 | A native of Columbia, Alabama, Lauren Walworth earned a B.A. from Huntingdon College in Montgomery, Alabama, where she studied with Dr. Ronald Shinn and double majored in Piano Performance and Business Administration. She recently completed an M.M. in Piano Performance and Pedagogy from the University of Oklahoma, studying piano with Dr. Ed Gates. While at OU, Lauren worked as a Teaching Assistant, teaching applied lessons and group piano classes for non-music majors and non-keyboard music majors. She also taught Functional Skills 1 & 2 for piano majors and accompanied for the string department. Lauren was named the MTNA Young Artist Winner in Piano for the state of Oklahoma in the fall of 2005 and also received an MTNA Student Achievement Recognition Award in 2006 for her work as President of the OU Student MTNA Chapter. |
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Joan Shockley Cunningham recently moved from El Paso, Texas to the Montgomery area. As a long established piano instructor, of 30 years, teaching at beginning and advanced college prep, and church musician Mrs Cunningham was a member of Texas Music Teachers Assn, El Paso Music Teachers Assn serving as vice president in charge of student concerts, ways and means chairman and chairman twice for EPMTA/EPMD/UTEP Piano Festivals. She has also served as adjudicator for the Texas Interscholastic League in piano division, and Texas Association of Private Schools, in piano, female vocalist, and male vocalist in the secondary levels in El Paso. Mrs Cunningham has also served as chairman for Master Classes and workshops with James and Jane Bastien, Ozan Marsh, Reah Sadowsky and Augustin Anievas, for the further development of students at the advanced level. She studied choral music with Barbara Henry Forest , vocal music with Evelyn Losack, orchestra conducting from Quinn Lotspiech , and the Louise Robyne method from American Conservatory. Piano instructors included Dr Ralph Briggs, UTEP, James D. Gutherie, Yale School of Music, Phoebe Mutnick, Utep, and Austin and Lorene Williams in extra theory work and shape note reading. She developed the music dept and program of the Abundant Living Faith Center of El Paso Texas, building and establishing the band, orchestra, choir, and stage group. From there Mrs Cunningham served as a consultant with other churches in Texas, New Mexico, and Alabama helping them develop their music depts.. After moving to the Montgomery area in 2006, Dr Ronald Shinn sought her for teaching piano at the Huntingdon Academy of Music where she has been teaching since March 2007. |
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Susan Bishop has been a private piano teacher for 25 years. She currently teaches private pre-college and adult students piano at Huntingdon College, in Eufaula, AL and at her home studio in Louisville, AL. She is originally from LaGrange, Illinois and was a student of Miss Bernice Peck at the Chicago Conservatory of Music. She received her BS degree at The University of Oklahoma and studied with Ms. Celia Mae Bryant. She taught in the public schools for 29 years and retired in 1999. She has also studied with Dr. Ron Shinn former Huntingdon College faculty. She is a member of MTNA, AMTA, and The Guild and is a member of the Montgomery Music Teachers Forum and The Wiregrass Music Teachers Forum . She has served on the board of directors of The Alabama Music Teachers Association as Advertising Chair, Treasurer, Grant Writer and currently as Public Relations Chair. She is a member of The Camerata Music Club and The Eufaula Arts Alliance in Eufaula. Ms. Bishop has had students to audition in AMTA district auditions with some attending State Auditions. She also has had students perform in musical events in Troy, Dothan, Montgomery and Enterprise. Her students have attended summer music camp at Huntingdon College. |
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Rebecca Crawford is a native of El Paso TX. She received her B.A. in Church Music from Huntingdon College. Rebecca’s primary emphasis is voice and piano is her secondary instrument. Rebecca taught piano and voice for several years in both TX and NM. She transferred to Huntingdon on scholarship after completing her piano studies at New Mexico State University. She studied piano with Melba Halamicek and Phoebe Mutnick. Rebecca was a Crimson Scholar and maintained her status on the Deans List while she accompanied six-eight students each semester for student recitals and juries as well as tutoring students in ear-training. Rebecca took part in the chorus during NMSU’s rendition of the opera Carmen, produced by Mark Medoff . She also sang solos for major works concert Brahms Op.56 and took part in Bach B-Minor Mass, Mozart Reqiem, Carmina Burana and Faure Requiem as a member of University Singers at NMSU under the direction of Dr. Jerry Alt. Rebecca toured France as a University Singer, singing at Notre Dame, St. Eustasce, Tour and Charte. Rebecca sang for master classes with Robert Best during the Rio Grand Chapter of NATS competition in Santa Fe, NM in 2005. Rebecca has studied voice building