Maestro Arthur Sjögren

Arthur Sjögren, Artistic Director of the Pro Arte Singers, has an international reputation as a director, musical editor, and frequent guest conductor at european festivals. He founded the Pro Arte Singers in 1974.

Maestro Sjögren is a frequent guest conductor at festivals in Europe, and in demand by colleges and schools throughout the Northeast. He was recently invited to conduct the Pennsylvania all State Choir composed of 160 outstanding high school singers, at Wyoming Seminary in Wilkes Barre.

He is also an expert on 20th century Scandinavian choral repertoire and a noted lecturer on this subject. In addition, he has conducted workshops for the American Guild of Organists in White Plains and Hartford, training church choir directors. He has been a member of the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington D.C. for three years, and is also a musical editor with several publications to his credit.

Educated at Westminster Choir College, Indiana University, Peabody Conservatory and the Vienna Academy of Music, he has studied with such famous conductors as Robert Shaw, Eric Ericsson (conductor of the Swedish Radio Chorus), and has served on the faculties of Harvard University, Barrington College and Westminster Choir College.

Maestro Sjögren is well known in the Northeast as the Choral Director of New Canaan (CT) High School where he directs a vocal music program involving over 200 students including a 24-member Madrigal Ensemble. For nearly 20 years he has led his Madrigal students on concert tours all over the world to France, Switzerland, Mexico, Canada, India, Denmark, Sweden, England, Finland, Estonia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Bangkok, South America, Australia, and most recently to South Africa..