Allen
Pote is known nationally as a composer of sacred music as well
as a clinician for festivals and workshops. Since 1975 his published
choral works, which include twelve musicals for youth and children,
have been widely performed; and he continues to receive numerous commissions
for new works. In 1999 he was commissioned to compose an overture
for the Pensacola Symphony Orchestra for the city's tricentennial
celebration.
For twenty two
years he was Director of Music in churches in Texas and Florida,
and is currently a full time composer living in Pensacola, Florida.
With his wife Susan, he is Founder and Co-Director of the Pensacola
Children's Chorus, a twelve year organization of over 250 singers.
He is a former member of the National Board of Choristers Guild,
a recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship, and has won three Muriel
Shugart Awards from the Northwest Florida Arts Council for excellence
in musical programming. Together, the Potes have received the Cox
Bravo Award and the prestigious Liberty Bell Award, presented by
the Escambia Santa Rosa County Bar Association, for their community
work with young musicians.
The Potes have
two children - David, an attorney in Birmingham, Alabama; and Amy,
Chief Resident in Dermatology at LSU Medical School in New Orleans.
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