Gregory A. Fuller
Director of Choral Activities
Associate Professor of Music
Ph.D., University of Missouri
M.M., University of Missouri
B.M.E, Oklahoma Baptist University
E-mail: Gegory.Fuller@usm.edu
Phone: 601.266.4092
In his eighth year as Director of Choral Activities at The University of Southern Mississippi, Gregory Fuller conducts the Southern Chorale and the Hattiesburg Choral Union, teaches conducting, supervised candidates in the master’s and doctoral programs, and serves as the chair of the vocal division. In 2004 he created and sponsored the first Southern Invitational Choral Conference, an event that now hosts over fifty institutions each September. Since arriving in 2000, he has presided over the doubling of the number of vocal/choral majors at Southern Miss.
Previously he held similar appointments at The University of Missouri in Columbia (interim) and Briar Cliff University in Sioux City, Iowa. His choirs have been honored with invitations to perform at eight state and national meetings of the American Choral Directors Association and the Music Educators National Conference. He has organized and executed more than twenty international trip to thirteen countries. As a result, choirs under his leadership have appeared at memorable venues, such as York Minster, Coventry Cathedral, Salisbury Cathedral, University of Orleans, Basilica of San Marino, Carnegie Hall, and the new Disney Hall in Los Angeles. His choirs have enjoyed residencies in Japan and the Loire Valley of France. Active in orchestral, wind, and choral settings, he is a frequent clinician and guest conductor.
In addition to academic posts, Dr. Fuller has served as director of the Sioux City Municipal Band, the Siouxland Master Chorale, and eight church choirs during his career. For more than a decade he organized collaborative events in Northeast Iowa, notably reading sessions and ecumenical sacred concerts with guest soloists as well as performance of major choral works with professional soloists and orchestra. He is currently employed as the chorus master at the First Methodist Church in Gulfport, Mississippi.
Fuller holds the bachelor’s degree in cello and voice from Oklahoma Baptist University and earned the master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Missouri. Among his significant mentors and teachers are James Fuller, James Woodward, Duncan Couch, Michael Cox, Michael Budds, and John Cheetham. He has participated in workshops and master classes with Robert Shaw, Sir David Wilcox, John Rutter, Jere Lantz, John Paynter, and Col. John R. Bourgeois. Dr. Fuller lives with his wife Valerie, son James, daughter Avery, and two terriers, Madison and Jackson.