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ROBBY RANEY IV
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Education

Andrews University
     M. Music in Music Ministry(pending)

​Southern Adventist University


​Walla Walla University

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​Southern Adventist University
     B. Music in Music Education
     Minor in Religion
     Minor in History

​Collegedale Academy
     
Honors Diploma

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A. W. Spalding Elementary
     Diploma

Frontenac SDA Elementary

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Homeschool
2021-2023
History Graduate Assistant, Adjunct Voice Teacher, Choral Conducting, University Singers, Pioneer Men's Chorus

2018-19
Teacher Certification Classes

2017
Teacher Certification Classes
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2010-2016
I Cantori (select, touring choir), Die Meistersinger Male Chorus, Hebrew I (audit), Music in the Christian Church



​​​2006-2010
Opux X (select choir), Collegedale Academy Chamber Orchestra (cello), Great Books, Senior Class Secretary

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2004-2006
Chamber Orchestra (cello), Concert Band (trumpet)

1999-2004
Handbell Ensemble, Band (trumpet), choir, Union Springs Academy Band

1998-1999

Student Teaching Placements

Apison Elementary School
     
K-5 Music


Forest Lake Academy
​     9-12 Choral and Handbells
January-March 2016
Lindsey Pope, teacher
​Selena Trott, supervisor

March-May 2016
Mark Becker, teacher
​John McCoy and Selena Trott, supervisors

Personal and Professional Memberships

American Musicological Society

The College Music Society

Phi Alpha Theta National History Honor Society

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Seventh-day Adventist Church



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American Choral Directors Association

​National Association for Music Education​
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​Tennessee Music Teachers Association
2022-present

2022-present
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2015-present
     
Sigma Alpha Chapter
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2005-present
     Pioneer Memorial Church (2021-present)
     Jellico Seventh-day Adventist Church (2018-2021)
     Shelton Valley Seventh-day Adventist Church (2016-2018)
​     Collegedale Church of Seventh-day Adventists (2006-2016)
     Union Springs Seventh-day Adventist Church (2005-2006)

2012-2016

​​2010-2016
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2010-2016

Certifications

Seventh-day Adventist Church Denominational Certification




Standard: Elementary Education (expires 8/2024)
                       Music (expires 8/2024)
                       Religion (expires 8/2024)
                       History (expires 8/2024)
​Conditional: Pre-Kindergarten (expired 8/2020)

Work

​Classical 90.5, WSMC
     
Content Manager
     Contract Worker (Member Drive, Announcer Training)
     Music Director
     wsmcOasis 
Student Station Manager
     Head Announcer
     Public Relations Assistant
     Host of The Three B's​
​     Student Announcer

Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary
     Graduate Assistant: Music and Worship Conference
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​VK Melodies
     
Piano and Voice Teacher

Andrews University Department of Music
     Graduate Assistant: History MUHL 214 / 250 / 446 / 447 / 448
​     Adjunct Voice Teacher - MUPF 160 / 360 / 500

WAUS-FM 90.7 FM
     Student Announcer
     Office Manager
     Membership Liaison

At First Sight
     InSight Orchestra Assistant (cello)
     Chamber Coach
     Music Theory Assistant

​Raney Music Studio
     Voice Lessons
​     Music Theory Lessons

Georgia-Cumberland Conference of Seventh-day Adventists
     
3rd-8th Grade Head Teacher: Jellico Christian Academy

Washington Conference of Seventh-day Adventists
     
3rd-8th Grade Teacher: Shelton Valley Christian School
 
A. W. Spalding Elementary School
     
Teaching Assistant: Fourth Grade Recorders

Apison Adventure Camp
     
​Assistant Counselor

​Southern Adventist University: School of Music
     Assistant Student Stage Manager and Music Engraver

Southern Adventist University: Evangelistic Resource Center
     PowerPoint Editor
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​Collegedale Academy
     
Summer Receptionist and Registrar Student Worker
​     Student Worker for Lynne Macias (French)
     Student Worker for Penny Kennedy (English IV)
2010-present
August 2022-present
March 2020-August 2022 (as needed)
April 2016-July 2016
​August 2014-December 2015

June 2013-August 2014
​Fall 2011-August 2014
​January 2011-August 2014
​March 2011-August 2016

October 2022-present

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July 2022-present


​August 2021-present



​June 2021-present




June 2021-present

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January 2013-present


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July 2018-June 2021


​August 2016-June 2018


August-December 2015



July 2015


March 2014-2016


Summer 2012


2007-2010
Summer 2008, 2009, 2010
August 2008-May 2010
August 2007-May 2008

Volunteer Experience

Institute of Young Musicians for Christ
     Madagascar Mission Trip
         
First Grade Classroom Music Teacher
          First Grade Recorder Teacher

Jellico Seventh-day Adventist Church
     
Vacation Bible School Leader

A. W. Spalding Elementary School
     Fifth Grade Computer Teacher

​Collegedale Seventh-day Adventist Church
     Worship Coordinator
     Sound of Worship host
​     Vacation Bible School Group Leader

