Resident Choral Composers of Missouri

The list below includes published choral composers who currently reside in Missouri. Most have a website which will enable the user to gather information about their work and music. Their city of residence is included so that teachers in their region may invite them to a class or concert. By compiling and publishing this information we are encouraging a creative partnership between Missouri’s composers, poets, artists, choirs, and especially, our audiences, the citizens of Missouri.

• To give voice to the choral composers of Missouri.
• To interact with and interpret creative words and ideas.
• To think artistically, envisioning the sound, design and images of creative words and ideas.
• To encourage creative collaboration between Missouri's composers, poets, artists and choirs.
• To involve Missouri's citizens in the creative voice of Missouri.

Ron Atteberry (Fayette) Jean Belmont (Kansas City) Charles Collins (St. Louis) Kathryn Smith Bowers (St. Louis) Eugene Butler (Kansas City) Jeffrey Carter (St. Louis) Peter J. Durow (Cape Girardeau) James Granville Eakin III (Kansas City) Jerry Estes (St. Louis) Mark Hayes (Kansas City) Sally Herman (St. Louis)	Robert C. Howard (St. Louis) Mary Lynn Lightfoot (Kansas City) Anthony Maglione (Liberty) Terre McPheeters (Troy) Jacob Narverud (Kansas City) Sherri Porterfield (Liberty) Robert Pherigo (Lee's Summit) Robert Ray (St. Louis) Carlyle Sharpe (Springfield) Ron Shroyer (Fayette) Renee Waters (Bolivar)