Dr. William Wells Belan, a versatile musician who specializes in the performance and study of choral music, holds academic degrees from UCLA, the University of Tulsa, the University of Oklahoma, and a post-doctoral certificate from the Peter F. Drucker School of Management of the Claremont Graduate University. Amid his wide range of musical activities, Dr. Belan has served as Professor and Director of Choral Studies at California State University, Los Angeles, for twenty years and as guest lecturer on the choral faculty of CSU Long Beach and the National University of Costa Rica. He is Director of Music at the First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles.
Dr. Belan directs the Roger Wagner Center for Choral Studies, founded with the late renowned choral conductor to develop scholarly information and new choral repertoire. He regularly consults for nonprofit organizations and has worked on large-scale choral projects including the 1984 Olympic Choir, the 1985 Fourth of July at the Rose Bowl, the 1992 Olympic Festival at Dodger Stadium; Children Sing, a 1995 holiday festival of children's choirs at CSULA, and the CSU Summer Arts program.
He has more than fifty choral editions published by Thomas House, Twin Elm, and Alliance Publications as well as a book, Choral Essays: A Tribute to Roger Wagner. Dr. Belan is a frequent guest conductor both within the United States and Central America.
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William Belan
