Prof. Craig Aamot

Craig Aamot joined the faculty at Texas State in 2013, and has led University Singers, Men’s Choir, Treble Choir, and VocaLibre as well as lecturing in music literature and art history.    Aamot comes to San Marcos from Wisconsin, where he led one of the largest High School choral programs in the Midwest. His choirs have performed at state and regional ACDA conventions, National Intercollegiate Men’s Choir Association convention, throughout the U.S., Italy, Spain, France, China, Australia, and Ireland. Aamot is active as a clinician throughout Texas and abroad, with recent appointments at the Anchorage Choral Festival in Alaska, the International Choral Festival in Sydney, Australia, and in summer 2022 he led an international chorus of 120 singers through performances in Dublin and Belfast.   

Aamot is especially involved with exploring connections between the choral art, contemplative science, and the human experience., engaging a wide variety of musical styles around themes of connection and compassion. In spring of 2011, he served as artistic director for the Appleton Compassion Project, a district-wide, year-long collaborative. In 2021 his proposal of Compassion was chosen for the Texas State Common Experience.   

Aamot's father Mark led the choral program at Carroll University for 30 years, and his brother Kirk leads the choral program at Montana State University. In addition to his work at Texas State, Aamot leads one of the premier quarterback development summer programs in the country, enrolling over 1200 High School quarterbacks annually. He has presented talks nationally in over twenty states on aspects of mindfulness, leadership and performance for the athlete and artist.