Dr. Xiangtang Hong is an Associate Professor of Music at Berea College, where she conducts the Concert Choir and Chamber Singers. She also teaches music theory, aural skills, conducting, and voice lessons. Dr. Hong came to Berea from Moody Bible Institute (MBI) in Chicago, where she directed the Moody Chorale and Repertory Singers, prepared the Oratorio Chorus and conducted sold-out performances of Handel’s Messiah. A finalist in the American Choral Directors Association’s 2001 Undergraduate and 2003 Graduate Conducting Competitions, Dr. Hong’s choral recordings can be heard on eight compact discs. Her choirs have performed across the U.S. and in Brazil, Canada, Hungary, Israel, Malaysia, Norway, Poland, Romania, Singapore, and Sweden.

Dr. Hong holds degrees with distinction from East Carolina University, Westminster Choir College of Rider University, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Awards and honors include Berea College’s Mary W. McGaw Endowed Chair in Music, MBI’s Patricia Finch Faculty Excellence Award in Teaching, UIUC’s Warren H. Schuetz Memorial Award for choral excellence, Westminster Choir College’s Mary Lou Hendricks Hultberg Conducting Scholarship, and the Singapore National Arts Council’s overseas bursary. In 2013, Dr. Hong was an Outstanding Educator in Residence at the Singapore Ministry of Education’s Teachers Academy for the Arts. Most recently, she served as adjudicator and clinician at Vanguard University’s Choral Festival, and recorded three anthems for GIA Publications Inc.’s Emmanuel College Music Series.

Dr. Xiangtang Hong is described as a joyful and energetic person to be with as well as a tireless worker and well-respected colleague. Though Dr. Hong delights in opportunities locally and abroad to share her love of music as a guest conductor, choral clinician, and adjudicator, her greatest joy is in mentoring her students.