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2007 CCCMIW
Faculty
 RICHARD
LIN  -
Founder and President of CCCMIW. Dr.
Lin is a Senior Professor in
Church Music at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He will conduct
the conference choir and teach workshops on worship and on leading
congregational singing.
 LI-CHAN CHEN (MAXHAM) - Described by the San Francisco Examiner as "a
lyric Soprano with beauty and intelligence", Li-Chan Chen has enjoyed
performing on the opera and concert stages around the world. She has
performed more than 20 leading roles with the San Francisco Opera, Michigan
Opera Theatre, Hawaii Opera, Taipei Opera Theater, Pfalztheater
Kaiserslautern and Stadttheater Gelsenkirchen in Germany, and Stadttheater
St. Gallen in Switzerland. She has sung concerts and recitals in many cities
throughout the United States,
France, and Germany and in her native country Taiwan. Miss Chen received a Master
of Music from the Manhattan School of Music in New York City, and was awarded a full
scholarship to study with Gerard
Souzay in the Ravel Academie, France. She has also attended the University for
Foreigners in Siena, Italy for intensive Italian
language course. She participated in the Merola Opera Program and was an
Adler Fellow with the San Francisco Opera for tow years. She is a winner of
San Francisco Opera Auditions and the second prize winner of International
Concours de Chant de Paris.
Miss Chen is currently a faculty member of
Rutgers State University of New Jersey. With more than two decades of
performing experiences, she is very eager to share her knowledge of singing,
and the joy of serving the Lord through music. She lives in Edison, NJ
with her husband, John, and 2
children Julia and Johnny.
MAW
SHENG CHEN - Prof. Maw
Sheng Chen felt a strong calling for church
music ministry in Taiwan
while he was studying at Chung-Yuan Christian College
of Science and Engineering in Taiwan.
After finishing his B.S. degree in Civil Engineering, he came to the U.S.A. to
pursue his church music education. He earned his degrees from Asbury
Theological Seminary (MAR in organ and choral conducting) and the Southern
Baptist Theological Seminary (DMA candidate; MCM with academic emphasis in
choral conducting, applied major in organ, minor in voice). His major
professors at SBTS were Dr.Donald Hustad (choral conducting and organ) and Dr. Richard
Lin (choral conducting and
voice). In 1976 professor Chen was invited back to
Taiwan Theological College
and Seminary to be a faculty member and chairman of the Department of Church
Music. For 30 years, he has dedicated himself in teaching and promoting
church music in Taiwan
until his recent retirement. He and his wife Nancy
are now residents of Louisville,
Kentucky.
 LAURA CHIPE - Assistant Professor on the music faculty of Cumberland College.
Dr. Chipe
holds a Master of Church Music in Vocal Performance and Pedagogy and a Doctor
of Musical Arts from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, KY.
Dr. Chipe
has 17 years of elementary and secondary classroom experience, teaching music
and theater in Brazil, New York, and Kentucky.
Before coming to Cumberland,
Dr. Chipe
served as a music instructor during her seminary studies, sang with the
Kentucky Opera, and served in church music and youth ministry.
VANESSA CHIPE
- Vanessa Jo Chipe
is a 2003 graduate of Belmont University in Nashville,
TN. With a major in classical
voice and minor in communications, Vanessa
has been expanding her horizons in Rio
de Janeiro, Brazil.
For the past two years, Vanessa has
been teaching music and theatre at the International
Christian School
of Rio working with a wide variety of ages
and children from all over the world. During this time, Vanessa
has had the pleasure of writing, choreographing, and directing special
programs for her students such as Christmas around the World and Narnia the
Musical. Apart from teaching at ICS-RIO, Vanessa
led the high school Worship Team during every school wide Friday chapel.
Other opportunities in music and theatre included performing with several
organizations such as the British School Players, The Scottish Society, and
The Marcos Spiel Mann Jazz Band. Training in dance includes the study of
Ballet, Contra-Dancing, and Flamenco. Vanessa
has taught liturgical dance under Anita Lin's
tutelage for the past two years and looks forward to another great year with
CCCMIW Vancouver and Louisville!
