Raphael Bundage a director of choral activities at Middle Tennessee State University and is assistant conductor and chorus master of the Nashville Opera Association. He holds bachelor degrees from Texas Christian University and graduate degrees from the Eastman School of Music. Prior to his graduate study, he was supervisor of choral music in the Texas Public School System and while at Eastman, he was director of the Eastman Chamber Chorus and the assistant director of the Eastman-Rochester Symphony Chorus, and adjudicator in the choral field and as a teacher of conducting. He is himself the product of an extraordinary host of master teachers including Alfred Mann, Julius Herford, and Robert Shaw.