Venita MacGormanVenita MacGorman is Associate Director of Music at McFarlin Memorial United Methodist Church in Norman, Oklahoma, where she directs four handbell choirs and three vocal choirs and coordinates the children's music ministry and the handbell ministry. She holds the degrees of Bachelor of Music Education from Texas Christian University and Master of Music Education from the University of Oklahoma.

Venita is a past chairman of Area IX of the American Guild of English Handbell Ringers (AGEHR) and of the Central Oklahoma Chapter of Choristers Guild. She has led workshops on handbells and children's choir methods at the state, area and national levels for the AGEHR, Choristers Guild, and various denominational church music organizations. She has conducted several Young Ringers Festivals as well as the Sante Fe Christmas Bell Festival and the Lutheridge Winter Festival.

Venita has been a column coordinator and frequent contributor to Overtone magazine, the official publication of the AGEHR. She is the author of the AGEHR publication The Director as Teacher: Working with the Beginning Handbell Choir and, with her daughter Erin, of the handbell method book Basic Training for Bells, published by Choristers Guild.



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