Sexton, R. Scott

Dr. R. Scott Sexton joined the faculty in fall 2023 after serving as a lecturer of choral music at Troy University, where he conducted the Troy Collegiate Singers, Concert Chorale, and other choral ensembles. He has also directed choral music and taught for St. Andrews Episcopal School and McWillie Elementary School in Jackson, Mississippi, and served as artistic director, conductor, and piano accompanist for the Mississippi Girlchoir. Dr. Sexton has been awarded travel grants for study in Hungary, Macedonia, and Ghana, West Africa, and was a finalist for state Teacher of the Year in Mississippi in 2019. He is trained in the Kodaly methods of teaching music.

PUBLICATIONS

• Sexton, S. (2021). A music educator’s potential response to Afghanistan, AlaBreve, October/November, 46-47. [Alabama Music Educators Association Journal] [State Peer-Reviewed]
• Sexton, S. (2021). Review of the book Children’s songs from Afghanistan, by Louise Pascale. Kodály Envoy, 48 (1), 8-9. [National Peer-Reviewed]
• Sexton, S. (2020). Review of the book First steps in global music, by K. Howard. Kodály Envoy, 46 (4), 24-25. [National Peer-Reviewed]

AWARDS

• Finalist for State of Mississippi “Teacher of the Year” as sponsored by the Clarion Ledger, 2019.
• National Denise Bacon Scholarship for summer music education/choral music study in Hungary (Organization of American Kodaly Educators, 2018)
• Guillot Faculty Travel Grant to Macedonia, Southeastern Europe (for research in the choral music of the Balkan Peninsula), St. Andrew’s Episcopal School, 2015 (St. Andrew’s Episcopal School)
• Guillot Faculty Travel Grant to Ghana, West Africa (for research in the drumming and choral traditions of Ghana), St. Andrew’s Episcopal School, 2013 and 2016 (St. Andrew’s Episcopal School)
• Outstanding Student in Ethnomusicology (University of Mississippi, 2011)
• Outstanding Choral Music Education Student (Troy University,2008-2009)