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. In the United States, choirs under his direction have performed at state and national conventions and with major symphony orchestras in both California and Texas. During the 1994-95 season, Mr. Gibbons served as guest conductor of the Arlington Choral Society.

Gibbons directs the UNT graduate chamber choir Canticum novum and teaches in the graduate conducting program. Gibbons' credits in the theater include conducting recent 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 in 1996, he was appointed musical director of the Arlington Choral Society.