Biography

A native of Austin, Texas, Pamela Elrod serves as the Director of Choral Activities.  Dr. Elrod holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in music from the University of Texas at Austin and a D.M.A. in choral conducting from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.  She has taught choral music at all levels, having served on the faculties of schools in Lubbock, Texas; Austin; New York City; Urbana, Illinois; and Atlanta, Georgia.  She also regularly serves as a choral clinician and adjudicator in Texas, as well as throughout the United States.

An accomplished vocalist, Dr. Elrod maintains an active performing career, appearing as a guest artist with numerous university, professional, community and church choirs throughout the country.  From 1988 until 1999, she sang with the late Robert Shaw, performing and recording with the Robert Shaw Festival Singers, the Robert Shaw Choral Institutes, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus, and the Atlanta Symphony Chamber Chorus.  In June 2005, she returned to Atlanta to perform and record with the Chamber Chorus as the alto soloist in the Mass in G-Minor by Ralph Vaughan Williams.  She was also the featured soloist with the Chamber Chorus in a performance of the Vaughan Williams at the Ojai Music Festival in June 2006.  Dr. Elrod currently sings with the Grammy-nominated professional choral ensemble, Conspirare, under the direction of Craig Hella Johnson.