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.