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TAA Faculty

The Academy core faculty consists of twenty nationally recognized professors, academic instructors, and artists assembled from leading, universities, schools, and arts institutions from throughout the United States. A rigorous curriculum, cutting-edge methodology, and a unique philosophical perspective provide world-class instruction, community, and renewal to arts educators from across Tennessee and the nation.

Virtual Winter Retreat Faculty

Vincent

 

Oakes

Music

 Faculty

Vincent Oakes serves as artistic director of the Chattanooga Boys Choir, a music education and performance organization which includes more than one hundred and twenty choristers, ages eight through eighteen. He is also the director of choral music and chair of the Fine Arts Department at the Baylor School, an independent college preparatory school in Chattanooga. Oakes has conducted more than one hundred honor choirs, clinics, and choral festivals, including recent honor choirs throughout the United States. Additional recent conducting engagements include the Bangkok International Choral Festival, the VOCALIZZE Choral Festival in Lisbon, Portugal, and a residency with Cámara Exaudi in Havana, Cuba, as a participant in the American Choral Directors Association’s International Conductors Exchange Program. His research interests have led to professional presentations on working with the adolescent singing voice, effective rehearsal pedagogy, and teaching musicianship and music literacy in the choral setting.

Core Class Description

Tennessee Arts Academy • Tennessee Arts Academy Foundation
801 2nd Avenue North  • Suite 100 • Nashville, Tennessee 37201
615-988-6250 • taa@tnartsacademy.org