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Richard D. Mathey
is Professor Emeritus at Bowling Green State University. Professor
Mathey is a graduate of Capital University, Columbus, Ohio and
Bowling Green State University. His various university choirs,
Men's Chorus, Women's Chorus, A cappella Choir, and Collegiate
Chorale, have appeared on state, regional, and national conventions
of the Ohio Music Education Association, the Music Educators National
Conference, the American Choral Directors Association and the
Michigan Music Education Association. In addition he has conducted
All-State Choruses in Alabama, Colorado, Indiana, Michigan and
Ohio and over 400 county, district, regional and state choral
festivals. He has been a choral/vocal adjudicator for the Ohio
Music Education Association for 34 years. He was an adjunct professor
at Ohio University during academic year 2001, where he was a private
voice teacher and directed the Glee Club, The Singing Men of Ohio.
After a two year hiatus with the Bowling Green State University
Men's Chorus he has recently taken the helm of the newly formed
BGSU Alumni Men's Chorus.
He made his New York singing debut in 1971 with the Opera Orchestra
of New York at Alice Tully Hall in the Lincoln Center complex
in a performance of Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea. He
has performed 17 leading operatic tenor roles and has soloed with
symphonies throughout the mid-west.On July 4 of 1997, he received
a service award from the Music Educators National Conference and
the Society For The Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop
Quartet Singing in America for his service to music education.
He assumed the directorship of the Singing Buckeye Chapter (Society
for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing
in America), in Columbus, Ohio in January of 1999. Professor Mathey
can be heard on the CD album Without A Song, recorded in May of
1994 with his son and tenor, Shawn Mathey.
