Dr. Carol McDaniel

Resident Faculty in Music

Director of Parish Music Program

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

Teaching Areas

• Church Music
• Aural Skills

Degrees Earned

• Doctor of Worship Studies – Robert E. Webber Institute for Worship Studies (Jacksonville, FL)
• M.M. Organ Performance – University of Nebraska
• B.S. Education (music emphasis) – Concordia University (Seward, NE)

Carol R. (Schroeder) McDaniel is a part-time faculty member, teaching courses in Church Music, Aural Skills and Children’s Music Methods; she also serves as the music faculty representative on the Chapel Planning Committee. Carol recently celebrated 25 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. 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 writing new hymn texts for worship, in addition to spending time traveling with her husband Gary and their four children.