Sandra Chucalo Turner

E-mail: sturner@sbts.edu

Education:

• B.A., Charleston Southern University
• M.M., Converse College
• M.C.M., D.M.A., The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
• ARCM, Royal College of Music, London
• Additional Studies: Guildhall School of Music and Drama (London)

Dr. Turner began teaching at Southern Seminary in 1974 and joined the faculty as Assistant Professor in 1994. She has been a church organist, organist/choir director, or co-minister of music for most of her life, serving churches in South Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky, and England. She is known as an accomplished solo pianist, a sensitive accompanist at the piano, and an exciting organist in worship. She has been involved in the musical life of Kentucky Baptists as accompanist for the Kentucky Singing Women and has been a frequent clinician and adjudicator in music festivals. Although she enjoys teaching piano majors, one of her special teaching areas is piano pedagogy and the encouragement of inexperienced adult pianists; thus, she coordinates pre-graduate studies in piano at Southern Seminary. In addition, she is developing a strong interest in methods to alleviate musical performance anxieties.