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Kevin McChesney graduated with highest
honors from the University of Colorado at Boulder with a Bachelor of Music in
Composition and Theory. A composer and arranger of handbell music, Kevin currently
has 300 titles in print and is one of the very few musicians who makes handbells a
full-time vocation. He won the National American Guild of English Handbell Ringers
and the Area II AGEHR Composition Contest in 1992. He is the handbell editor for
Jeffers Handbell Supply and the Ringing World catalog, and was Jeffers' Composer
of the Year for 1993.
Kevin was a church music director in Methodist, Southern Baptist, and
Presbyterian churches for 12 years. For 5 years, he was also accompanist and
co-director for the vocal music department at Air Academy High School, where he
still co-directs a major production each fall season. Kevin directs an auditioned
community handbell choir, the Pikes Peak Ringers. He is co-founder of the Solo
To Ensemble Project, STEP, president of the Handbell University program, and
maintains a devotional website for handbell ministries called Handbells In
Service (HIS). He is in demand throughout the handbell world as a workshop
clinician and festival conductor.
Kevin lives in Colorado
Springs, Colorado, with his wife Tracy and their cats, Belle and Grace
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