Andy Maddox, Choir Director
Music has always been a big part of my life. Even as a very young child I am told that I would make up songs and sing harmony to something on the radio. Barbershop became my first love in music in high school where I sang in a quartet made up of two African/American young men and two white boys. We called ourselves the “Oreo’s with Double stuff. So, I stood inside where the double stuff should. While my musical training has been primarily classical in nature my favorite music is Barbershop, the style in which I have sung in quartets, choruses, directed many award winning choruses.
I actually went back to school later in life and received my Degree in Vocal Performance and a very strong emphasis in Vocal Pedagogy (the science of teaching voice, something I still study to this day) at Boise State University.
Shortly after my arrival to the Boise area, during a session with the Barbershop chorus I was asked if I would like to direct a church choir. That fateful question changed my life as I became the choir director for Amity United Methodist Church. It is funny how I keep ending up at the Methodist Church. I guess that is where I belong.
I am looking forward to working with the choir here at Whitney Methodist Church and trying to help in giving us all a more meaningful worship experience.