Professor of Music and Director of Choral Studies at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City and Artistic Director of the Salt Lake Choral Artists, Dr. Brady R. Allred has developed “an international reputation for excellence.” Under his energetic leadership, Dr. Allred’s choirs have completed eight international tours of Europe, including 13 countries, and a concert tour of Canada. Honors he has received include Grand Prize at the Florilège Vocal de Tours International Choir Competition, Tours, France and First Prize at the Marktoberdorf International Chamber Choir Competition with additional prizes for Best Interpretation of 20th Century Music and the Conductor’s Prize. The University of Utah Singers won the Grand Prize at the 2006 European Grand Prix International Choral Competition in Tolosa, Spain. In May 2007 he was the American judge on the international jury for the Marktoberdorf International Chamber Choir Competition in Germany.

     Dr. Allred’s ensembles, known around the world for “exquisite choral singing,” have been invited to participate in major festivals including the 12th International Choir Festival en Provence, the Festival des Choeurs Lauréats; the 19th Festival “Choralies de Vaison-la-Romaine”, and the Nancy Festival International Chant de Choral. In the United States, his choirs have toured extensively, including performances at the Division and National Conventions of the American Choral Directors Association and the Music Educators National Conference in New York City at Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.

     Dr. Allred was the Music Director and Conductor for the Butler Symphony Orchestra for three seasons, the Director of Choral Activities at Duquesne University for fourteen years, and he has been a guest conductor for the Salt Lake Symphony, Utah Philharmonia, the Schumann Chamber Orchestra in Florence, Italy, the Wroclaw Philharmonic in Poland, and the Symphonic Orchestra of the Russian Ministry of Defense. Twice the guest conductor for the Salt Lake Mormon Tabernacle Choir for the radio and television broadcast, Music and the Spoken Word, he is considered “among the upper echelon of choral conductors in the country” by Tabernacle Organist, Richard L. Elliott and rated “in the top 1% of the choral conductors/educators that I know” by Tabernacle Choir Music Director, Craig D. Jessop.

     Dr. Allred was the Music Director and Conductor for the Butler Symphony Orchestra for three seasons, the Director of Choral Activities at Duquesne University for fourteen years, and he has been a guest conductor for the Duquesne University Symphony Orchestra and Contemporary Ensemble, the Westmoreland Symphony Orchestra, the Schumann Chamber Orchestra in Florence, Italy, the Wroclaw Philharmonic in Poland, and the Symphonic Orchestra of the Russian Ministry of Defense. Twice the guest conductor for the Salt Lake Mormon Tabernacle Choir for the radio and television broadcast, Music and the Spoken Word, he is considered “among the upper echelon of choral conductors in the country” by Tabernacle Organist, Richard L. Elliott and rated “in the top 1% of the choral conductors/educators that I know” by Tabernacle Choir Music Director, Craig D. Jessop.

     Dr. Allred earned the degrees Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts in Conducting from the Eastman School of Music and the Bachelor of Music degree in Theory/Composition and Flute Performance from Brigham Young University. As an undergraduate flutist and composer he was a winner in the Utah State Fair competitions, a soloist with the Utah Symphony, winner of the Mayhew Composition Prize, and a Karl G. Maeser Scholar. As a graduate student at the Eastman School of Music he was awarded the Performers Certificate in Flute and the Jesse Kneisel Prize for Piano Accompanying. He has performed with the Robert Shaw Festival Singers and the Oregon Bach Festival Chorus. Honored in Pittsburgh Magazine for “Excellence in the Arts,” he has toured as a conductor and performer throughout the United States, Russia, Israel, and India, and was nominated for a Creative Achievement Award as an “Established Artist” by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust. He was most recently honored by the Utah Music Educators Association for a Superior Achievement award and in May 2007 he was a jury member for the Marktoberdorf International Chamber Choir Competition in Germany. He and his wife, Soprano Carol Ann Allred, traveled and performed in Italy, Sweden, Spain, Portugal, the Azores, and Madeira Island as Artistic Ambassadors for the United States Information Agency. They have four daughters and they make their home in Salt Lake City, Utah.