and musical theater with Roz Evans, El Paso TX, classical voice training with Chris Sanders, NMSU and Dr. James Glass, Huntingdon College. Rebecca sang in a Christian trio Access that toured in TX, NM and the surrounding areas. Rebecca played piano in the praise and worship band for Abundant Living Faith Center for several years. She had the opportunity to perform with Darlene Zschech and the team from Hillsong® Australia, Carmen, Tim Story, Larnelle Harris, Phil Driscoll, as well as many other Christian artists. She also appeared at local jazz clubs and sang with a band that played for dinner clubs in TX/NM. Rebecca sang vocals for Guy-Rex Productions and the Miss Texas Pageants and worked for Concert Gold Publishing and El Adobe Recording Studio singing radio and television advertising promotions. As part of a trio, Rebecca premiered UTEP’s theme song for their 75th anniversary, the Diamond Jubilee at the El Paso Border Festival. Rebecca taught music at Faith Christian Academy in El Paso TX, teaching music to K-6, as well as Jr. High and Sr. High choirs. Her choirs placed first and second division at TAAPs, Oral Roberts University. She worked in the music dept. at ALFC for two and a half years, helping run rehearsals and sectionals as well as other administrative duties. Rebecca is a certified Kindermusik® teacher and has taught classes for two years. Rebecca is a member of Fresh Anointing International Church. She is beginning work at the Montgomery House of Prayer as a volunteer pianist. She is Registrar for the Huntingdon Academy of Music and is teaching piano and voice in the Academy. |
 | Dr. James Glass is a native of Dallas, Texas and was educated at Hardin-Simmons University, Southwestern Baptist Seminary and the University of Texas. He has been a Professor of Music at Huntingdon College since 1989. At Huntingdon, Dr. Glass has taught studio voice, Music History, has conducted the Concert Choir, the Huntingdon Consort and has been the director of the Huntingdon Opera Theater. Before coming to Huntingdon, Dr. Glass taught at Mississippi College in Clinton, Mississippi. He has also served as a choir director for churches in Texas, Mississippi and in Montgomery. Dr Glass has appeared in more than twenty-five opera roles and was an avid recitalist for many years. He has won honors as both a singer, (National Association of Teachers of Singing, American Federated Music Clubs), and as a choral conductor (American Choral Directors Association, The Southern Baptist Convention). After 17 years as head of the music and fine arts programs at Huntingdon and 31 years as a college professor, Dr, Glass has become Professor Emeritus, continuing to teach, as an adjunct, Voice and Music History. |
 | Gene Davis is an adjunct professor of voice at Huntingdon College in Montgomery. She is also an adjunct instructor of Music Appreciation for Auburn University at the main campus. She taught in the Montgomery County School System for 28 years as the choral director at Robert E. Lee High School. Ms. Davis holds a Bachelor's degree in Music from Samford University and a Master's in Music Education from Auburn University. She has served as an adjudicator for solo and choral festivals in Georgia, Florida and Alabama. She also serves as consultant and coordinator for the Alabama National Fair Invitational Choral Festival. Over the past thirty years, Ms. Davis' voice students have received various honors, which include outstanding ratings at statewide competitions and numerous scholarships to colleges and universities across the southeast. She has also had students selected to attend summer music institutes at the University of Alabama Opera Camp, Florida State University's Summer Music Camp and Boston University's Tanglewood Institute. Ms. Davis' professional memberships include National Association of Teachers of Singing, Alabama Vocal Association, having served as District Chairman, Music Educators National Conference, and American Choral Directors Association, having served as State President, Membership Chair, and currently serving as Historian. In 1985, she founded the Madrigal Voices of Montgomery, a community vocal ensemble. This ensemble under her direction has performed at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival and other venues around the Southeast. Ms. Davis was recently inducted into the Robert E. Lee Hall of Fame and received the 2003 Francis Moss Choral Director's Award which is presented annually by the Alabama Vocal Association to one of its members. This lifetime achievement award represents recognition for the positive impact a teacher has had locally and throughout the state in choral music. |
