Profile of Teri Simmons

Minister of Music with 25 years program administration experience in the San Francisco Bay area. Emphasis on choir directing and building, music training, and providing piano/organ accompaniment. Have served in multiple capacities, working with a wide variety of church and local organizational affiliations, choirs, age groups, ministers and musicians. Extensive administrative and technical skills utilized to conduct music training sessions, plan worship service programs, and coordinate musicals, fundraisers, etc. Able to manage overall program planning for organizations with multiple choirs and musicians as well as those with only one or two choirs. Technically proficient in piano, organ an electronic keyboard applications. Familiar with a wide range of music types and styles; sacred hymns, folk, gospel, and contemporary. Able to read, compose, score, direct and play music as required.

Professional Experience

McGee Avenue Baptist Church - 1640 Stuart St. - Berkeley, CA
D. Mark Wilson - Pastor		 8/96 - Present
Church of All Faiths - 2100 Fifth Ave. - Oakland, CA
Willie R. Daniels - Pastor
  • Minister of Music, Sanctuary & Temple Choir Director
    Voices of All Faith Director 
  • Women's Chorus Director 
  • Men's Chorus Director - 1985 to 1991; 1996 to 1998
  • Children and Youth Choirs Director - 1985 to 1991; 1996 to present
  • Organist/Pianist - 1977 to present
 9/77 - 8/96
Elmhurst Seventh Day Adventist Church - 9658 Thermal Ave. - Oakland
Virgil Childs - Pastor
  • Minister of Music - 1994 to 1998
  • Church Organist and Pianist
  • Youth Choir Director - 1990 to 1993
 Various
Elmhurst Methodist Church - 83rd and Plymouth Streets - Oakland, CA
Nymphus Edwards - Pastor		 2/94 - 6/96
Havenscourt Community Church - 1444 Havenscourt Blvd. - Oakland, CA
Dr. Claude E. Wilson - Pastor
  • Minister of Music 
  • Church Musician 
 3/75 to 1/77
6/94 to 6/96

Special Projects and Other Related Positions

  • Organist, Celestial Choir - Taylor Memorial Church. Toured with the choir to Houston, Texas, Trinidad West Indies, Brooklyn, New York and North Carolina.
  • Workshop Presenter
    Composition: BAMM, Seattle, WA - 1995
    Musical Styling and Selection - NAACP/NANM, Oakland, CA - 1995
    Songwriting and Copyright Law, New Hope Baptist Church - 1994
    Published and produced eight collections of original music and one recording of original music, "Use Me Your Way".
  • Program Coordinator, Project HOPE Musicals (East Oakland Ministerial Alliance), 1984 - 1989
  • Founded "With Renewed Faith" choral group - 1988. Produced and arranged CD and cassette of original work as performed by "With Renewed Faith", project "Use Me Your Way" - released 6/94
  • Conducted basic musicianship training for youth and adults;
    Church of All Faiths - 1993
    Elmhurst SDA Church - 1990
  • Accompanist, Voices of Legacy, Mary Hill - Director, 1972 - 1983
  • Church Musician, Choir Pianist - Evangelistic Crusade Musician - Market Street SDA Church - 1967 - 1981

Education

Oakwood College - Huntsville, Alabama - Business Administration and Music - 1976
Laney and Merritt Colleges - Oakland, CA - Various Music and General Studies
      1983 - 1995
Contra Costa College - Richmond, CA - Supervision/Personnel Management. Certificate
      1984 - 1987

Computers & Keyboards

IBM: WordPerfect for Windows, LOTUS, dBASE III, Quicken, C*Cure750, Office 2000
Atari: Cubase, Cubase Score
Keyboard Workstations: Korg, Ensonique TS-10, TS-12