Conservatory of Music

Edward Cetto

Edward Cetto is assistant professor of choral music and has been at the Conservatory of Music since 1994. He holds a Bachelor of Music Education degree in vocal and instrumental music from the Hartt School of Music, University of Hartford, the Master of Music in Choral Conducting from the Boston Conservatory of Music, and the Doctor of Musical Arts in Performance and Pedagogy in Choral Conducting from the University of Iowa. He has also earned the Kodaly Certificate from the Kodaly Musical Training Institute. His major teachers were William Hatcher and Allen Lannom in choral conducting and James Dixon in orchestral conducting, Suzanne Cleverdon in harpsichord, and Gabi Thesz and Tibor Szabo in solfeggio.

Dr. Cetto has been the interim director of choral activities at California State University - Sacramento, and has prepared choruses for Dave Brubeck, Michael Tilson-Thomas, Peter Jaffe, and Aleksander Dmitrijev and the Leningrad (St. Petersburg) Symphony Orchestra. In addition to his work at the Conservatory, he is the conductor of the Stockton Chorale and the Cathedral Choir of the Cathedral of the Annunciation in Stockton. He is also a member of the American Choral Directors Association.

In the Conservatory, Dr. Cetto conducts the Pacific Singers, Oriana Choir, and University Chorus, teaches choral methods, applied conducting, and solfeggio.

Conservatory of Music
University of the Pacific
3601 Pacific Avenue
Stockton, CA 95211
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E-mail: Edward Cetto