Music Technology Faculty
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Mark Parker, department head
Educational background: B.A., Bob Jones University; M.A., Eastman School of Music; Ph.D., University of North Texas. Hometown: Davisburg, Michigan Membership: Music Theory Southeast Academic Area: head of the music technology department; music theory; applied piano. Publications: numerous published arrangements with SoundForth, C&L Enterprises, and Jantz Music Publications. Hobbies: licensed journeyman electrician, hiking, amateur radio (license AF4LV), foreign languages (especially French), music analysis, jogging, reading. Family: wife, Joan, also a member of the piano faculty, and three girls: Emily, Natalie, and Tessa Ministry: delete and say: Greenville Christian Fellowship (music director); mission trips to Jamaica, Canada, and Europe Mission statement: My mission is to instill by example and precept a desire to serve and love God with the whole heart and mind while serving others. It is my goal and burden to help students to be the best prepared instruments they can be for the calling God has given them. |
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Donna Crawford
Educational background: B.A., Heritage Baptist University; M.A., Pensacola Christian College; M.M., Bob Jones University; additional study at the University of Akron. Hometown: Denver, Colorado Academic Area: applied piano, applied organ, music technology, hymn playing, coordinator of pre-college piano. Membership: member of National Piano Guild, American College of Musicians Hobbies: typesetting music, crocheting, working jigsaw puzzles Family: husband, George Crawford, four children, and twelve grandchildren Ministry: active in the music program at Faith Baptist Church, Taylors, SC Mission statement: By example and edification, I desire to challenge my students to acknowledge that their unique abilities are given to them by their Creator; to develop those gifts to their maximum potential for the glory of God; to love the Lord their God with all their hearts, souls, strength, and minds; and to worship fervently and serve enthusiastically the Lord Jesus Christ. |
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Peter Davis
Educational background: B.S., M.M., and M. A., Bob Jones University, Ph.D., University of Oklahoma; additional study at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Academic Area: applied piano, piano pedagogy, music technology, composition Professional Organizations: Music Teachers National Association, National Piano Guild Publications: recently published six volumes of graded sacred piano arrangements through SoundForth, choral and instrumental arrangements published with SoundForth, C and L, and Jantz publications. Family: wife Leslie, and two children: Bethany and Emily Ministry: assistant music director, Mt. Calvary Baptist Church, Greenville, SC |
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David Parker
Educational background: B.S. in Education, M.A. in Voice Performance, Bob Jones University; D.M.A. in Voice Performance, University of Michigan; additional study at Midwestern Baptist Bible College and Central Michigan University; student of Charles Koelsch, William McCauley, Andrew White, John McCollum and Sherrill Milnes. Currently persuing a CMVT vocal pedagogy certification from the McClosky Institute of Voice. Hometown: Davisburg, Michigan Membership: National Association of Teachers of Singing; president and founder of C&L Enterprises and SacredSheetMusic.com, publishing sacred music. Academic Area: applied voice, vocal pedagogy, diction for singers, and music technology Performances: Baritone soloist in 1983 with the University of Michigan Chamber Choir, sent by the State Department in Washington D.C. as a United States Good Will Tour, on their European concert tour behind the Iron Curtain; has been engaged, over the past twenty years, in a ministry of over six hundred sacred concerts and preaching engagements to churches throughout the United States and Canada; soloed extensively with regional orchestras including the Flint Symphony, Toledo Symphony, Ashville Symphony and the Greenville Symphony; performed forty-seven separate solo performances of the Messiah with orchestra - most recently in December of 2004 with the Greenville Symphony Orchestra; in October of 2005 was the baritone soloist with the Greenville Symphony in Ralph Vaughan Williams' multi-movement choral work Dona Nobis Pacem at the Greenville Peace Center for the Performing Arts. Hobbies: woodworking, tennis, hiking, fishing and computer applications Mission statement: I desire to instill a passion for excellence in the vocal arts for all of my students - yet not for personal gain. Regarding Christ, John the Baptist said, "He must increase but I must decrease." I believe there is great responsibility for believers to use the gifts God has given them to do His work of ministry to others - the reconciliation of the lost to Christ and the exhortation and encouragement of the Saints. |
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Joan Pinkston
Educational background: B.S., M.A., Bob Jones University; further study at the Hartt College of Music and Westminster Choir College; studied with Alvine Sineps, Alfred Kanwischer, Leo Litwin, and Alice Parker. Membership: Crescent Music Club Academic Area: music theory, arranging, hymn playing, orchestration, and music technology Performances and Publications: Numerous sacred arrangements published by SoundForth, Beckenhorst, and Jantz Music; a sacred recording, Our Great Savior, featuring arrangements for piano and orchestra; currently composing film scores for Unusual Films; currently editing a hymnal soon to be released by the Free Presbyterian Church in North America. Hobbies: reading theology, and studying the lives of Christian ministers, reformers, missionaries and musicians Family: husband, Bill Ministry: pianist at Faith Free Presbyterian Church, yearly speaker at the Wilds Music Conference, currently writing music for several Christian film projects. Mission statement: The vision for my ministry here at BJU is to love and fear my Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ with all of my heart, and to serve Him faithfully with all of my being. I wish to support and encourage my students to grow in their relationship to the Lord, and to prepare for dedicated Christian service through the vehicle of music. |
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Kenon Renfrow
Educational background: B.Mus., M.Mus., Bob Jones University; Ph.D., University of Oklahoma Hometown: Wilson, North Carolina Academic Area: music technology, piano pedagogy, applied piano Memberships: Music Teachers National Association (member of the national convention steering committee) Publications: articles published in the following magazines: American Music Teacher, Clavier, Church Musician, Electronic Musician's Digital Piano Buyers Guide and Piano and Keyboard; numerous arrangements and collections published by Alfred Publishing Family: wife, Beth, and two children, Laurel and Preston Hobbies: dirt biking, air boating, snake hunting in the Everglades, classic cars and antique clocks. Mission Statement: My heart's desire has increasingly been to train the next generation of Christian young people. I believe that God, in his infinite wisdom, has used my years of personal and professional experience to prepare me for such a time and place as this, and I am excited about my ministry among the students and faculty at BJU |