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Joseph Huszti Professor of Music (Choral Conducting) Office: 109 Music & Media Phone: 949-824–4913 E-mail: bhuszti@uci.edu M.M., Northwestern University As Director of Choral Activities at UC Irvine, Joseph Huszti has taken groups on eighteen international tours, including prize-winning performances at the International Musical Eisteddfod (Llangollen, Wales), the Béla Bartok International Choral Competition, and the Koorfest (The Hague, Holland).

Other appearances include performances in the cathedrals of York, Sterling, Westminster, Coventry, Canterbury, Liverpool, and Ely, as well as formal concerts in Tokyo, Hong Kong, Seoul, Taipei, Budapest, Warsaw, Prague, and Vienna. The Madrigal Dinners are given on campus each year and have received the National ACE award. The groups Men in Blaque and Chamber Singers have been invited to perform at international choral festivals in Spain, Mexico, and Korea.

Among other distinctions, Joseph Huzsti was awarded the Ecumenical Medal by Pope Paul VI and was received at the White House by President Lyndon B. Johnson after winning the International Musical Eisteddfod with the Bakersfield College Choir, the first American choir to achieve this honor.

In demand as a guest conductor and clinician, Joseph Huszti has appeared throughout the United States and in more than twenty foreign countries. He is a principal contributor to In Quest of Answers, a book of interviews with thirty outstanding American choral conductors. Huszti was inducted into the Golden Key Society and was recently named Outstanding Professor in the Claire Trevor School of the Arts.