Ron Blackley, DMA
Department Chair, Music and Theatre; Director, Choral Activities; Professor of Music
209 Center for the Arts
College
Area of Specialty
Choral Music, Conducting, Keyboard Skills, Music Education, Music Theory
Biography
- Chair, Departments of Music and Theatre
- Conducts University Choir and Chamber Singers
- Founded the Ashland Area Chorus
- Teaches conducting and music education courses
- Prepared choruses for Ashland Symphony
- Conductor, Trinity Bach Cantata series
- Guest conductor, Ashland Symphony
- Taught/conducted at Oberlin, Lindsey Wilson, Kent State and high schools in Ohio and Colorado
- More than 35 published choral compositions
- Associate of the American Guild of Organists
- Favorite thing about Ashland University: “Accent on the Individual is a reality here.”
- Little-known fact: Enjoys watching hockey
Education
- DMA in Literature and Performance of Choral Music, University of Colorado
- M.M. in Choral Music Education, Kent State University
- B.S. in Music Education, Concordia College