Christopher Aspaas, Assistant Professor of Choral/Vocal Music at St. Olaf College, received his M.M. in Choral Conducting from Michigan State University in East Lansing and his B.M. in Voice Performance from St. Olaf. In 2004, he completed his Ph.D. in Choral Music Education at The Florida State University in Tallahassee with the defense of this dissertation, A History of the Oregon Bach Festival. Christopher has served on the faculties of Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Washington and Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts, and has conducted collaborative performances of Gabriel Fauré’s Pavane, Vaughan Williams’ Five Mystical Songs, the Duruflé Requiem, and J. S. Bach's Mass in B Minor. At St. Olaf, Aspaas conducts the Viking Chorus, an 85-voice ensemble of first-year student men, and the Chapel Choir, a 120-voice ensemble specializing in the performance of oratorio. In April, Aspaas conducted the Chapel Choir and the St. Olaf Orchestra in a performance of the Fauré Requiem, Rutter Gloria, and Mozart Te Deum. He also teaches choral literature, choral conducting, applied voice, and is active as a guest conductor, clinician, and adjudicator. In addition to his conducting and teaching, Dr. Aspaas is in demand as a tenor soloist, performing Bach cantatas with Helmuth Rilling and the Oregon Bach Festival Orchestra, the Evangelist roles in the John and Matthew Passions of Bach with the Bach Collegium of Fort Wayne, Indiana, and other solo roles with the Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra, the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, and the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra. Christopher recently traveled to St. Petersburg, Russia to perform Benjamin Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings.