Jimmy Worth:  

I began singing in the Suburban Park Elementary Chorus under the awesome Miss Dunn, and found that I loved music so much, that I continued singing in the Boys Chorus at Northside Jr. High with Oma Elliott, (Jarvis), and soon began studying piano with Mildred Daniels. As a senior, I was in Granby's Madrigal Singers, and Concert Choir, under Mickey Thomas, and Eleanor Walden, the Senior Class Play, "Seventeen," and did a short stint with the "Up With People" group. I went on to major in music education at ODU, sang as a bass in the St Paul's Boy's Choir under Jim Gallatin, was in ODU Concert Choir under John Davye, ODU Madrigal Singers, under Elliot Breneiser, with whom I studied piano-but majored in voice, studying with Glenn Hull; was a baritone soloist at St Andrew's Episcopal Church, and sang in the ODU Opera workshop productions of "The Devil and Daniel Webster," "The Music Man," "Camelot" and played the Artful Dodger in "Oliver"! I also studied organ with Dr. Charles Vogan. After graduating ODU I sang with the Norfolk Camerata, an early music ensemble under Jim Hines, sang in the Virgina Opera Association Chorus under Genevieve McGifford in the production of "Il Trovatore." I began my career as a full time Minister of Music at the Port Norfolk Baptist Church in Portsmouth, VA, where I conducted eight choral and instrumental ensembles, including handbell choirs, and a touring youth choir, as well as, a church o...Expand for more