Herbert Geisler

Professor of Music

Director of Musical Activities

Chair, Division of Fine Arts

CU Center 101 Ph: (949)854 8002 ext:1527
herb.geisler@cui.edu

Degrees Earned

• Concordia Teachers College, River Forest, IL, B.A., 1971; M.A.Ed., 1974
• The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Ph.D., 1990.

Professional Experience

Concordia Lutheran Middle School, Hong Kong, 1971-75. Director of Music, University Lutheran Chapel, Ann Arbor, MI, 1975-79. Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1976-78. Lutheran High School West, Detroit, MI, 1978-79. Director of Music, St. Luke Lutheran Church, Ann Arbor, MI, 1979-88. Concordia College, Ann Arbor, MI, 1979-88. Concordia University since 1988.

Biography

Dr. Herb Geisler is Professor of Music and director of Concordia University's multi-ensemble handbell program involving over 50 ringers. He also teaches music education, ethnomusicology, and theory. He has served as director of parish music and taught music and handbells at all levels from elementary to graduate school in Hong Kong, Illinois, Michigan, and California. He earned the B.A. and M.A. Ed. degrees at Concordia College, River Forest, and the Ph.D. in music education at the University of Michigan. He serves as a handbell and music education clinician and has published numerous articles and handbell works with Concordia Publishing House and Morning Star Publications.

Achievements

Dr. Geisler presented a paper, "Faith, Reason and Emotion: At the Nexus of Music and “Religious Experience” in Contemporary American Christianity" at the international Society for Ethnomusicology conference in Columbus, Ohio. Dr. Geisler also published an article, “Thinking Outside the Bell-Music for Handbells AND Other Instruments” in Overtones, the national magazine of the American Guild of English Handbell Ringers.