Music department joins together to showcase talent in ‘Jubilate’
Posted by lacrane on May 5, 2008
The sixth annual musical presentation of Jubilate will take place in Southeastern Seminary’s Binkley Chapel Thursday night, May 8, at 8:00 PM.
Southeastern Seminary’s six music ensembles, including the Chapel Choir, Male Chorale, the Seminary Orchestra, Faithful Men, Doxology Vocal Ensemble and the Doxology Instrumental Ensemble, will be providing the music. Frequently associated with Psalm 100 the word “Jubilate” means “to rejoice or raise a shout of joy.” Jubilate will include a wide variety of musical styles ranging from classical to contemporary Christian music.
John Davis, conductor of the Male Chorale and director of Faithful Men, is a graduate of Samford University (BME), Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (MCM), and the University of Georgia (DMA in choral conducting). In demand as a tenor soloist, choral clinician, and adjudicator, Davis founded Faithful Men in 1995, and the group now tours extensively throughout the United States. Davis is a published composer and arranger and teaches a wide variety of classes at Southeastern. The former minister of music at Glover Baptist Church in metro Atlanta, Davis currently also conducts the Northeast Piedmont Chorale, a local community chorus which performs major choral works with orchestra.
Nannette Godwin will be the organist for the evening. Godwin, a former Miss North Carolina, is a graduate of Southeastern Seminary and has earned two degrees from University of North Carolina Greensboro, one of which is a PhD in Music Education. Godwin is in demand as a keyboard clinician and adjudicator. She has had extensive experience as minister of music and organist at numerous churches in the Raleigh area, and she is the author of a piano teaching series called Construction Site and several articles recently published in Pedal Point magazine. Godwin coordinates the keyboard program at Southeastern Seminary.
John Boozer conducts the Chapel Choir and is the founding conductor of the vocal side of the contemporary group called Doxology. He has earned degrees from Samford University, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and Louisiana State University, where he received the DMA in Choral Conducting. Boozer has led, adjudicated, or conducted over 100 regional and national workshops in church music, worship, and choral music. The former minister of music at First Baptist Church in Panama City, Fl., and the founding conductor of the Orchestra of St. Andrew Bay, Boozer is the interim minister of music at First Baptist Church in Cary, N.C.
Joshua Waggener is the conductor of the Seminary Orchestra and the instrumental side of the contemporary group, Doxology. Waggener also teaches music history at The College at Southeastern. In addition to a Bachelor of Music from Trinity University (Texas), he holds the Masters of Music Literature from the University of Georgia and the Masters of Church Music from Southeastern Seminary. He currently serves as Minister of Music and Worship at Guess Road Baptist in Durham.
Jubilate is free and open to the public. For more information about this year’s Jubilate call (919) 761-2316.
