Mack Wilberg was appointed music director of The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square on March 28 2008 having served as associate music director of the Choir since May 1999 Dr Wilberg is responsible for all musical and creative aspects of the Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square in rehearsals concerts tours and recordings as well as the weekly broadcast of Music the Spoken Word He is a former professor of music at Brigham Young University and is active as a composer arranger guest conductor and clinician throughout the United States and abroad His compositions and arrangements currently published exclusively by Oxford University Press are performed and recorded by choral organizations throughout the world Dr Wilberg received his bachelors degree from Brigham Young University and his masters and doctoral degrees from the University of Southern California He and his wife Rebecca are the parents of four children and have one granddaughter