Dr. Carol McDaniel 

Resident Faculty in Music
Director of Parish Music Program

CUC 104 Ph: (949)854 8002 ext:1544
carol.mcdaniel@cui.edu 

Degrees Earned

Robert E. Webber Institute for Worship Studies (Jacksonville, FL), Doctor of Worship Studies, 2007.
University of Nebraska, Lincoln, M.M., 1985.
Concordia Teachers College, Seward, NE, B.S., 1983.

Professional Experience

Concordia University (part-time) 1996-2001. Concordia University since 2001.

Biography

Carol R. (Schroeder) McDaniel is a part-time faculty member, teaching courses in Church Music and Children’s Music Methods; she also conducts the Chapel Choir and serves as the music faculty representative on the Chapel Planning Committee. Carol has spent over 20 years in music ministry as a teacher, conductor, organist and parish music administrator. She received her B.S. in Education, with an emphasis in organ, music education and parish music, from Concordia University, Seward, Nebraska in 1983. She was a graduate teaching assistant and received her Master of Music degree in Organ Performance from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1985. She has studied with Charles W. Ore, Theodore Beck, David Held, Quentin Faulkner, George Ritchie, Marianne Webb, Michael Burkhardt and Esther Jones. She has taken additional coursework at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois, Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, University of California, Los Angeles, California, California State University, Fullerton, California, and Concordia University, Irvine, California. She is currently enrolled in the doctoral program at the Institute of Worship Studies, founded by Robert Webber, in Orange Park, Florida. Carol serves fulltime at Bethany Lutheran Church, Long Beach, California as Minister of Music/Organist, and is a frequent clinician and organist for Lutheran events in the southern California area. When she’s not at Concordia or Bethany, Carol enjoys spending time traveling, learning and growing with her husband Gary and their four children: ages 12-19.