David J. Xiques, professor of music in the School of Music at San Francisco State University, teaches ear training and musicianship classes and coordinates the choral program. A Kodály specialist, he is a former faculty member at the Kodály Summer Certification Program at New York University. He is also a professional tenor with the SFS Chorus and serves as assistant director. Mr. Xiques is a frequent choral clinician and presenter at music conferences. His book, Solfege and Sonority: Teaching Music Reading in Choral Classroom, is available from Oxford University Press.  He also has two choral arrangements published by Alliance Music Publications: Bashana Haba ‘a and Chants of Faiths.