Terry Crull

Phone: (785) 628-4258
Email: tacrull@fhsu.edu

Terry Crull serves as the Director of Choral Activities at Fort Hays State University. His responsibilities include conducting Concert Choir, Fort Hays Singers, Women’s Chorale, and Collegian Chorale. He also conducts the Hays Community Choir, supervises the Men’s Glee Club, and instructs courses in choral music education, choral conducting, general music, and musical theater.

Mr. Crull has degrees in choral music, music education, and voice from Dordt College in Sioux Center, Iowa (B.A.), the University of South Dakota in Vermillion, South Dakota (M.M.), and the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, Colorado (D.A. -ABD). His 28-year career in music education has included Ontario Christian School in Ontario, California (5-8 choir, band, and general music), Unity Christian High School in Orange City, Iowa (9-12 choir and band), Dakota Wesleyan University in Mitchell, South Dakota (Director of Choral Music and Music Ed.), the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, Colorado (Graduate Assistant and Men’s Glee conductor), and Fort Hays State University.

The Wm. Hall Chorale, the Sioux County Oratorio Chorus, the Dakota Chorale, the Mitchell Madrigal Feaste Singers, the Greeley Chorale, the Rocky Mountain Chorale, and the Hays Community Choir have all been community choirs where Mr. Crull served as conductor, or singer, or both. Tours with school and community groups have included China (twice), Italy, Canada, and many regional and national tours within the U.S. Mr. Crull has also conducted numerous church choirs, and has been actor, director, musical director, or producer for over fifty opera and musical theater productions. While in Colorado he sang LEAD in a competitive barbershop quartet.

Mr. Crull holds professional membership in ACDA, MENC, NCCO, Chorus America, and the Barbershop Harmony Society. He has conducted choral festivals in California, Iowa, Washington State, Minnesota, S. Dakota, N. Dakota, Colorado, Nebraska, and Kansas, and has presented clinics for choral directors for ICDA, SD-ACDA, CO-ACDA, KCDA, and numerous school and church music workshops.

Mr. Crull is a candidate for the Doctor of Arts degree in choral conducting at the University of Northern Colorado. His wife, Joan, is String Orchestra director in Hays USD 489, having previously conducted orchestra programs in Orange City, Iowa. Mrs. Crull has also taught General Music, K-6, in California, S. Dakota, and Colorado. The Crulls have four children ages 25, 23, 22, and 20.