Jo-Michael Scheibe

Jo-Michael Scheibe chairs the Thornton School of Music’s Department of Choral and Sacred Music at the University of Southern California, where he conducts the USC Chamber Singers, teaches choral conducting and choral methods, and supervises the graduate and undergraduate choral program. Dr. Scheibe served as National President of the American Choral Directors’ Association from 2011 to 2013. No stranger to ACDA, Scheibe previously served as the organization’s Western Division President (1991-1993), as well as National Repertoire and Standards Chairperson for Community Colleges (1980-1989). Ensembles under his leadership have performed at six National ACDA Conventions (1985, 1991, 1993, 1997, 2003, 2007), as well as two National Conventions of the Music Educators National Conference (1996, 2000), and the National Collegiate Choral Organization Conference in 2011, and will be one of the choirs to sing at the World Choral Symposium in Seoul, Korea in August 2014.

Scheibe’s artistic collaborations include performances with Luciano Pavarotti, José Carreras, Salvatore Licitra, Maria Guleghina. Jennifer Hudson, the Rolling Stones and Kenny Loggins, as well as preparation of choruses for Helmuth Rilling, Sir Colin Davis and the London Symphony Orchestra, Franz Welser-Möst and the Cleveland Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas and the New World Symphony, and conductors Jahja Ling, Jeffrey Kahane, Edoardo Müller, James Judd, Max Valdez, Thomas Sanderling, and Alain Lombard, among others. Recordings of ensembles under Scheibe’s direction have been released on the Albany, Cane, Naxos, and ANS labels. Walton, Santa Barbara Music Press, Pavane, and Colla Voce Music publish choral music in his series.