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Timothy Michael Powell is an accomplished violist, conductor, and composer. He is the Director of Choral and Vocal Studies at Lee College in Baytown, TX where he directs the Lee College Chorale and the Baytown Community Chorus. Prior to joining the Lee Faculty, he was a member of the Rhodes College faculty in 2004 as Visiting Director and Conductor in Residence of the Rhodes Singers, the Rhodes Mastersingers Chorale and the Rhodes Orchestra. Dr. Powell holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Conducting from the University of South Carolina, where he studied conducting with Larry Wyatt. In 2002, Powell was awarded a William J. Fulbright research grant for study in Bulgaria. His research project studied the original manuscripts of Bulgarian composer Dobri Hristov with the intention to produce the first international performance edition of Hristov's Liturgy No. 1 of St. John Chrysostom. Prior to joining the Rhodes faculty, Dr. Powell served as Director of the Honors College Choir at the University of South Carolina. He was a 2002 Fellow in the South Carolina Conductor's Institute and the 1999 National Choristers Guild Scholar. His compositions include his “Wedding” Mass for choir and strings, an opera "His Terrible Swift Sword," which will be premiered in April 0f 2007, and the song "New Places," which has received critical acclaim and attention, as well as grass-roots support for possible inclusion in New Line Cinema and MGM's upcoming film adaptation of Tolkien's THE HOBBIT. He received his Bachelors degree in Church Music (cum laude), and his Masters degree in Church Music from Belmont University, where he studied conducting with Timothy W. Sharp and Robert Gregg, viola with Monisa Angell, and composition with John Arnn. Dr. Powell is a member of the Pi Kappa Lambda Music Society and the American Choral Director's Association.