Professor Allen Crowell, is the Mildred Goodrum Heyward Professor of Choral Music and Director of Choral Studies at the University of Georgia where he conducts the Concert Choir and the Men's Glee Club, as well as teaches graduate and undergraduate conducting. Prior to coming to this position in the fall of 1999, he taught and conducted at Westminster Choir College of Rider University in Princeton, New Jersey for twenty years. From 1992 to 1994, he served as Westminster's Interim Dean.

A native of Mobile, Alabama, he studied at Florida State University and earned his bachelor's degree from Westminster Choir College in 1959. At Westminster he received the John Gaius Baumgartner Award and was a soloist with The Westminster Choir under the founder of the school, Dr. John Finley Williamson. In 1964 he received a Master of Music from The Catholic University of America.

In 1959, Professor Crowell entered the U.S. Army as a member of The United States Army Chorus of Washington, D.C. and served for five years as bass soloist and enlisted leader until 1964 when he received a direct commission to Second Lieutenant. He then became Associate Bandmaster of The United States Army Band and Director of The United States Army Chorus a position he held until July, 1979, when he retired as Executive Officer and a Major. His military decorations include the Legion of Merit, the Meritorious Service Medal with two Oak Leaf Clusters, and the Army Commendation Medal with two Oak Leaf Clusters.

As a vocal soloist, he has appeared with Washington's National Symphony, the New Jersey Pops, and, among others, the orchestras of Baltimore, Annapolis, Trenton, and York, Pennsylvania; the Paul Hill Chorale, the Princeton Pro Musica and the Washington Cathedral Choral Society. In May 1966 and 1967 he was the bass soloist for the famous Bach Festival of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

For many years, Professor Crowell has worked closely with the musical youth of the nation conducting All-State Bands and Choruses, Honors groups, festivals and clinics from Florida to Montana and Maine to Alaska. In March, 1995, he led the first National Men's Honors Choir at the National Convention of the American Choral Directors Association in Washington, DC. Since the summer of 1998, he has been the Music Director of the Ghost Ranch Vocal Camp in New Mexico.

He is a member of the American Choral Directors Association, Music Educators National Conference, Georgia Music Educators Association, Kappa Kappa Psi honorary band fraternity, Phi Mu Alpha, Pi Kappa Lambda honorary music society, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, an Honorary Life Member of the Intercollegiate Men's Choruses, and a retired member of The American Bandmasters Association.