Conducting Experience
November 2009 - September 2010.  Interim Worship Leader, First Baptist Church of Odenville, Odenville, Alabama.  Selected worship music and led congregational singing; performed on flute; led adult ensemble.

September -December 2004.  Interim Music Director, Trinity Presbyterian Church, Montgomery, Alabama.  Led adult choir and ensembles for two morning services; coordinated soloists and guest musicians; conducted works by Mendelssohn, Rutter, and others in a service of lessons and carols, December 19. Has recently (Sept.-Nov. 2010) served as interim adult choir director.

January 1999 - December 2001.  Music Director, Faith Presbyterian Church, Birmingham, Alabama.  Directed adult choir and children's choir; developed and led instrumental program; prepared and led praise music for evening service summer and fall 2000. Increased choir membership 50 percent while overall church membership increased approximately 25 percent.  Selected works performed (adult choir):  "Salvation is Created" (Tchesnokoff), "The Whole Armor of God" (Scott), "Te Deum" (Rutter), "Look Down, O Lord" (Byrd), "When I Survey the Wondrous Cross" (Martin), "The Last Words of David" (Thompson), "Worthy Is the Lamb" (Handel), "Behold, a Star from Jacob Shining" (Mendelssohn), A Ceremony of Carols, parts 2, 3, 4, 6 (Britten), Messiah, Part 1 (Handel) with string accompaniment.

June 1993 - July 1995, August 1996 - December 1998. Music Director, Eastwood Presbyterian Church, Montgomery, Alabama. Led adult choir, youth choir, and directed graded children's choir program, which included leading the older children's choir (grades 2-6); arranged and transcribed music for available instruments; planned budget; supervised paid staff members and other volunteers. Selected works conducted (adult choir): "Battle Hymn of the Republic" (Wilhousky), "The Majesty and Glory of Your Name" (Fettke), "Alleluia" (Thompson), "Festival 'St. Anne'" (Hopson),  "He Watching over Israel" (Mendelssohn), "My God Is a Rock" (Shaw/Parker), "Now Glad of Heart" (Scott), A German Requiem, movements 2, 4, 6 (Brahms). Selected works performed with orchestral accompaniment: Elijah, Part 1 (Mendelssohn); "Many Moods of Christmas," Suite One (Shaw); "Arise, Your Light Has Come" (Danner); Hymns Triumphant (Holdridge); Messiah, Part 1 (Handel).

1982 - 1988. Lay assistant conductor and rehearsal assistant, Briarwood Presbyterian Church, Birmingham, Alabama. Directed choirs of 20-25 members (Briarwood South) or 30-40 members (Briarwood Church; over 100 members for special programs) and led congregational singing in Sunday morning worship services two or three Sundays per month during much of this period. Conducted rehearsals in absence of Minister of Music and held sectional rehearsals when he was present. Selected works rehearsed: Elijah (Mendelssohn), Manzoni Requiem (Verdi), Light Eternal (Talbot).

Singing Experience
Selected major works sung (all works performed in Birmingham unless otherwise indicated): Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven), 2011 (tenor) and 1986 (bass); Requiem (Rutter), 2010; Elijah (Mendelssohn), 2009 (complete oratorio) and 1983 (Part 1); St. Paul (Mendelssohn), 2004; Requiem (Mozart), 2003; Mass in B Minor (Bach), 2012 and 2001; The Creation (Haydn), 2001; St. Matthew Passion (Bach), 2000 (tenor) and Auburn University 1968 (bass); A German Requiem (Brahms), 1990 and 1997 (bass) and Indiana University 1981 (tenor); complete Messiah (Handel), 2011, 1988;  Manzoni Requiem (Verdi), New York 1985 and Indiana University 1981; Manon (Massenet), Indiana University 1982.

Education
Ph.D., American Literature, Indiana University, 1983
M.A., English, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1979
B.A., English, Auburn University, 1976
Formal training in piano (six years) and violin (two years); performs on flute and recorder

Affiliations
Sine Nomine early music consort
Alabama Symphony Orchestra Chorus
Early Music America
American Recorder Society

Church Leadership Experience
Faith Presbyterian Church, Birmingham, Alabama
    Performed and taught music in churches and Christian schools, Belize, C.A., March 2001
Briarwood Presbyterian Church, Birmingham, Alabama
    Elder, January 1992 - 1994; Chairman, Adult Singles Committee 1992
    Deacon, January 1988-December 1991, January 2008-December 2009; Chairman, Special Ministries 1991
    Area and Tribe Leader, Shepherding Ministry, 1984-1988
    Choir Officer, 1982-1986
    Adult Singles Leadership Team, 1979, 1982-1987
Evangelical Community Church, Bloomington, Indiana
    Singles Coordinator, 1981-1982
    College and Adult Sunday School Teacher, 1980-1981

Personal
Born March 5, 1949; married to the former Sharon D. Davis, with one adult child.