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Grant W. Cook III, Associate Professor of Choral Music and Music History at Heidelberg University (Tiffin, Ohio), directs the Concert Choir and Chamber Singers and teaches beginning and advanced conducting and music history. He holds a bachelor of music degree in vocal pedagogy from Heidelberg and a master of music degree in choral conducting and doctor of philosophy degree in historical musicology/ethnomusicology, both from Kent State University. Choirs under Dr. Cook's direction have appeared in concert at state and regional meetings of the American Choral Directors Association and Music Educators National Conference and with the Toledo Symphony. In June 2002 he completed a one-week residency with the Chor und Orchester von St. Augustin (Vienna, Austria), culminating in performances of Mozart's Requiem and Missa brevis in C under the direction of Mag. Alois Glaßner, Kirchenmusikdirektor. Active as a musicologist, his research has been published in the Choral Journal and The Beethoven Journal and presented by invitation at meetings of the American Musicological Society. Dr. Cook currently serves on the State Board of the Ohio Choral Directors Association and the National Research and Publications Committee of the American Choral Directors Association.