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                                                  Randy Edwards

Randy Edwards is Founder & Director of Programs for YouthCUE, a multidenominational ministry network which includes over six hundred youth choirs in twenty-four states. Randy has conducted over forty major YouthCUE festivals accompanied by professional orchestras across the U.S, Canada, and Korea. Prior to devoting his fulltime efforts to YouthCUE beginning in 2005, Mr. Edwards served for more than thirty years as minister of music at First Baptist Church San Antonio, First Baptist Church Shreveport, Trinity Baptist Church in San Antonio and now at Woodland Baptist Church in San Antonio. He served as Chorusmaster of the Shreveport Opera Company from 1991-1999.  

Mr. Edwards has composed twenty-one published choral anthems and has authored the most comprehensive textbook to date on youth choir ministry, entitled, Revealing Riches and Building Lives: Youth Choir Ministry in the New Millennium. With more than six hundred articles published in over thirty publications, Randy Edwards is one of the premiere specialists in youth choir ministry today. He is sought widely as a conductor, clinician, consultant, and teacher. He is now completing a new book on youth choir development with MorningStar Music Publishers, entitled Sing for Your Life: Choral music as a Godsend for reaching, rescuing, refocusing, and enriching adolescent, which will release in late 2010.

David VanderMeer

David VanderMeer has been the Director of Music Ministries at the downtown historic Central Presbyterian Church since August of 2001. He conducts three handbell choirs, (Youth, Beginning Adult, and an Advanced Adult) and the Chancel Choir, oversees the graded choir program, and supervises a music staff of four other musicians. He participates in weekly worship planning, plans the monthly Taizé Prayer Services and oversees the Liturgical Arts Guild for the church.  

David is a graduate of Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey. Before arriving in Atlanta, he served as Minister of Music and Fine Arts of Northwoods Presbyterian Church in Houston, Texas for 12 years where he supervised the music staff, oversaw the graded choir program of fourteen choirs and conducted seven of the ensembles. He has taught numerous choral and handbell classes for denominational Worship and Music Conferences, was Conference Director and Co-Director of the Mo-Ranch Worship and Music Conference,  Conference Director of PAM (Presbyterian Association of Musicians) 2000 Albuquerque Worship and Music Conference, and in 2008 was the Conference Director for the PAM Worship and Music Conference in Montreat, North Carolina.    

While in Houston, David was Musical Director of the Houston Bronze Ensemble, Inc., a semi-professional community handbell choir, from 1996-2001.  He served for six years (2003-2008) on the National Board of Directors for AGEHR, Inc. and has recently served as a National Board Member and Secretary for PAM. He continues to teach handbells/handchimes on the local, area, and national levels for AGEHR and PAM events.  

David served as mentor for an inner-city handchime program for the Atlanta Public School System at Ed S. Cook Elementary School which began in the fall of 2005. In the fall of 2008, David began another inner-city handbell program at Margaret Fain Elementary School in Atlanta and continues to conduct this school handbell ensemble. He has sung for three seasons as baritone in the Atlanta Sacred Chorale under the direction of Eric Nelson. David is currently the Musical Director for the Atlanta Concert Ringers a semi-professional community handbell ensemble in Atlanta.
 

David is a member of American Guild of Organists, American Guild of English Handbell Ringers, Inc., Presbyterian Association of Musicians, National Music Educators Association, American Choral Directors Association, the Hymn Society of America, Choristers Guild, Christians in the Visual Arts, and The Episcopal Church and Visual Arts.

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