TACTUS

With an astonishing diversity of repertoire that ranges from medieval chant to barbershop, Tactus is one of the School of Music’s most dynamic ensembles.

Since 2001, the ensemble has headlined numerous on-campus performances, including the annual Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols and the UMD Tenor/Bass Invitational, which brings talented tenor/bass choirs from around the D.C. metro area for a full day of workshops, collaborations and performances.

Performance tours of the East Coast, South and Midwest regions have spread the reputation for excellence of Tactus around the country and the ensemble has now appeared multiple times at the Intercollegiate Men’s Choruses National Seminar.

Also a frequent collaborator with the UMD Treble Choir and the UMD Concert Choir, Tactus has appeared in performances with the NSO Pops (Do You Hear the People Sing?) and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (Brahms’ Requiem). On campus, the group has performed with the UMD Symphony Orchestra in the Mahler Symphony No. 2, Shostakovich Symphony No. 13 and Brahms’ Alto Rhapsody.

Tactus Conductors

Kevin Crouch

Contact: kecrouch@umd.edu
KEVIN CROUCH is a first-year doctoral student in choral conducting at the University of Maryland, where he studies under Jason Max Ferdinand. Kevin is the founder and artistic director of Dualis, a Baltimore-based professional chamber choir focused on performing choral works of contrasting styles and genres. He served as the choral director at Wilde Lake High School in Columbia, Maryland from 2015-2025 where he built a program centered around passionate performance and musicianship. Kevin has composed numerous choral works for performances along the East Coast, including at Grace and St. Peter’s Church in Baltimore and Trinity Wall Street in New York City. He is a tenor with professional ensembles such as the Delaware Choral Scholars, Elevation, and Washington Master Chorale. Kevin received his B.S. in music education from Ball State University, and his M.M. in choral conducting from Temple University, where he studied with Paul Rardin, Mitos Andaya-Hart and Rollo Dilworth.  

Michael Hudlin

Contact: mhudlin@umd.edu
MICHAEL HUDLIN is a Trinidadian conductor and composer. He has served as an adjunct lecturer at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, the choir director and organist at the All Saints Anglican Church in Port of Spain and the music director and conductor of Chandelier Productions. His passion for both classical music and the indigenous genres of the Caribbean has led him to produce many works, ranging from Handel’s Dixit Dominus, and Haydn’s The Creation to his most recent composition, Te Deum Laudamus, which achieves his goal of combining Caribbean genres with classical composition techniques. Michael holds a Certificate of Music from the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, a B.A. in music from the State University of New York at Plattsburgh, and an M.M. in conducting from the Eastman School of Music, Rochester and is currently pursuing a D.M.A. in choral conducting from the University of Maryland.