2025 Conductor: Dr. Daniel Gordon
Since 2005, Dr. Daniel Gordon has served as Director of Choral Activities and Professor of Music at Southeastern University where he conducts the Concert Choir, Women’s Choir, and Chamber Choir. His personal commitment to the proliferation of music programs in schools, communities, and churches across America spans nearly 50 years. His previous post was Artistic Director for Crane Chorus and the Chamber Choir at the Crane School of Music, SUNY Potsdam, where he also served for five years as Chair of Music Education and Professor of Music Education. Concurrent with that post, Dr. Gordon served as the Artistic Director of the Ottawa Choral Society where he prepared choirs for Pinchas Zukerman, Joel Revzen, Duain Wolfe, and Franz-Paul Decker.
Dr. Gordon’s outstanding choral ensembles have presented Arthur Honegger’s King David, Mozart’s Coronation Mass in C Major, K. 317, William Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Imperial Symphony Orchestra. These choirs have also performed a diverse repertoire that has included guest appearances with The Chieftains, Mark Lowry, and professional folk artists, John Kirk and Trish Miller.
Dr. Gordon recently served as a Repertoire & Resource Chair for the American Choral Directors Association Southern Region. He presented a symposium on rehearsing church choirs and coordinated the ecumenical service for their 2022 ACDA conference in Raleigh, NC. He is an active member of ACDA and is the faculty advisor for Southeastern University’s chapter of the National Association for Music Education.
His long career as a professional conductor includes concerts with the National Arts Centre Orchestra and the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra in Canada’s capitol city and premiere performances of Lauridsen’s Lux Aeterna with the English Chamber Orchestra and the Bath Philharmonia. He is also a recipient of a State University of New York Research Award for his work on “Teach Music in New York City”, a congressionally funded project that was designed to bring qualified music teachers into the lives of children populating the nation’s largest public school system. Dr. Gordon conducted the Coronation Mass in Carnegie Hall this past April and is schedule to conduct the Lauridsen, Lux Aeterna in April of 2026.
Dr. Gordon was recently selected by Southeastern University’s Deans’ Committee to receive the Excellence in Advising Award for the university and the LINK Program Inclusive Excellence Award. He is dedicated to his wife, singer/actress Mary Grace Gordon and their two sons, David Gordon, a senior architect with Red Hat® and actor Britt Michael Gordon, professional actor and member of Actor’s Equity Association.
