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Oratorio ChorusOur ConductorThe conductor of the Oratorio Chorus is Carl Stam. After serving as director of Choral Music at the University of Notre Dame Mr. Stam was a Morehead Scholar and an undergraduate trombone major at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After graduation, he stayed at UNC-Chapel Hill and received the Master's of Music in Choral Arts, studying choral conducting with Dr. Lara Hoggard. From 1976 to 1981 he taught choral music at Chapel Hill, conducting the Carolina Choir as well as the Men's and Women's Glee Clubs. In the summer of 1986 Mr. Stam studied at the Oregon Bach Festival under internationally renowned conductor and Bach scholar, Helmuth Rilling. In 1987, Mr. Stam was selected as a scholarship recipient for the prestigious National Conductors Training Workshop, studying with Andrew Davis, Robert Page, Margaret Hillis and Michael Korn. In the spring of 1988 Mr. Stam participated in preliminary auditions for the Exxon Affiliate Artists Conductors program.
Mr. Stam frequently lectures and presents workshops on various aspects of Christian worship and music. He has been on the faculty of the Church Music Explosion (Fort Lauderdale, Florida), the Conference on Liturgy and Music at Dordt College (Sioux Center, Iowa), and the Symposium on Worship and the Arts at Calvin College. He is on the editorial council for Reformed Worship Magazine and serves as an advisor for the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship. From 1995 to 2001 he served the American Choral Directors Association as the National Chair for the Music and Worship Repertoire & Standards Committee. Active as a guest conductor and choral clinician, in 1994, he conducted the Male Honor Choir at the ACDA North Central Division Convention. He has conducted the North Carolina Summer Institute in Choral Art, the Midwest Summer Music Camp (Lawrence, Kansas), the Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, and Minnesota All State Men's Choruses, as well as the 1998 SATB All State for North Carolina. He is a life member of the American Choral Directors Association. Mr. Stam has a wife, two sons (27 & 25), and a 17-year-old daughter—two sopranos, a tenor and a baritone.
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(1981-91), he moved to Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and served as the Pastor of Worship and Music at the Chapel Hill Bible Church (1991-2000) and conductor of the Chapel Hill/Carrboro Community Chorus. Mr. Stam is now Associate Professor of Church Music and Worship and director of the 
From 1981 to 1991, Carl Stam served as Director of Choral Music at the University of Notre Dame. During those ten years, he conducted the Notre Dame Glee Club (a 70-voice men's chorus) and the Notre Dame Chorale, and taught classes in conducting and choral literature. He conducted the Notre Dame Orchestra on numerous occasions. Mr. Stam has had the honor of conducting the Notre Dame Glee Club at the regional and national conventions of the American Choral Directors Association. In May of 1988 the University of Notre Dame selected Mr. Stam as the winner of the Father John "Pops" Farley Award for distinguished service in the area of student affairs.