Dr. Duane R. Karna
Dr. Duane R. Karna, Assistant Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities, oversees the University of Nevada, Reno choral program which consists of the Nevada Chamber Choir (select, by audition-only ensemble); the Concert Choir (non-auditioned and open to all students regardless of major); the Concert Choir Women; the Concert Choir Men; the Vocal Jazz Ensemble; the Symphonic Choir (which sings regularly with the Reno Chamber Orchestra and the Reno Philharmonic Orchestra); and the Reno Chamber Singers (an auditioned sub-group from the larger Symphonic Choir). The Nevada Chamber Choir toured southern Germany and Austria in January 2004 where the choir was in residence at the Bavarian Music Academy in Marktoberdorf, Germany.
Dr. Karna has held previous appointments at the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon; Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Washington; and Salisbury State University in Salisbury, Maryland. His Bachelor of Music in vocal performance is from the University of Puget Sound in his hometown of Tacoma, Washington; his two Master of Music, one in vocal performance and the other in choral conducting, are from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas where he studied with Berton Coffin and Lloyd Pfautsch; and his Doctor of Musical Arts in choral conducting represents the University of Arizona in Tucson where he worked with Maurice Skones.
Dr. Karna is an accomplished singer and choral conductor and recently collaborated with Sten Ternstrˆm from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden on writing the chapter Choir in ìThe Science of Psychology and Music Performance: Creative Strategies for Teaching and Learningî which was published in 2002 by Oxford University Press.
