recently retired Professor of Music, Coordinator of the Music Department and Director of Choral Studies at Pasadena City College and adjunct Professor of Graduate Choral Conducting and Choral Voice at the University of Southern California.  He directed the Three Summer Masters in Choral Conducting at CSULA where over one hundred graduate conducting students from seven countries and twenty-one states have studied with Brinegar.  In the past he has been a lecturer in voice at Pomona College, lecturer in conducting and voice at California State University, Los Angeles and visiting lecturer at the University of Miami, Florida State University, University of Reno Nevada, Southern Oregon State University and the University of Missouri.   He also lead master classes in voice, conducting and historical intonation practices throughout the United States.

He has a distinguished career as a tenor soloist, conductor, educator and clinician.  His ensemble, The Donald Brinegar Singers, have sung to critical acclaim internationally and have over ten compact discs to their credit.  They were nominated for seven Grammy first-ballot awards in their highly acclaimed performances of Morten Lauridsen’s Madrigali and Ubi caritas. There were the featured choir in the world premire recording of Heitor Villa-Lobos’ Symphony #10 Amerindia with the Santa Barbara Symphony. They have performed premieres of over forty choral works including composers such as Mark Brymer, Bruce Babcock, David Childs, David Conte, Emma Lou Diemer, James Hopkins, Morten Lauridsen, Luke Mayernik, Joshua Shank, Brad Steed, Heitor Villa-Lobos, John Rutter, Z. Randall Stroope, Eric Whitacre, and Aaron Zigman.   The Singers can be heard the in the Disney movie Bridge to Terabithia and in the animated feature Battle for Terra.  The ensemble has performed at four American Choral Directors Association Conferences giving world premieres of Lauridsen’s Nocturnes and Z. Randall Stroope’s We Beheld Once Again the Stars at the request of the association.

Brinegar has prepared choruses for performances in the Hollywood Bowl, Disney Hall, Ambassador Auditorium, the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and the Pasadena Auditorium with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Pasadena Pops Orchestra and the California Philharmonic.  He has been tenor soloist for Robert Shaw, Roger Wagner, Helmuth Rilling, Gerard Schwarz and Murry Sidlin to name a few and has collaborated with Henry Mancini, Barry Manilow, the Chieftains and Marvin Hamlisch in local performances.