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Concordia College Choral Festival Featuring new faculty member Dr. Stephanie Tubiolo

Saturday, Nov. 1, 2025

Join us on campus with your singers in grades 10-12 (ninth graders are welcome if you have a 9-12 choir) for our annual choral festival. We are especially excited to introduce you to Dr. Stephanie Tubiolo, our new assistant professor of choral music and conductor of the Concordia Chapel Choir and Kantorei!

There is no cost for students to attend this festival unless they choose to eat lunch on campus. The cost for lunch is $15 per student. We are excited to have you bring as many students as you would like in as balanced of SATB numbers as is possible for you. Register early to reserve your spaces for this year’s festival!

Saturday, Nov. 1, will be a full day of rehearsals and performances beginning with registration at 9 a.m. and ending by 5:45 p.m. There will be three massed choir selections that will be carefully selected so that they may be great candidates for fall programming at your high school. The day will feature great musical performances, exciting rehearsals, and a grand finale concert event that will be out of this world!

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Repertoire

You should plan to purchase music for your students. The selections should be well prepared prior to the festival.

Repertoire to be announced soon

Note: We invite you to use the music retailer of your choice to purchase the scores for our festival. For your convenience, we include links to the exact scores/editions from popular music retail websites. Please understand that illegal photocopies are not allowed to be used at this festival. Order your scores early to ensure delivery and preparation time is maximized.

Frequently Asked Questions

The registration is $15 per student if they are eating lunch on campus, otherwise there is no registration fee. But, as you work on budgets and students ask how much money they should bring, there are a few "travel expenses" you should consider. As choir director, you will be responsible for your personal Friday night housing expense (if needed), as well as breakfast on Saturday. As far as student expenses, if you are traveling ahead of time, factor in Friday evening dinner expense on the road. The other meal on the road may be Saturday evening after dismissal. And lastly, your transportation expenses. 

You should plan to purchase music for your students. The selections should be well-prepared prior to the festival.

Note: We invite you to use the music retailer of your choice to purchase the scores for our festival. For your convenience, we include links to the exact scores/editions from popular music retail websites. Please understand that photocopies are not allowed to be used at this festival. Order your scores early to ensure delivery and preparation time is maximized.

Registration will be Saturday morning from 9-9:30 a.m.

Driving Directions

Bring your music and a pencil, as both will be used throughout the day. Please have your singers label their music with their name and school in case it is lost or left behind.

Please have your students dress as though they were going to their grandmother's birthday party. In other words, look sharp.

The concert will be at 4:30 p.m. on the campus of Concordia College. There will likely be seating available for guests (pending total festival numbers). We are pleased that our campus can be "home" to the choral festival.

Dr. Stephanie Tubiolo

The Concordia choral program is thrilled to announce that Dr. Stephanie Tubiolo has joined our choral faculty at Concordia College this fall as our new assistant professor of choral music and conductor of the Concordia Chapel Choir and Kantorei. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in music from Yale College, an Master of Music degree in choral conducting from the Yale School of Music and Institute of Sacred Music, and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Mason Gross School of the Arts (Rutgers), where she won the Irene Alm Memorial Prize for Excellence in Performance and Scholarly Research for her doctoral work. Dr. Tubiolo previously taught at Rutgers–New Brunswick, where she served as conductor of the University Choir and Voorhees Choir and as chorus master of Rutgers Opera Theatre.

“I am so very excited to join the music faculty at Concordia College and honored to become part of a choral tradition that has deeply inspired me. I can hardly wait to start making music with the incredible singers of Chapel Choir and Kantorei and to uplift the profound spirit of community that already runs so strong. As I make Moorhead my new home, I feel especially grateful for the opportunity to build spaces of belonging through song.” — Dr. Tubiolo

Dr. Michael Culloton

Dr. Michael Culloton is an associate professor of music at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota, where he is the director of choral activities, conductor of The Concordia Choir, and the Paul J. and Eleanor Christiansen Chair of Choral Music. Dr. Culloton teaches vocal music education and church music courses, serves as campus supervisor for student teachers, and advises the student chapter of the American Choral Directors Association. He also conducts the Minnesota All-State Lutheran Choir, a summer program of Concordia College. Along with his duties at Concordia, Dr. Culloton is the artistic director and conductor of the Fargo-Moorhead Choral Artists and conductor of the Trinity Lutheran Church Cathedral Choir.

Prior to this appointment, Dr. Culloton served as the associate director of choirs at Concordia College for eight years, conducting the Chapel Choir, Cantabile, and Kantorei. Before moving to Moorhead, he was the artistic director and conductor of Choral Arts Ensemble and Honors Choirs of Southeast Minnesota, both organizations based in Rochester (Minn.), for eight years. He earned his Bachelor of Music degree from Concordia College in Moorhead, where he studied with Dr. René Clausen, and his Master of Music degree from the University of Arizona, where he studied with Maurice Skones. Dr. Culloton completed his Doctor of Musical Arts degree through North Dakota State University, where he studied with Jo Ann Miller and Michael Weber.

Dr. Culloton has taught at Luther College and Winona Senior High School and has also served as the assistant and interim conductor of the National Lutheran Choir. He has held church choir positions in Moorhead, Tucson, Arizona, and Decorah, Iowa, and has been music director for nearly a dozen musical theater productions. Along with his twin brother, Dr. Culloton is the co-editor of the Matthew and Michael Culloton Choral Series with Santa Barbara Music Publishing Inc. He has been recognized as the Minnesota ACDA Young Conductor of the Year and also received the ACDA/VocalEssence Creative Programming Award for his work with Choral Arts Ensemble. In 2009, he was a featured conductor in “Never Stop Singing,” a documentary about the history of choral music in Minnesota. Dr. Culloton serves as a guest conductor, clinician, and lecturer throughout the country. He lives in Moorhead with his wife, Brynn, who works in the Admission Office at Concordia, and their daughters, Eleanor and Miriam.