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KAREN KENASTON-FRENCH
Assistant Professor of Music
Director of Choral Activities 
Bachelor of Arts in Vocal Performance, West Virginia Wesleyan
College
Master of Sacred Music, Southern Methodist University
Master of Music in Conducting, Southern Methodist University
Doctor of Musical Arts in Choral Conducting, University of North
Texas.
With 20 years of experience in sacred and
higher education institutions, Dr. Karen Kenaston-French is the
director of choral activities and conductor of the University
Concert Choir and Chamber Singers. Prior to joining the
University’s music department as a voice and conducting
instructor, she taught conducting at Southern Methodist
University and University of North Texas, where she also
directed the 85-voice women's chorus. During her 12-year tenure
as director of music ministries at the 1,800-member Plymouth
Park United Methodist Church in Irving, Texas, Kenaston-French
built a program that included more than 250 people. She has
studied voice with Lynn Eustis, Linda Baer and Carolyn Dees, and
was selected to sing in the first Robert Shaw Festival Chorus at
Carnegie Hall through a national competition in 1991.
Kenaston-French is a frequent clinician and adjudicator
for high school choirs across Tennessee. She serves on the board of
directors for the Middle Tennessee Vocal Association and is an
active member of the American Choral Directors Association,
Music Educators National Conference and National Association of
Teachers of Singing. In April 2005, she presented the lecture,
“Sculpting Nuance in Renaissance Choral Performance Practice,”
at the Tennessee Music Educators Association convention in
Nashville, for which APSU’s Chamber Singers served as the
demonstration choir.
Email:
kenastonk@apsu.edu
Phone:
(931) 221-7002
Music/Mass Communication Building, Room 136 |
