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Naylor Callaway
is a free-lance composer and piano teacher at Pellissippi State
Technical Community College. Susan has served as church pianist
in churches in Kentucky, Florida, Alabama and Tennessee and taught
Secondary Piano, Aural Skills and Fundamentals of Theory at Ouachita
Baptist University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas from 1999-2000. Prior
to her present teaching position at Pellissippi State Technical
Community College, she taught in the Pre Department at Samford University
and from 1984 – 1994, taught Orff Music to preschool children at
the Child Enrichment Center in Memphis, Tennessee.
Susan graduated
from Samford University in 1977 with a Bachelor of Music (summa
cum laude) and received a Master of Music Education from Samford
University in 1979. She holds certification in Orff Schulwerk, Level
I, II and II from the University of Memphis.
One of her anthems
was listed as one of the "Honored Ten" for the year in
Creator Magazine in 2001 and anthems were listed in the
"Select Twenty" in Creator Magazine in 1999 and
2000. In 1970 she was honored as "Outstanding Young Woman of
America" and has been honored by Phi Kappa Phi (based on grades);
Pi Kappa Lambda – Music Scholastic Honor Society; Hypatia; and Alpha
Lambda Delta Scholarship Award.
Her compositions
appear in the catalogs of Choristers Guild; Lorenz Corporation (Monarch
Music, Exaltation and Purifoy Publishing Company); Hal Leonard Corporation
(Daybreak); Hinshaw Music Inc.; Shawnee Press, Inc.; LifeWay Christian
Resources; Church Street Music; and Brentwood-Benson Music Publishers.
Memberships
include ASCAP and Southern Baptist Church Music Conference. Born
in Gadsden, Alabama in 1955, she is married with three children
and a member at Central Baptist Church, Bearden, Tennessee. Her
hobbies include travel, reading, swimming, snorkeling, going to
the theater and to movies.
Bio submitted
4/5/2008
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