About Me
Thomas R. Vozzella, is the Director of Music at First United Methodist Church, Midland, Texas and Headmaster of the churches Dollye Neal Worship Arts Academy. He has taught at institutions of higher education in Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, South Carolina, Alabama, and Kansas. In addition to his teaching positions, he has served as a Music Director/Organist in Massachusetts, Kansas, Missouri, Florida, Arkansas, Tennessee, South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana since the age of fifteen. Choirs under his direction have received superior ratings and have received invitations and/or performed in Taiwan, Italy, China, for the Kansas Music Educators Association and on programs of the American Choral Directors Association.
During his tenure at First United Methodist Church, El Dorado, Arkansas, the adult and youth choirs were heard on NPR’s Performance Today. Additionally, he has performed on the BBC, on NBC for the national broadcast service celebrating the release of American hostages in Iran (1981), for Pope John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, and the infamous Ted “Teddy†Kennedy. Most recently he has performed for First Lady Laura Bush and opera diva Susan Graham.
He received the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of South Carolina, the Master of music degree from Northeast Louisiana University (University of Louisiana, Monroe), and the Bachelor of Music degree from Eastern Nazarene College. Additional work was completed at Nazarene Theological Seminary, The University of Missouri, Kansas City Conservatory of Music and the Royal School of Church Music, Croydon, England. He has appeared as a conductor/organ recitalist in the US, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Ukraine and England.
He is also an active member in the American Choral Director’s Association, Texas Choral Directors Association (TCDA), American Guild of Organists (AGO), Fellowship of United Methodists in Music and Worship Arts, Association of Anglican Musicians (AAM), National Association for Music Education (MENC), and the Texas Music Educators Association (TMEA).
Alliance, Augsburg, Abingdon, Selah, and CanticaNOVA music publishers publish his compositions and arrangements. He has also served as a choral judge/clinician in Massachusetts, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Texas.
