Phillip Swan, associate professor of music, is the co-director of choral studies at Lawrence University and musical director for LU Musicals. Swan directs Cantala Women’s Choir and the Hybrid Ensemble (jazz, early, contemporary, and world music), teaches courses in conducting, musical theater, music education, supervises student teachers and coaches student organized a cappella groups.

He is the choir director at Appleton Alliance Church and conductor for the the White Heron Chorale community choir. Swan received his BA in music education from Concordia College, Moorhead, MN, MM in choral conducting from UT El Paso, and has completed all coursework for the DMA in choral conducting at the University of Miami (Florida). Swan is an active clinician and recently conducted high school students and teachers at the seventh annual Festival of Choirs in Muscat, Oman. He is the current WCDA R&S State Chair for Women’s Choirs.