Dr. Eric Posada
Eric Posada is a vibrant and diverse conductor, choral educator, and mentor with eighteen years’ experience and is passionate about uniting human beings and singers across the world through profound, transformative choral experiences and performances. In August 2021, Dr. Posada was appointed Director of Choral Activities at Angelo State University in Texas. Previously, he held academic appointments at the University of North Carolina Charlotte, Tyler Junior College, Texas A&M University, and Texas Tech University. A native of McAllen, Texas, Posada founded the Rio Grande Valley’s first professional chorus, Pasión, and is the ensemble’s Artistic Director.
Since 2020, Dr. Posada has presented interest sessions for twenty-four national, regional, or state music conferences. These invitations have included the National Collegiate Choral Organization; Southwestern American Choral Directors Association; The College Music Society; Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia; sixteen state Music Educators Associations; three state Choral Directors Associations; and the Texas Orchestra Directors Association. In addition to his work in academia, Dr. Posada has served sixteen years as a Director of Music in liturgical settings, the highlight of which was a performance at Notre-Dame de Paris. Additionally, Posada has held conducting posts with civic choruses such as the East Texas Symphony Chorus, Brazos Valley Chorale, The Lubbock Chorale, and his newly founded San Angelo Chorus is presenting its inaugural season. A champion of philanthropic work, Dr. Posada’s non-profit organization Pasión provides the highest artistic product and administers to the counties of South Texas. The professional chorus recently won third place in The American Prize for two categories, Choral Performance and the Performance of American Music, and was selected through refereed audition as Performing Choir for the 2021 Texas Choral Directors Association Summer Conference.

Throughout his career, Dr. Posada has been honored and privileged to collaborate with esteemed colleagues and ensembles across the world. Forthcoming in 2024 are two projects: a Carnegie Hall performance of Ola Gjeilo’s Sunrise Mass with Manhattan Concert Productions and The Music of Mari Esabel Valverde at Cadogan Hall in collaboration with Vox Anima London. Recently, Dr. Posada and Pasión worked with composers Dominick DiOrio, Dan Forrest, Kyle Pederson, and Mari Esabel Valverde to offer the program Light Beyond Shadow to the Texas Choral Directors Association. In 2017, the ensemble performed the Concert World Premiere of and recorded composer Michael John Trotta’s Light Shines in the Darkness. At Angelo State, Posada has fostered the engagement of guest artists and scholars to enrich the learning of his musicians through summer conducting symposiums featuring composers Victor Johnson, Mari Esabel Valverde, Marques L. A. Garrett, and Christi Jones; roundtables with composers Kyle Pederson and James Knox; and the World Premiere of Knox’s Personent Hodie. While at UNCC, the choral department hosted sessions with Stacey V. Gibbs, Tim Sarsany, and Craig Courtney. Dr. Posada’s students at Tyler Junior College had the opportunity to perform under the direction of two-time GRAMMY award winner Craig Hella Johnson and GRAMMY award nominee Eugene Rogers. During his tenure at Texas A&M University, Posada’s choruses performed at Carnegie Hall and toured across Germany and Canada. Noteworthy partnerships during that time included projects with the internationally acclaimed Nordic Choir and composers Ola Gjeilo and Shawn Kirchner, as well as the World Premiere of Michael John Trotta’s Tu Sola Remedio.
Postdoctoral work for Dr. Posada has included study with GRAMMY award winner Jerry Blackstone and Dan Bara. He earned his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in choral conducting from Texas Tech University in 2015 and served as graduate assistant under the tutelage of Richard Bjella. Prior to his doctoral studies, Posada was a graduate assistant of Allen Hightower and completed his Master of Music degree in choral conducting at Sam Houston State University. In 2003, Dr. Posada received his Bachelor of Music degree with concentration in Teacher Preparation, also from Texas Tech, at which his conducting teachers were John Dickson, Pamela Elrod, and Gary Lewis.
Conference Presentations
Washington Music Educators Association
February 19, 2023
Texas Choral Directors Association
January 14, 2023
Texas Orchestra Directors Association
July 23, 2022
Phi Mu Alpha National Convention
July 20-21, 2022
Southwestern American Choral Directors Association
March 1, 2022
Texas Music Educators Association
February 9-12, 2022
National Collegiate Choral Organization
January 20-22, 2022
Indiana Music Educators Association
January 15, 2022
Florida Music Educators Association
January 14, 2022
Nebraska Music Educators Association
November 18, 2021
Massachusetts Music Educators Association
November 6-8, 2021
North Carolina Music Educators Association
November 6-8, 2021
New Hampshire Music Educators Association
October 21, 2021
Pennsylvania ACDA
August 1-2, 2021
Maine Music Educators Association
May 10-15, 2021
Pennsylvania Music Educators Association
April 14-17, 2021
The College Music Society
March 26-28, 2021
North Dakota Music Educators Association
March 22-23. 2021
New Jersey Music Educators Association
February 18, 2021
Minnesota Music Educators Association
February 11-13, 2021
Ohio Music Educators Association
February 6, 2021
Utah Music Educators Association
February 4-5, 2021
Alabama Music Educators Association
January 21, 2021
Oregon Music Educators Association
January 16, 2021
Louisiana Choral Directors Association
October 24, 2020





