About the Conductor
Dr. Douglas Amman retired in June of 2004 after 43 years of high school and
college teaching. He was Director of Choral Activities at Ball State University from 1982-2004. In addition to conducting the ECICO and PES on a volunteer basis, Dr. Amman is also Director of Music at College Avenue United Methodist Church. Dr. Ammans's collegiate choirs performed on five European tours, four Canadian tours, and in 36 states. They also performed for five major American Choral Directors Association Conventions. His church choir has taken two performance tours to Europe: England, Wales, and Scotland in 2001; and Germany, Austria, and Switzerland in 2004. They toured in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in July 2005. Dr. Amman has sung and played trombone in collegiate and community musical groups and has conducted choirs and orchestras in the Midwest, Europe, and Canada. He has been guest conductor of the Muncie Symphony Orchestra on many occasions. He and his wife, Jean, Assistant to the Provost at Ball State University, are the parents of six children and have twelve grandchildren.