Dr. Theodore K. Mathews has an AB degree in Music from Brown University (’59), an AMT in Music Education from Harvard University (’60), a PhD in Musicology from The University of Michigan (’74) and a Certificate of Post Doctoral Study in Ethnomusicology from the University of California in Los Angeles (’77). He taught general music and choruses in the public schools of Lexington, Massachusetts and Providence, Rhode Island from 1960 to 1967 where he served also as an Assistant Conductor for the Rhode Island Civic Chorale. He worked as a Professor of Music at Agnes Scott College from 1967 to 2004 where he taught Music Theory, History of Western Music and History of American Jazz among other topics. He also directed the Agnes Scott College Glee Club for twenty years. During that time, he took it on five international concert tours to twenty-one different countries visiting and performing in cities ranging from Moscow to Manila. It also performed twice as a solo choir with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. He served as a Director of Music in churches of four different denominations over a span of twenty-five years. One of those toured internationally on two different occasions. During one of those tours the choir sang for a Papal Audience and sang for High Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica. Dr. Mathews sang as a baritone with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus for seven years while Robert Shaw was its conductor.
He joined us at the start of the 2004-2005 season.