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Deborah Lynn Chandler is Director of Choral Activities at the University of Louisiana at Monroe. For over eighteen years, she served as a Director of Music in the Presbyterian Church (USA) denomination. She also taught music history and chorus at the Tallahassee Community College. At Florida State, Dr. Chandler studied with Dr. Andre Thomas, Rodney Eichenburger, Dr. Judy Bowers, and Dr. Kevin Fenton. She is conductor emeritus of the Tallahassee Civic Chorale and a member of the American Choral Directors Association, Music Educators National Conference, Pi Kappa Lambda, Alpha Chi Honor Society and the Presbyterian Association of Musicians. In 1984, Dr. Chandler was selected as an Outstanding Young Woman of America. She received the Guardian Ad Litem Exemplary Service Award in 1993 and the Corinne Holleman Gridley Achievement Award in 1996. A music scholarship was established anonymously in her name at the Florida State University in 1994. In June 2003, she was chosen as one of ten conductors selected internationally to study with German conductor, Helmuth Rilling, at the Oregon Bach Festival. She was also selected in 2004 to conduct with Maestro Rilling at the first Toronto Bach Festival at the University of Toronto.

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Office Location: Biedenharn 251

Phone: 318-342-1592

Email: chandler@ulm.edu