Rodney Eichenberger teaches part time at Florida State University and continues to lecture and guest conduct throughout the world. He has conducted more than 70 US All-State Choirs and guest conducted or lectured at more than 60 US Universities. In recent years his international appearances include guest conducting the Pusan City Choir and Korean National Chorus and leading conducting workshops in Brazil, France, Austria, Australia and New Zealand.

He has guest conducted and lectured at the Swedish Choral Directors Association in Orebro, Sweden, presented session at the Third World Symposium of Music in Vancouver, British Columbia and the Fifth World Symposium of Choral Music in Rotterdam, Holland.  He presented workshops at the First International School and Youth Choral Festival in Buenos Aries, Argentina.  He has served as guest conductor of the Singapore Youth Choir Festival and International Schools Choral Festivals in London, Vienna, Tokyo and Berlin. 

For the past 30 years, he has been an active participant in choral music education in Australia and New Zealand returning annually to guest conduct and lead conducting workshops.  In 1995 he was scholar in residence at the University of Western Australia under the auspices of the Fulbright Commission.  In 1977 the governing board of the Australian National Chorale Association granted him an Honorary Life Membership.  He was instrumental in the inauguration of the New Zealand Choral Federation and was an official U.S. Cultural Ambassador to that country during their sesquicentennial celebration.  He last returned to Australia for a conducting workshop in January of 2005.

For a number of years he served as program coordinator for the choral conducting division of International Workshops’ summer seminars in Stavanger, Norway; Brisbane, Australia; Biarritz, France and Graz, Austria .  Each summer for the past 20 years, he has presented a professional development workshop for choral conductors called the Choral Conductors Retreat with Rod Eichenberger. The event is presented in Cannon Beach, Oregon and Alexandria, Virginia and is sponsored by George Fox Univeristy.  His instructional video on Choral Conducting with Hinshaw Music, “What They See Is What You Get,” is now in its thirteenth printing.  In 2001, a second instructional video, “Enhancing Musicality Through Movement,” was released through Santa Barbara Press.

Professor Eichenberger holds the Bachelor of Arts degree from St. Olaf College and the Master of Arts degree from the University of Denver, with advanced study at the University of Washington and the University of Iowa.  From 1976-1990 he was Professor of Choral Music and Conductor of the Chamber Singers at the University of Southern California and prior to his appointment there he was Professor of Choral Music at the University of Washington in Seattle. He conducted choirs from each of these universities at national conventions of either the American Choral Directors Association or the Music Educators National Conference.