William J. Naydan
Music Department Coordinator, Adjunct Professor
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Biography
- Education
Lafayette College
1978
Russian & German
BATemple University
1982
Opera Performance
MA
- Curriculum Vitae
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- Hometown
- Montgomeryville, PA
- Home Country
- US
- Languages
- English, German, Russian, Ukrainian
Mr. William J. Naydan retired from Hatboro-Horsham HS in 2016. He was the director of Choral Activities at HHHS. He was the choir director at Central Bucks West from 1982 to 1991. He also served as choir director at Lafayette College and Chestnut Hill College. He received a B.A. in Foreign Languages (Russian & German) from Lafayette College, an M.A. in Opera Performance from Temple University with further study at Chestnut Hill College, Villanova, West Chester, U of Pittsburgh and Westminster Choir College.
He is a clinician, adjudicator, guest conductor and lecturer.
He is also the 2005 recipient of the James R. Stewart Distinguished Service Award from PMEA and In April of 2009, Mr. Naydan was one of seven educators chosen for the inaugural class of the PA Music Educators Association Hall of Fame.
He is active in the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association and the American Choral Directors Association, serving on various capacities.
Mr. Naydan is also the founding director of the Bucks Mont Camerata Chorus, a non auditioned community chorus created in 2014.