Education
- DMA, Choral Conducting, University of Missouri at Kansas City
- MME, Music Education (vocal), Wichita State University
- BA, Music Education, Tabor College
Professional Background
- Arts Director, Professor of Music, and Director of Choirs Tabor College (current)
- Artistic Director and Conductor, Omaha Symphonic Chorus
- Chair, Music Department, Grace University
- Director, Music and Worship, Community Bible Church
Courses Taught
- History and Theology of Worship
- Philosophy of Music
- Choral Conducting
- Chorale, Grace University
- Music Theory, GU
- Secondary Choral Methods and Material, GU and University of Nebraska at Omaha
Presentations
- (2017, November). What they see is what you get: Young Conductor’s masterclass,” Nebraska Music Educators Association Annual Conference/Workshop
- (various). ”Sacred music in public space,” Oregon State University and University of Nebraska–Omaha ACDA meetings.
- (2012, February). “Reading session: Choral Music for the Church Choir,” North Central Division ACDA conference/clinic
- (various). ”Why we sing! A workshop for music in worship,” Onawa Evangelical Free Church, Pleasant View Bible Church, Community Bible Church.
Choral/Orchestral Works Conducted
- All Night Vigil (Rachmaninoff)
- Coronation Anthem #4, Let Thy Hand be Strengthened (Handel)
- Elijah (Mendelssohn)
- Gloria (Poulenc)
- Gloria (Rutter)
- Gloria (Vivaldi)
- Gospel Mass (Robert Ray)
- Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, Cantata BWV 147 (Bach)
- I Will Magnify Thee, HWV250b (Handel)
- Lobe den Herren, den machtigen Konig der Ehren, Cantata BWV 137 (Bach)
- Lux Aeterna (Lauridsen)
- Magnificat (Rutter)
- Mass for the Children (Rutter)
- Mass in C, “Coronation” (Mozart)
- Mass in Time of War (Haydn)
- Messe de Minuit pour Noel (Charpentier)
- Messiah (Handel)
- Missa Brevis (Mozart)
- Missa Criolla (Ramirez)
- Power of the Cross, The (Mark Hayes)
- Requiem (Faure)
- Requiem (Mozart)
- Requiem (Rutter)
- Saviour (Nelson/Farrell)
- Solomon (Handel)
- Te Deum (Haydn)
- Vesperae solennes de confessore (Solemn vespers of the confessor), K. 339 (Mozart)
Choral/Orchestral Works prepared for other conductors
- Carmina Burana (Orff) Thomas Wilkins, Conductor
- Dona nobis pacem (Vaughan Williams) Steven Zielke, Conductor
- Ein Duetsches Requiem (Brahms) Thomas Wilkins, Conductor
- Hodie (Vaughan Williams) Craig Jessop, Conductor
- L’Utima Amor (Jackson Berkey) Almeda Berkey, Conductor
- Magnificat (Jonathan Willcocks) Jonathan Willcocks, Conductor
- Mass in B Minor (Bach) Victor Yampolsky, Conductor
- Missa Solemnis (Beethoven) Victor Yampolsky, Conductor
- Requiem (Mozart) Eph Ehly, Conductor
- Requiem for the Living (Forrest) Steven Zielke, Conductor
- Stabat Mater (Dvorak) Thomas Wilkins, Conductor
- Symphony No. 9, Choral (Beethoven) Thomas Wilkins, Conductor
- Symphony No. 2, Resurrection (Mahler) Thomas Wilkins, Conductor