Jarrod Richey

About

Jarrod Richey is the founder and director of the Delta Youth Chorale, a childrens community choir in West Monroe, Louisiana that promotes music literacy through singing, folk dance, and other activities. He has been teaching K4 through 12th-grade general music and choir classes at Geneva Academy in West Monroe since 2008. Mr. Richey holds a Bachelor of Music from Louisiana Tech University, a Master of Music from the University of Louisiana at Monroe, and completed his national Kodaly music teacher certification from Wichita State University. He is currently a doctoral student at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary working toward a Ph.D. in Church Music and Worship. Previously, Mr. Richey has directed choir, taught voice, and music appreciation classes at the University of Louisiana at Monroe. He began working at Auburn Avenue Presbyterian Church in 2005 in Media, Communications, and Church Choral Music. Mr. Richey is the founder of the Jubilate Deo Summer Music Camp, a week-long choir and music camp open to kindergarten through college freshmen each June. He is an active elementary and middle school choir clinician and serves on the executive board of the Louisiana chapter of the American Choral Directors Association. He is the author of BACH to the Future: Fostering Music Literacy Today (2016) and general editor and contributing author to Raise the Song: A Classical Christian Guide to Music Education (2019).

Education & Qualifications

Master of Music from University of Louisiana at Monroe, Bachelor of Music from Louisiana Tech University, Kodaly Certification from Wichita State University, Ph.D. candidate in Church Music and Worship at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary

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