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Dr. Gabriel Statom received the Bachelor of Music Education degree with voice and piano emphasis from The University of Mississippi and the Master of Music degree in Choral Conducting with organ as the principal instrument from Florida State University. Gabe completed the Doctor of Worship Studies degree from the Institute for Worship Studies, affiliated with Wheaton College and Northern Theological Seminary, both in Chicago, Illinois. Gabe has also studied at Princeton University, Westminster Choir College and the University of Oregon. Dr. Statom is Director of Music at Second Presbyterian Church in Memphis, Tennessee For almost nine years Gabe served as Director of Music and Organist at First Presbyterian Church of Lake Wales, FL where he was also Artistic Director of the Lake Wales Chorale. He is Musical Director for the Bach Festival of Central Florida. Under his direction, the FPC Chancel Choir was selected to perform at the 2002 Florida Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association Fall Conference in Orlando, Florida. This choir toured Scotland and England in 2003. Performances were in St. Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh, Canterbury Cathedral and St. Bart’s Church in London. In 2005, the Lake Wales Chorale toured and presented concerts in Prague, Vienna, Salzburg, and Munich and in 2007 toured Italy, with mass services presented in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, St. Mark’s Cathedral in Venice, and concerts in Florence, Assisi and Rome. He has conducted extensively throughout the US including performances at the Spoleto Festival, the Oregon Bach Festival, and Carnegie Hall, performing with orchestras such as the Memphis Symphony, the New England Symphonic Ensemble and the Mississippi Symphony. He has studied conducting with Robert Shaw, André Thomas, Helmuth Rilling, Jerry Jordan, John Rutter and David Willcocks. Gabe has been on the staff of the Berkshire Choral Festival in 2002 and 2003, serving at the Sheffield, Massachusetts and Salzburg, Austria Festivals and at the Canterbury, England festival in 2006. Dr. Statom is an active clinician, adjudicator and teacher. Dr. Statom has served as chairman of the Committee on Worship for the General Synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, was Vice-President of the Florida Chapter of Choristers Guild and is Past-President of the Polk Arts Alliance.


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