DR. P. BRADLEY LOGAN, Professor of Music, is Chair of the Music Department and Director of Choral Activities at Bemidji State University, where he conducts the Bemidji Choir and the Chamber Singers. He has served on the faculties of the University of Montevallo, Louisiana College, University of Illinois, California State University, Long Beach, and Pelham High School. Dr. Logan holds his B.S. in Vocal Music Education from North Dakota State University, his M.A. in Choral Music from California State University, Long Beach, and his D.M.A. in Choral Conducting and Literature from the University of Illinois. He is Executor of the Edwin R. Fissinger Musical Estate and serves as co-editor of the Edwin Fissinger Choral Series published by Meadowlark Music Publications.

Dr. Logan continues active participation in the American Choral Director’s Association presently serving as North Central Division R&S Chair for Youth and Student Activities. Over the past seven years he served on the Minnesota ACDA Board of Directors as Northwestern Area Representative, R&S Chair for College and University, and R&S Chair for Youth and Student Activities. Other ACDA service includes State President, Treasurer and College/University Chair in both Alabama and Louisiana. Dr. Logan’s collegiate choirs have performed at state ACDA conventions in Alabama, Louisiana, and Minnesota, and state MENC conventions in Alabama, Louisiana, Minnesota, and North Dakota, most recently the 2001 and 2006 MMEA Midwinter Convention, the 2006 North Dakota MENC Convention, and the 2001 Minnesota ACDA Fall Convention. Division and national convention performances include the 1992 ACDA Southern Division Convention in Savannah, the 1993 ACDA National Convention in San Antonio, the 2002 ACDA North Central Division Convention in Des Moines, and the 2003 ACDA National Convention in New York City. In June 2001 Dr. Logan conducted The Bemidji Choir at the Third International Festival of Choirs in Siena, Italy. Logan made his Carnegie Hall debut conducting René Clausen's a new Creation on April 15, 2002. In the spring of 2003 he conducted the BSU Chamber Singers on the Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. In May of 2005 Logan served as conductor of the Rothenburg Choral Festival in Rothenburg, Germany, where he directed a festival choir and the Neue Philharmonie Frankfurt in a performance of John Rutter’s Requiem.

Dr. Logan has been an active teacher of voice for twenty-seven years. His studio has produced numerous winners of state and division NATS competitions as well as prepared students for graduate study at leading conservatories in the United States.

An active career as a guest conductor and lecturer has taken him to Alabama, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, New York, North Dakota, Texas, and Wisconsin. Dr. Logan appears in the 1998 Who’s Who Among American Teachers, the 1999 edition of Who’s Who in the South and Southwest, the Millennium Edition of Who’s Who in America, and Who’s Who in the World 2000.