Long Bio

Dr. Sean Vogt is director of choral conducting at the Piteå Musikhögskola (Sweden) — Luleå Tekniska Universitet. He directs the choirs and the undergraduate and graduate choral degrees, with some additional teaching for the sacred music division in organ. Sean holds a DMA (choral conducting) from Michigan State University and a MM (choral conducting) from the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University.

Dr. Vogt also has 20+ years of orchestral experience, having led many orchestral projects, and serving as Artistic Director & Principal Conductor of the Minnetonka Symphony Orchestra. He has worked with players from the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, South Dakota Symphony Orchestra, as well as with players from the Berlin Philharmonic and Stuttgart Philharmonic. Sean has also prepared choruses for conductors Xian Zhang and Paul McCreesh. With decades accompanying vocalists in voice studios and opera workshops, he is regularly hired as a collaborative keyboardist.

His expertise in performance practice is predominantly in early periods, as well as contemporary compositions and premieres. He has presented at conferences on chant – St. Gall semiology, Solemnes, and Anglican - and renaissance polyphony; he is also comfortable with stylistic and ornamental considerations in baroque and classical music. A fervent supporter of new music, Sean has initiated several commissions and premieres. "All music was once new" (Composers Datebook).

He has performed (collaborative and solo) and/or presented on choral topics, and music technology at multiple national conferences in the United States: NCCO (National Collegiate Choral Organization), ACDA (American Choral Directors Association), AGO (American Guild of Organists), and OHS (Organ Historical Society). He worked on a doctorate in organ at the University of Iowa; MM (organ), Southern Methodist University; BA (organ), Central College in Pella, Iowa; Diploma – Haarlem Internationale Zomeracademie voor Organisten (The Netherlands).

More information: www.seanfvogt.com