Guest Director, Louise Wyman ’57
Chase Hatmaker, Accompanist

Performed on October 19, 2019 at the Bicentennial Homecoming Concert in the Clayton Center for the Arts Ronald & Lynda Nutt Theatre.

Louise Ogden Wyman, class of 1957, earned her B.A. in piano from Maryville College, an A.A.G.O. degree from the American Guild of Organists, and a M. Mus. in choral conducting from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Louise began composing mostly liturgical vocal and choral music in 1961, and later created music for school orchestras and bands. She spent three years in Tehran, Iran, teaching in a Presbyterian mission school, where she helped edit the Persian hymnal, played organ for church, sang in a choral ensemble directed by Jim Laster, and taught some piano lessons. Her first composition in 1961 was inspired by short responses on the Seven Last Words of Christ which was sung at Maryville College. Louise also played double bass with Maryville College Community Orchestra and the Oak Ridge Symphony, as well as in small ensembles. She worked at TVA, taught language arts and music in parochial schools, and has taught voice and piano in her home studio.

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