Dr. Andrew Roby

Gay T. and Haskell A. Chair of Church Music

Associate Professor of Church Music and Worship

Divinity School

Office Location:

Taylor Hall
Room 333

Mailing Address:

PO Box 4050
Buies Creek, NC 27506

(910) 893-1824

(work)

broby@campbell.edu

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Biography

Andrew Roby holds the Gay T. and Haskell A. Duncan Chair of Church Music in the Divinity School and serves as Associate Professor of Church Music and Worship. Besides his academic work, he has extensive experience in church music ministry. Most recently, he has served as Associate Pastor for Music and Worship Arts with The Memorial Baptist Church, Greenville, NC. His research currently is focused on the relationship between a congregation’s musical expressions in worship and its sense of identity.

Dr. Roby has held academic appointments in choral and church music at Asbury College (KY), Shorter College (GA), and Union University (TN). He has served in church music ministry positions in Mississippi, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, and North Carolina. In addition to his position in the Divinity School, he serves as the conductor and artistic director of the 100-voice Greenville Choral Society’s Concert Choir.

He has conducted choirs and led church music seminars across the southern and eastern United States, and internationally in Germany, The Netherlands, England, Brazil, Canada, Cuba, Belize, Trinidad, and Nicaragua. An active member of the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA), Andy currently serves on the Executive Board of Directors of the North Carolina Chapter. He has presented sessions on church music at state and regional conferences of ACDA, and has published articles in the Choral Journal, the official journal of ACDA. Andy is also an active member of Polyphony (an ecumenical organization dedicated to music ministry in the church) and the Presbyterian Association of Musicians.

Dr. Roby received his undergraduate degree from Union University (TN). His Master of Church Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees were awarded by The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville.

Dr. Roby’s wife, Mary, is Assistant Director for User Services in the Laupus Health Sciences Library of East Carolina University. Their daughter Rachel and son-in-law Daniel and granddaughters Karis and Ava live in Wake Forest. Their son David and daughter-in-law Margaret currently reside in Birmingham, Alabama.