Mission Trip
​     Antananarivo, Madagascar

Learning Tree Elementary School
​     Handbell Teacher

Mission Trip
​     Las Tablas, Panama

Southern Adventist University
​     Alumni Weekend Volunteer
May 2022




​June 2019


​2013-2014
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​2012-2019


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May 2011-June 2011


​Fall 2010


​March 2010


​2007-2015

Special Programs and Worship Services Prepared and Presented

The Wonders of Redeeming Love
    
Worship Service at Chattanooga First SDA Church


Praise and Thanksgiving
     
Evening Anthem at Chattanooga First SDA Church
     55+ Club of Collegedale meeting
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Lord of Creation
     Evensong at Collegedale SDA Church

PsalmSing
     Evensong at Collegedale SDA Church


A Survey of the SDA Hymnal
​     Evensong at Collegedale SDA Church


​The Blessed Hope
     Worship service at LaFolette SDA Church
     Worship service at Shelton Valley SDA Church
     Worship service at Bremerton SDA Church
     Worship service at Cohutta SDA Church
​     Worship service at Rainsville SDA Church
     Worship service at Chattanooga First SDA Church
     Vespers program at McDonald Road SDA Church
     55+ Club of Collegedale meeting
     Evensong at Collegedale SDA Church

The Epic Bach Week
     
Classical 90.5, WSMC
December 19, 2015
A particularly Adventist variation on the Lessons and Carols service, taking the worshiper from before the fall through the Great Controversy to the end of sin

November 8, 2015 (premiere)
A hymn sing tracing God's providence through history.


September 12, 2015
A hymn sing program worshiping God while celebrating the individual days of creation

February 28, 2015
Hymn sing program which focuses the worship of God through the singing and reading of Psalms

October 4, 2014
A program which uses the SDA Hymnal as the lens which focuses the congregation on the worship of God.

October 5, 2013 (premiere)
A program telling the early history of the Adventist church, using hymns and gospel songs to illustrate the stories




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October 2012
Five special episodes of The Three B's, focusing on the life and music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Five different musicians were interviewed: Ton Koopman, Gennevieve Brown-Kibble, Reinhard Goebel, J. Bruce Ashton, and Peter Cooper.

Interviews Conducted

Dr. George Knight
     Philosophy of Seventh-day Adventist Church

Dr. Gennevieve Brown-Kibble
     Brahms: Alto Rhapsody, op. 53

Maestro David Long
     Bach: Mass in b minor, BWV 232

Dr. Joe Wheeler
     
Abraham Lincoln and Christmas in My Heart

Michael Tree
     Beethoven: String Quartets

Edmund Stone
     Bach, Beethoven and Brahms in movie music

John Burton
     
Involvement in From the Top​

Thomas West
     Involvement in From the Top

Maestro Ton Koopman
     
​Bach the Keyboard Player

Dr. J. Bruce Ashton
​     Bach the Church Musician

Dr. Gennevieve Brown-Kibble
     Bach the Artist

Maestro Reinhard Goebel
​     Bach the Instrumentalist

Dr. Peter Cooper
​     Bach the Inspiration

Alan Shiko
     The lute music of Johann Sebastian Bach
2015
North American Division of Seventh-day Adventists: Office of Education

2014
Classical 90.5, WSMC: The Three B's

2014
​Classical 90.5, WSMC: Evening Concert

2013
​Classical 90.5, WSMC

2013
Classical 90.5, WSMC: The Three B's

2013
Classical 90.5, WSMC: The Three B's

2012
Classical 90.5, WSMC

2012
Classical 90.5, WSMC

2012
Classical 90.5, WSMC: The Three B's: The Epic Bach Week

2012
Classical 90.5, WSMC: The Three B's: The Epic Bach Week

2012
Classical 90.5, WSMC: The Three B's: The Epic Bach Week

2012
Classical 90.5, WSMC: The Three B's: The Epic Bach Week

2012
Classical 90.5, WSMC: The Three B's: The Epic Bach Week

2012
​Classical 90.5, WSMC: The Three B's

Works Conducted

Jeffrey Van
Child of Peace
Andrews University Singers

Heinrich Schütz
Psalm 100, SWV 36
I Cantori (choir I)
​Gennevieve Brown-Kibble (choir II)

​Georg Philipp Telemann
Machet de Tore weit (first movement)
SAU Vocal Ensemble Experience Class

Gary Kent Walth
Three Fragmented Farces
SAU Vocal Ensemble Experience Class
December 5, 2021
Welcome Christmas
Howard Performing Arts Center

November 14, 2015
​Evensong
​Collegedale SDA Church


April 2014
Ackerman Auditorium
​J. Mabel Wood Hall, Southern Adventist University

April 2014
Ackerman Auditorium
​J. Mabel Wood Hall, Southern Adventist University

Pieces Premiered

Ethan McGrath
Missa brevis
The Kinge's Quire
Gerald Peel

Ethan McGrath
God is our refuge
Mindy Vanderoef Steele, soprano
Joel Westberg, tenor
​Robby Raney, baritone
​Satoru Yamaji, piano

