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 (April 2025):
““Eye contact and non-verbal communication between conductor and singers can convey more information about a song beyond anything that may be found on the page. The score is the script; it provides the groundwork and impetus for creation, but the realization of expressive artistry & emotion lies in the hands, minds, voices, and hearts of the conductor and chorus.”
- 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