WELCOME
Seeking a guest conductor for your honors choir, a career music educator for your professional development conference, a guest lecturer for your conducting class, or an experienced adjudicator/clinician/coach for your assessment/festival/touring choir? I would be honored to serve in any of those roles.
I specialize in:
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offering challenging, educational, and enjoyable repertoire for All-State, All-Region, All-District, All-County, and All-City honors choirs,
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providing informative professional development sessions on a variety of choral music-related topics, including my workshop series:The Refreshed Conductor and The Expressive Conductor.
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presenting lecture demonstrations on the elements of expressive, artistic choral conducting, and
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leading choral clinics designed to help you take your choir to the next level in artistic, expressive performance.
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Drop me an email, send me a text, or give me a call and let's talk about how I might be able to help.
Quote of the month (May 2025):
“As choral musicians, our goal is not to simply provide the audience with an evening’s entertainment...it is, through our complete musical involvement, to affect them mentally, emotionally, and physically: to make them think, make them laugh, make them cry, make them ponder, make them sigh, make them remember, make them imagine, make them dream...to touch their minds...but most importantly, to touch their hearts.”
- Don Krudop
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"Don Krudop is on a very short list of conductors who can see into my heart as a composer." - Composer Daniel E. Gawthrop
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"Your choir is one of the finest I've ever worked with." - Rodney Eichenberger, Professor Emeritus - Florida State University
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"I wish all of you could come up here and see the magic that happens between this man and this choir." - Composer Doreen Rao​
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"The beautiful and powerful Virginia Beach Chorale, Wow! Did you all deliver!! The Chorale's contribution was transformative. All of your decisions on voicings, which I trusted 100%, worked out just as we needed. Thank you all so much! Congrats to you and looking forward to our next collaboration!" - Daniel Boothe, Symphonicity Conductor
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"Best of all was the guest ensemble, Vox Harmonia, a student chamber choir from the Visual and Performing Arts Academy at Salem High School, Virginia Beach. Holding hands, leaning their bodies forward, and riveting wide-eyed attention on conductor Don Krudop, they sang with a rapt concentration and ravishing sound that took the breath away." - Joseph Bano, The Washington Post, in a review of the City Choir of Washington Christmas concert at the National Presbyterian Church.
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"VERY APPRECIATED, RESPECTED, AND LOVED. Those are the stats your students will remember & truly care about. Those stats you earned by being a good, caring, kind teacher & taskmaster, and as we all grew....a friend. You are loved more than you know. You are the type of teacher few children ever get. You make a difference in our lives because you truly care. You are passionate about music and have shown us it's not just an escape. It is a calling.You are not just a teacher, you are a mentor." - Rachelle Peterson, former student