Gabriel Crouch

Gabriel Crouch is Director of Choral Activities and Professor of the Practice in Music at Princeton University. He began his musical career as an eight-year-old in the choir of Westminster Abbey, where his solo credits included a Royal Wedding, and performances which placed him on the solo stage with Jessye Norman and Sir Laurence Olivier. After completing a choral scholarship at Trinity College, Cambridge, he was offered a place in the renowned a cappella group The King's Singers in 1996. In the next eight years he made a dozen recordings on the BMG label (including a grammy nomination), and gave more than 900 performances in almost every major concert venue in the world.

Since moving to the USA in 2005 he has built an international profile as a conductor and director, with recent engagements in Indonesia, Hawaii and Australia as well as Europe and the continental United States. When the academic calendar allows, he maintains parallel careers in singing and record production, crossing the Atlantic frequently to appear with such ensembles as Tenebrae and The Gabrieli Choir, and in the US, performing recitals of lutesong with such acclaimed lutenists as Daniel Swenberg and Nigel North. As a producer his latest credits have included Winchester Cathedral Choir, The Gabrieli Consort and Tenebrae.

In 2008 he was appointed musical director of the British early music ensemble 'Gallicantus', with whom he has released six recordings under the Signum label to rapturous reviews, garnering multiple ‘Editor’s Choice’ awards in Gramophone Magazine, Choir and Organ Magazine and the Early Music Review, and, for the 2012 release ‘The Word Unspoken', a place on BBC Radio’s CD Review list of the top nine classical releases of the year. His recording of Lagrime di San Pietro by Orlando di Lasso was shortlisted for a Gramophone Award in 2014, and his follow-up recording - Sibylla (featuring music by Orlandus Lassus and Dmitri Tymoczko) was named ’star recording’ by Choir and Organ magazine in the summer of 2018. His most recent release is Mass for the Endangered, a new composition by Sarah Kirkland Snider released on the Nonesuch/New Amsterdam labels, which has garnered high acclaim from the New York Times, Boston Globe, NPR’s ‘All Things Considered’ and elsewhere.

 Michael McCormick

Michael McCormick, originally from Oneida, New York, serves as the Choral Specialist at Princeton University (Interim Director of Choral Activities for Fall 2025). He graduated from Westminster Choir College with a B.M. in Music Education (summa cum laude) where he was named an Andrew J. Rider Scholar, and received an M.M. in Choral Conducting from Rutgers University where he was awarded a Robert E. Mortensen Fellowship. In addition to his work at Princeton, Michael serves as the Music Director and Organist at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Basking Ridge, NJ and Music Director of Ars Musica Chorale in Ridgewood, NJ.

An experienced choral singer, Michael has performed with some of the leading choirs and orchestras in the United States, such as the Westminster Choir, Philadelphia Symphonic Choir, Philadelphia Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, and Orchestra of St. Luke’s. His collaborations also include professional engagements with Spoleto Festival USA, Beloit Chorale, Norfolk Chamber Choir, St. Bartholomew’s Church NYC, and St. Vincent Ferrer Church NYC. His solo engagements include works by J.S. Bach, Joseph Haydn, Arthur Honegger, Lili Boulanger, and Claude Debussy with the Rutgers University Kirkpatrick Choir and Glee Club, Riverside Choral Society, and Highland Park Community Chorus.

As a conductor, Michael participated as a conducting fellow for the International Conductor Training Program at University of Cincinnati, Berkshire Choral International in Seattle, WA, and Yale School of Music’s Norfolk Chamber Choir. As a clinician, he has led workshops in high schools across the metropolitan area, as well as leading a program with the San Miguel de Allende (Mexico) Opera Choir. He also serves on the faculty of the SUNY New Paltz Summer High School Choral Institute and Chamber Singers programs. His guest conducting has included groups such as Amor Artis, Somerset Hills Chorus, Downtown Voices, and Lux Choir.

Michael is a board member of the New Jersey American Choral Directors Association, where he coordinates the New Jersey High School Choral Festival.