Terry Crull, Professor
Director of Choirs
Contact Information
Email tacrull@fhsu.edu
Phone (785) 628-4258
Office Malloy 248
Dr. Terry Crull is Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities at Fort Hays State University in Hays, KS. His duties include conducting Fort Hays Singers, Concert Choir, Women’s Chorale, and Smoky Hill Chorale. He is music director of the Fall Musical, serves as chorus master for FHSU Opera, supervises choral student teachers, and teaches courses in choral conducting, choral music education, aural skills, group voice, and music appreciation. He holds professional membership in ACDA, KCDA, NAfME, & KMEA.
Dr. Crull’s choirs has been selected to perform at the KMEA Workshop multiple times. The Fort Hays Singers tour regularly within the five-state region. Recent tours have been to and from Estes Park, CO, Branson, MO, Oklahoma City, OK, and Kansas/Nebraska. More extended tours have been to Taiwan in May of 2007, Austria in June of 2018, and to Hawaii in December 2021, where the Fort Hays Singers represented the 5-state region at the 80th anniversary commemoration ceremonies of the attack at Pearl Harbor on Dec 7th, 1941.
Dr. Crull has conducted both MS and HS Honor Choirs for nearly all of the Kansas districts statewide, and numerous league vocal clinics in Western Kansas. He has also conducted choral festivals in California, Colorado, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Washington, West Virginia, and Wisconsin, and has presented numerous clinics for choral musicians. Dr. Crull has conducted numerous church choirs, and has been actor, musical director, conductor, producer, or stage director for 100+ musical theater productions.
Dr. Crull has degrees in choral music education from the University of Northern Colorado (D.A.), the University of South Dakota (M.M.), and Dordt University (B.A.). His 43-year career in teaching has included Ontario Christian School (grades 5-8), Ontario, California; Unity Christian HS, Orange City, Iowa; Dakota Wesleyan University, Mitchell, SD; the University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO; and Fort Hays State University, Hays, KS.