Years Experience Director

Thomas Gibbs

**** ********** *****, ********,

Georgia

***** 678-***-**** ******@*****.*** http://professoremeriti.bsc.edu/~tgibbs/

Profile:

More than 20 years as a church choir director

or organist/director. Over 35 years experience in undergraduate teaching, with

8 years experience in administration at division and department levels. Over 40

years experience as a conductor, with broad choral, musical theatre, opera, and

orchestral experience. Extensive research, writing,

lecturing, and teaching in the fields of church music and the interdisciplinary

connections between theology and music. Studies in

Buddhist, Taoist, and Tibetan contemplative practices, with emphasis on

application of mindfulness training in higher education.

Education:

Ph.D. in Musicology, The

University of Texas

at Austin, 1972

M.Mus. in Musicology, The University of Texas at

Austin, 1967

B.A. in Philosophy and Religion, Birmingham-Southern College, 1964

Record of Employment:

CapitolCity

Opera, Atlanta, Georgia. Chorusmaster and Director of CapitolCity Opera Madrigal Singers.

September 2008 present (part-time)

St. Joseph s Roman Catholic Church, Marietta, Georgia.

Organist, May 2009 present (part-time)

St. James Music Press, editor, 2008 present (part-time)

Birmingham-Southern College, appointed 1970. Professor of Music, 1983-2007.

Professor Emeritus, Retired, 2007.Taught

courses in church music, including hymnology; Theology and Music; choral

and opera literature; conducting; music history; music appreciation. Chair

of the Division of Fine and Performing Arts, 1980-88. Budgets, faculty

searches, long-range planning, publicity, outreach and development for the

departments of Art, Dance, Music, and Theatre.Conductor

for musical theatre and opera productions.Member

or Chair of numerous committees, task forces, faculty searches.Student

organization advisor: "One Accord" Gospel Choir and Allies

(LGBT-straight alliance).Active

in Leadership Studies and Service Learning programs.

Grace Episcopal Church, Woodlawn in the City of Birmingham. Parish Musician, 2000-2006.Choirmaster

and Organist for a multi-cultural, highly diverse congregation,

Anglo-Catholic in liturgical practice.

Episcopal

Diocese of Alabama, Faculty,

leadership training program for lay musicians in small parishes (LPM),

September 2001 through April 2003.

CathedralChurch

of the Advent (Episcopal), Birmingham. Master of the Cathedral Choir, 1986-1997.A

choir of forty, including 16 professional staff singers. Choral music for

all Cathedral and Diocesan services. Three

tours of England,

the last as

Choir-in-Residence at Canterbury Cathedral during the celebrations of the

1400th anniversary of the founding of the

Cathedral.A

national reputation through its recordings and its live performances

for the American Guild of Organists and various local and national

Episcopal gatherings.Broad

repertoire including cantatas, masses, and commissioned works.

Birmingham Concert Chorale and Alabama Symphony Orchestra Chorus, Music Director and Conductor, 1977-1987.Prepared

major works for The Alabama Symphony Orchestra.Prepared

and conducted oratorios, cantatas, masses.Outreach

and liaison with churches and community groups.

Birmingham Summerfest, Music Director and Conductor, 1979-1985.Music

Director and Conductor for 25 productions, working with nationally known

performers, choreographers, and composers/arrangers.

Additional professional conducting with Southern Opera Theatre, Birmingham Civic Opera,

Alabama Symphony Orchestra, Red Mountain Chamber Orchestra, Camerata--a

chamber ensemble, Town and Gown Theatre, Birmingham Festival of Arts.

Also vocal coach, choral

clinician and adjudicator, private conducting teacher.

Recent Presentations:

"Haydn: Great Sovereign of the Tuneful

Art," Birmingham-SouthernCollege, May 1, 2007. The

traditional "Final Lecture" of a

retiring faculty member.

"Listening in the New Forest: A Demonstration of

Contemplative Listening Techniques," College Music

Society National Conference, San Antonio, September 15, 2006.

