Dr. Joshua Oppenheim

Co-Director of Choral Activities

Joshua Oppenheim joined the Kansas State University music faculty in 2008.  Dr. Oppenheim holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Choral Music Education from Western Michigan University. After successful teaching in elementary, middle and high schools in Michigan, he was a Teaching Fellow at the University of Mississippi where he earned his M.M. in Choral Conducting. He subsequently served as director of the Music Department at Arkansas State University - Beebe, before beginning his D.M.A. in Choral Conducting at the University of North Texas. While at North Texas he taught courses in Choral Conducting and conducted the 120-voice U.N.T. Men's Chorus. In 2005, Dr. Oppenheim founded the professional chamber ensemble "In Voce" based in Dallas, Texas.

Prior to coming to the Kansas State, Dr. Oppenheim was on the Choral Music faculty at the Crane School of Music, S.U.N.Y, Potsdam, where he conducted the Crane Chorus and Orchestra, the 75-voice Crane Men's Ensemble, the 85-voice Potsdam Community Choir and taught Choral Conducting and Secondary Choral Methods. Dr. Oppenheim has presented sessions at numerous ACDA conferences in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and at the Western and Southwestern Division ACDA conventions.

Dr. Julie Yu-Oppenheim

Co-Director of Choral Activities

Dr. Julie Yu is Co-Director of Choral Activities at Kansas State University where she oversees seven choral ensembles and teaches undergraduate and graduate choral conducting.  Dr. Yu holds a Bachelor of Music degree in music education from the University of Central Oklahoma, Master of Music degree in choral conducting from Oklahoma State University, and the Doctorate of Musical Arts degree in choral conducting from the University of North Texas.

Before joining the Kansas State faculty, Dr. Yu was the Director of Choral Activities at San José State University, director of the Women's Chorus and instructor of conducting at the University of North Texas and choir director at Norman North High School in Norman, Oklahoma.  She has also served on the staff at Oklahoma State University, the University of Central Oklahoma and Oklahoma Christian University of Arts and Sciences.

She has conducted honor choirs in Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Virginia, and Europe.  She has given presentations at the Southwest American Choral Directors Association and the European Music Educators Association Conventions.  She also serves as Repertoire and Standards Chair for Youth and Student Activities for the Southwest American Choral Directors Association.