Henry Gibbons has been an associate professor of choral music at the University of North Texas since 1980. He received his early training at Stanford and Harvard Universities and holds the artist diploma from the Musikhochschule in Frankfurt, Germany, where he studied with the internationally renowned Bach specialist Helmuth Rilling. He has taught at the New England Conservatory and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has served on the faculty of Occidental College in Los Angeles, succeeding Dr. Howard Swan as conductor of the Occidental College Glee Club.

 While in Germany, Gibbons served as conductor of the Figuralchor der Gedaechtniskirche, Stuttgart, and appeared also as guest conductor of the Choir of the South German Radio. He has served as clinician, lecturer and guest conductor at choral workshops and seminars in the United States, Europe and the Far East.  In the United States, choirs under his direction have performed at conventions of the Texas Music Educators Society, Music Educators National Conference, and the American Choral Directors Association (Southwest Region), as well as with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, and the Richardson Symphony. 

Gibbons directs the UNT graduate chamber choir Canticum novum and teaches graduate conducting and choral literature. Gibbons' credits in the theater include conducting  productions of Menotti's "The Medium," Britten's "The Rape of Lucretia," Mozart's "Abduction from the Seraglio" and "Cosi fan tutte," Verdi's "La Traviata," and Kurt Weill's "Street Scene" with the UNT Opera, as well as numerous college and community productions of light opera and musical comedy. In addition to his duties at UNT, Mr. Gibbons has served as musical director of the Denton Bach Society since 1982, and from 1996 to 2003 he held the position of musical director of the Arlington Choral Society.