MICHAEL ANDREWS

Pianist – Performer – Arranger – Recording Artist

 

Michael Andrews  is originally from Glendale, California.  His musical training began at the age of 10.  As a child and young adult, he studied music at West Indies College, Forest Lake Academy, Andrews University, Oakwood College and Fresno State University.  He also studied piano with several notable private instructors.  He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in piano performance.  Michael has traveled extensively throughout the United States and many other countries as a performer and arranger.  He is an accomplished pianist with a love for free-style improvisation and composition.  This is evident in the recent release of his first CD “Arabesque of Hope.”

 

His performances have been featured on several radio and television broadcasts including 3ABN, Breath of Life, and It is Written.  He regularly plays for churches in the Central Florida area, and serves as an accompanist for other notable artists throughout the US. He is married to his lovely wife, Rose, and they reside in Tampa, Florida.  His greatest aim is to honor and serve God in his life and ministry.

 

 

 

 

NANCY DUDLEY

Music Minister – Arranger – Recording Artist – Piano Instructor

 

Nancy Elizabeth Edmond Dudley was born in Cleveland, Ohio. She is a product of Christian Education from elementary thru college and is a graduate of Oakwood University.  In addition to being the minister of music for the Breath of Life Seventh-day Adventist Church in Maryland, she has been the pianist and Minister of Music for several churches in the Washington, DC area and Huntsville, Alabama.

 

Nancy taught music at Spring Valley Academy, grades 1 through 8.  In her spare time, she teaches private piano lessons to aspiring students. She also enjoys sewing.

 

She is a music seminar facilitator for the South Central Conference of Seventh-day Adventists and the United Christian Artists Association.  She has produced a fully orchestrated solo album entitled, Great Things He Hath Done.  Nancy presently resides in Huntsville, Alabama with her husband, Albert, and they have an equally talented son Albert II (wife Jessica), and three grandchildren: Avery, Aubrey, and Albert (Ace) III.

 

 

 

 

BRIAN JONES

Concert Pianist – Conductor – Arranger – Piano Instructor

 

Brian Jones is a pianist, an arranger, and a choral conductor. His early studies began under the tutelage of "Mrs. Morgan." at a very early age. He received further musical training through private study at the Chicago Musical College of Roosevelt University and the Chicago School of Fine Arts.

In the area of contemporary Christian music, he has worked on several recording projects for various artists such as Lori Bryan and Roland Gresham, served as accompanist for T. Marshall Kelly, Clifton Davis, and Ullanda McCullough, and performed with Duane Hamilton, Margaret Richardson, and Rhonda Green Ramzy in concerts all across the United States and England. Brian was also, at one time, the principal accompanist for nationally renowned vocalist Wintley Phipps, appearing in live concerts all over the U.S., Canada, and the Virgin Islands. He was the conductor of and one of the vocal arrangers for the Brothers of Nashville, a 16-voice a cappella male chorus, and produced both of their CD recordings.

 
In the area of classical music, Brian performed in several solo recitals in and around of the Chicagoland area as a child and was interviewed and featured as a guest soloist on a local television show. He also served as accompanist for the Philharmonic Youth Chorale and, as a teenager, the Andrews University Academy Choir. Brian was also a finalist in the Society of American Musicians' Annual Piano Competition. Several years ago, he gave a benefit concert for the restoration of the sanctuary piano at Riverside Chapel in Nashville, Tennessee. His many accomplishments include conducting the Nashville Symphony Orchestra in his own arrangement of Amazing Grace and, just recently, having an arrangement of a Bach composition, "Come Unto Him" performed by the now world-renowned Oakwood Aeolians, regarded as one of the best choirs in the world by virtue of their 1st place ranking in an international competition.

 

 

 

 

SHELTON KILBY III, D.Min.

Concert Pianist – Composer – Arranger – Lecturer – Recording Artist – Minister

 

Shelton Kilby III, 2013 recipient of the Charles E. Weniger Award for Excellence, is a pianist, composer, arranger, lecturer, and Seventh-day Adventist Ordained Minister.  Born in Washington, D.C., Shelton is a graduate of Washington Union Academy, (now Dupont Park Seventh-day Adventist School) and Oakwood College Academy (now Oakwood University).

 

Shelton received his interdisciplinary B.A. Degree in Religion, with an emphasis in Jewish Historical Music from Atlantic Union College.  His advanced interdisciplinary M.A. Degree includes studies in Creativity, with an emphasis in Issues of African Music, from Union Institute & University.  Shelton was awarded his terminal inter-disciplinary D.Min or Doctorate of Ministry Degree in Religion In the Arts, from Claremont School of Theology.  His academic studies are enhanced with Certification in the Intercultural Developmental Inventory and the Intercultural Training Design, from the Intercultural Institute, Portland Oregon.

 

As a denominational worker, Pastor Kilby has served as: Associate Pastor, Southeastern California Conference; Director of Sabbath School, Communication, and Music, South Central Conference.  While serving in the South Central Conference he did “Dark County Evangelism” and founded the Emmanuel S.D.A. Church in Kingsport, Tennessee, and he pastored the Greenville/Kingsport District for a short time.  He later served as Pastor of the Alpha/Killene District in Austin, Texas - Southwest Region Conference.  Before retirement, Pastor Kilby served as Executive Secretary of the Southwest Region Conference.  Shelton’s Ministerial Career includes serving as a team member in the evangelistic television crusades of Breath Of Life Ministries, with Director, Dr. C.D. Brooks, and the Breath of Life #1 Quartet.

