MICHAEL TODD KRUEGER,  Music Director and Conductor

Michael Todd Krueger has recently relocated to the Denver area after twenty years of service as a music educator and conductor at the secondary school and college/university levels throughout the United States.  In addition to his duties as music director of the Littleton Chorale, he is conductor and artistic director of the 120-voice Larimer Chorale in Fort Collins, Colorado, and Minister of Music at King of Glory Lutheran Church in Arvada, Colorado.  He works creatively as a free-lance teacher, vocalist and composer/arranger along the Rocky Mountain Front Range.

Dr. Krueger earned the Bachelor of Arts degree in music education from Luther College and the Master of Music degree in trumpet performance and jazz studies from the University of Northern Colorado at Greeley (UNC).  Following his studies at Greeley, he taught high school and junior high vocal music and subsequently earned the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in choral conducting and vocal studies from the University of Illinois.  He has served on the music faculties of Ithaca College, Morningside College, Millikin University and most recently, the University of Wyoming. 

He is a former resident member of the Grammy Award-winning Robert Shaw Festival Singers, having performed in concert and recording sessions with the late Maestro Shaw as part of a three-week residency in southern France, at Carnegie Hall, and at the ACDA National Convention in San Antonio, Texas.  He has also performed with the Grammy-nominated UNC Axidentals Vocal Jazz Sextet directed by the legendary jazz educator, Gene Aitken.

Krueger has conducted all-state, honor choir, and choral festival performances for singers of all ages throughout the United States and he has served as a guest clinician in Canada and South America, having recently returned from a guest lecturer residency at the University of Brasilia in Brazil.