Artistic Director/Conductor | Edmond Community Chorale / Rose State Chorus
Dr. Tracey Gregg-Boothby, Artistic Director/Conductor, is Professor of Music at Rose State College where she conducts the Rose State Chorus and Rose State Chamber Singers, teaches private voice and several other undergraduate courses in music. Dr. Gregg-Boothby also serves as the Artistic Director for the Edmond Community Chorus in Edmond, OK, as well as the Assistant Director of Worship Arts: Choral Music for First Presbyterian Church of Edmond. Dr. Gregg-Boothby is a member of the National Collegiate Choral Organization, National Association for Music Education, Oklahoma Music Educators Association, American Choral Directors Association, Oklahoma Choral Directors Association and National Association of Teachers of Singing and is a sought-after guest choral and vocal clinician for middle school and high school choirs. She has also served as stage director and music director for numerous musical theater productions. Dr. Gregg-Boothby received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in vocal performance at Oklahoma State University and Oklahoma City University, respectively. She completed her DMA in Choral Conducting at the University of Oklahoma, with a specialization in researching the collection, transcription, and facilitation of choral arrangements of traditional Wichita tribal songs, in order to promote preservation of the Wichita musical culture and language. As a member of the Wichita tribe, Dr. Gregg-Boothby was instrumental in commissioning new choral arrangements from several of her transcriptions of traditional Wichita melodies. She has commissioned several prominent composers including
Debra Scroggins whose arrangement of Morning Star Lullaby for women’s choir has been performed in concerts throughout the United States and which has been featured by the Concierto Coro Juvenil de Colombia (National Youth Choir of Colombia) in Bogotá, South America.
Director of Choral Studies | UCO Choirs
Dr. Karl Nelson has served as the Director of Choral Studies at the University of Central Oklahoma since August of 2006. He oversees the choral program, directing the Concert Chorale and Second Street Singers, and teaching choral literature and conducting courses. He also serves as the advisor of the Graduate Choral Conducting program and the School of Music Undergraduate Coordinator. A student of Kenneth Fulton, Michael Butterman, Jindong Cai, Chester Alwes and Joe Grant, he earned a Doctorate of Musical Arts and a Master of Music in Choral Conducting from Louisiana State University and a Bachelor of Science in Music Education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Under the direction of Dr. Nelson, the University of Central Oklahoma Concert Chorale has performed for Oklahoma Music Educators Association (OkMEA) Conferences, as well as the College Music Society National Conference. The choir has also toured throughout England in 2023, Brazil in 2014, highlighted by performances at the International Music Festival of Campina Grande, and Italy in 2018 and 2008. Most recently, UCO’s vocal jazz ensemble, The Second Street Singers, performed for the 2025 OkMEA Winter Conference. In addition to his
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