ALBERT KEE  - CCCMIW Music Conference's alumnus
and staff since 1991. Choir director of Atlanta Chinese Christian Church in Atlanta, GA. Conductor
of Atlanta
Chinese Community Choir (Choi-Fung Chorus); Instructor of Choir and
Congregational Singing Workshops held in NY, NJ MD, NC and GA Chinese
churches.
PEGGY LAM - Administrative Director CCCMIW, Ms. Lam
received her Master of Music degree from The Southwestern Baptist Theological
Seminary, Fort Worth, Texas, major in piano accompanying. Ms. Lam
has been serving the Lord with music for more than 25 years in Hong Kong and San Francisco Bay Area as pianist,
conductor, music educator, music director and administrator.
 DANIEL
PING LEUNG
LAW - Prof. Law
is currently the Dean of the Arts
Faculty and Professor of Music at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK).
He is an established composer well known in Asia.
His research interests include: History of Music Theory; Analysis; Musical
semiotics, Liturgical music and Hymnology. He is also an established
architectural acoustician. In 2005, he was awarded the Hong Kong Architecture
Society President Prize for involving in the professional design team that
build the Fair View Alliance
Church. Prof. Law
was a visiting scholar at Harvard University (85-85) and also visiting researcher at Stanford University (92-93). His interest in
Church Music results in the writing and arrangement of numerous choral
pieces, many articles and three books--"Perspectives on Church
Music" I, II and III. For many years, he is a deacon at the North Point
Alliance Church
in Hong Kong. Web http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/mus/bio/daniellaw.html
 DAN LAWHON - Dan
(Daniel) Lawhon is a Kentucky native. He
received his Bachelor of Music from Belmont
University in Nashville, Tennessee
where he was the recipient of the Barton Barrett Church Music scholarship. He
continued his studies at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in
Louisville, Kentucky where and his wife (Sherrie) were the first couple to
graduate together, first with their Master of Church Music degree and later
with the Doctor of Musical Arts degree. Dr. Lawhon
has served in churches as pianist, organist or minister of music since the
age of twelve. He recently served on the music faculty of the University of Alabama
at Birmingham
as interim choral director. Dr.
Lawhon is currently serving as
the Associate Minister of Music/Organist at First
Baptist Church,
Huntsville, Alabama where some of his responsibilities
are coordinating the handbell programs and playing the four-octave carillon.
SHARON LAWHON - Sherrie Lawhon
is Associate Professor of Music and Chair of the Voice Department in the School of Performing Arts
at Samford University
in Birmingham, Alabama where she teaches private voice,
diction, and conducts the 60 voice University Chorale. She holds the Bachelor
of Music degree in vocal performance from Belmont
University in Nashville,
Tennessee and earned the Master of Church
Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees in vocal performance from The
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky.
As a part of her doctoral studies, she pursued additional voice instruction
at Indiana University,
Bloomington
with Virginia
Zeani. She is listed in Who's
Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges, Outstanding Young
Women in America,
and most recently, Who's Who Among America's Outstanding Teachers. She was
awarded Samford¡¦s George Macon Memorial Teaching Award in January 2006.
Lawhon performs regularly in solo recitals and with choral and orchestral
ensembles in oratorios and operas.
STEPHEN H.T. LIN - Stephen
H.T. Lin
has taught vocal/choral music since 1975 in Jefferson
County and joined the faculty of Atherton High School in 1976. He received his Bachelor
of Music degree at Morehead State University
and a Master of Education Degree with emphasis in Music at University of Louisville.
