Daniel Edward Lawhon  Adjunct Professor

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Phone: (205) 726-2851
Office: Buchanan Hall 203

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Biographical Information

Daniel (Dan) Edward Lawhon is a Kentucky native.  He received a Bachelor of Music degree from Belmont University, studying organ with Helen Trotter Midkiff.   Dan received his Master of Church Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees from the School of Church Music at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky where he studied organ with Boyd M. Jones, II and Donald P. Hustad.  Dan also studied improvisation with Donald P. Hustad.  He studied conducting with Jerry M. Warren and W. Irwin Ray, Jr. at Belmont and S. Milburn Price at SBTS.  Dan began playing in church at the age of nine and has served churches throughout the Southeast.  Most recently Dan served St. Matthews Baptist Church and Temple Emanuel B’Rith Shalom in Louisville, KY and First Baptist Church Huntsville, AL for nine years as Organist/Music Associate before accepting the post of Organist—Choirmaster at Baptist Church of the Covenant in Birmingham, AL in 2008 .  Dan has served on the adjunct music faculties for SBTS, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Oakwood College, the University of Alabama in Huntsville and currently Samford University.   Dan is the musical director for the Heritage Ringers of Huntsville, an auditioned handbell choir.  He is currently the Chair Elect for the Area VI American Guild of English Handbell Ringers.  Dan has served as a keyboard clinician, accompanist, recitalist and handbell clinician through much of the United States as well as Toronto, Vancouver and Moscow.  His hobbies include water skiing, running and cooking.