Joshua Habermann has led honor choirs, choral festivals, and given presentations in North and Latin America, Europe and Asia. Recent guest conducting appearances include concerts with The Washington Chorus (Washington, D.C), Festival Nacional de Musica (Goiânia, Brazil) and the Desert Chorale. (Santa Fe, New Mexico) As a singer (tenor) he performs with the Oregon Bach Festival Chorus (Eugene, Oregon), where he can be heard on the Grammy-Award-winning recording of Krzystof Penderecki’s Credo. Other projects include three recordings with Conspirare: Through the Green Fuse, Requiem, a Grammy nominee for best choral recording in 2006, and Threshold of Night, a Grammy nominee for best choral recording and best classical album in 2009.

Mr. Habermann also maintains an interest in the Hawaiian choral tradition, and sings with Kawaiolaon`apukanileo, a Honolulu-based ensemble dedicated to performing and preserving this unique repertoire. Other research interests include Latin American and Nordic music. His dissertation on the a cappella music of Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara was a Julius Herford Prize finalist for music research in 1997.

From 1996-2008 Mr. Habermann was professor of music at San Francisco State University, where under his direction the SFSU Chamber Singers received international engagements in Havana, Cuba (2002 Festival Internacional de Coros), (2007 Amércia Cantat), Germany and the Czech Republic (2004), and China (2000). In 2006 he was invited to lead a collaboration between the SFSU Chamber Singers and the Orchestre des Jeunes de Provence in music of Poulenc and the Requiem of Maurice Duruflé in concerts throughout France. National invitations include the Waging Peace Festival in Eugene, Oregon in 2003, multiple appearances at the California Music Educators Convention, and an appearance at the American Choral Directors’ Association conference in 2008.

Joshua Habermann’s association with the San Francisco Symphony Chorus began in 1991, when he joined the chorus as a singer and language coach. Over the course of 13 seasons he sang and helped prepare both the standard canon and lesser-known works of choral-orchestral repertoire. From 1996-2006 Mr. Habermann was assistant to Vance George, and in 2006-2007 he prepared the chorus for performances with Michael Tilson Thomas in music of Mozart, and Charles Dutoit in Berlioz' La Damnation de Faust. Recordings as a singer with the SFSC include Christmas by the Bay (Decca Records), and Mahler Symphony #2 (London Records), also a Grammy nominee for Best Choral-Orchestral Recording.

In Fall 2008 Joshua Habermann was named director of the choral studies program at the University of Miami Frost School of Music as well as artistic director of the Master Chorale of South Florida. Recent projects featured the music of Alberto Ginastera and John Corigliano, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, and Beethoven’s 9th symphony with the Russian National Orchestra under Itzhak Perlman.

Mr. Habermann recently completed his first season as music director of the Desert Chorale, a 24-voice professional chamber choir based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Program highlights included Handel's Dixit Dominus and a performance of Aaron Copland's In the Beginning with mezzo-soprano Susan Graham.