Lawrence Edwards, Choral Director
Dr. Lawrence Edwards is music director of the
Memphis Symphony Chorus, and often conducts the orchestra and chorus. Dr. Edwards is Coordinator of Choirs for the University of Memphis Department of Music, a position he has held since 1987. He directs the University Singers and Sound Fuzion, and teaches undergraduate choral conducting. He also serves as advisor/teacher for graduate choral conducting students. During the summers he teaches graduate conducting at Villanova University in Philadelphia, and is active as a choral clinician throughout the country, working with junior and senior high honor choirs.
Dr. Edwards received his undergraduate degree in music from Seattle Pacific University where he directed the Seattle Pacific Singers. He holds both Masters and Doctoral degrees in Music from the University of Illinois at Champaign where he studied orchestral conducting with the Romanian conductor, Mircia Cristescu. Prior to assuming his position at the University of Memphis, Dr. Edwards was Director of Choral Activities at West Virginia University in Morgantown.