Ethan McGrath
That they may rest
SAU Vocal Ensemble Experience Class
Mindy Vanderoef Steele

Ethan McGrath
​O mistress mine
​I Cantori
Gennevieve Brown-Kibble

Cassie Cookenmaster
Savior, Abide With Me
Robby Raney, baritone
​Caitlin Brown, piano

Ethan McGrath
Over the Land is April
I Cantori
​Gennevieve Brown-Kibble
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J. Bruce Ashton
O Thou in Whose Presence (duet)
Mindy Vanderoef Steele, soprano
Robby Raney, baritone
Melissa Guthrie, piano

J. Bruce Ashton
Had he not loved us
Robby Raney, baritone
Melissa Guthrie, piano

Ethan McGrath
Lord of the Boundless Curves of Space
Robby Raney, baritone
​Ethan McGrath, organ

Ethan McGrath
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Choir
​Ethan McGrath

Ethan McGrath
Two Scottish Love Songs
I Cantori
​Gennevieve Brown-Kibble

Ethan McGrath
Nunc dimittis (choral version)
I Cantori
Gennevieve Brown-Kibble
Kevin de Benedictis, baritone

Ethan McGrath
As the Apple Tree
I Cantori
​Gennevieve Brown-Kibble

Tim Rumsey
Neither Life Nor Death
SAU Combined Choirs
SAU Symphony Orchestra
Laurie Redmer Minner
Julie Penner, soprano
Sara Snider Schone, mezzo soprano
Perry Ward, baritone
​Joshua Knight, organ

Ethan McGrath
I will lift up mine eyes
I Cantori
​Gennevieve Brown-Kibble
July 24, 2016
From Chattanooga to Cambridge
First Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Chattanooga

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May 8, 2016
Southern Adventist University Commencement Exercises
Chattanooga Convention Center

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April 2015
Ackerman Auditorium
J. Mabel Wood Hall, Southern Adventist University


April 2015
Ackerman Auditorium
J. Mabel Wood Hall, Southern Adventist University


May 2014
Ackerman Auditorium
J. Mabel Wood Hall, Southern Adventist University


​April 2014
Ackerman Auditorium
J. Mabel Wood Hall, Southern Adventist University


March 2014
Ackerman Auditorium
J. Mabel Wood Hall, Southern Adventist University



March 2014
Ackerman Auditorium
J. Mabel Wood Hall, Southern Adventist University


January 2014
First Baptist Church of Chattanooga



July 2013
Ackerman Auditorium
J. Mabel Wood Hall, Southern Adventist University


April 2013
Ackerman Auditorium
J. Mabel Wood Hall, Southern Adventist University


Fall 2011
Collegedale SDA Church




Fall 2011
​Collegedale SDA Church



April 2011
​Collegedale SDA Church








Fall 2010
​Collegedale SDA Church

Compositions and Arrangements (partial list)

Sleep Holy Child
John W. Peterson

Before the Throne of God Above

words: Charitie Lees Bancroft,

Called and Chosen
words: Mrs. M. E. Stewart

I Have Found a Priceless Treasure
verses: Fanny Crosby
​refrain: Esther Myers

Lord, Who Dost Give to Thy Church
words: Ernest A. Payne
music:

In Awe and Remembrance
words: Isaac Watts, James Alexander
music: Lowell Mason, Hans Leo Hassler

Christ Jesus Lay in Death's Dark Bands
words: Martin Luther, Richard Massie

Christ's Passion
music: Lowell Mason, Hans Leo Hassler

My Song Shall Be of Jesus
words: Fanny Crosby

Let Us with a Gladsome Mind
words: John Milton
October 24, 2020
arrangement for Baritone solo with clarinet, violin, viola, and cello accompaniment

September 22, 2019

gospel song

May 22, 2018
gospel song

November 2015
​premiered December 6, 2015
gospel song

July 2015
premiered July 2015
very simple arrangement for SATB choir and piano

April 2015
premiered June 2015
SATB/piano arrangement of When I Survey the Wondrous Cross and O Sacred Head, Now Wounded

February 2015
​hymn

April 2014
solo organ arrangement of When I Survey the Wondrous Cross and O Sacred Head, Now Wounded

August 2012
hymn

December 2010
​hymn

Conventions Attended

Public Media Development and Marketing Conference





​​Hymn Society in the United States and Canada


North American Division Teachers' Convention





National Religious Broadcasters


American Choral Directors Association - Southern Division

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American Choral Directors Association - National Convention
July 19-21, 2022
Chicago, IL

July 2021

Digital Conference

Summer 2020
Digital Conference

August 6-9, 2018
McCormick Center, Chicago, IL

August 5-8, 2012
Opryland Hotel, Nashville, TN

February 24-26, 2015
Opryland Hotel, Nashville, TN

March 5-8, 2014
Jacksonville, FL

March 12-16, 2013
Indianapolis, IN
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