Dr. Andrew Crane joined the faculty of California State University, San Bernardino in 2005. He oversees the vocal department, teaches applied voice, and conducts the CSUSB Concert Choir and Chamber Singers. Dr. Crane also teaches courses in the music education curriculum.  He was recently awarded the CSUSB College of Arts and Letters Outstanding Teaching Faculty award for 2007-2008.  Additionally, Dr. Crane serves as Artistic Director of the Mountainside Master Chorale. 

Under his direction, the choral program at CSUSB has grown dramatically.  In March 2009, the Chamber Singers performed by invitation at the annual convention of the California Music Educators Association (CMEA).  CSUSB choral ensembles appear regularly in concert with the San Bernardino Symphony, and will again join them in a performance of Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang in March 2010.  The Chamber Singers completed a performance tour to central Italy in 2008, where they sang in such venues as Rome’s Santa Maria Maggiore and the Chiesa di San Gaetano in Florence.  In June 2010, they will travel to Spain, where they will give the world premiere performance of Manuel Garcia’s (1775-1832) setting of the Mass, in the composer’s hometown of Seville.

Dr. Crane is the former choral director at Provo High School (UT), where his choirs consistently received superior ratings at regional and state events. In 2003, the Concert Choir was invited to perform at the Utah chapter convention of the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA).

A lyric tenor, Dr. Crane has had much experience in performing on the concert stage.  He has appeared as a soloist in such varied works as Orff’s Carmina Burana, Bach’s St. Matthew and St. John Passions, Stravinsky’s Mass, Haydn’s Missa in Angustiis, and Vaughan Williams’ On Wenlock Edge—and with groups such as the Los Angeles Bach Festival,  Lansing Symphony Orchestra, and the Utah Valley Symphony.  Crane was recently selected, by audition, as a member of the Carnegie Hall Festival Chorus, where he performed in Haydn’s Die Schöpfung under the baton of Helmuth Rilling.  He has appeared as a soloist throughout the United States, as well as in Italy, Austria, and Hungary.

Dr. Crane is an active member of ACDA, Music Educators National Conference, College Music Society, Chorus America, and the Southern California Vocal Association. He also has served as the collegiate representative for the San Bernardino County Music Educators Association. Dr. Crane has been an adjudicator and guest conductor of choirs from Utah, Michigan, Oregon, Arizona, and California.  He holds BM and MM degrees from Brigham Young University, and a DMA in Choral Conducting from Michigan State University.