Steven Curtis, OU Regent’s Professor Emeritus, retired from the University of Oklahoma School of Music in 2011. He was a member of the faculty for twenty-one years where he taught conducting, vocal methods, graduate courses, supervised entry-year and student teachers, and directed choirs. He ended his career serving as the Director of the School of Music for his last six years at OU. After retirement, for four years, he taught a music methods course that he created while on the faculty. He founded the OU Friends of Music organization that supports OU music students with scholarship assistance.
He taught vocal music for a total of forty-seven years at the elementary, junior high, high school, and college levels. He has also conducted adult, community, and church choirs. Curtis holds the BME degree from Southeast Missouri State University, the Master of Music Education degree from Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville, and the Ph.D. in Music Education from the University of Oklahoma.
He adjudicated choirs in the Midwest and Southwest and has conducted numerous honor choirs, all-state choirs, and choral workshops throughout the country. He has directed all-state choirs in Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, and Missouri. He also frequently worked with public school students within the states of Oklahoma, Missouri, and Illinois. He has a research interest in the adolescent male changing voice and shared his research at numerous music conferences. His choirs have performed as invited honor groups at state, regional, and national conventions. He is currently in his thirty-fourth year as Director of Music at the First Christian Church in Norman, Oklahoma.
