Faculty and Staff
Music Administration
Conducting
Associate Dean | Arthur Lowndes Rich Professor of Choral Conducting | Professor of Music
Vocal Studies | Opera and Oratorio | Voice Science
Director of Graduate Studies | Chair, Vocal Studies | Professor of Music
Church Music
Director of Undergraduate Studies | Assistant Professor of Church Music
Violin | Chamber Music
Director of the McDuffie Center for Strings | Caroline Paul King Chair in Strings | Professor of Music
Faculty
Conducting | Wind Band Repertoire and Pedagogy | Music Education
Director of Bands | Coordinator of Music Education | Assistant Professor of Music
Clarinet | Saxophone | Jazz Studies | Musicianship
Chair, Instrumental Studies | Professor of Music
Tuba | Euphonium
Director of Athletic Bands | Professor of Music
Oboe | Bassoon | Orchestral Conducting
Distinguished Artist-in-Residence
Voice
Director of Mercer University Opera | Professor of Music
Collaborative Piano, Vocal emphasis
Helen Wall Rich Associate Professor of Collaborative Piano
Organ, Harpsichord
Director of Townsend-McAfee Institute of Church Music | Chair, Keyboard Studies | Professor of Organ, Harpsichord
Percussion
Director of Percussion Studies | Associate Professor of Music
Music Theory and Composition
Professor of Music Theory, Composition
Piano
G. Leslie Fabian Chair of Music, Associate Professor of Collaborative Piano
McDuffie Center for Strings Distinguished Artists
Violin
Founder, Robert McDuffie Center for Strings | Distinguished University Professor of Music
Viola
Distinguished Artist | Principal Violist, Minnesota Orchestra
Chamber Coach
Distinguished Artist | Charles and Mary Jean Yates Chamber Music Chair | Cavani String Quartet
Accompanists
![Cynthia Smith](https://music.mercer.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/64/2023/04/Cynthia-Smith-300x336-1.png)