Darryl Guzman is the director of the Community Chorale.

Darryl, a Bay Area native, has found great joy directing choirs in Fremont since 1980. In addition to conducting the Ohlone Community Chorale (his favorite Tuesday night choir!), he is the Director of Worship at Centerville Presbyterian Church in Fremont where he oversees an active music department and conducts the Centerian Sanctuary Choir and Vocal Ensemble as well as the CenterPeace Worship Band. He is the Fine Arts Department Chair and teaches vocal music and drama at Fremont Christian School where he has served since 1979. There he directs a 30-voice Girls’ Chorale, the Advanced Vocal Ensemble, which took top honors in March 2005 at the ACSI Musicale in Pasadena, and the High School Concert Choir, which sang at Carnegie Hall in 2004 as a part of the National Youth Choir, and
also won top honors at the ACSI Musicale in Pasadena in 2005. In March of 2007, Darryl will be taking his 90-voice High School Concert Choir to the Heritage Festival of Gold Invitational Choral Festival at the Riverside Church in New York City.

An Ohlone College alumni who studied “back in the day” with G. Craig Jackson, John Towner and Gary Soren Smith, Darryl earned his Bachelor’s degree in Vocal Music Performance from Cal State University East Bay, studying there with David Stein and Eleanor Cohen. He earned his Master’s Degree from Grace Theological Seminary in Indiana. Darryl and his wife Susan live in Fremont and have three adult children – which is shocking to both of them!