2015
All State Reading Chorus Jeff Funderburk, Choral Division Chair Dr. Stanley Roberts, Conductor Chris Fowler, Accompanist Greg Hucks, Organizer January 31, 2015
Stanley L. Roberts is in his nineteenth year of teaching in the Townsend School of Music of Mercer University, where he is the Arthur Lowndes Rich Professor of Choral Conducting and Associate Dean. In this position, he conducts the Mercer Singers, the Mercer Women’s Chamber Choir, and the University Choir while teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in conducting, choral literature and techniques. Choirs under his direction have sung on numerous programs for the Georgia Music Educators Association, the Southern Division ACDA, and the Southern Division of NAfME. With the Mercer Singers, he has completed six highly successful international tours of England and Wales, Italy, Austria & Czech Republic, Germany, Poland, Slovakia, & Hungary, Japan, and Russia. A passionate educator, Dr. Roberts was chosen as Mercer University’s Outstanding Faculty Member of the Year, Professor of the Year by Mercer’s Student Government Association, and the Townsend School of Music Professor of the Year. Highly regarded as a conductor and clinician he has conducted All State Choirs, Honor Choirs, and Festival Choruses throughout the United States, England, and Europe, as well as workshops in universities, colleges, churches, and schools. In 2013, the PBS special, A Grand Mercer Christmas, was released with much acclaim. The program featured the Mercer Singers and the McDuffie Center for Strings under that baton of Dr. Roberts. An energetic member of the NAfME and ACDA, he has served in numerous leadership capacities for both organizations and is Past President for Georgia ACDA. Also active as a church musician for over 30 years, he is an editor of the hymnal Celebrating Grace and currently serves as Minister of Music at the First Baptist Church of Macon, Georgia—a position he has held for 22 years. In 1994 he became the founder of jubilate! -- a mass-choir experience for church youth choirs. Dr. Roberts is a proud alumnus of Mercer University (1984) and is married to performer/teacher Marie Jarriel Roberts (soprano).