 | Tiffany McGuire Nishibun is an alumna Huntingdon College (B.A. in Music), as well as The New England Conservatory of Music (M.M. in Vocal Performance) in Boston, Massachusetts. She has performed opera scenes as Gilda in Rigoletto, Barbarina and Susanna in Marriage of Figaro, Despina in Cosi fan Tutte and Blonde in Abduction from the Seraglio. She has also performed in the productions of Amahl and the Night Visitors as the title character, The Elixir of Love as Gianetta, and La Traviata as Violetta with the Huntingdon College Opera Theater. She has recently performed as the soprano soloist with the Faulkner University Chorus in Mozart’s Coronation Mass, with Church of the Ascension in Faure’s Requiem, and The Montgomery Chorale in Orff’s Carmina Burana. Tiffany is an adjunct professor of music for AUM and Faulkner University and looks forward to teaching her first class at Huntingdon College this fall. Not only is she involved in college-level education, but she is also the Director of Children’s Ministries for Church of the Ascension and Administrator of the Montgomery Youth Chorale and Montgomery Chorale. |
 | Dr. Carly Johnson was recently appointed Assistant Professor of Trumpet at Alabama State University in Montgomery, Alabama. Her duties include teaching applied trumpet, directing the university trumpet ensemble, and teaching a brass methods course for music education majors. Prior to her appointment at Alabama State University, Dr. Johnson taught applied trumpet and brass ensemble at Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio for three years. She completed the D.M.A. in trumpet performance from The Ohio State University, the M. M. in trumpet performance from the University of Florida, and the B. M. E. from Youngstown State University. As a freelance musician, she has performed with the Youngstown Symphony Orchestra, Western Reserve Opera, Ashland Symphony Orchestra, Springfield Symphony Orchestra, West Virginia Symphony Orchestra, Columbus Symphony Orchestra, Columbus ProMusica Chamber Orchestra, Columbus Bach Ensemble, and currently performs with the Montgomery Symphony Orchestra in Montgomery, Alabama. |
 | Dr. Jacquie Valentine is currently second horn in the Montgomery Symphony Orchestra as well as the Assistant Director of Marketing at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. She actively maintains a studio of young horn players and performs regularly here in the area. Her freelance performance experience includes the Owensboro Symphony Orchestra, Gainesville Symphony Orchestra, Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Bowling Green Symphony, Central Florida Symphony Orchestra, Valdosta Symphony Orchestra and the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra. Dr. Valentine was also a founding member of the professional horn quartet, EnCor. Dr. Valentine received her Ph.D. from the University of Alabama, M. M. in horn performance from the University of Florida and her B.M. in horn performance from Western Kentucky University. Her teachers include Paul Basler, Lorraine Fader, Jacqueline Fassler-Kerstetter and Michael Hatfield. |
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Curtis Hollinger, (B.S., M.M.Ed.) , is a graduate of Alabama State University; Montgomery, Alabama and VanderCook College of Music; Chicago. Illinois. He has served in the following capacities: band director ( forty (40) years) in the public school systems of Georgia and Alabama; past director of the George Washington Carver High School Bands, Montgomery, Alabama; past director of The Montgomery Public Schools All-City Bands; first instrumental music director for The Alabama Governor's School of the Arts; director for three different high school bands from Montgomery,( with Superior ratings), at District Band Festivals. Hollinger has studied the clarinet for the past fifty years, and currently serves as principal clarinet for the Montgomery Symphony Orchestra – a position held since 1984 (23 years),. Additional experiences include participation in the Festival Clarinet Choirs of the International Clarinet Association Annual Festivals, and clarinetist in the Montgomery Woodwind Quintet. Hollinger's professional development include attendance at the Mid-West Band and Orchestra Clinics, and attendance at the Alabama Music Educators Association (AMEA) conferences. Over the years, he has served as judge for clarinets at Alabama All-State Music Festivals, adjudicator at District Band Festivals, State Band Festivals, Marching Band Festivals, Solo Ensemble Festivals, and Clarinet Clinician at various schools and colleges. In March 2005, he served as music director for a local production of the Broadway music "Purlie", performed at the Davis Theatre; Montgomery, Alabama. His most recent professional work has been band director of Loveless Academic Magnet Program Symphonic Band in Montgomery, Alabama; adjunct clarinet instructor at Troy University in Troy, Alabama, adjunct clarinet instructor at Faulkner University, Montgomery, Alabama, and clarinetist in the orchestra for the Alabama Shakespeare Festival's production of Man of La Mancha. |
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Katrina Phillips, clarinetist, is currently a Doctoral candidate in clarinet performance and musicology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she also completed her master’s degree. She teaches Adjunct Applied Clarinet at Troy University, and is also an Adjunct instructor at Alabama State University teaching Music Appreciation.
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