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General Information

Contributor since: 13 November 2002

Number of scores on CPDL: 1

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Contact Information

http://www.myspace.com/tvozzella

Education

He received the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of South Carolina, the Master of music degree from Northeast Louisiana University (University of Louisiana, Monroe), and the Bachelor of Music degree from Eastern Nazarene College. Additional work was completed at Nazarene Theological Seminary, The University of Missouri, Kansas City Conservatory of Music and the Royal School of Church Music, Croydon, England.

Compositions

Echo Noel, Louis-Claude Daquin – Arranged/SSAATTBB (Alliance Music Publications, Inc.), August 2007.

Psallite (Sing Rejoice), Michael Praetorius – Edited/SATB (CanticaNova Publishers), November 2006.

Tebe Poem (We Praise Thee, O God), Dobri Christov - Edited/Translated/SATB (Selah Publishing Co.), March 2004.

Sing Rejoice (Psallite), Michael Praetorius – Arranged/SAB (Abingdon Press), October 2003.

Praise the Lord (Havlite, Psalm 150), Dobri Christov - Arranged/SATB (Augsburg Fortress Publishers), September 2003.

Kyrie, T. Vozzella – Unison/Congregational setting (Worship Arts Journal), March-April 2003.

The Light of Christ, T. Vozzella - SATB (Worship Arts Journal), November-December 2002.

In Rama sonat gemitus, Anonymous - Edited/Unison Chant (http://wso.williams.edu/cpdl/sheet/677inram.pdf), 2002.


Publications

Article, Thomas Vozzella, T. S. Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral: The Dramatic Music, Choral Journal, April 2004.

Contributor, Listen 5th edition: Digitized Scores, (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's), 2004.

Book Review, James Jordan, The Musician’s Spirit: Connecting to Others through Story (Chicago: GIA Publications, Inc., 2002), Choral Journal, April 2004

Choral Reviews, Hubert Bird, Standin’ in the Need of Prayer; Earthsongs, Legends of St. Nicholas; Salamone Rossi, Ó dekha; Choral Journal, September 2003.

Choral Reviews, Malcolm Archer, JudgeEternal Throned in Splendor; Richard Wayne Dirksen, Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis; Hal Hopson, People, Look East; and C. V. Stanford, Ye Choirs of New Jerusalem; Choral Journal, December 2002.

Book Review, Harold Farberman, The Art of Conducting Technique (Miami, FL: Warner Brothers Publications, 1997), Choral Journal, September 2002.


Background

Thomas R. Vozzella, is the Director of Worship Arts at First United Methodist Church, Midland, Texas and Headmaster of the churches Worship Arts Academy. He has taught at institutions of higher education in Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, South Carolina, Alabama, and Kansas. In addition to his teaching positions, he has served as a Music Director/Organist in Massachusetts, Kansas, Missouri, Florida, Arkansas, Tennessee, South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana since the age of fifteen. Choirs under his direction have received superior ratings and have received invitations and/or performed in Taiwan, Italy, China, for the Kansas Music Educators Association and on programs of the American Choral Directors Association. During his tenure at First United Methodist Church, El Dorado, Arkansas, the adult and youth choirs were heard on NPR’s Performance Today. Additionally, he has performed on the BBC, on NBC for the national broadcast service celebrating the release of American hostages in Iran (1981), for Pope John Paul II, President Ronald Reagan, and the infamous Ted “Teddy” Kennedy. Most recently he has performed for First Lady Laura Bush and opera diva Susan Graham.

He has appeared as a conductor/organ recitalist in the US, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Ukraine and England. He is also an active member in the American Choral Director’s Association, Texas Choral Directors Association, American Guild of Organists, Fellowship of United Methodists in Music and Worship Arts, Association of Anglican Musicians, National Association for Music Education (MENC), and the Texas Music Educators Association. He has also served as a choral judge/clinician in Massachusetts, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Texas.