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Pearl Shangkuan
Pearl Shangkuan is an Associate Professor of Music and chair of the Music Department at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She conducts two choirs and teaches choral conducting and choral literature. She is also the music editor of the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship music series. In the autumn of 2004 Dr. Shangkuan was appointed conductor of the Grand Rapids Symphonic Choir.
Prior to her appointment at Calvin College, Dr. Shangkuan taught at Rutgers University, Westminster Choir College Summer Sessions, and at the Westminster Conservatory of Rider University. Frequently invited to Asia as a guest conductor and lecturer, Dr. Shangkuan has led performances and given seminars in Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Taiwan and the Philippines, as well as in Australia and Canada. Other guest conducting engagements have included all-state and honor choirs in Wyoming, New York and Tokyo, serving as a clinician for conferences, including the St. Olaf College National Conference on Worship, Theology and the Arts, and adjudicating and leading workshops in the New York and Chicago areas.
Dr. Shangkuan is President of the Michigan chapter of the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) and is a member of the National Board of Directors of the Choristers Guild. As an accompanist, she has played for ACDA state and regional conventions. Under her direction, the Calvin College Alumni Choir has performed at ACDA state and regional conventions.
Shangkuan graduated from Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey, with a Bachelor of Music in Church Music (summa cum laude) and a Master of Music in Choral Conducting (with distinction); and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Choral Conducting from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.
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