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Highest Degree: Master of Church Music degree
Master of Music in Choral Conducting
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S. Bryan Priddy was the Director of Music Ministries at Peachtree Presbyterian Church (8500 members) in Atlanta, Georgia, where he oversaw the music ministry of the largest Presbyterian (PCUSA) congregation in North America.
Bryan holds music degrees from Georgia State University (BM), The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (MCM), and the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester (MM). In addition, he completed all doctoral coursework in choral music and literature at Arizona State University.
Prior to Peachtree, Bryan served as Director of Choral Activities (1997-2002) at Whitworth College (PCUSA) in Spokane, Washington. During this tenure, he recorded four compact disc recordings with The Whitworth Choir, one of the Northwest’s premiere collegiate choirs, and directed the choir in appearances at regional MENC and ACDA conventions. He also directed the Trouvères (select Women’s Choir) and taught courses in advanced conducting, ear training, secondary methods, and choral techniques and materials.
During his residency at Arizona State University (1993-1997), Priddy served as a faculty associate and teaching assistant in the School of Music, providing leadership as conductor and assistant conductor of the University Choir, developing a conducting curriculum, and teaching undergraduate choral conducting students. Additionally, he served as a research assistant in a joint project involving the music education department and the Institute for the Studies in the Arts, studying sequential learning styles of children using experimental music composition software programs. Continuing his interest in childhood music education and serving as a specialist with treble and changing voices, Priddy taught on the artistic faculty at the Arizona School for the Arts in Phoenix, Arizona, working with middle school students.
Priddy has distinguished himself artistically in the area of conducting. In 1995, he was one of eight graduate conductors invited to the National American Choral Directors Association’s (ACDA) conducting competition, held in Washington, D.C., and he was a winner in Arizona State University’s Conductors Orchestra competition. In Spring of 1996, Priddy made his professional conducting debut in a performance of the Brahms Requiem. In May of 2004, he debuted at Carnegie Hall, conducting a performance of Handel’s Zadok the Priest and Schubert’s Mass in G. In 2006, Priddy was selected as one of six conductors from North America to guest conduct the Vancouver Chamber Choir in a program of music featuring works of North American composers at the 26th National Conductors’ Symposium held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. In March 2008, he conducted his church’s Chamber Choir in appearances at the Southern Regional ACDA convention in Louisville, Kentucky, where the choir premiered a new setting of the Te Deum laudamus by Northwest composer Michael E. Young, and in July 2008, he served as artistic director for the International Presbyterian Choral Festival in Scotland. Priddy serves also as Conductor and Director of the Choral Guild of Atlanta.
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