 

Shelton’s Artistic resume includes piano training at Howard University Preparatory School, Washington D.C. and private piano studies in Idar Oberstein, Germany.  He was commissioned to compose a choral work for SATB Choir and Pipe Organ, entitled: Who Has Set Thy Glory, and premiered at The Royal Albert Hall in London, England; commissioned to compose the sound track for a docudrama - Profile of Rameses: The Egyptian Pharaoh (Ms. Brenda Blackmon, producer for NBC affiliate, Memphis, Tennessee) which won the Angel Award in 1994. He was also commissioned to compose The African American Overture for Ms. Patty Austin, which was performed by the San Francisco Symphony at Davis Hall; Commissioned to arrange and adapt Negro Spirituals symphonically for the late Metropolitan opera singer - Ms. Barbra Conrad; and performed at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library Auditorium, in Austin, Texas.   Finally, Shelton was appointed to be the Director for the Girls’ Choir of Harlem in New York City.

 

Retiring from denominational work, Shelton was appointed as Visiting Professor of Music & Culture, General Music, and Music-Composition at Wilberforce University in Ohio.

 

Currently, Shelton serves as Senior Lecturer of “Religion in the Arts” and “Theology and Proclamation of Worship” at the HMS Richards Divinity School, La Sierra University in California.

 

 

 

GALE MURPHY

Pianist – Composer – Vocalist – Lyricist – Comedienne – Recording Artist

 

Gale Jones Murphy is a recognized concert pianist, vocal and recording artist, music teacher, church music director and a composer of over 700 songs.  She began playing piano at the age of three and was a designated pianist at her church by the age of five. Gale graduated from Southern Missionary College with a Bachelor of Music Education with emphasis in both voice and piano. She later earned a Masters degree in Music from Memphis State University.

 

Mrs. Murphy has built a distinguished career record as a choral director in the Memphis City Schools, Shelby State Community College in Memphis TN, Forest Lake Academy in Apopka, FL, Brentwood Academy in Brentwood, TN and Mt. Sinai Jr. Academy in Orlando, FL. She is currently the Music Specialist at two schools, Forest City Adventist School in Orlando, FL and Creation Kids Village In Celebration, FL. Mrs. Murphy serves as pianist and organist at her home church Mt. Sinai SDA Church and Music Director for Conway United Methodist, FL, both located in Orlando, FL.

 

In 2005 Mrs. Murphy earned the distinct honor of being listed alongside great composers such as Dr. Roland Carter and the late Moses Hogan commissioned by the Negro Spiritual Scholarship Foundation to arrange works for the Grady-Rayam Prize in Sacred Music.

 

For the last 13 years Gale has been Conference Pianist and Clinician at the famed Hampton University Ministers’ Choir and Choir Guild. She has the honor of hearing four of her songs performed at the conference: “Dwell In The House”, “He’s Been Keeping Me”, “Why Do We Sing”, and “The Beatitudes”.

 

Her choral compositions have been sung by church, high school and college choirs across the country and most recently the MLK Celebration Chorus performed “Why Do We Sing” with the Nashville Symphony Orchestra.  Her most memorable performance was the Richard Smallwood Live Tribute Concert 2015 at The BLVD Church in Memphis, Tennessee.

 

Wherever you may have seen Gale, you will always notice the flowers that she wears in her hair.  It reminds her that God, the Creator loves beautiful things.

 

Gale fills her days with teaching students, conducting music workshops all over the world, and performing for the Steinway Piano Society of Central FL in various schools. She takes joy in serving as a musician, alongside her husband, William Murphy, who is an experienced bass player, at the Mt. Sinai Seventh-day Adventist Church.

 

There are three things she wants you to know about her:

She loves God and her family with all her heart.

Hallmark movies, collecting sea shells are a few of her favorite things

Her joy is contagious and if you're in her presence, she will give you one of her smiles.

 

 

 

 

A.T. WESTNEY JR.

Concert Pianist – Composer – Arranger – Producer

 

Adrian T. Westney Jr. shares the love of God through the medium of music.  He delivers the message through musical arrangements, compositions and performances.  His music bridges the gap between classic and contemporary which makes his music very unique.  He has composed music for many well-known musical artists such as Lexicon Music, Ralph Carmichael, Breath of Life Television, Voice of Prophecy, Walter Arties, Daniel Winans, Word Music, and Wintley Phipps, to name a few.  As a member of the Breath of Life Quartet II, he has visited many countries in North America, Africa, and the South Pacific.

 

     He counts among his awards, an “Angel” Award (given by the organization “Excellence in Media”) for his CD release entitled, “A Triumph of Grace.”

 

     Currently, Mr. Westney is the President of Westney Productions that provides media support for Christian entities such as churches, evangelistic campaigns, musical artists, and music and film companies.

 

 Although his list of achievements is substantial, above all, Adrian wishes that the music he produces and performs will glorify God and will help the hearer to sense the peace and comfort that can only be experienced through Jesus Christ.