Music Department

Dr. Rodney J. Rothlisberger is the immediate past Chair of the Music Department and serves as a Choral Music Education professor at Minnesota State University Moorhead where he teaches vocal performance and choral music education. He holds music degrees from St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota; the Eastman School of Music, Rochester, New York; and the University of Colorado at Boulder.

He has directed choirs at the Post Chapel of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York; Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine; the University of Colorado at Boulder; Berea College, Berea, Kentucky; Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota and MSU Moorhead. Dr. Rothlisberger has also taught choral music in public high schools in Anacortes, Washington; Melbourne, Australia; and Moorhead, Minnesota. He served on the faculty of the International Music Camp for fourteen summers and has directed the International Ambassadors of Music Choir on three European tours. Dr. Rothlisberger was first listed in Who's Who Among American Teachers in 1990 and has been included in Who's Who in America since 1998.