MB Krueger
Director of Choral Activities
Associate Professor
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MB Krueger earned her bachelor's degree in music education and voice at Michigan State University (1990), where she was a National Merit Scholar. She received her master's degree in music education with an emphasis in choral conducting from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio (1995). While at Miami, MB founded and conducted a chamber ensemble of women's voices and was chorusmaster for Miami's production of Le Nozze di Figaro. She began her career in Michigan as a high school choir director, and after two years, went on to teach and direct choirs at Lansing Community College. Currently, MB is an assistant professor of music at Metropolitan State University of Denver, where she directs the Women's Choir and teaches basic conducting, private voice, and musical theatre. She has music directed over 30 shows, including Into the Woods (MSU Denver), La Cage aux Folles (Riverwalk Theatre, Lansing, Michigan), Forever Plaid (Boarshead Theatre, Lansing, Michigan), Man of LaMancha (Riverwalk and MSU Denver), The Secret Garden (MSU Denver), and many others. MB has also conducted and accompanied a number of church choirs and community choirs. She is a member of St. Martin's Chamber Choir and St. Andrew's Episcopal Church Choir, and has also sung professionally with the Santa Fe Desert Chorale, the Santa Fe Opera, Ars Nova Singers, Diverse Passions Early Music Ensemble, and the Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Colorado.
