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     Choral Music at Milligan

The music department at Milligan College offers a wide variety of exciting opportunities in choral studies and is dedicated to the promotion and expansion of vocal education. Opportunities for musical growth and Christian worship through choral studies are available for the music major and nonmajor.

  Concert Choir
Dr. David Hendricksen, Director

The Milligan College Concert Choir upholds a long tradition as an outstanding college choir. In its past, it has sung at the invitation of the President at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, DC. The choir has toured throughout England, with special performances in Coventry Cathedral and in the Civic Centre of the City of Birmingham. More recently, the Milligan College Concert Choir has sung at the North American Christian Convention, the Conference on World Evangelism-National Missionary Convention, and at the Tennessee State Convention of the American Choral Directors' Association.
The choir is auditioned from throughout the student body. The choir conducts annual tours throughout the United States, performing for churches, high schools and conventions.

 

 About Dr. Hendricksen

Contact Info:
423.461.8723
conductordavid@embarqmail.com

Dr. David Hendricksen received his Bachelor of Music in Organ Performance and Music Education from Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota.  The Master of Music and Doctor of Arts in Music degrees were earned at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana.  Prior to joining the faculty of Tusculum College in 1988, Dr. Hendricksen taught at Freeman Junior College in South Dakota and at Ball State.  In 1992, he was presented with the Outstanding Teaching and Leadership Award by his faculty colleagues at Tusculum College. He was the founding conductor of the Tusculum College Youth Choir in 1990, and in January, 1996, he founded the Tusculum College Community Chorus as a choral outlet for adults in the Greene County area.  Beginning in January 2001, he assumed leadership of the Walters State Community Chorale in Morristown. Hendricksen is Director of Music Ministry at First Presbyterian Church in Greeneville.  He has made presentations regarding the philosophical rationale for including the arts in education and regarding the development of vocal artistry in young people at the annual Arts in Education conference in Johnson City.  His vocal students have continued to win music scholarships at various colleges, sing with the Knoxville Opera Company, and perform in the region.

Women's Chorale
Anne Elliott, Director

Milligan Women's Chorale is a women's ensemble singing various styles of music and performing on- and off-campus. Continuing in Milligan’s strong tradition of women’s vocal ensembles, the Milligan Women’s Chorale was founded in Fall 2008.  The chorale performs literature of different styles ranging from sacred to popular.  The chorale performs for churches and various organizations in the Tri-Cities area.  The ensemble is open to all female students. 

 

About Anne Elliott

Contact Info:
423.461.8938
aelliott@milligan.edu

Anne B. Elliott is the director of the Millgan Women’s Chorale.  She joined the Milligan faculty in fall 1999.  She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Piano Performance from The University of South Carolina at Coastal Carolina and a Master in Church Music in Piano/Accompanying from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky.  While at Southern Baptist Seminary she studied piano with Dr. Ronald E. Boud and conducting with Dr. Douglas Smith.  Post-graduate work includes piano study with Dr. Lynn Rice-See and a Certificate in Piano Pedagogy from East Tennessee State University.  

Mrs. Elliott has served churches in South Carolina, Kentucky, Arkansas, and Tennessee.  She has held positions of choral director, church pianist, and choir accompanist in several churches for the past 30 years. As piano instructor at Milligan, Mrs. Elliott teaches applied piano and class piano. She also teaches private piano lessons in Johnson City, Tennessee. 

Mrs. Elliott presently serves on the board of the Sonatina Festival event of Johnson City.  She is a longstanding member and officer of the Appalachian Music Teachers Association, affiliate of the Tennessee Music Teachers Association, The National Federation of Music Clubs, and Music Teachers National Association.

About Dr. Charlotte Anderson

Contact Info:
423.461.8791
canderson@milligan.edu
www.charlotteanderson.com

A distinguished performer, scholar and teacher, Charlotte Anderson has extensive opera, recital, oratorio and symphonic song experience.  As a lecturer and facilitator, she has presented workshops around the country on Voice, Body Awareness and The Alexander Technique.  She holds a Masters and Doctorate in vocal performance and pedagogy from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University.  She received post graduate certification in the Alexander Technique from the American Society for the Alexander Technique (AmSAT), a three-year, 1600 hour course with a five to one student/teacher ratio.  Currently, she teaches applied voice at Virginia Intermont College and Milligan College, and private lessons, class Voice and the Alexander Technique at her studio (www.charlotteanderson.com) in Kingsport, Tennessee.

About Alexander Technique

The Alexander Technique is a method of educating the body toward efficient use of the whole self. The Alexander Teacher uses verbal, visual, and hands-on skills to help students learn to recognize and change habits that interfere with natural movement  and expressivity through Constructive, Conscious Control.

Performance:
For  over 100 years, actors, dancers, singers, and instrumentalists have used the Alexander Technique in order to be more effective performers.  It is included in the curriculums of such institutions as Julliard, Boston University, Yale School of Drama, The Royal College of Music , and The Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts.

Relief, recuperation & prevention:  The Technique benefits people with a variety of posturally induced neurological and muscular-skeletal problems, including those of

  • Neck, back and hips
  • Traumatic and repetitive stress
  • Chronic joint and muscle pain
  • Breathing and coordination
  • Daily Life:  The Alexander Technique is an intelligent way to improve your self-image.  Practice of the AT optimizes physical strength, endurance, muscle tone and flexibility.

    For more information about Alexander Technique:
     www.alexandertech.org

      Degree Programs

      General Music Studies Major
      Applied Studies Emphasis

      The Applied Studies Emphasis consists of additional studies in the vocal field beyond the required core courses for General Music Studies majors. In addition to the 28 hours of required core courses, you will study ten hours of the following: MUSC 244 Advanced Theory/Ear Training, MUSC 456 Applied Instrumental Pedagogy, an additional four semesters of MUSC 100-002 Applied Voice, and MUSC 490 Senior Project or MUSC 408 Senior Recital.

      Music Education Major

      The music education curriculum is designed as an interdisciplinary program for the student planning a career in teaching music. Students majoring in music education must choose either the instrumental or vocal emphasis. Licensure is K-12 vocal/general and instrumental. This degree requires nine semesters of study.

      The student is trained in voice or an orchestral instrument, piano, conducting, and in the materials and methods of elementary and secondary music education. The student is also trained in educational applications of computer and digital keyboard technology. Opportunities for field work in area schools, including directed teaching, broaden the student's education.

      Music Degree Programs at Milligan College


      Scholarships

      The music department at Milligan College offers scholarships to new students who apply and are awarded according to talent, academic achievement, and need regardless of intended major. Scholarships are awarded by audition and available for study in voice and choral music, with preference given to music majors and minors.

      For more information, please visit Audition Information.



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