Francis John Vogt, Chorusmaster, is Director of Choral Activities at the University of Maine, where he conducts the University Singers and Oratorio Society and teaches voice and choral conducting.  He is music director of the Orono–based chamber choir EUPHONY, which specializes in 20th and 21st century choral repertoire. He has been a guest conductor, choral clinician and adjudicator across the U.S. Mr. Vogt received degrees in vocal performance from the Hartt School of Music and the State University of New York College at Fredonia, and did doctoral work in choral conducting at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He has recorded and toured internationally with the Dale Warland Singers and the Gregg Smith Singers, and has sung with many renowned conductors, including Robert Shaw, Robert Craft, Edo de Waart, Hugh Wolff, Robert Spano, Maria Guinand, and John Finney.  Additional performing credits include appearances with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Maine Shakespeare Festival, Penobscot Theatre, Gilbert and Sullivan Society of Maine, and the Bangor Symphony Orchestra.