Gary Seighman, D.M.A.

Dr. Gary Seighman is a Professor, Director of Choral Activities, and Chair of the Music Department. Under his leadership, Trinity’s choirs have earned numerous accolades, including invited performances at state and national conferences, tours across the United States and abroad, unique artistic collaborations, and commercial recordings. A charismatic and passionate artist, Seighman is highly sought after as a clinician, guest conductor, and speaker. He received the 2023 Innovative Concert Programming Award from the Texas Choral Directors Association and the 2025 Guy H. Ranson Memorial Award for excellence in teaching, research, and service from the Carlos Alvarez School of Arts and Humanities. He was honored to conduct the 2025–2026 Texas Private School All-State Choir and recently authored the highly popular book, The Choir Playbook: Tools for the Imaginative Conductor (2026), published and distributed by Meredith Music and GIA Music. 

Since 2015, he has conducted in East Asia six times, including leading the Peking University Summer Opera Program, offering graduate masterclasses in Taiwan, and participating in engagements in Japan. In 2019, he was artist-in-residence at University College Dublin, with additional work in London, Cambridge, and Liverpool. He served as chorusmaster at the Classical Music Festival in Vienna (2018) and led the TU Chamber Singers on a 2024 tour of the U.K. and France, featuring a live-broadcast evensong from Winchester Cathedral. His Carnegie Hall conducting debut came in 2022, followed by returns in 2023, 2025, and 2026 to conduct various national high school and middle honor choirs.

In 2021–2022, Seighman served as a TU Public Humanities Faculty Fellow. In addition to his recent book, he has authored nearly twenty publications, including book chapters and articles in peer-reviewed journals, released a conducting masterclass video with Forward Motion, and presented more than thirty sessions at conferences nationwide. Always eager to explore new artistic and creative outlets, Seighman has been signed as a model and actor with Avant Agency since 2018, appearing in print, online, billboards, and on radio and television. In his spare time, he coaches soccer, softball, and baseball for his children, Gabrielle (9) and Justin (11).