The Arizona Choir is the premier choral ensemble in the University of Arizona’s School of Music and features graduate voice, conducting, and music education students. Composed primarily of graduate students, the Arizona Choir has performed with prominent musical ensembles from around the world including most recently the Kronos Quartet and the Budapest Chamber Orchestra. The Arizona Choir has been featured at regional and national conventions of both the American Choral Directors Association and the Music Educators National Conference.

The Choir’s Director, Bruce Chamberlain, brings to this position nearly 30 years of collegiate and professional experience. He has been recognized nationally as one of a group of gifted American conductors who is equally at home in the orchestral and choral repertoires. Dr. Chamberlain has appeared as guest conductor with the symphony orchestras of St. Petersburg (Russia), San Antonio (Texas), Tucson (Arizona), Jackson (Tennessee), the Imperial Symphony Orchestra (Florida), the Concerto Soloists Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, the Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic, the Czech Virtuosi Orchestra (Brno), the Budapest Chamber Orchestra, the Oregon Bach Festival Orchestra, and the Festival Orchestra of Iowa. Additionally, he has prepared choirs for such notable conductors as Robert Shaw, Margaret Hillis, John Alldis, Lawrence Leighton Smith, Joseph Krachmalnich, and George Hanson.

Most recently, Chamberlain was appointed the founding director of the Tucson Symphony Orchestra’s newly formed professional chorus. In its first season, critics said of the TSOC that its Messiah was “sensational” and the Verdi Requiem was prepared “to exacting standards of perfection.”
A magna cum laude graduate of the Indiana University School of Music with BME, MM, and DMus degrees, Chamberlain studied conducting with Julius Herford, Margaret Hillis, and John Nelson; piano with Tong Il Han, Wallace Hornibrook, and Nicholas Zumbro; and has continued choral/orchestral conducting studies with Helmut Rilling, Andrew Davis, Dale Warland, and Robert Page.