, working with ensembles of all levels, lecturing, and visiting choirs throughout Ireland. Jo-Michael Scheibe received his DMA from USC (1985) and earned his BA and MM degrees from California State University at Long Beach, where he was named a Distinguished Graduate.
register today
Deadline to register is November 1, 2025
cost
$35 per student. Fees include digital sheet music and lunch.
Make sure you have registered first!
Fees are due within 10 days of registration or by the registration deadline of November 1, 2025
To pay by check, make check payable to The University of Toledo and mail to:
The University of Toledo
Department of Music
Attn: Choral Festival
2801 W. Bancroft St., MS #605
Toledo, OH 43606
