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Gregory Church is Assistant Professor of Music in
Voice at Howard Payne University in Brownwood, Texas, where he is in his third year of teaching. Mr. Church earned the
Bachelor of Music degree at Wingate University in North Carolina, and the Master of Church Music with a second major in Vocal
Perfromance at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. Currently Mr. Church is a candidate
for the Doctor of Musical Arts degree at Texas Tech University in Lubbock.
Gregory Church has performed widely in oratorio, concert, and opera with
symphonies and opera companies throughout the United States, including performances in Tennessee, Kentucky, South Carolina,
Georgia, Illinois, Texas and North Dakota. He has performed as tenor solois in Mendelssohn's Elijah in
North Dakota and Quincy, Illinois; Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in South Carolina; Bach's Magnificat; and
in Handel's Messiah in various cities.
Mr. Church has to his credit three world premiere performances. Audiences
in Louisville saw him create the role of Joseph in Robert Sterling's church music drama Two from Galilee, as
well as the role of Jesus in God's Love Song by Phillip Landgrave. Most recently he was featured as tenor soloist
in the completed version of a Credo fragment begun by Mozart for his Mass in C major, k. 377. The Credo, performed
in Abilene, was completed by composer and Mozart specialist Murl Sickbert at Hardin-Simmons University.
Other recent performances include the roles of Jenik in The Bartered
Bride by Smetana, and Alfredo in Verdi's La Traviata. Mr. Church's musical theatre credits include performances
of Lun tha in The King and I, James in Shenandoah, and Joseph in Andrew Lloyd-Weber's Joseph and the
Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. He has also appeared as tenor aria soloist in Haydn's Creation, and Bach's
St. John Passion.
This past year saw Mr. Church's first performances as musical director and
conductor of the Opera Workshop at the HPU School of Music & Fine Arts. His conducting credits include Gilbert and
Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance, and Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim. He was also musical director
and conductor of the Sanctuary Choir and Orchestra at First Baptist Church Brownwood for their Christmas musical presentation
Canticle of Joy by Joseph Martin.
Upcoming events include Vaughan Williams' Serenade to Music, a
concert tour with the Abilene Collegiate Orchestra in February and March, as well as recital engagements in Brownwood and
Lubbock.
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