Ben Johns

BEN JOHNS, Director of Education, finished his master's degree in Choral Conducting in 2009 at the University of California, Irvine and holds undergraduate degrees in Dance, Vocal Performance, and Chemistry. Mr. Johns earned merit-based graduate fellowships, teaching assistantships and scholarships from the Tom and Elizabeth Tierney, Ann and Gordon Getty, Mary and Philip Lyons, and Sunny Brown Scholarship Foundations. He also earned the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research for his honor's thesis topic, "Exploring the Neurobiological Basis for the Effect of Movement on the Voice," a topic he presented at the American Association of Physics Teachers conference at California State University, Sacramento in 2004. Ben sang in the Chanticleer ensemble for three years before moving to his current position as Chanticleer's Director of Education. His education duties include, but are not limited to, directing Chanticleer's LAB Choir and giving master classes to Bay Area high school and middle school choirs. Mr. Johns also teaches voice at Diablo Valley College and continues to sing professionally as a soloist and choral artist around the country.