Stephen is active in Kentucky Music
Educators Association and has served as President of Twelfth District, State
Choral Chairperson and Twelfth District Choral Chairperson. He is a member of
the American Choral Directors Association . He has served as the State High
School Chair and Multi-cultural Choral Music Chair for the Kentucky Choral
Directors Association. The of choirs of Atherton High School have presented
concert tours in the following countries: Bahamas, Belgium, Brazil, Canada,
China (Hong Kong), Czech Republic, Ecuador, England, France, Germany, Greece,
Iceland, Ireland, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Russia
and Switzerland. His honors include: Toyota International Teacher Program
Award Winner - 2005; Kentucky Teacher of the Year - 2002; Kentucky High
School Teacher of the Year - 2002; Ashland Inc. Achievement Award Winner -
2002; Ashland Golden Achievement Award for Outstanding Teacher - 1997, 1998,
1999 and 2000; Who's Who Among America's Teachers - 1996, 1998 2000 and 2002;
Twelfth District High School Music Teacher of the Year - 1990 and 2002; Who's
Who in the South and Southwest - 1988 and 1989; and, Outstanding Young Men of
America - 1987.
 MAX LYALL - Professor of Church Music at
the Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary for twenty-five years, a concert
and church pianist, Dr.
Lyall has performed as soloist
around the world. Dr.
Lyall is a distinguished
accompanist, and has played for many outstanding choral groups in the United States.
In addition, Dr. Lyall
has been piano and harpsichord soloist with the Nashville Symphony and
Chamber Orchestras. He has been piano and tenor soloist with the Nashville
Pro Musica Chorus and Orchestra, as well as tenor soloist with the Nashville
Chamber Singers, the oratorio choruses of Golden Gate, The Southern Baptist
Theological Seminary, Louisville, KY, and California
Baptist University,
Riverside, Calif. He was honored by Oklahoma Baptist
University with a
Profiles in Excellence award in 1987. He is a member of ASCAP (American
Society of Composers Authors and Publishers), and he toured China with
the Centurymen in 1983 and 1988. He served on the Hymnal Committee for the
1991 edition of "Baptist Hymnal." The Baptist Church Music Conference
awarded him Honorary Lifetime Membership in 1992 and the W. Hines Sims Award
in 2004.He holds the Bachelor of Music degree from Oklahoma
Baptist University,
the Master of Music degree from the University
of Oklahoma, and the Doctor of
Musical Arts degree in piano from the Peabody Conservatory of Music at Johns Hopkins University.
He has done additional study at Teachers College of Columbia University and
at the Juilliard School of Music.
 CHRISTINE LIU - A mezzo-soprano, native of Taipei, Taiwan,
holds a degree in Chinese Literature from Fu Jen University and a Masters in
Childhood Religious Education from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.
Later she continued pursuing in area of singing and Church Music at seminary.
She was many times invited as an Alto soloist in Messiah and Elijah Oratorio
in Toronto, Fort Worth and gave concerts in different
occasions. Recently she conducted "Worship and Music" and
"Voice" seminars in Boston, Atlanta, Austin and China. She
was invited by Palm Tree Music Group to preserve the traditional church hymns
with a CD production in 1999. She works as a Children's choir director at University Baptist
Church in Fort Worth, TX.
For more than 15 years she and her husband minister to Mainland Chinese
students and scholars. They have a daughter and a son, studying at Georgia Tech. and United States Naval
Academy and continuing
to serve God with their music training.
BETH SINGLETON - Beth Singleton
is Minister of Music at Tiburon Baptist Church
in Tiburon, California, where she leads the Adult
Choir, Youth Choir, Instrumental Ensemble and three handbell ensembles. She
has been serving at Tiburon since 1985. Beth
graduated from Samford University in Birmingham,
Alabama, with a major in music education,
and she received the Master of Church Music Degree from the Southern Baptist
Theological Seminary in Louisville,
Kentucky. She has done
additional study at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California.
Beth taught at Golden Gate
Theological Seminary for seventeen years in church music. She has been on
mission trips to England, Bahamas, Kenya,
Senegal, and Costa Rica.
