Conductor Albert Pinsonneault is Associate Director of Choral Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he teaches choir, conducting, and choral literature. He is also founder and artistic director of the Madison Choral Project, a 24-voice professional chamber choir based in Madison, Wisconsin. A fierce advocate for new music, he has commissioned and premiered over 30 works for choir. He received second place in the American Prize for Professional Choirs in 2020, performed by invitation at Midwestern ACDA Regional conferences (2018, 2020), presented at ACDA National in 2017, and headlined the Iowa Choral Directors Association state conference in 2024. His 2024 album Hope Eats You Alive, works of Scott Gendel is released on PARMA Recording’s Navona Records, and his booklet Choral Intonation is published through Graphite and in active use at over 150 high schools, universities, churches, and community choruses.

Before coming to Wisconsin, Pinsonneault was Associate Director of Choral Organizations at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL, where he helped administer a distinguished doctoral program in choral conducting, led two choirs, taught the graduate choral literature sequence, and served on dissertation committees. He was also Director of Choral Activities at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota where he oversaw a large undergraduate choral program involving 200 student musicians, a nationally televised Christmas program, and a history of international travel.

A native of Minnesota, Dr. Pinsonneault attended St. Olaf College (BM Piano Performance) and the University of Minnesota (MM Choral Conducting) before completing his studies at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (DMA Choral Conducting, minor in Music Theory).