Keyboard studies at Georgetown College

Ms. Lori Smith

Staff accompanist

Lori Smith is the Staff Accompanist at Georgetown College. She received the B.M. in Piano Pedagogy from Baylor University under the teaching of Jane Abbott-Kirk.  Since then she has taught piano privately and been active in church music as pianist, organist and children's choir director.  She enjoys ensemble music of all types and attended the Keyboard Ensemble and Technology Seminar at the University of Kentucky to gain experience with digital instruments.Lori Smith is the Staff Accompanist at Georgetown College. She received the B.M. in Piano Pedagogy from Baylor University under the teaching of Jane Abbott-Kirk.  Since then she has taught piano privately and been active in church music as pianist, organist and children's choir director.  She enjoys ensemble music of all types and attended the Keyboard Ensemble and Technology Seminar at the University of Kentucky to gain experience with digital instruments.

Daniel Tilford former Georgetown College Professor of Music retired from teaching in May 1999 after a forty year tenure.  He instructed piano, organ, music theory and music history. 

 

Professor Tilford holds degrees from Georgetown College and Indiana University and has done further  study  at the University of Kentucky and The Royal School of Church Music in London England. He has been a church organist for over fifty years, serving churches throughout Kentucky.

 

In May, 2007 the college awarded Professor Tilford an Honorary Doctor's Degree. Since his retirement in 1999 he has worked on his career goal of securing an organ for the college chapel. A Johannus Digital-Pipe organ was built in Holland and installed in the college chapel in August.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photo by Frank Doering