B. M. Ed. Lee College
M. M. Georgia State University
D. M. A. The University of Kentucky
email:
wgreen@leeuniversity.edu
Assistant Professor of Music
A successful leader in choral music for over
twenty years, William R. Green is Assistant
Professor of Choral Music at Lee University
where he conducts the Choral Union and Chorale,
as well as teaches graduate and undergraduate
conducting. He earned the Doctor of Musical Arts
in Choral Conducting from the University of
Kentucky and the Master of Music from Georgia
State University. Dr. Green performed and
recorded with Robert Shaw as a member of the
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus and Chamber
Chorus. The impact of this musical experience
led Green to doctoral research on Shaw’s
techniques on rhythm and phrasing, specifically
in relation to the works of J.S. Bach.
In addition to his work with Shaw, Green has
collaborated with many of the leading conductors
of our time including John Rutter, Yoel Levi, Z.
Randall Stroope, Ann Howard Jones, and Jefferson
Johnson. He has led performances of many of the
major works for chorus and orchestra, including
Handel’s Messiah, the Requiems of Mozart
and Faure, Brahms Ein Deutches Requiem,
Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy and Mass in
C Major, Vaughan Williams Serenade to
Music, and the works of Bach, Britten,
Poulenc, Vivaldi, and Schubert, among others.
Dr. Green also serves as the Artistic Director
and Conductor of Choral Arts of Chattanooga.
This exceptional ensemble provides
professionally trained singers the opportunity
to perform the finest choral masterpieces and
contemporary literature. Of his work with this
ensemble Ruth Cartlidge of The Chattanooga
Pulse said, “Green’s touch with the waves of
sound in Brahms’ Nänie was simply lovely.
There is an aura of suppressed energy in his
pianissimos that would make many choral
directors envious.”
Dr. Green is active nationally and
internationally as a guest conductor,
adjudicator and clinician most recently working
with choirs from Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky,
Tennessee, and South Carolina. He has presented
workshops throughout the United States, as well
as in Central America and Israel.
William is married to his college sweetheart
Twyla Daugherty Green and together they have two
children, Jonathan and Mary Beth.
William Green
