eastern Iowa audiences. Highlights include Handel’s Messiah, Haydn’s The Seasons, Orff’s Carmina Burana, Rachmaninoff’s All-Night Vigil, a Carnegie Hall performance of Haydn’s Missa Cellensis, and a presentation of Handel’s Judas Maccabaeus for the national conference of the American Handel Society. Dr. Puderbaugh is Assistant Director of Choral Activities at the University of Iowa, where he conducts University Choir, teaches graduate choral literature, supervises undergraduate choral conducting, and advises D.M.A. theses. He also serves as Associate Director of the School of Music, overseeing the graduate program. A native Iowan, Dr. Puderbaugh holds a music education degree from Drake University and graduate degrees in choral conducting from the University of Missouri and the University of Iowa. Beyond the university, Dr. Puderbaugh’s research interest centers on Estonian choral music, which began with a Fulbright Fellowship to study that country’s Soviet-era national song festivals. He conducted the Estonian chamber choir Voces Musicales (now Voces Tallinn) in the album A Black Birch in Winter: American and Estonian Choral Music (MSR Classics, 2019), awarded 2019 Recording of the Year by the Estonian Choral Association. In July 2023, he and Voces Tallinn were headline performers at the College Music Society’s international conference in the Baltics. Dr. Puderbaugh is president of Midwestern ACDA, and has served on the editorial board of ACDA’s Choral Journal.  He is an active tenor soloist; recent credits include Handel’s Messiah, Haydn’s The Creation, Mozart’s C-Minor Mass, and the Evangelist role in Bach’s Christmas Oratorio and Schütz’s St. John Passion.here