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Dorthea L. Taylor, psalmist/teacher

MM in sacred music, conducting, and voice performance, East Carolina University; BA in Music Education, Bennett College for Women. 

During her matriculation at ECU, Miss Taylor served as assistant conductor of the University Chorale and the voice coach for the Gospel Choir.  She was a semi-finalist in the graduate division of the American Choral Directors Association National Conducting Competition at the national convention in New York, a recipient of the Lynn Bridges Memorial Award scholarship, winner of the East Carolina University Concerto Competition, recipient of the Martha Strawn Iley Church Music Scholarship in the area of voice, the 2002 first place winner of the National Association of Teachers of Singing State Competition, winner of the LINKS Performance Scholarship, and a recipient of the Michael Jackson Performance Scholarship.

Miss Taylor, former director of the East Carolina University Gospel Choir, is a well sought after conductor, singer, vocal coach, and clinician.  She serves as vocal coach for Divine Anointing. She has been a featured soloist on many occasions, performed with the Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra, served as adjunct vocal faculty at Bennett College for Women and served on the faculty of the Church Music Summit in Charlotte, NC.  She has also served as the co-director of the Church Music Academy for the Hampton University Ministers’ Conference and Choir Directors’ and Organists’ Guild.

Most recently Dorthea had the opportunity to work as the vocal coach for an NFL commercial, as well as prepare the award winning Salvation and Deliverance Choir for  How Sweet the Sound.