Dr. John F. Warren is Associate Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities at the Syracuse University Setnor School of Music, where he conducts choirs and teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses in conducting, choral literature, and rehearsal techniques. His conducting activities this semester included being a guest artist at the Conservatoire de Strasbourg, conducting the University Singers at the American Choral Directors Association Eastern Division Conference in Baltimore, where they were one of only eight college choirs to perform, and preparing the Syracuse University Oratorio Society and the University Singers to perform Beethoven's 9th Symphony with Central New York's professional orchestra, Symphoria, conducted by Gerard Schwarz. He also conducted the University Singers at the inauguration of Syracuse University's 12th Chancellor and President, Kent Syverud. In addition to his conducting duties, Dr. Warren hosted Maestra Catherine Bolzinger, choral conductor at the Conservatoire de Strasbourg, for a weeklong residence in April and wrote a series of three articles on contemporary Cuban choral composers and Mexican choral music for the International Choral Bulletin.