Johnson, Sigurd, DMA

Associate Professor of Music


Dr. Sigurd H. Johnson is Director of Bands and Percussion and an Associate Professor of Music at Valley City State University, in Valley City, North Dakota. Johnson has degrees from Concordia College in Moorhead MN, Northwestern University in Evanston IL, and from the University of Memphis in Memphis TN. Prior to joining the Music Department at VCSU in 2000, Johnson served as Director of Bands and Instrumental Music at Rust College in Holly Springs MS, as well as a percussion arranger and instructor on the staff of the University of Memphis Marching Band. While living in the mid-south, Johnson was a member of the percussion section of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra, an active jazz and theater freelance performer and clinician/adjudicator. Johnson also spent 4 years teaching and performing in Norway. Johnson is involved in VCSU's Community School of the Arts as an instructor of percussion, and is the conductor of the Valley City Civic Orchestra. Johnson spends part of his summer teaching percussion at the International Music Camp, where he is also an executive member of the IMC Board and Vice President of the US Corporation. Johnson is currently President of the North Dakota National Band Association; East Region Band Representative for the North Dakota Music Education Association, as well ND State Chair for the collegiate chapters of The Music Educators National Conference. Johnson is active in the upper Midwest as a percussion, jazz ensemble and concert band clinician and adjudicator, as well as a guest conductor of Festival and Honor bands. Johnson is a Sabian Cymbals and Vic Firth Sticks and Mallets artist.

Office Location: Foss Hall 103
Division: Fine Arts
Email: sigurd.johnson@vcsu.edu
Office Phone: 845-7271
Office Fax: 701-845-7288
Current Semester Courses
Course Name Course Title
Section
MUS 110 Music Theory II
1
MUS 141 Concert Band
1
MUS 142 Jazz Ensemble
1
MUS 143 Garage Band
1
MUS 161 Percussion
1
MUS 161 Percussion
2
MUS 162 Perc Ensemb/Steel Drum Band
1
MUS 199, 499 Special Topics
1
MUS 261 Percussion
1
MUS 303 Instrumental Conduct & Lit
1
MUS 361 Percussion (Primary)
1
MUS 397 VCSU CSA Internship
1
MUS 462 Sr Recital Percussion(Primary)
1
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