Charles Klingman is Assistant Professor of Music, and is the Voice Division Coordinator, which includes choral activities and applied voice study. He is conductor of Southwestern Singers, and also teaches Applied Voice and Language Diction in addition to summer graduate coursework. Other duties include supervising student teachers and resident year teachers. Mr. Klingman is a Past-President of Oklahoma Music Educators, and has also served as Vocal Vice-President, Higher Education Vice-President, and Collegiate OMEA advisor, a total of thirteen years service.

Mr. Klingman’s degrees include the Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Southwestern, and he has completed coursework for the Doctor of Musical Arts degree candidacy at the University of Oklahoma, where he studied with baritone Sean Daniel. He has also studied conducting with Dr. Dennis Shrock. He has performed as tenor soloist with numerous choral ensembles, including the Canterbury Choral Society, Collegium Musicum of Oklahoma, Ballet Oklahoma, the New Texas Music Festival, and the Victoria Bach Festival, with Craig Hella Johnson. Other performing credits include both opera and musical theatre roles. He has also performed with the Oklahoma City Philharmonic as soloist under the baton of Joel Levine. He appeared as Daniel in The Play of Daniel in the Oklahoma University’s Early Music Television project, a recreation of a medieval mystery play from 1146 A.D., which aired on OETA.

Teaching experience includes three years in the Clinton, Oklahoma public schools as junior and senior high school vocal music teacher, and twelve years as high school vocal music director in the Muskogee, Oklahoma schools. He joined the faculty of Southwestern in the fall of 1982.

Charles Klingman is married to Eleanor Jo Ross Klingman, a former Southwestern Drum Major and charter member of Tau Beta Sigma, who is retired from the math faculty of Weatherford High School. His other interests and hobbies include photography, a truly mediocre golf game, and riding motorcycles, the latest of which is a BMW K1200LT touring bike.