UNIVERSITY CHORALE

The University Chorale is an auditioned mixed ensemble that performs a wide variety of a cappella and accompanied repertoire. Primarily directed by graduate student conductors, the University Chorale is comprised of music majors and undergraduate and graduate students from many other disciplines across the College Park campus.

They have made regular appearances with the NSO Pops and the BSO Pops in shows such as The Leading Men of Broadway, Do You Hear the People Sing? and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. In addition to their own concertizing on and off-campus, the University Chorale combines frequently with the UMD Chamber Singers to form the UMD Concert Choir.

University Chorale Conductors

Eric Beomjin Kim

Contact: ekim0507@umd.edu
ERIC BEOMJIN KIM is a third-year doctoral student in choral conducting at the University of Maryland. He also serves as music director at Colesville Presbyterian Church and associate conductor of the Maryland Palestrina Choir. A self-described nomadic conductor, he has led the Empathy Choir in performances across South Korea, Turkey, the Czech Republic, Iran, France, the Philippines, Romania, Kazakhstan and the United States, among other countries. In 2018, Eric founded the Seoul Empathy Choir, where he has conducted both children's and adult choirs every summer since. Committed to expanding community access to choral music, he also established the Empathy Choir Camp, leading a team of 20 staff members in teaching choral music to amateur singers. Eric holds a B.A. in music from Taylor University and dual M.M. degrees in vocal pedagogy and choral conducting from Westminster Choir College, earned with distinction, and is currently pursuing a D.M.A. in choral conducting from the University of Maryland.

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.