Alumni
Featured Alumni - Ms. Janel L. Timberlake
Dr. Maye,
I have been thinking about Hampton's Music Department for a while now and I wanted to get in contact with you to let you know how I am doing after graduating in 2008. I have been very blessed to work for Radium Springs Middle Magnet School of the Arts. I have you as well as all of my professors to thank. I love working with my choral students. I teach 6-8 grade. I currently am teaching chorus and piano, which are my yearlong classes. I also teach music appreciation which is a nine-week class. My fine arts team and I are so cohesive I enjoy working with them all. Last year I participated in putting on my very first musical I have ever worked on entitled Once on This Island.
The administration helps to make the school culture very pleasant. I was recently named the Magnet Coordinator so I now am in charge of bringing in magnet students to the program as well as keeping up with all of the magnet students currently enrolled in our school. This is a big responsibility and I am loving every minute of it.
Thinking back to August 2004, when I first arrived to Hampton University's Music Department, I never could have dreamed of having the future that I am living right now. From the classroom, to interacting with the professors outside of the classroom, the performances, recitals, and the conversations you and I had, I believe all of these things have made me into the woman I am today.
I just want to say "Thank you" from the bottom of my heart.
Ms. Janel L. Timberlake
Magnet Coordinator
Choral Director
Our Alumni
The Hampton University Department of Music has had excellent Alumni who continue to make of proud and that what we do is valued and essential to the lives and careers. They have had many accomplishments and have distinguished themselves as educators, Broadway and Opera Performers, Composers, Musicologists, Authors, Arts Administrators, Audio Engineers, Entrepreneurs, Concert Artists and University Professors. They are successful in the job market and in the pursuit of graduate study. Among our alumni are:
- Dorothy Maynor, Concert vocalist and founder of the Harlem School for the Arts
- Ida Daniel Dark, who was Recognized in the Rose Garden of the White House by President Bill Clinton and Secretary of Education Richard Riley for Induction into the National Teachers Hall of Fame in 1993
- Jason Jenifer, Class of 1998, Wanda Buell Mitchell, class of 1979 and Michon David class of 1998 have distinguished themselves by being selected Teacher of the Year in 2007, 2007 and 2010, respectively
- Dr. Willia E. Daughtry, Musicologist and author of Vision and Reality: The Story of "Black Patti" Matilda Sissieretta Joyner Jones
- Dr. Theodore Burgh, Archaeomusicologist, and author of "Listen to the Artifacts: Music Cultures in Ancient Palestine"
- Jasmine Harris, soprano winner of the first Opera Idol Competition; Recent graduate
- Marques Garrett, composer, has had several compositions published by Santa Barbara Music Publishers and performed by nationally recognized choral ensembles
- Chauncey Northern, renowned teacher of voice and composer of the Hampton University Alma Mater
- Mr. Nathan Carter, composer and choral conductor
- Dr. Roland Carter, composer, arranger, and Ruth S Holmberg Professor of Music at The University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
- Marilyn Thompson, concert vocalist and Researcher in the field of African-American