Full Program - Missouri Music Educators Association

Saturday, 3:30 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.
Sponsored by Missouri Choral Directors Association
Missouri All-State Choir
Dr. Timothy Sharp
With Cheerful Notes...................................................................................................G. F. Handel
from the Ninth Chandos Anthems
Thorpe Music 392- 0301
Dona Nobis Pacem.......................................................................... J. S. Bach/ed. Jonathan Reed
Alliance Music AMP-0761
Gloria in excelsis deo................................................................................................W. A. Mozart
from the “Great” Mass in C, K. 427
cpdl
Gentle Annie..................................................................................Stephen Foster/ed. Robert Lau
Alliance Music Publications, Inc AMP 0598
O Come Ye Sinners............................................................................. Joseph Hart/arr. Tim Sharp
Fred Bock/Gentry Music HL8738709
Sure On This Shining Night................................................................................Morten Lauridsen
Peer Music 229069
Waltzing Matilda....................................................................................................... Bob Chilcott
from Jazz Folk Songs for Choirs
Oxford University Press
Where is the Love................................................................................................Black Eyed Peas
Rote and Improvised
Tim Sharp is Executive Director of the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA). Sharp, an
active choral conductor and researcher/writer, has varied his career with executive positions in
both higher education and publishing and recording.
Tim has conducted university, church, community, and children’s choirs, conducted ACDA and MENC
all-state and honor choirs, and formed choirs in such unlikely settings as a federal penitentiary
and a chamber of commerce meeting. His choirs have toured domestically and abroad, singing
in some of the world’s premiere concert and acoustic settings including St. Mark’s Cathedral in
Venice, Washington, D.C.’s National Cathedral, St. Paul’s Cathedral in London, and New York’s
Carnegie Hall. He has recently been appointed Artistic Director/Conductor of the Tulsa Oratorio
Chorus.
Sharp holds the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in conducting from the School of Church Music of
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky. He came to ACDA from Rhodes
College, Memphis, TN, where he was Dean of Fine Arts, conductor of the Rhodes Singers and
MasterSingers Chorale, and held the Elizabeth G. Daughdrill Chair in the Fine Arts. Before his
appointment at Rhodes, he was Director of Choral Activities at Belmont University, Nashville, TN,
where he conducted the Belmont Chorale and Oratorio Chorus.
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