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Kenneth H. Courtney
Lecturer
(Organ, World Music & Introduction to Music)
Office: Etherredge Center, Room 126
Email: kennethc@usca.edu
Alternate Email: kenc@gforcecable.com
Kenneth H. Courtney, a native of New Orleans, Louisiana, received his Bachelor of Music degree, Cum Laude, in Organ Performance from the University of Memphis, and his Master of Music degree in Organ Performance from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He has also studied choral conducting and group vocal techniques at Westminster Choir College, Princeton, New Jersey.
Having served Presbyterian Churches in the south since 1979, Mr. Courtney has been the Director of Music/Organist at Aiken’s First Presbyterian Church since 1988, where he directs an active Music Ministry that includes the Midday Music & Lunch Concert Series. In addition to his position at First Presbyterian Church, he has been an adjunct faculty member at the University of South Carolina Aiken since 1989, where he teaches Organ, World Music, and Introduction to Music, in the Visual and Performing Arts Department.
Currently, he is serving as an Executive Board member of the Presbyterian Association of Musicians, Class of 2008, and the Leadership Program for Musicians National Board, Class of 2009. As a PAM board member, he has worked on revising PAM resource material, the Certification Committee, and is on the 2009 PAM Mo-Ranch Worship and Music Conference Planning Committee. He is a PAM Certified Church Musician, the PAM Representative for Trinity Presbytery (SC), and has attended the PAM Worship & Music Conferences at Montreat the majority of the summers since 1978. He has also served as a member of a Presbytery Worship Committee, led Presbytery workshops on The Presbyterian Hymnal, Organ Music for Advent, and played organ concerts in Tennessee, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina.
Mr. Courtney and his wife Kathy have two sons, Charles and Christopher.
