Category: Herring Chamber Ensemble – Bass / Baritone

Kevin, a Greenville native, is a graduate of Furman University, with a BA in Church Music/Organ. He holds the Master of Music degree in Conducting from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, TX. Recently celebrating forty-one years in full-time ministry, Kevin has led the worship and music programs in churches in Texas, North Carolina, Virginia, and St. Louis, Missouri…

Kyle, a native of Greenville, SC, graduated Travelers Rest High and attended North Greenville College where he studied music. Kyle was a barber by profession before answering the call to full-time ministry. He has served as Minister of Music for churches in the upstate as well as North Carolina and Georgia. He is currently the Worship Pastor for Overbrook Baptist Church, Greenville, SC where he has served for 17 years…

Benjamin is Coordinator of Music Theory and Composition at Furman University. He holds a Ph.D. in music theory with a related field in music history from the University of North Texas. His primary area of research explores the development of music and musical thought in early modern Germany. In that realm, Benjamin recently published an article on numerology and Neoplatonism in an early 17th-century music treatise in the volume Explorations in Music and Esotericism (2023). He also studies the efficacy of teaching practices in music theory curricula, for which he collaborates with his wife, Shana Southard-Dobbs, Ph.D., a psychological scientist at Lander University…

Brett is a native of Flat Rock, North Carolina. He graduated from Clemson University in 2020 with a B.S. in agribusiness and a minor in music. Brett is the program manager for Clemson’s Office of Research Development and is the associate director of music and organist at Covenant Presbyterian Church in Hendersonville, North Carolina. His mother, a church musician and music teacher, influenced him from an early age in singing and playing the piano and organ…

David recently retired as chair of the department of vocal studies at Bob Jones University in Greenville, South Carolina. He received the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in voice performance from the University of Michigan. His voice teachers have included Andrew White, John McCollum and Sherrill Milnes. Besides being a sought-out adjudicator and clinician throughout the United States and abroad, David stays active as a soloist represented by over one hundred and thirty performances with regional and community orchestras including sixty-nine solo performances of Handel’s Messiah…

Craig is a South Carolina native and has lived in Greenville since 2019 where he serves on the voice faculty at Furman University and is a soloist at First Baptist Greenville. He holds degrees in voice performance from Furman and Manhattan School of Music, and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of South Carolina. Prior to returning to South Carolina, Dr. Price sang with opera companies around the country including Central City Opera, Kentucky Opera, Charlottesville Opera, and Opera Saratoga…