R. Paul Crabb

R. Paul Crabb (born July 14, 1954 ) is an American choir conductor and music teacher.

Crabb studied music education at Bethel College in Kansas, singing at Wichita State University, and choral music education at Florida State University . He has performed with his choirs around the world and for two years was the conductor of an American guest choir as part of the Russian-American Choir Symposium at the Moscow Conservatory. 1998–99 he was visiting professor in Salzburg, and in 2001 he taught 18th century music in London. In summer 2004 he studied 16th century polyphony with Peter Phillips in Rimini.

He worked as a visiting professor at the Franz Liszt Music Academy in Budapest and in 2007 taught and conducted at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna . Since 2008 he has been guest conductor of the Conservatorio Domenico Cimarosa in Avellino. In 2010 he was the conductor of the Dante Music and Art Festival in Nagoya , the following year he went on a concert tour with the Coro da Camerata Antiqua de Curitiba through Brazil. Since 2012 he has been teaching church music in Vienna. In 2015 he spent a half-year sabbatical in Sweden, where he worked as a guest conductor for Lunds akademiska kör .

The Truman State University awarded him in 1997 as the Educator of the Year from the following year he was selected by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching as a Professor of the Year award from Missouri. In 2003 he received the Walker and Doris Allen Fellowship from Truman State University. In 2012 the University of Missouri presented him with the William T. Kemper Award .

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SURNAME	Crabb, R. Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American music teacher and choir director
DATE OF BIRTH	July 14, 1954