Jeffrey Riehl has taught at UR since 1995 and served as Department Chair from 2014-2021. He conducts Schola Cantorum and teaches applied voice, conducting, Music in Film, and Music and Religion. His choirs have performed in distinguished venues throughout the United States and Europe, and are widely admired for their musicality, vitality, and expressive sound. An accomplished solo and professional ensemble singer, Riehl performed with Robert Shaw, Helmuth Rilling, Peter Schreier, Joseph Flummerfelt, the early music consort Affetti Musicali, the Eastman Collegium Musicum and lutenist Paul O’Dette, the Williamsburg Choral Guild, and at the Spoleto Festival USA, and the Kronos String Quartet among others. He is an active guest conductor, clinician, and adjudicator and has recorded for Chesky Records as a member of the Westminster Choir and for the Milken Foundation Archive of American Jewish Music. Riehl is Director of Music at historic Second Presbyterian Church in downtown Richmond and was Artistic Director and Conductor of the James River Singers from 2001-2011. Dr. Riehl earned degrees in conducting and choral studies at the Eastman School of Music and Westminster Choir College, and held faculty appointments at Westminster Choir College and Lebanon Valley College of Pennsylvania before joining the UR faculty.