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John Silantien
Professor, Voice
Director of Choral Activities

(210) 458-5328
john.silantien@utsa.edu

Dr. John Silantien has taught and conducted choirs on the secondary and collegiate levels in Texas, the Washington, D. C., area, and on the faculty of the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York.  He holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Illinois.  His awards include a Rockefeller grant for choral conducting at Aspen, Colorado, and a Fulbright award for research in London, England.  He presently serves as Director of Choral Activities at the University of Texas at San Antonio and as Director of the San Antonio Symphony Mastersingers.  Between 1992 and 1998, he served as Editor of the Choral Journal, the official publication of the American Choral Directors Association, with a circulation of over 18,000.  He serves frequently as adjudicator, clinician, and guest conductor.  During the summer of 1999, he lectured at an international conference of choral musicians held in Brasilia, Brazil.  He is listed in the International Who's Who in Music and Who’s Who among America’s Teachers.

Choirs under his direction have been invited to perform before the Music Educators National Conference, the American Choral Directors Association, the Texas Choral Directors Association, and the Texas Music Educators Association.  They have sung in New York City's Lincoln Center and London's Royal Festival Hall.  In June 1997 the UTSA Madrigal Singers toured Brazil performing at major venues in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.  His orchestral conducting credits include performances with the San Antonio Symphony, the San Antonio Pops, and New York's West Side Chamber Orchestra, as well as CD recordings of three Mozart piano concertos with the Moscow State Radio Orchestra.  He made his Carnegie Hall debut in May 1994 conducting Mozart's Requiem. 


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