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TK CV

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Thomas King Scholarly and Creative Activity Highlights

Miscellaneous Honors for Scholarship and Creativity

• Received Master of Arts in German, University of Mississippi, 1989
• Inducted into Delta Phi Alpha German honor society, 1989
• Received Doctor of Arts in Vocal Pedagogy, University of Mississippi, 1992
• Won “Monte” Award for best male performer, Roxy Regional Theatre, as Harold Hill in The Music Man, 1994
• Elected Governor of Province #15, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, 1994
• My recital of Ives songs played on German radio, Leipzig, Germany, 1994
• Inducted into Pi Kappa Lambda, Music honor society, 1995
• Received the Orpheus award, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, National music fraternity, 1997
• Soloist for the operetta, Der Vogelhändler, International meeting, Association of University Women, Austria, 1998
• Elected President, Southern Chapter, College Music Society, 1999
• Performed Concert, National Women’s Museum, Washington, D. C. 2003
• Inducted into Sigma Alpha Iota as a distinguished member, National Arts Associate 2003

College Music Society Presentations and Offices held:

• 1990 Neidhart von Reuenthal, Minnesinger 1180-1246, Board member for Performance
• 1991 Richard Dehmel poem “Waldseligkeit,” settings by Alma Mahler, Joseph Marx, and Richard Strauss, Board member for Performance
• 1992 Robert Schumann Liederkreis, translation and explanation
• 1992 (Munich, Germany) Explaining the Opera Theater system of Germany
• 1993 How to overcome Stage Fright in Singers, performed Richard Heuberger songs, Secretary/Treasurer
• 1994 Charles Ives, Song composer Anniversary, Secretary/Treasurer
• 1995 Hosted the meeting at APSU, performed Juusela songs, Benner songs
• 1995 (Berlin, Germany), performed songs of Constantinides, Ovides
• 1996 Lecture on Counter-tenor and Falsetto Registers
• 1997 Schwanengesang of Franz Schubert on his 200th birthday, President-Elect
• 1998 Four Songs of Clara Schumann, performed Mansfield songs, Benner songs, President-Elect
• 1999 The 24 Italian Greatest Hits, President
• 2000 President
• 2001 Past-President
• 2002 Past-President
• 2003 Host

Miscellaneous Activities:

• Several trips to Italy for language study
• Guest soloist on choir tours to Canada, Austria, Czech Republic, England, Italy, Poland, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia
• Tenor soloist for over 20 Messiah performances in the last 15 years
• Soloist in 25 different churches in the middle Tennessee/Kentucky area
• Teacher, Administrator, Performer, Conductor & Artistic Director, American Institute of Musical Studies, Graz, Austria for  28 years.
• Author of manual for Auditions Training Seminar course, Graz, Austria
• Presented many workshops on performance anxiety
• Taught APSU Interdisciplinary Heritage classes five years, Director one year
• Author of new APSU course, Latin and English Diction for Singers
• Reviewed Music Appreciation text and book on William Grant Still Operas

E-mail: thomasroyking@gmail.com 

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