Dr. Gordon Adnams

Gordon Adnams has been involved in music education and leadership, as well as professional music-making for all his adult life. He has served as a Minister of Music at Forward Baptist Church in Toronto and Ellerslie Road Baptist Church in Edmonton, taught at Ontario Bible (now Tyndale University) College and Heritage Seminary, Cambridge and was Associate Professor and co-chair of the Music Department at Taylor University College in Edmonton. He earned both MusBac and MusM degrees from the University of Toronto, and more recently completed a PhD from the University of Alberta. His dissertation is entitled, “The Experience of Congregational Singing”.

Currently Dr. Adnams is the director of The Guelph Male Choir, part-time worship coordinator at MacNeill Baptist Church in Hamilton, teaches at Redeemer University College and leads workshops, seminars and retreats to encourage and enrich churches in their congregational singing.

Dr. Adnams and his wife, Louise, live in Ancaster, Ontario. He has served on the Board of the Summer Institute of Church Music since fall 2009.

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