Department of Music: St. Cloud State University

Professor of Music: Choral, Humanities, Graduate Coordinator

"I can't imagine a world without music. Music expresses so deeply our joys, our sorrows, our frustrations, our hopes and our dreams. Music has been an effective tool for communication with an essence beyond ourselves, particularly a Higher Power. Persons who have music in their lives need never despair, because music is a means for all of us to reach beyond ourselves and to add a qualitative dimension to our existence."

135 Performing Arts Center
sfuller@stcloudstate.edu / (320) 308-3122

Dr. Fuller has taught at the University of Hawaii-Hilo and St. Cloud State University. He was also a Visiting Professor at Luther College from 1983-85. He was conductor of the SCSU Concert Choir for 19 years. Under his direction, the choir achieved international recognition through numerous tours abroad (Scandinavia, Mexico, Bermuda and mainland Europe), and through performances at statewide and regional conventions of the American Choral Directors Association and at the Minnesota Music Educators Convention.

The choir also performed with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and the New York Philharmonia Orchestra in both Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall in New York City. Fuller has also been an active member of the American Choral Directors Association, having served as Minnesota state president, Northcentral chair for Youth and Student Activities, and program director for the 1988 Northcentral Convention in Minneapolis. He has also been a guest choral clinician in California, Hawaii, Iowa, Minnesota, Montana and Wisconsin.

Dr. Fuller serves as the Graduate Coordinator for the department, and teaches graduate choral courses as well as courses in World Music and other humanities. He is an active member of the Japan Studies Association, and has published articles on Japanese music. In Fall of 2004 he was Academic Director for SCSU'S British Studies program at the Alnwick Castle. While there he prepared a piano recital entitled "EAST meets WEST" which he toured in England, Minnesota, Iowa and Texas. He has also held positions as Minister of Music, organist and choir director at numerous Lutheran churches, most recently at University Lutheran Church of the Epiphany in St. Cloud.