William Skoog is in his seventh year as associate professor and Director of Choral Activities at Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio. He directs the University Men’s Chorus and Collegiate Chorale, and teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in conducting and literature.

Choral ensembles under his direction have distinguished themselves at conference performances for ACDA, OCDA, and MENC, and IMC (Intercollegiate Men's Chorus) including performing the choral works of Dave Brubeck in 2006 with the composer present. He conducted the Moravian Symphony Orchestra with the University Choral Society on a European tour in summer 2006, and the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra with university choruses in summer of 2001 and 2003, for the renowned Dvorak Festival, including European premieres of works by Dave Brubeck.

He will conduct the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and Chorus at the Lucerne Choral Festival in Lucerne, Switzerland in 2008, invited by Music Celebrations International. His choirs have performed at special events honoring William F. Buckley Jr. and Generals Colin Powell and Norman Schwartzkopf. Sought after as a choral/vocal adjudicator, clinician and guest conductor, his additional conducting credits include the Toledo Symphony Orchestra, the Fort Wayne Philhamonic Orchestra, Heartland Chamber Chorale, Indiana Opera North, the Arvada Center Theatre Company, the Golden Youth Symphony, Littleton Chamber Orchestra, and the Elkhart (Indiana) and Longmont (Colorado) symphonies and choruses. Prior to his BGSU appointment, Skoog served in similar positions at the University of Northern Colorado, Indiana/Purdue University in Fort Wayne, Ind., and Southwestern Michigan College in Dowagiac, Michigan.

He has prepared choruses for Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Edvard Tchivzhel, Stephan Sanderling, and Giordano Bellincampi, Emily Freeman Brown, and Bruce Moss. Skoog is a champion of new music, and choral ensembles under his direction have performed and premiered numerous pieces as part of the renowned New Music Festival for Mid American Center for Contemporary Music, and international festival held at BGSU.

As a singer, he has participated for several years in the Robert Shaw Festival and Institute Singers, performing under Robert Shaw, Sir Neville Marriner, André Previn and Peter Schreier at Carnegie Hall. He is published in the Music Educators Journal, Choral Journal, and has presented on numerous occasions, most recently at the International Conference on the Literature of War at the Durrell School in Corfu, Greece, a paper that will be published by the Cambridge Scholars, UK, in 2008

Skoog holds a bachelor’s degree from Gustavus Adolophus College, master’s degrees in voice performance/pedagogy and conducting from the University of Denver, Lamont School of Music, and a doctorate from the University of Northern Colorado. He is married to Elaine, has three children;  Miles, Rebekah, and Jacquelyn Skoog, and one grandchild, Isabella..