CRAIG SINGLETON - Graduated from Samford University
in Birmingham, Alabama and received his Master of Church
Music and Doctor of Musical Arts from The Southern Baptist Theological
Seminary. Dr. Singleton has an additional master's
degree in Music Education with a Kodály emphasis from Holy
Names University
in Oakland, California. Dr. Singleton
taught at Golden Gate Theological Seminary for seventeen years, and is
currently at Dominican University of California, where he is Professor of Music
and Chair, Department of Music and Performing Arts. Dr. Singleton
is the conductor of the Dominican University Winifred Baker Chorale and is a
member of Tiburon Baptist Church
in Tiburon , California .
 HERBERT TSANG - Dean
of CCCMIW (Canada).
Music director/conductor of the Port Moody Pacific Grace Mennonite Brethren
Church Worship Choir and music director for the David C. Lam Christian
Hymn Society; music director and founder of SINFONIA MOSAIC in Vancouver,
Canada. During the 2006-07 season, Tsang was appointed as one of eight
Tanglewood II Symposium Scholars and he also served as the instructor for the
Edmonton Chinese Christian Choir choral conductor training program. In 2004,
Tsang was invited to participate in the 24th National Conductor's Symposium,
under the direction of maestro Jon Washburn,
rehearsing and conducting the Vancouver Chamber Choir in performance.
Recognized by his peers, Tsang has also been nominated for the "Emerging
Artist Award" with the ARC Arts Council. Committed to the training of
young musicians, Mr.
Tsang is on the music faculty of
Place des Arts since 1995. He also has conducted various orchestras
and opera productions in North America and Europe.
Mr. Tsang
is a graduate of Southern Illinois University and Washington University.
Currently, Tsang is pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts degree at Boston University's
School of Music. Additional musical and
theological studies at the Alliance Bible Seminary, the Hong Kong Academy for
the Performing Arts, the Royal School of Church Music and the Southern
Baptist Theological Seminary. www.herberttsang.com
 VICKY TAN
WARKENTIEN - Dr. Warkentien
has organized and conducted music camps for adults, youth and children on
many locations across the globe. She is Assistant Professor of Music at Bethel College
in Mishawaka, Indiana.
 KENNETH A. WILSON - Dr. Wilson
is a graduate of Wake
Forest University
(where he was that school¡¦s first classical guitar major) and holds the MCM
and DMA degrees from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. In the
doctoral program at Southern, Dr. Wilson studied conducting with Dr.
Donald Hustad
and Dr. Douglas Smith.
He has been Minister of Music at Knollwood
Baptist Church
in Winston-Salem, NC since 1986. The music program at
Knollwood includes six choirs, five handbell choirs, and multiple guitar
classes. The Chancel Choir has presented a number of major works with
orchestra, including: Messiah, The Creation, Elijah, Vivaldi
Gloria, Rutter Gloria,
Faure Requiem, Rutter Requiem, Schubert Mass, Bach cantatas, and Rene Clausen's
A New Creation. Each Christmas four choirs and three handbell choirs join
forces for an annual Christmas Festival. Each May the choirs combine for a
hymn festival. In recent years youth choir tours have included concerts in New Orleans, Atlanta, Washington (DC), Baltimore,
New York City, and Boston. The 2005 summer tour (dubbed the
"sweet tea" tour) included Atlanta, Birmingham, Jackson, Memphis, Nashville, and Knoxville. Dr. Wilson
leads a children's choir program that is heavily involved in a program called
"Hymns for a Lifetime." In this program, the children memorize a
twenty hymns per year, and present these each spring in hymn festivals. The
church's youth classical guitar ensemble plays regularly for worship. More
information about the church's music program is available at the Knollwood
web site: http://www.knollwood.org
Ken's wife Cathy
is a pastoral counselor at North
Carolina Baptist Hospital. They have two grown
daughters and a golden retriever named "Ellie."
PETER YANG  - Member of the CCCMIW Board of Advisors. Rev. Yang, former
Senior Pastor of the Golden Gate Christian Reformed Church in San Francisco. He is
currently the Interim Senior Pastor for Oversea Chinese Mission in New York City, NY.
Rev. Yang's
enthusiasm in church music is carried to his three children, who are all
celebrated musicians and teachers of music. Rev. Yang will be our worship leader.
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