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BYU's Dr. Ronald Staheli



Biography


Dr. Ronald Staheli is the Choral and Conducting Division Coordinator and the Director of Graduate Studies in Choral Music at BYU. He also appears regularly as conductor in performances involving the combined choirs and orchestra of Brigham Young University. He has traveled widely as a clinician and guest conductor, and has become known for what a colleague calls a profound sense of phrasing and articulation, which informs all his work. In July of 2001, Dr. Staheli conducted an all-Mozart concert with choirs of the Zimriya International Choral Festival. Dr. Staheli was a guest lecturer at the Fourth International Choral Symposium in Sydney, Australia, where the BYU Singers also performed concerts in the world-famous Opera House and Town Hall. Travels have also taken him and the choir to the Middle East, Russia, Western and Eastern Europe, the South Pacific, and West Africa. Dr. Staheli is a fine pianist and regularly arranges many selections performed by the BYU Singers, several of which are now published.

Education

D.M.A., Choral Music, University of Southern California, 1977.
M.M., Choral Music, University of Southern California, 1973.
B.A., Magna Cum Laude, Piano Performance and Music Theory, including emphasis in voice, Brigham Young University, 1972.

Contact Information

Office:
E-334 HFAC
422-3169

E-Mail:
ronald_staheli@byu.edu

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Exclusive Information

While visiting Amanda's mom's grave a few weeks ago at the cemetery overlooking Orem [approximately at 800 N and Timp View], we found Dr. Staheli's son's memorial statue, bench and grave.

Little Ron would have been just finishing his mission at the time of death. The BYU Singers all pitched in and commissioned this lovely statue for the Staheli family.





Losing a son is unthinkable.

When I see the conducting talents of Dr. Staheli, I feel a profound sense of humility and gratitude for the gift of music as he shapes the Singers' phrasing, intonation and articulation. I have a sense that Dr. Staheli's sensitivity and awareness of these qualities has only been augmented and multiplied through the loss of his son. This experience, I'm sure, has played a key part in helping Dr. Staheli and the BYU Singers develop the world-reknowned reputation that they have acquired over the past 30 years.

Comments

  1. Julie TSat May 23, 12:34:00 PM MDT

    He's obviously sensitive and gifted; yet I've heard he's thekind of person either you love or he leaves you cold. Nonetheless, I can't even imagine losing a son like that...I wonder if the longer you have them, the harder it is because you have invested that much more emotionally; or perhaps the opposite, because you only fret and worry about the lost potential and the things they never experienced or that you got to experience together?

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