JEFFERY AMES

About the Composer Jeffery L. Ames (b. 1969), serves as Director of Choral Activities at Belmont University, Nashville, TN. Prior appointments include Assistant Director of Choral Activities at Baylor University and Director of Choral Activities at Edgewater High School and Lincoln High School in Florida. As a choral clinician, Dr. Ames has conducted junior and senior high mixed and male choirs at the state and regional conventions of the American Choral Directors Association and the Music Educator's National Conference, including the inaugural Florida Male All-State Chorus. He has performed internationally in Italy (2005-2007) and Costa Rica (2005). An accomplished accompanist, he has performed with well-known conductors such André Thomas, Allen Crowell, Jo-Michael Scheibe, Lynne Gackle, Bradley Ellingboe, and with Anton Armstrong and the Texas All-State Mixed Choir.
 
With a growing reputation as a distinguished, well-respected composer and arranger, Dr. Ames' music has been premiered by the Florida Music Educators Association, the Florida American Choral Directors Association, the Southern Division of ACDA, the National ACDA Conference in Los Angeles, and at the National ACDA Conference in Miami. His compositions and arrangements are widely published. Professor Ames holds the Ph.D. in Choral Conducting/Choral Music Education and a Master of Choral Music Education degree from Florida State University, and a Bachelor of Music degree, with a double major in Vocal Performance and Piano Accompanying, from James Madison University. He is the first recipient of the ACDA James Mulholland Choral Music Fellowship.