Jill Lagerberg has joined Framework and will collaborate with Kelley Coppage to create a choral/orchestral arrangement of God Moves in a Mysterious Way. Jill is the Director of Knoxville Christian Arts Ministries and Conductor of the Choir and Men’s Ensemble, holds the degree of Bachelor of Arts with Honors in Music, summa cum laude, from Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC. She holds the degrees of Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts in Voice Performance from The University of Michigan.
For eight years she was Professor of Music and chair of the music program at Johnson Bible College in Knoxville, where she taught choral conducting, studio voice, and music theory and directed the college choirs and traveling ensembles.
She works periodically as the Children’s Chorus Director for the Knoxville Opera Company and for ten years was the Co-Director of the Knoxville Children’s Choir. She has directed children’s, youth, and adult church choirs in North Carolina, Michigan, and Tennessee, most recently served as the Sanctuary Choir Director at Cedar Springs Presbyterian Church in Knoxville. Ensembles under her direction have performed in Chicago, Boston, New York, Orlando, and Williamsburg; and internationally in England, Poland, Austria, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Peru.
Her voice teachers have included Lorna Haywood, George Bitzas and Marjorie Stephens. She is a former member of the Knoxville Choral Society and Chamber Chorale and the John Ribble Singers. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the American Choral Directors Association, and the National Association of Teachers of Singing.
Jill at work at the Knox Area Rescue Ministries
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