Dr. Cameron Weatherford serves as Assistant Professor of Choral Music at Lee University in Cleveland, Tennessee where he conducts the Ladies of Lee, Chorale, and teaches courses in the undergraduate and graduate choral music curriculum. Prior to coming to Lee, he served as the Chair of the Division of Fine Arts and Director of Choral Activities at Louisiana College in Pineville, Louisiana. From 2012-2016, he served as Choral Director at Alexandria Senior High in Alexandria, Louisiana. Under his direction, the ensembles of Alexandria Senior High School received numerous recognitions and awards including Superior ratings at the District and State level and were featured in two Louisiana ACDA performances, tours throughout the southern United States, and a performance at Carnegie Hall in New York City. In March 2017, Dr. Weatherford won first place in the National ACDA Graduate Conducting Competition in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In 2016, he was awarded the Outstanding Young Music Educator Award by the Louisiana Music Educators Association. He has conducted numerous honor choirs and has served as an adjudicator all over the country. He has been featured as a session presenter in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky and Ohio state conferences including LMEA, MMEA, ACDA, and the Kettering National A Cappella Conference. He currently serves as the R&R Coordinator for Student Activities for Tennessee ACDA and has also served as the Co-Chair for the Women’s Division of Louisiana ACDA, the Co-Chair for the Women’s Honor Choir in District II, the Collegiate Repertoire R&R for Louisiana ACDA. He also served as the The Louisiana State Representative for AEA (A Cappella Educators Association) and is an active member of NAfME and ACDA on the state and national level. Dr. Weatherford holds a B.M. in Church Music from Louisiana College, a M.M. in Choral Conducting from The University of Southern Mississippi, and a DMA in Choral Conducting from the University of Kentucky. He lives in Cleveland, Tennessee with his wife Caroline and their four children, Hudson, Annie, Scout and Betsy.

Matt Taylor is the incoming Director of Choral Activities and Music Education at Lipscomb University in Nashville, TN (beginning Fall 2023). He is currently completing his Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the University of Georgia. His recent conducting engagements at UGA have included performances of Mozart’s Krönungsmesse and Vivaldi’s Gloria. Matt has worked as the graduate assistant for the UGA Hodgson Singers and Men’s Glee Club, and served as chorus master for the ’21-’22 UGA Opera Theatre season.

A passionate educator and conductor, Matt spent five years as an Associate Choral Director at Wando High School in Charleston, SC, where he contributed to the growth of one of the state’s largest choral programs. He has served as a conductor for district and university honor choirs in South Carolina. Matt has led church choir workshops and directed high school choirs across the southeast as a guest conductor. He made his international conducting debut in 2022 with the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, where he was selected as one of five emerging guest conductors from across North America.

Matt has performed in collegiate, community, and professional choirs as a vocalist. In addition to choral music, Matt is an active instrumentalist and composer. As a choral arranger he has produced works for churches, high schools, and universities. He holds studies in classical and jazz performance on the double bass. Matt has been a career-long member of the American Choral Directors Association, and has served twice as a member of the ACDA Southern Region Conference Committee.

Matt holds degrees in music from Samford University (Composition) and Louisiana State University (Choral Conducting), and is currently finishing coursework for his DMA in Choral Conducting at the University of Georgia.