Meet Rodney Shores
Lecturer I, Voice
Phone: (813) 257-3108
Email: rshores@ut.edu
Address: 401 W. Kennedy Blvd. Tampa, FL 33606
Mailbox: 92F
Building:
FCA
Room: 430
Education
1996 University of South Florida, M.M.
1999 University of South Florida, Advanced Graduate Certificate
2005 Webber Institute for Worship Studies, DWS
Courses Taught
Studio Music Lessons – Voice
University Chorus
Career Specialties
Rodney Shores specializes in vocal pedagogy and instruction, particularly as related to choral music and choral music education. His research and teaching interests include the development of the adolescent voice, healthy vocal technique in modern singing, and renaissance and baroque choral performance practice.
Professional and Community Activities
Shores is a music educator, performer, choral conductor, clinician and lecturer, and has more than 27 years of teaching experience at the elementary, middle/high-school and university levels.
Over the last several years, Shores has sung with Tampa’s own Florida Pro Musica, an auditioned ensemble specializing in renaissance polyphony, along with its men’s schola, which specializes in the performance of Gregorian chant. Additionally, he has been highly involved with the St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church choir in downtown Tampa, where he served as a tenor section leader for three years, and as its choirmaster for two.
Shores also conducts Serata, an advanced high-school men’s chorus, as part of Tampa Bay’s Lumina Youth Choirs, is principal accompanist for the Master Chorale of Tampa Bay, and has maintained a private voice and piano studio for over 27 years.