Angela Tipps

Biography

Angela Tipps is in her third decade as a master instructor at Middle Tennessee State University's School of Music. She conducts two choirs at MTSU: the Soprano-Alto (SOAL) Chorale and the Tenor-Bass (TEBA) Chorale. Her choirs have performed for state and regional conferences of the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) and the National Association for Music Education (NAfME). She has also taught basic and choral conducting, organ and voice, and coordinates the music appreciation courses in the general education curriculum. Angela is the Musical Director of the Middle Tennessee Choral Society, a 75-voice SATB community chorus that performs major works with orchestra.

Angela has served as Musical Director and/or Conductor of the following shows at MTSU: [title of show], Cinderella, Sweeney Todd, Cabaret, Fun Home, Godspell, and Spring Awakening. She received the Certificate of Achievement in Musical Direction by the KCACT Festival Region IV for Fun Home, and was nominated twice for a First Night Award for Outstanding Musical Director for Fun Home and Cabaret.

As an actor in community theatre, she has portrayed Sister Mary Hubert in Nunsense, Roz in 9 to 5, and Prudy Pingleton in Hairspray.

Angela and her husband Dale (a workers comp judge with two degrees in music) have two adult kids. Their oldest, Virginia, received an MFA in stage/production management at Carnegie-Mellon and lives in New York City. Their son Sam is a junior civil engineering major at the University of Memphis.