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Sandra Thompson
sthompson@ucok.edu
Sandra D. Thompson, Assistant Professor of Music and Associate
Director of Choral Studies, has been a member of the UCO faculty
since 1989. Sandra is a doctoral candidate at the University of
Oklahoma, where her final document, The Choral Music of Adolphus Hailstork with a conductor’s guide to "Done Made My Vow: A Celebration" will be completed and defended very soon.
Ms. Thompson has collaborated with many Oklahoma City music theater directors, including Billie Thrash, Benton Jones, UCO’s Carveth Osterhaus, and the late Tamara Long. Some of her most memorable productions include The Man of LaMancha, Into the Woods, Company, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Can Can and Joseph, and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat with Broadway director Dennis Courtney. Most recently Ms. Thompson has appeared on the UCO Opera stage in the role of Mama Lucia in Cavalleria Rusticana.
In the fall of 2002, Thompson was the Music Director for UCO Broadway Tonight’s production of Hello, Dolly!, which starred Carole Cook in the title role. Ms. Thompson has been the pianist for many Lyric Theater seasons and is remembered as Hattie in Lyric’s production of Kiss Me Kate and as Addaperle in their production of The Wiz.
Active as an adjudicator and clinician, Ms. Thompson will be returning for a third time as guest conductor for the Oklahoma City Public Schools All-City Middle School Honor Choir. She has adjudicated many OSSAA contests for both Junior High/Middle School and High School competitions.
Ms. Thompson’s teaching duties at UCO include Freshman Theory and Aural Skills; Choriste, the Women’s Chorus; and Cantare, the Men’s Chorus. In her tenure at UCO Ms. Thompson has been responsible for preparing the chorus for UCO’s opera production of Porgy and Bess, and she was the conductor for George Bizet’s Carmen: A Concert Version and Hansel and Gretel.
Sandra Thompson is an Assistant Conductor and pianist for the Ambassadors’ Concert Choir; pianist and director of the Cherub Choir for the Evangelistic Baptist Church; a member of the Board of Directors of both the Ambassadors’ Concert Choir and the Allied Arts organization; Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., and the American Choral Director’s Association.