Dr. Edward Cetto, Music Director

Edward Cetto has served as the Stockton Chorale's conductor and music director since 1999, the director of choral activities at the University of the Pacific Conservatory of Music. Dr. Cetto conducts the Pacific Singers, Oriana Choir, and the University Chorus, and instructs all entering freshmen and transfer students in the study of solfeggio. He also is a certified teacher of Kodály methodology and is a former conductor of the Stockton Youth Chorale.

Dr. Cetto has prepared choruses for Michael Tilson Thomas and the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) Philharmonic, the Portland Symphony, and guest conducted the Stockton Symphony. Dr. Cetto has presented and adjudicated at the national convention of the American Choral Directors' Association, and leads regional honor choirs.

Dr. Cetto holds academic degrees from the Hartt School of Music, University of Hartford (B.M.Ed.), the Boston Conservatory of Music (M.M.), the Boston Conservatory, and the University of Iowa (D.M.A.), where his dissertation topic was on the madrigals of Vicente Emilio Sojo.

Past Conductors of the Stockton Chorale

1995–1999     Dr. Joe Miller
1991–1995     Mark Clark
1972–1991     Arthur Holton
1967–1972     Ralph Prime
1965–1967     Frank Prather
1955–1965     Arthur Holton