Dr. Thomas Vozzella, D.M.A. 
Director of Music Ministries
Dollye Neal Worship Arts Academy Headmaster
Dr. Thomas R. Vozzella, is the Director of Music Ministries and Headmaster of the newly formed Dollye Neal Worship Arts Academy at First United Methodist Church, Midland, Texas. He has taught at institutions of higher education in Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, South Carolina, Alabama, and Kansas. In addition to his teaching positions, he has served as a Music Director/Organist in Massachusetts, Kansas, Missouri, Florida, Arkansas, Tennessee, South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana for the last twenty-seven years. Choirs under his direction have received superior ratings and have received invitations and/or performed in Taiwan, Italy, for the Kansas Music Educators Association and on programs of the American Choral Directors Association. During his tenure at First United Methodist Church, El Dorado, Arkansas, the adult and youth choirs were heard on NPR's Performance Today. Additionally, he has performed on the BBC, on NBC for the national broadcast service celebrating the release of American hostages in Iran (1981), for Pope John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, and the infamous Ted "Teddy" Kennedy.
He received the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of South Carolina, the Master of music degree from Northeast Louisiana University (University of Louisiana, Monroe), and the Bachelor of Music degree from Eastern Nazarene College. Additional work was completed at Nazarene Theological Seminary, The University of Missouri, Kansas City Conservatory of Music and the Royal School of Church Music, Croydon, England. He has frequently appeared as a conductor in the US, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, and England. He is also an active member in the American Choral Director's Association, Texas Choral Directors Association, American Guild of Organists, Fellowship of United Methodists in Music and Worship Arts, Association of Anglican Musicians, National Association for Music Education (MENC), and the Texas Music Educators Association. Alliance, Augsburg, Abingdon, Selah, and CanticaNOVA music publishers publish his compositions and arrangements. He has also served as a choral judge/clinician in Louisiana, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Texas.
Dr. Vozzella is married to Cathy, who serves as Music Ministry Administrative Assistant/Handbell Director, and they have one daughter. Cathy and Tom, as he prefers to be called, have been active in music ministry together since they began dating in Kansas City in the mid 80's.
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