Invited Participant: "Contemplative Practice in Arts

Education," a conference sponsored by the Center for

Contemplative Mind in Society, The American

Council of Learned Societies, and the Fetzer

Foundation, ChautauquaPark, Boulder, Colorado,

February 9-12, 2006.

"Contemplative Listening, A New Paradigm for Music Appreciation,"

College Music Society National

Conference, Qu becCity, November

4, 2005.

Faculty, SewaneeChurch Music Conference, July 2003

Recent Performances:

Capitol City Opera

Madrigal Singers Conductor

3

Atlanta-area performances, December 2008.

St. James Episcopal Church, Marietta, Georgia

- Organist

November

2008 Bach, BWV 106 Gottes Zeit

ist die aller beste Zeit

November 2007

Haydn, "Little Organ Mass,

Alabama Operaworks - Conductor

April

2007 - Iolanthe, by Gilbert and Sullivan

April

2006 - Trial by Jury, by Gilbert and Sullivan

Red Mountain Chamber Orchestra with

winners of the Frances and Dorsey Whittington Competition - Conductor

February 2007 - Schubert: Symphony No. 4, C Minor

("Tragic"); Handel: 'Lascia ch'io pianga" (Rinaldo) and "Arm, arm, ye brave" (Judas

Maccabeus); Thomas: " vin, dissipe la tristesse" (Hamlet);

Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor, I.

February 2006 - Mozart:

German Dances, K. 605, and "Prague" Symphony, K. 504; Grieg: Piano

Concerto in A Minor, I; Puccini: "Ch'il bel sogno" (La Rondine); Pasatieri:

"Bubbles, beautiful bubbles" (The Goose Girl).

Alabama Symphony Orchestra - Conductor

October 2005 - Sibelius, Violin

Concerto, Karen Bentley Pollick, violinist. Also "Streaming" by

Dorothy Hindman.

Recent Choral Clinics:

Choral Clinician and Conductor, EastLake

United MethodistChurch,

Birmingham, Alabama,

December 2007.

Choral Clinician, St. Mary's-on-the-Highlands Episcopal Church, Birmingham,

Alabama, Choir Retreat, Camp McDowell, August 2007.

Choral Clinician, First United MethodistChurch, Athens, Georgia,

August 2007.

Choral Clinician, Athens Choral Society, Athens, Georgia,

October 2007.

Representative Professional Development:

Royal School

of Church Music in America, choir training course for

Adults, Boys, and Girls, 2005 and 2007.

Episcopal Diocese of Alabama

Sexual Conduct Training Certificate, August 2004.

Birmingham-SouthernCollege, January 2002 sabbatical, course preparation, Theology and Music.

Sabbatical leave, Spring 1995, resulting in a

completed book manuscript, The Theory and Practice of Church Music.

Contemplative Studies:

Since 1999, a student and practitioner of

Buddhist, Taoist, and Tibetan contemplative practices, as preserved and

transmitted by Sifu I Sijo

John Bright-Fey Tao Jen, Tao-Shih, the first Western successor in

the 500 year old ancestral tradition of the Dharma Mind Seal Lineage Holders

of the Blue Dragon Order of Esoteric Zen Buddhism. The Reverend Venerable

Bright-Fey is also the recipient of the vast oral tradition of the T ien-Shih, or Celestial Masters sect of

Taoism, also known as the Wu-Tou-mi Tao, or

Five Pecks of Rice School. The curriculum known as The New Forest Way

has been designed by Bright-Fey to make the benefits of the classical eastern

contemplative arts more easily accessible to westerners. Gibbs and Bright-Fey have

adapted The New Forest Way for classroom use in music appreciation

studies, and their book, Contemplative Listening: Music Appreciation for

Life (2003, 2004, 2008)is available

from http://www.newforestway.com.

Since 2007, Gibbs has taught weekly classes inNew

Forest T'ai Chi and Qigong.

Professional Organizations:

American Guild of Organists ClaremontCenter

for Process Studies

Association of Anglican Musicians Pi

KappaLambda

College Music Society

A complete cv is available at http://professoremeritus.bsc.edu/~tgibbs/tgcv2008.htm

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