biography.

William J. Bullock (b. 1943) is retired from a 50-plus-year career as conductor, professor and arts  administrator. For thirty-three years, from 1968, he served university music departments as  professor, choral conductor and administrator, retiring in 2000 as Professor Emeritus from  Columbus (Georgia) State University’s Schwob School of Music. Previously he held similar  positions at the University of Southern Mississippi and Tarrant County College (Fort Worth). In  2000 he founded the professional chorus Cantus Columbus, which for twenty years he conducted  in annual Christmas concerts and periodic spring concerts of diverse literature, concentrating on  arrangements of songs by the five founders of the Great American Songbook (Jerome Kern,  Rodgers & Hart, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, and George & Ira Gershwin). During his years with  Cantus Columbus, Dr. Bullock also conducted several theatrical productions, notably at the  Springer Opera House in Columbus, and for twelve years served Columbus’ newly established  River Center for the Performing Arts, first as development director, then as executive director  (2009–2015).

For his student and professional musicians, Dr. Bullock prepared many editions, arrangements,  transcriptions and translations, most notably his widely respected edition of the Brahms  Requiem. The only bilingual edition of the Requiem, it was released in 1997 to commemorate the  centennial of composer’s death by including, along with the original German text, Dr. Bullock’s  thoroughly researched modern, prosodic English translation. Other editions by Bullock are published Imagine Music Publishing, Lawson-Gould Music Publishers, Concordia Publishing  House, Potenza Music, and others. 

Dr. Bullock received his BME, MM and Ph.D. degrees are from The Florida State University. He conducted and adjudicated choruses in seven south and southwestern states, conducted concert  tours of Mexico and Eastern and Western Europe, and led study tours of Scandinavia and  Australia. He founded the Six Flags over Texas Choral Festival, participated in international choral  conferences in Vienna, Sydney, and Vancouver, and served as Mississippi state president of the  American Choral Directors Association, as executive director of Southeastern Music Center (Georgia), and as choirmaster for Methodist and Episcopal churches. A choral literature authority,  Dr. Bullock has published several journal articles and a book on the cantatas of J. S. Bach (Bach  Cantatas Requiring Limited Resources: A Guide to Editions). A recipient of several awards, he is a  member of Pi Kappa Lambda, Phi Kappa Phi honor societies and various professional  organizations.

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